The Art of Garrick Dean

As a boy my father had a set of books by a fantasy artist named Frank Frazetta. I loved these books, strong muscular men battling with axes ...

So I was sitting on my couch watching the greatest show on earth... LOST!!! And I got to thinking.. "Hmm.. I see some very close simila...

Homework #2 has been returned!!! I used my good friend Elledge Bowers as my model..Thank you Elledge . and the results were very good. Joe ...

I was approached by our marketing team here at O.C.Tanner to help create some files for a presentation of American Express. They wanted the ...

This assignment was to tell a story using no word bubbles at all...using facial features and body motion to convey the premise. I used my fr...

Went to King's Cottage on Tuesday and drew the live model. Graphite on Paper 11" x 17"

I was hired to to recreate a tattoo into a tight image to be recreated into a graphic for a motorcycle. The upper image is the image given, ...

Well my first lesson was returned. I did pretty well, I love constructive critique, it has always been my favorite part of art school. If yo...

Well my first Homework assignment is complete, that took a bit of time, had so many things come up on a personal level that I did not get it...

Here is a fun site a friend turned me onto..it is a great way to see the process of how art is drawn..this is one I did. http://sketch.odopo...

Here are the ones that have been submitted to me so far..... Garrick Dean / Acrylic on Canvas Eric Atencio / Graphite Angie Jantz / Photogra...

Well I have received my first class from the Joe Kubert school so I am about to begin, I decided to warm up by doing a piece of my favorite ...

We have been having a creative project at work. We found a artist who is trying to collect 1 Million giraffe drawings so we are trying to po...

I am going to go back to school and get my official degree in Comic Book Illustration, I want to go pro in this genre and this school is the...

With the new Wolverine movie coming out I designed my Toy Hunter logo around the movie logo, which is directly below.

One of my hardest challenges and also one of my favorite projects here at OC was to recreate our stone library to make it look more realisti...

I have never blogged about what I do here at OC.I develop processes for new illustration, and continue to improve current processes we curre...

So we try to have as much creativity as possible at the OC and so we recently renamed our Art Storage folder on our server to Artchive..kind...

So the sales office like the cow drawing I did but wanted a new perspective on the cows so you could see them eating each others grass..so I...