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!

Lust and Gluttony

This is a pencil drawing from 2008, and what I consider one of my most iconic artowrks from an era that featured some really cool art. I'm not really sure I have that same creativity in me anymore as I had during the first decade of this century. It is a goal of mine to redo this artwork and give it the justice it deserves since I have improved quite a bit since then, despite losing all creativity!

Felicia Romero - Figure Study 2008

This is a pencil drawing done in 2008. The reference is the amazing Felicia Romero who used to be an IFBB figure competitor back in the days. Check out her IG, she's still going strong!

Here's a low res version of the original reference was from FLEX magazine. It's clear that I messed up the proportions but the drawing looked pretty good for my skill at the time. I don't know where this drawing is now, or how big the size was, but looking at some of the detailed highlights makes me think that this was actually larger than my normal half-page sketches.

Mermaid - Painting from 2008

This digital painting was made in 2008. Unfortunately the original high res artwork was lost to the ages. Had to regenerate from a low resolution web saved image and painted details back into it in May 2025 as I'm rebuilding my website... just in time for Mermay!

Warrior

This was an ink drawing I made in April 2025. Modified in Photoshop.

Blue Dragon

This is a recent ink sketch which has been digitally modified. This sketch was not very well planned out, I was just scribbling on a piece of paper, trying to get the blue ink flowing from a pen that had not been used for years. At some point a wild dragon appeared! Done in April 2025.

Mermaid - Ink Sketch from 2022

This is an ink drawing from 2022. Modified in Photoshop.

Dark Unicorn Fae

She's angry and horny at the same time, wants to stab you in the face, or the penor! Be careful, more demon than Fairy...

And the WIP GIF, this started as a quick ink sketch to celebrate Faebruary 2025!

Tyrion Lannister Drawing from 2008

This is another throwback artwork from the archives...

The HBO series for Game of Thrones started showing in 2011 apparently. I actually read Game of Thrones book in 1996 shortly after it was released and to this day I still have PTSD from waiting on GRRM to release the next book in the series. I was at the University at the time, and remember getting a stomach bug, after puking my guts out for a few days I picked this book up from the Library, mostly because I thought the name "Game of Thrones" was kind of stupid and pretentious. It was on the shelf right next to a copy of a volume from Black Company! Should've went with Black Company! Great series, nothing to complain about there.

Despite my dislike of the title or the author of this series, I liked reading the books and especially enjoyed the characters. The fact that nobody was safe after the first book created an allure to this series. The dialogue was brilliant, and the political intrigue was incredible. I am so glad HBO picked up the series and did it justice, especially the parts for which there was written materials. There were a few things I did NOT like about the HBO series, but nothing is perfect...

One of the things I disliked the most about the HBO series was the casting of certain characters, chief of which was the choice for Peter Dinklage to portray the main character of the series. Don't take this the wrong way, I think Dinklage did a great job with his acting, but Tyrion is supposed to be ugly and disfigured. Dinklage is entirely too pretty for the role! In my humble opinion, Tyrion should actually look like GRRM himself, but younger, more out of shape, and also disfigured. There's even a incident in battle that results in him losing parts of his face and nose, but in the HBO series they kind of made him even prettier after that!

This here pencil drawing was made sometime in 2008 and portrayes Tyrion as I imagined him from reading the books, before the HBO series came out.

Now tell me, how much did you like the ending of the HBO series? I know you loved it!

Pocket Dog

Some Hellhounds really do think they are pocket dogs. This guy likes his little duck and will fight you for it!

This illustration was originally created for a challenge back in 2010, but as has been the theme in my art recently, I went back and polished it up in 2024.

Saint Nick

Just in time for the holidays. If you've been a bad boy, Santa is coming ot chop your head off... if Rudolf doesn't bite your face off first. Look out!

Ink drawing, modified in Photoshop. December 2024

I actually used a reference for the elk, the drawing was more complicated than I intended with the figure being obscured by the horns. This was an ink drawing which was painted over in Photoshop. This is done as a Christmas card, may get colored next year.

End of a Journey

This is an illustration I made in 2021 during what I would consider my most massive art dump ever. The colors don't work very well, esp the light and the sky mix, but I was trying new things and learning in the process.

Warrior - Sketch from 2010

Another sketch from 2010 that I recently uncovered. I remember working on this one and loving the way it turned out at the time. This was a pencil sketch that was painted over in Photoshop.

Beholder - Digital Paintover 2024

This is another sketch that I intended to paint over for a long time. The original tiny ink sketch was made in 2022. Finally got around to it in the last week and here's the result. Unfortunately I lost the high-res file in the process of finalizing the image and creating the WIP animation.