"Only a gun this big deserves her care" Software:  Gimp

"Give me the gold and silver coins or I'll blow your head off!"  

"Say Arrrr" Another painting I did using Gimp

So.... my web hosting went down, but it's all good, I have a bunch of new stuff anyway.            

It's an old pic I did for a poster contest.

It's just a small sampling, really. I'll post stuff as it comes up.                         

Hi everyone. My name is Mark Hammermeister. I'm an illustrator by night, graphic designer by day from beautiful Detroit, MI. I used to work all in vectors before I went gaga over digital painting a few months ago. Now I'm hooked. You'll see a lot of my work leans towards doing caricatures; that's something I've done since I was ...

One of my early attempts to create a custom starfield from scratch. I then created the planet all in Photoshop. Finally got that thin atmosphere look around the planet.

"Shield has collapsed!  We are under heavy fire from multiple positions!"