David Murdoch Art

Daily-Draw February 2012

2012-01-25T16:58:00.002-05:00

Go draw something.

Lucas

2012-01-03T14:30:00.003-05:00

Lucas is now available for pre-order.

Colossus

2012-01-03T14:17:00.004-05:00

Now available through Sideshow Collectibles. Illustration by Kris Anka. Colors by yours truly.

DeadFang

2011-11-06T13:29:00.001-05:00

Azure

2011-11-05T14:12:00.002-04:00

Kid Missile

2011-11-02T20:05:00.002-04:00

Leather Face

2011-11-02T20:04:00.002-04:00

Another companion piece.

Michael Myers

2011-11-02T20:00:00.004-04:00

This was done as a companion for the Jason Vorhees piece commissioned by Side Show Collectibles.

Larva

2011-09-18T11:54:00.001-04:00

Becoming A Memory

2011-09-18T11:53:00.002-04:00

The Itch

2011-09-13T16:17:00.002-04:00

Try To Find The Way To Disappear

2011-09-10T17:01:00.002-04:00

And Just Like That

2011-09-10T11:31:00.002-04:00

Disintegrator

2011-09-10T11:30:00.002-04:00

Postmortem

2011-09-10T11:27:00.002-04:00

Meat For The Eater: Four

2011-09-06T16:30:00.002-04:00

Meat For The Eater: Three

2011-09-06T16:29:00.013-04:00

Meat For The Eater: Two

2011-09-06T16:29:00.011-04:00

Meat For The Eater: One

2011-09-06T16:27:00.004-04:00

Blue

2011-09-06T16:26:00.003-04:00

The Sleeper

2011-09-06T16:25:00.004-04:00

Postmortem

2011-09-06T16:12:00.002-04:00

What's the art becoming for me? Couldn't tell ya. I'm walking down a road now. Deep, dark, introspective self-indulgence. Not where I want to be but here I am, might as fucking well jump in. 39 days down since I lost my wife and I'm fumbling for the means to exercise this thing in me. But there it is, in front of me, a cocoon. I'll pull up my seat and wait and see what comes out. I'm going back to my roots; way past my roots.

Lucas: The Preview

2011-07-05T17:41:00.002-04:00

Lucas

Lucas And Other Nightmares

2011-06-08T16:49:00.004-04:00

The book, Lucas, is done. The cover is done. All turned in and off to print. Very happy. A lot of work. Finally starting on a piece for Sideshow that's been on the back-burner for a while now. I'm firing up another book titled Jet-Boy Victory: Rocket Hero, for the second time. If the title doesn't make it obvious enough, it isn't a horror. I'm working with the extraordinarily talented Disa Wallander. Fleshing out some concepts for another book too. Damn.

Lucas

2011-04-29T01:00:00.004-04:00

Approaching.

Lucas: An Excerpt II

2011-04-29T00:53:00.000-04:00

Grandma. The corpse. Maybe. Still meaty but not enough to keep her leathery skin from drooping all over her. Eye sockets sit sagging behind stained glasses secured by some other woman's string of pearls. They fell out, her eyes, or maybe removed. No telling. Neither would surprise. In the right proximity to Grandma you can actually smell them; her eye sockets. They have an odor like no other. Indescribable. Awkward and unpleasant. The grip it takes on the gag reflex doesn't choke because it's pungent but just because of knowing where it comes from.

Lucas: An Excerpt I

2011-04-29T00:48:00.001-04:00

She catches the silhouette of some behemoth to the side of her. Thick and strong, swollen, but somehow able to have gained on her. She steps into a cliché that snaps just above her ankle. She picks her face up out of the mud and forces a raspy scream, which in turn, is rudely interrupted by the end of a crutch knocking out three of her teeth.

Lucas

2011-03-22T22:54:00.002-04:00

Lucas has finally found a home with Arcana. Done. The title will be available within a few short months. More to come.

Satellite Soda: Moving Foreward

2011-03-17T16:51:00.002-04:00

This is the post where I want to spill the beans, but can't. Exciting things. You'll know more when I can tell you.

Daily-Draw February

2011-03-17T16:44:00.002-04:00

Apparently some high-powered individuals from the late Sketch Tavern got together with some high-powered individuals from Satellite Soda and had a baby. Not really. This was a project that had taken place on the Sketch Tavern website some time ago. It just took place on Satellite Soda and it was nuts. Huge turn out. So much insane artwork was generated by this. Check it out on Satellite Soda. I'm considering creating a collage with the work I did for this. But I'm not particularly thrilled with half of it. We'll see. It'll go up on Deviant Art if I do.

Coming Down The Pipeline

2011-03-17T16:39:00.003-04:00

Things have been a little slow, but not entirely. That I'm grateful for. There are going to be some new items available from Sideshow Collectibles in the not too distant future. Keep an eye out.

Dust: Companion Prints

2010-12-09T23:59:00.003-05:00

Available now on Deviant Art. The Dust: Precursor Companion Prints. These three prints have been designed around the free art book Dust: Precursor. The three pieces all go together. Think of it as one, sectioned piece. You can pick them up now here for $10 a piece. Each piece an 8 x 12 matte photo print. Buy them for yourself, your friends, your loved ones. Just buy them.

Sideshow Collectibles: Jason Voorhees

2010-11-26T23:47:00.005-05:00

Jason Vorhees , Sideshow Exclusive Edition. This piece was commissioned to accompany the Sideshow Collectibles Premium Format Figure. It's brilliant. The figure, along with the print, are limited to 200 and available for pre-order now on SideshowToy.com. You can view the image in my Deviant Art Gallery. The cool news is, there's more to come!

My Favorite Nightmares

2010-10-29T18:16:00.001-04:00

I've been commissioned for a couple pieces and I'm very excited about these ones. Childhood favorites. Childhood nightmares. Fun stuff. I've got the first piece almost done, the second is soon to follow. Once I've got the green light to show them off I'll have the pieces up on Deviant Art along with information on how and where to purchase them. Which translates to "a link". Follow it.

Solomon Wakes

2010-10-03T21:32:00.004-04:00

Over the next week I'm finally going to be wrapping this up. Lots of tweaks and polish. I'm looking forward to it. Once it's finished I may have an Issuu version available, if the details allow it. We'll see what outlet this finds itself.

Ashcan Press

2010-10-03T21:28:00.005-04:00

Eleven pieces total, all now available for viewing on Deviant Art. You can check them (Ashcan Press) out here.

The Ashcan

2010-09-11T01:21:00.004-04:00

A handful of covers commissioned by Ashcan Press. Various series. Really smart stories. They've got some great material up their sleeves. Hopefully, within the next month or so, I'll get the green light to share these with the world. Expect a follow up with a link to the pieces as well as the Ashcan Press website.

Solomon Wakes

2010-08-15T02:12:00.003-04:00

Book one nears completion and with its resurrection has come the injection of new work, panels and scenes alike, lettering, reworking the layout and presentation entirely. I'm really happy with how this is progressing. Gauging it optimistically, I'll have this wrapped up in about a month.

Dust: Precursor

2010-07-22T12:43:00.003-04:00

Dust: Precursor, an art book, is now available through Issuu. A brief history of my work. Favorites. Download or print it off. Either way it's free to you. Follow the link to the right or just grab your copy here.

Lucas

2010-07-12T12:16:00.003-04:00

Lucas has moved on to the next phase of its evolution. I've canned the idea of the story-based--art-book. Now formated as a short horror, I am collaborating with Sukhbir P. and I'm really excited to turn this one out. I'm sticking the art-book concept on the back-burner for now.

Jet-Boy: Victory. Rocket Hero

2010-07-12T10:23:00.004-04:00

Another micro-project of mine. I'm currently collaborating with Zach C., a fellow illustrator whose work is going to be featured in Satellite Soda: Book 3 as well. His Flapjack-esque style is going to rock your world.

Solomon Wakes

2010-06-24T23:42:00.003-04:00

After a good deal of time away from this book I've found new inspiration. I've found that the publisher of this book is far from it. A licensing house that has little, even no, intentions of printing the stories it picks up, Solomon included. Live and learn. Along with the inspiration I'm finding my middle finger flying high. I'm doing this book the way I wanted to. I'm not going to stop using all those dot things.

Lucas

2010-04-14T14:11:00.004-04:00

Lucas is the dark little secret I've got brewing. A hybrid art book that compiles the work of various artists with one short, twisted tale of terror. The story and opening artwork has gone out to various publishers. We'll see where this goes.

Satellite Soda: Book 3

2010-04-14T14:01:00.003-04:00

Four spanking new pieces gracing the pages of the next Satellite Soda book. This will be available for purchase at the 2010 SDCC. Go.

Shwann: The Futuristic Samurai DJ

2010-04-14T13:53:00.004-04:00

One piece done for the Shwann book. You can read up on it here. Lots of great artists contributed to this, check it out.

ID.G Show

2009-04-11T14:40:00.010-04:00

Three exhibited, with five gallery edition prints available. Eleven pieces in all were submitted. You can check out ID.G here.

Solomon Wakes

2009-03-29T22:45:00.009-04:00

I've been working on the graphic novel Solomon Wakes for, admittedly, too long. Revision after revision, it's finally on its way to completion. We've nailed down the story, balanced out the horror and science fiction elements. Around 200 pages in total. Two books. Truly unique. I'm really excited about this. It's written by Erik Martinez and Mark Smith (Popgun, Aqua Leung), and being published by Studio-407. It's finally reached a point that I'm going to catalog the progress. Hopefully providing an update every month or two.

Satellite Soda: The Book v2

2009-03-29T22:38:00.003-04:00

The pieces commissioned for the book are complete. Three character pin-ups in all. Kid Missile, Funky Love Bot, and Chairman Badfunk. I'm really happy with how these turned out. You can check out the full sized images on Deviant Art, here. Preview the book here.

The Cryptics

2009-03-14T12:48:00.005-04:00

The Cryptics Trade Paperback is out now, featuring work from artists over at Satellite Soda. With art by Ben Roman, Dave Igo, Dylan McCrae, Shane Long, Fabian Schlaga, Kris Anka, Jonah Gilbert, Robert Iza, Vidar Cornelius, Daniel Stone, Kyle Foster and more. Written by Steve Niles. Go buy it!

Little Man

2009-03-14T12:40:00.005-04:00

One of two covers commissioned for Mark Linder's The Adventures of the Man in the Can. A self published title based on his regular podcasts. You can hear the stories on Betime Stories My Kids Love.

Art Show

2009-01-12T17:58:00.003-05:00

I've been commissioned to submit work, along with (at least) one new piece for an art gallery show in April of '09. The work will be exhibited in Berlin-Kreuzberg Germany along with the work of around 20 other artists. The show is being held by IDG. The piece is themed 'intoxication'. I went for the sociopolitical remark on oil. Corporate greed. Exciting stuff.

Satellite Soda: The Book

2008-12-14T13:50:00.005-05:00

Two works in progress for a book being put out by the guys at Satellite Soda. There is a third piece on the way. The book is set to debut at the 2009 SDCC.

IDW

2008-09-18T11:56:00.003-04:00

It seems that a recent attempt to put myself out has been met with some positive response. Amongst the current roster of projects, I'm taking a little time to flesh out some test pages for the mighty IDW. To have gotten noticed by said publisher was exciting enough. We'll see where this goes.

The Amazing Joy Buzzards

2008-09-09T13:55:00.003-04:00

A submission piece for The Amazing Joy Buzzards contest going on at Satellite Soda. I never win these things. It's helped me narrow it down to either tenacity or denial. I fear the latter.

Precis

2008-09-08T08:46:00.002-04:00

I illustrate. Tell stories. It's a collection of both formal and informal training, inspiration, curiosity, and intuition. Nothing spectacular, and there's no list of artistic feats to make my case. However, given certain opportunities, I'm finally siding with hindsight and giving myself the opportunity to catalog my artistic goings on in real time. It's funny, I can't help but feel an overwhelming sense of apathy in doing this. Establishing a point in time ahead of any neccessity for it. Providing some vague explaination as to how things evolved, though it hasn't taken place. It's just funny to me.