Zeleznik Illustration

Summer in pencil

2011-11-02T18:21:00.000-07:00

Shadowrun cover

2011-10-03T10:42:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite worlds to paint for! Here's a cover I painted earlier this year for a book entitled "Artifacts Unbound" for Catalyst Game Labs

New Website in progress

2011-01-21T12:37:00.001-08:00

Have a look zeleznikart.com and let me know what you think

2011 Fantasy Pin Up Calendar

2010-11-14T19:12:00.000-08:00

My 2011 Fantasy Pin Up Calendar is available now
HERE

thundercloud Galaxy™ cover art in progress:Details

2010-09-23T10:24:00.000-07:00

now it's a matter of detailing out the image and slightly adjusting values

Thundercloud Galaxy™ cover art in progress:Turning forms

2010-09-20T10:34:00.000-07:00

(Ignore the color shift in the middle image. Must have been the time of day I took the pic). With all major elements blocked in, I slowly start turning forms. I still use the acrylic very watery in some area, but I am mostly mixing semi-opaque colors and work back over the initial washes (and adding a few details) to the main figure and creatures. Not happy with the stiff pose of the 2nd background character, I leave him and his surrounding unfinished for now.

Thundercloud Galaxy™ cover art in progress:Building value & color

2010-09-16T12:44:00.000-07:00

Slowly washing in watery acrylic paint, building value & color. I have been studying with a wonderful instructor, Rick Morris, who emphasizes keeping shadows transparent and lights opaque. Washing in the color allows me to keep the shadows transparent and darken them slowly. Seems to be working and I feel a lot more in control of the whole painting than in the past.

Thundercloud Galaxy™ cover art in progress: Transfer-FigureWash

2010-09-11T15:11:00.000-07:00

Enlarged drawing (in pieces) via copy machine.

Tracing the drawing with carbon paper between enlargement and illustraion board transfers the image to the board.

Acrylic washes to develop general values and basic rendering of the main figure. All of this will be painted over several times to achieve the desired color, value and detail

Thundercloud Galaxy™ cover art in progress: Color sketch

2010-09-06T17:35:00.000-07:00

Rifts® Dimension Book™: Thundercloud Galaxy™

Thundercloud Galaxy™ cover art in progress: Final line drawing

2010-09-05T16:34:00.000-07:00

Rifts® Dimension Book™: Thundercloud Galaxy™

Thundercloud Galaxy™ cover art in progress

2010-08-30T17:01:00.000-07:00

Approved thumbnail
Rifts® Dimension Book™: Thundercloud Galaxy™

2011 Fantasy Pin Up Calendar

2010-08-14T17:22:00.000-07:00

Available HERE for pre-order now!!

Autumn

2010-08-11T09:03:00.000-07:00

Monster Cars

2010-03-09T10:01:00.001-08:00

2011 Calendar

2010-02-17T13:26:00.000-08:00

putting the finishing touches on 2011 calendar. Here's one of the images

Not Wacky Enuf

2010-01-22T09:34:00.000-08:00

Wacky Package sketches

IronMan

2009-11-29T10:28:00.000-08:00

Wacky Packages_7 Pup

2009-11-29T10:13:00.000-08:00

Wacky Packages Series 4 Postcards

Restoration Hardware Packaging

2009-11-29T10:03:00.001-08:00

February 2010

2009-11-20T10:14:00.000-08:00

this piece is featured as the month of February in the 2010 Art of Heavy Metal Calendar

Heavy Metal cover?

2009-08-12T11:53:00.000-07:00

Digital paint over a pencil rendering of the lovely Toni C

Twisted

2009-07-10T10:48:00.000-07:00

Shadowrun Interior Illo

2009-05-24T07:17:00.001-07:00

Cranky

2009-04-21T11:50:00.001-07:00

Mermaid

2009-03-23T09:26:00.000-07:00

House of Sins

2009-02-26T21:26:00.000-08:00

Collaborating on some fun projects. I was responsible for creating the house for these sinful characters. Check it out GOM Industries

Xmas Card Commission Final

2009-02-03T09:08:00.001-08:00

Xmas Card Commission_process

2008-12-26T18:14:00.000-08:00

Recently finished a very fun private commission for a Christmas card. Here's a little bit of the process from rough thumbnails, pencil sketch, full value study and color sketch.

Life Pool

2008-11-17T22:27:00.001-08:00

Finished this personal piece this summer

More Shadowrun

2008-11-17T21:58:00.000-08:00

Upcoming Novel Cover for Catalyst Games. The gritty urban setting of Shadowrun is always a blast to create.

"Dimensional Outbreak"

2008-11-17T21:43:00.000-08:00

Cover for an upcoming Palladium Books RPG

God of Thunder

2008-09-09T15:59:00.000-07:00

Just finished this test for a potential upcoming project. They asked for more subdued colors on this piece.

Hollywood Zombies

2008-09-04T21:12:00.000-07:00

This was a fun caricature job for Topps' Hollywood Zombies trading cards

Green Goblin In Stores Now

2008-08-18T08:54:00.000-07:00

A job from last summer, finally made it's way into the world. Always cool to see my work on the shelves.

Packaging Work

2008-07-13T17:47:00.000-07:00

Here's a few product Illustrations I did last year for Restoration Hardware's Holiday gift items. Just finished a bunch more for this coming year.

Shadowrun Again!!

2008-06-19T07:24:00.000-07:00

Finally got to dive back into the world of Shadowrun. Did this cover for Catalyst Game Labs earlier this year.

Captain America

2007-11-14T10:07:00.000-08:00

Marvel provided a comic panel for pose

Marvel time

2007-11-12T16:48:00.000-08:00

Started working for the licensing division of Marvel this summer. Fun stuff! Thanks to Scott Johnson for the referral!

Wine Labels

2007-08-10T16:39:00.000-07:00

Did some wine labels a while ago for a small winery Leona Valley Winery just north of me. It was a great change of pace.

Wacky Packages

2007-07-07T13:07:00.001-07:00

Here's a childhood dream to check off the list. Been doing Wacky Packages for the past two series'. This is one from last year and I'm currently working on 5 more for the next series.

Rifts Hades

2007-06-28T14:13:00.001-07:00

Recent cover for Palladium Books

New art book!

2007-06-18T15:14:00.000-07:00

My NEW art book is currently on a slow boat from China. Should arrive in time for San Diego Comic-Con. If you can't make it to my booth #4920 at the Con, check it out HERE