Dragon Sketchbook Doodle

Starting the week off with a another Sunday night doodle while watching TV with the fam. Dragons...who doesn't love 'em? They are so fun to draw. I have a seemingly endless number of them in my head wanting to get out. Should I see a health care specialist for this? ;-)

Witches, Angels and Demons Illustration

Here is the final illustration for my entry in the ZaPow galleries "Art Of The Book" theme show. The book assigned to me was Good Omens; The Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. A super funny book about an angel and demon trying to prevent the apocalypse from happening based on the prophecies of a nutty witch. Super fun book and highly recommended read. The show will run from Feb. 8 thru April 8. If you are in the Asheville, NC area, drop by and check it out. Archival fine art prints for this are available here. 

What's your favorite part of this art?

Fian.com Art At The Guggenheim Museum

My buddy wore my art on a t-shirt at the Guggenheim Art Museum in NYC this weekend. He told me people were coming up to him in the museum and asking him where he got the shirt. At fian.com of course!!!  Hope it turns into more sales.

You can pick one up for yourself here.

dragon framed prints

ZaPow Gallery Podcast Interview With Fian Arroyo: Spaghetti-O eyebrows

I was Interviewed in a podcast this past weekend for the ZaPows Art galleries series "Illustration and a Beer" Episode 30 "Spaghetti-O eyebrows". It was a fun interview. I can't believe I brought up my Spaghetti-O eyebrows incident. This fun interview covers my illustration career, why we moved to Asheville NC from Miami, Florida, my work in the ZaPow gallery and of course Spaghetti-O Eyebrows and more. Check it out here http://www.zapow.com/podcasts.html

Hindsight is 20/20...i should have taken a pic of the interview.

When Art Goes Bad

The Perils Of Keeping It Real. I finished the line work and was tearing it off the Arches watercolor 30 page pad when it ripped due to the adhesive on the pad being way too adhesive. Thank goodness I wasn't happy with the illustration and redid another one. Sometimes when creating art the old school way, unforeseen mishaps may happen, like a tear in the paper or an ink blob from the pen. Whatever form it may manifest as, you have to overcome the overwhelming urge to hurl and move on to fix the problem or as in this case start over. Working analog is not as forgiving as working digital...no command Z. Will post the finished art after I apply the watercolors to it. This illustration will be available as a giclee print soon...stay tuned.