Ars Goetia 63 - Andras

A manifestation of Andras, the 63rd demon described in the Infernal Dictionary.

His title is Great Marquis and he controls over thirty legions of demons.

Andras often manifests in a humanoid body with angel's wings and an owl's head, holding a gleaming and sharp great-sword. He is also often depicted riding great dark wolf. His power is extreme, if successfully summoned and commanded, he can kill anyone. Andras is a master of the sword and violence, often summoned at times of war, to sow discord, cause strife and bloodshed. He can ruin a truce between former enemies and enflame old grudges.

Generally considered one of the most dangerous of summons, only the most powerful conjurers should even consider attempting to summon this creature, and extreme precautions must be taken. When summoned Andras is intent on killing both the conjurer and the assistants should they stray from the circle of protection. He will tempt the summoners and only a great will is capable of bringing him under tenuous control.

Once an angel, sided with Lucifer and fell from grace.

Ars Goetia:

Renna the Snow Witch

Renna the Snow Witch is a character from Elden Ring. We never actually meet Renna in person, instead Ranni initially introduces herself to us as Renna, and eventually we find the Snow Witch armor set in Renna's Rise after Ranni moves on to the latter part of her quest.

Some people have debated if Renna was actually the Snow Witch who served as a mentor to Ranni, but I'm not sure why the debate exists because this is about as spoon-fed to us by From software as it gets. Not only was Renna the actual identity of the Snow Witch, she is also the Third Sister of Rennala and Rellana.

What is an actual mystery from the lore perspective, is what exactly happened to Renna? By the time the Tarnished player character gets to move the story forward she appears to be gone, and most likely dead. Only traces of her remain, and perhaps Ranni assumed Renna's identity to hide from the Two Fingers after pulling off the double assassinantion during the Night of the Black Knives. She modeled her new body appearance after Renna and managed to avoid detection for a very long time... The only way the deception would have been effective, is if Renna was indeed famous enough for Ranni to pull off that stunt. So this may be obvious to us as the story unfolds that Ranni is not who she initially claimed she is, but we do not get any decent information hinting regarding what actually happened to Renna the Snow Witch and how or why she died. This is rather important because both Rennala and Rellana were clearly extremely powerful, and expecting their third sibling to be lacking in both power and importance to the overall world development is strange...

This was an ink drawing which was modified and painted over digitally to create the image you see above. This is not my usual style but I decided to try something new and to leave it rather simple.

Demonic Centaur

This started as an ink drawing made sometime in 2025, but I finally got around to scanning it and working on it in early 2026. I ended up working on this much longer than I anticipated.

This crop is intended to show the highlights.

Lastly, you can see how this started from the brief WIP.

Faebruary 2026 Drawing

Here we go again with something new. I have so many things cooking right now that it has been nearly impossible to keep up with and finish anything to show... However, I did make a sketch and painted over it to get to a more polished stage.

This is the work-in-progress animated GIF showing how this drawing changed over time. Almost the entire drawing, except for some minor finishing touches, was done on stream. I will link the videos here once I figure out how to do that...

Xenomorph Sketch - Tattoo Design

This is a tiny ink sketch which was requested by a friend for a potential tattoo. Unsure if it will make it to the intended destination. Modified digitally.

Baba Yaga's Walking Tree House

This is an illustration from 2021 that I spent a lot of time on. The original was an ink sketch that I wanted to turn into a full up color drawing and I did not take the most efficient approach.

For some background, Baba Yaga is a folklore monster... some times in movies portrayed as a male demon. I am Slavic though, and our version of Baba Yaga is an old witch that flies around on a broom stick or a mortar. When I was little my grandma used to try to scare me with stories of Baba Yaga and even told me her house was a tiny little utilty hut between the big apartment buildings we lived in. In the folklore, her house is actually mobile, and has chicken legs to move around on. Also the old crone is portrayed as cannibalistic, especially preferring the taste of young children.

I was intrigued... though I don't think I was ever really scared of the old witch. I just never found the Bulgarian "babas" scary, though other people might be onto something!

This is my interpretation of Baba Yaga's house, I like the idea of living trees that are their own characters, and chicken legs are just too tasty to be spooky!

This little wizard is not Baba Yaga, but is a visitor, and the tree is reacting to the intruder. If you pay attention to my drawings you may see this little red robed wizard show up in quite a few places. There must be a good reason to visit Baba Yaga, but we might never find out the exact cause.

Ink drawing sketch is how this started.

I refined this ink sketch digitally and then colored it. It looked cool, so I thought why not do illustration around it by placing it into a scene? This did not work out very well as the colors were clashing, the values were wrong... I spent a lot more time on this than I should have. Even now in 2025 I did some adjustments and painted in some details to clean this up. In the end some gradient maps and color overlays seem to have brought the image more together. I get frustrated looking at it though.

Big Blade - Sketch from 2012

This is a pencil sketch from 2012 that was only partially modified / colorized digitally. I love the way it turned out, especially her eyes.

Of Fire and Ice - Stibnite

This is a sketch from 2012 that also had another figure in the background. The drawing got heavily reworked and was never published before. I colorized it for the #Huevember2025 challenge over at Cara.app

The challenge was to use certain hue or color in an artwork on a specific day. On the 19th and 20th day of November the hue was "Stibnite" which is a grey-ish metal alloy which is toxic. The hues shown in the color picker for the challenge were very blue-ish though. I decided to use both a color layer to shift the drawing's colors to the blue and a gradient map with the dark values mapping to stibnite but the lighter values being mapped to warmer orange and red hues which were also part of the overall color pallete for the month of November.

The character is a fire witch.

Amanita the Axehead Assassin

This character design started as something akin to the mushroom people from Mario world, but as I went along I changed it to look more like a metallic weapon that's fused on or part of the head. Really enjoying working with pencils again last couple weeks.

Cleaned up and revised digitally, but I wanted to keep the intial pencil sketch look.

Elven Prisoner - Drawing from 2014

This is a painted over pencil drawing from 2014 that was never finished and never published. There was no particular reason I made this drawing, just a sketch.

Here's the work-in-progress animated GIF showing how the drawing was altered. The actual sketch wasn't anything special, but I liked it enough to paint over it. No references were used.

Elephant Seagull Mash

Something different, done in 2021 at the height of Covid for a challenge from Stumpy to draw something in the style of MegsMashables, here are links to both of them:

Stumpy's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stumpyfongo/

Meg's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megsmashables/

Fun to work on this, cheers!

The Acolyte

Drawing of an Eternal Seven character from 2023.

Figure Study from 2008 - Luba Shumeyko

I used to do these studies a lot more. This was entirely done in Photoshop. The original reference photo was NSFW, recently retouched to make it more internet and general public friendly. Luba Shumeyko is on Instagram or you can search for her on the interwebs and find lots of cool shots. I ended up referencing her in other artowrks such as THIS one.

Lady - Portrait Ink Sketch from 2019

This is my take on Lady from the Black Company. The series by Glen Cook is one of my all time favorites and I can't recommend it enough to people who like fantasy.

This is an ink drawing I made in 2019, no refs used.

Hand - Fantasy Illustration

This is a mutated subhuman character from the Eternal Seven story.

Original drawing was made in 2007 and was one of the first illustrations I actually created entirely in Photoshop. It was always something I meant to go back to and to update and it received a new coat of paint in October 2025!

Never give up, skeleton!

Protoss Sketch

This is a concept art sketch of a creature from Starcraft. The original pencil sketch was made in 2007 and here were are in 2025 I finally finished it! He had hands for feet which I had to get rid of.

Modified in Photoshop.

Dragoon

This is concept art for a Dragoon warrior.

Final Fantasy 4, released as 2 in the US, is one of my favorite games of all time, and Kain Highwind was my favorite character in the game. His story arc was unexpected, and I loved how powerful he could become by the end of the story.

Oh how simple life was back in those Final Fantasy II days...

While this drawing is not meant to represent Kain, this is a similar type of spear-wielding, high-flying warrior. It may not be obvious but it's actually a woman in the drawing. Maybe a descendant of Kain, or just a fellow Deist Dragoon...

The original ink sketch was made sometime in 2021, and largely remained forgotten. In September 2025 I came back to it and spent quite a bit of time polishing the design and sketch. It was fun putting this together and I do like the end results.

Koloss Sketches from 2012

Koloss are creatures from the Mistborn series of books. These are giant modified humanoids who have grown to such massive proportions their skin is tearing in places as they become larger, the skin is blue in color, implying the humans used to create them may now be undead. There are armies of them serving the Lord Ruler, posing an existential threat to the main characters in the story.

Both of these pencil sketches were made in 2012 while I was reading Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. Both drawings were modified in Photoshop, but you can still see their pencil origins. I have wanted to do a bigger painting featuring the Koloss in more detail, hopefully some day soon!

Other Mistborn Artowrks:

Queen of Pentacles - Doomsday Dream Clan

The many meanings of the Queen of Pentacles tarot card.

This is another drawing from the archives.

Originally the concept sketch was made in 2010 when I was on a team of artists called the Doomsday Dream Clan. We participated in a team challenge in the now dead conceptart.org website. The challenge was to draw cards from a tarot deck and this is one of the cards we selected to paint. The intent was to create a complete deck from the cards drawn by all the different teams of artists who participated in the contest. I do not know if the deck was ever completed, but I know that some stunning work was done during the challenge and some famous pro artists participated in the contest.

This version of the Queen of Pentacles depicted here did not make it into our final work or submission, but was instead an original concept done by me when we first started to get some ideas. In August 2025 I decided to push this concept to a more complete state and this is the result. I have been meaning to go back and post our completed works from the Doomsday Dream Clan on a separate subsection of this website.

This project was a lot of fun to work on, and I do think we did some really good work. I honestly think that I did my best work while working with other artists. Maybe now it doesn't look so impressive, but in 2010 this was the peak of my ability. After we completed the challenge the complete lack of votes from the community was totally demoralizing. It was another showcase of how popularity skewed perspective and affected the voting results. I'm not saying we should have won, but we were close and our entries were very unique. I suffered a few years of burnout after this challenge completed where I didn't draw very much.

Burnout is a common thing for many artists and the causes may be different. For me usually art comes in waves, or as I like to call them "dumps", where I push and improve massively over a few weeks or months, but then have to take a few years to pull back and gather more energy for the next push. I'm now old, and I wish I had spent more time and effort in improving early as an artist.

The end is coming soon, maybe like most artists my work will be more valued after I'm dead. Cheers to that!

Starship Test Sketch from 2007

This is way outside the normal stuff I draw, but it was early on in my digital art career and I hope I can be forgiven!

Concept/drawing was made in 2007.