Game Over Blog

This Blog is over…..for now
However you can check on my lastest artwork on scheppel.deviantart.com

and my homepage at scheppel.com

I also have a SheezyArt account dedicated solely to the comics at scheppel.sheezyart.com

Commeting has been disabled, however if you would like to contact me you can visit my new blog as am starting from scratch at scheppel.wordpress.com and leave a reply

So long and thanks for all the fish…

I am  debating if I will fix up this old blog or start fresh.  When I first started the blog a year ago only about 50 megabite were available for image space so I hosted the images on my website.  However hosting It made it very difficult to keep track of who has visited my images due to hotlinking and the bare bones page stats on my hosting account. Now WordPress gives you 3 GIGS of space for images! It is fantastic the amount of traffic this site is receiving for being a sketchblog!  I now have a choice to ether to 1.0 start a new blog from scratch and upload all images directly to wordpress or flickr or 2.) upload most images to flickr and relink every image away from my website. the first choice sounds more appealing but would require me to reclaim all my traffic and that takes time. In the meantime while I make my desision only image thumbnails will be on this site.

however I regularly upload artwork on to my deviantart account and I invite you to check it out http://scheppel.deviantart.com

If I decide a new blog, I will provide a final post with a link to the new blog

I still having hot linking problems and having trouble keeping track of my visits. I made the images on this blog too big so I have shrunk them down to 350px. This will make the images consume less bandwidth. This will no longer be a sketch blog but now will be a comic blog. It’s a little tedious to upload doodles and comic every day and comics are fun to do. I will maintain a deviant art account for my artwork.

Note most thumbnails will look blocky due to the hyperlink not being updated yet.

For the eight image in the series I have decided to draw a anthropomorphic lynx cat. You don’t see them much in artwork and I thought it would be a nice change. I tried yet another shading techique, this time overlapping colors instead of blending them.

Click thumbnail to see a full sized image

I finally finished this work. I spent a decient amount of time on this one. I planed to create a image composed of two separate works but intentionally fit together when put together. A common illustration technique. Spent allot more prep time on this image than I usually do. This image was fun create. Created entirely in good ol’ Photoshop

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Please visit my DeviantArt Site to see images in a higher resolution:
http://scheppel.deviantart.com

You Can also visit my SheezyArt Gallery:
http://scheppel.sheezyart.com

Click thumbnail to see image at full size.

The snowy forest background the “Elf Warrior (Female)” artwork I will be uploading shortly.

This image was one of a few practice images I had worked on with the goal of figuring out how to do a more realistic type of shading on a manga-like character. This was the best of the bunch so I uploaded this one.

A cute manga inspired chubi boy presenting something. Done entirely in vector. The second in the stock art collection I am drawing. I will provide a link when it is available to purchase .

A luggage Bag mimic, looks hungry :D. The first of a series on images I plan to make available to purchase individually or on a CD compilation. Sorry about the watermark, it is a necessity. It will be available shortly.

My newest painting in the Avatar series. A standard He-man/Conan style barbarian pointing his figure at the viewer. Surrounded by a dragon with a massive neck. This image became more complex then I expected and took me a while to complete. I am pleased with the clouds in the background. Done entirely in adobe photoshop.

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Please visit my DeviantArt Site to see images in a higher resolution:
http://scheppel.deviantart.com

You Can also visit my SheezyArt Gallery:
http://scheppel.sheezyart.com