Step By Step Sketch To Final Art for Fantasy Illustration

Here is a step by step from sketch to final art for a watercolor and pen & ink fantasy piece I did to be sold as fine art prints. Its called "Careful With That Axe Eugene", its my interpretation of an old Pink Floyd tune. At first I thought it was jinxed because the first line work attempt ripped when I was tearing it off the Arches watercolor paper block (thank goodness I was going to redo it anyway because I wasn't happy with the line work). Then when I was going through the process of round two, I wasn't "feelin' it yet", and I almost bailed on it but continued to plow through. I finally started to get into it when I hit the homestretch. Sometimes you get to close to the trees to see the forest...or is it the other way around?

I used a Noodlers and Pilot fountain pen with Noodlers ink on 140 lb Arches cold press watercolor paper to create this.

You can purchase a print here.

Click through the pics to see the progressions.

Enjoy!

-Fian

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Fian Arroyo Art In PBS Show

PBS was at the ZaPow art gallery filming a story about the gallery and artists that will air in the fall. I didn't get interviewed but they will have scenes with my art in them and also have scenes with me in them.
There was a write up in The Asheville Citizen Times about the ZaPow gallery yesterday as well. I should be in a pic there and possibly quoted. Media, media, media... gettin' out there with this new art.

Art Nouveau Style Logo Sketch

Here is a sketch for another logo for the wonderful folks at Blue Ridge Adventures. Its a little different than what I usually do but I do like a challenge. They wanted the art noveau style....specifically Alphonse Mucha. The final logo will be created in Adobe Illustrator.  I will post the final art later this week.

Lemme know what ya think....thanx!

Fantasy Dragon Art Print Available For Sale

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"Grabbing A Quick Bite". New fine art giclee print that is available now in my Etsy store. I took an existing image from the Fian Arroyo Licensing Collection and added a background to create this fantasy print. It's like this knight was out for a Sunday ride on his steed when all of a sudden he gets swooped up by this dragon who is looking for a quick bite to eat....bummer! :-)

Go to the Shop For Prints section on the home page or click here and pick one up.

Lemme know what you think. Comments are always welcome!

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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.