Humanoid Creature Design

I'm taking a Gnomon class with the brilliant creature designer and excellent teacher Jerad Marantz. This is one of my first projects, a tribal humanoid, monkey mixed with a bat type creature.

Recently, I had jury duty. I had quite a bit of time while waiting for jury selections. Here's an herbivore drawing I did on the iPad.

In the Realm of Dreams & Fears Art Show

On February 6th from 5-9pm I will be at the opening of a group show at Longwood Arts Gallery @Hostos, titled, "In the Realm of Dreams & Fears.". The last day of the show is May 1st and there will be a closing reception that evening.

This group exhibition is organized by artist and guest curator Antonio Vicenty, inspired by his interest in horror/fantasy films. It presents recent phantasmagorical works in drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture and video by visiting artists from Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States. Participating artists include Pierre Ayotte, Patricia Ayres, Michael Paul Britto, Fernando Carpaneda, Kari Christensen, Shawn Conn, Steve Durham, Elisabeth Faraone, Julio Garay, Alba García, Mike Hrubovcak, Jayson Keeling, Steve Lewis, Claire Martial, Ivan Monforte, Owen Mulligan, Lucrecia Novoa, Peter Pier, Matt Pinyan, Radical Sem Dó, JohnnyRamos, Vertebrae33, and John Zhao.

I will have four pieces in the show. The address is:

450 Grand Concourse
(near the intersection with 149th street)
Bronx, NY

The building with the gallery is on the same street as the 4 and 5 subway 149th street stop.

Bug Beast

Another rough sketch of a bug beast. Legends of Norrath Set 15, Debt of the Ratonga releases December 4. I will be posting some art done for the set after the release on my website karichristensen.com

iPad sketch

I started this spider creature on the iPad while waiting at a restaurant. I used Artstudio and a jot stylus.

Happy Halloween!

I've been busy with projects and waiting for permission to post new art.  Here, in honor of my favorite time, is one of my favorite things, Night on Bald Mountain from the film Fantasia. You might want to move to 1:15 and skip the boring introduction, sadly the imps stop frolicking at 9:00.

Illuxcon is a little over a week away! Then the true demonic rumpus will begin in the sleepy town of Altoona....

Fifth Horsewoman of the Zombie Unicorn Apocalypse

Beware the impending zombie plague!