Showing posts with label Creature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creature. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Blue Dragon

Blue Dragon Drawing - April 2025
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.

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Pocket Dog

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

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Beholder - Digital Paintover 2024

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.
Beholder 2024 WIP Animated GIF

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Dragon - Art from 2009

Dragon and Rider - Art from 2009
This was a pencil drawing from 2009 that I had started to paint over digitally but never finished. As a result I don't think this artwork was ever published anywhere. I've improved a lot with my dragons since this art was done, but this was one of the bigger illustrations I attempted at the time.

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Centaur Warrior with Armor

Centaur Warrior
This is a digital painting done in 2012. The original was NSFW, I touched it up in 2024 to make it more... user friendly! Entirely done in Photoshop.

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Orc Concept Pencil Sketch

Orc Concept Pencil Sketch from 2008
This is a pencil drawing from 2008. He might not be the prettiest, but he is a very good boy!

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Acid

Acid - Creature Design
This is a creature I designed as part of a challenge on conceptart.org with the prompt "Deaf, Blind, Acid Spitter." The idea I had about the creature is that it really wasn't blind despite not having eyes. The spikes on its head are hollow and function similar to antennas, such that they can pick up vibrations. The creature is able to sense the vibrations around it and actually have a very good sense of its surroundings. This creature is not actually too large, but is extremely fast and dangerous. Its sharp teeth and claws can shred flesh instantly, and the acid spewing, spike covered bulge on the tip of its tail is a weapon able to crush hard targets and inflict acid and deadly toxins into the bloodstream.
Acid Pencil Sketch from 2011
This started as a pencil drawing in 2011, which was then painted over. This was also a pivotal drawing for me, as it caused me to leave the CG Society website. This website was a great resource, but as I went to post this article into my profile it was not allowed because of of the admins there was a royal cnt and had it out for me. Rather than try to seek clarificaiton I just left the website and never looked back. I did see the entire portal went down recently, hope the worst for that admin. For anyone who was around that website, you can probably guess who I'm talking about.

Monday, April 8, 2024

Forkrul Assail - Sister Calm

Forkrul Assail - Sister Calm
This is a digital painting concept art of a member of the Forkrul Assail race of humanoid creatures described in the Malazan Empire series by Steven Erikson. It's my take on it at least. Originally this image was NSFW but it has been "cleaned up."

At the time I made this drawing I would consider it one of my more polished up character designs. Really enjoyed working on her.

Mog Sketch

Mog Drawing
Pencil sketch of one of my favorite video game characters. Made in 2012, kuppo!

Sunday, April 7, 2024

Dryad Queen

Dryad Queen Character Design Final
This was a digital painting done for one of my favorite art streamers Stumpyfongo. He used to stream a lot in the midst of COVID, and I hung out there quite a bit while trying to do other stuff in the background. This specific drawing was done as part of a Lost Woods challenge, where participants had to draw characters they would find in a deep fantasy forest. I loved it!
Deep Woods Challenge Concepts
The original concept sketch, I settled on the left one.
Dryad Queen WIP - Work in Progress Animated GIF
And here's the WIP GIF.

Monday, April 1, 2024

Tree Dragon

Tree Dragon
Done sometime in 2009, as part of a COW #154 (Creature of the Week) challenge on conceptart.org with the prompt of "Hanging Upside Down." This was all painted in Photoshop.

Beholder Drawings 2009

Beholder - Red Hot Doom
This was the year in which I went back to an old concept regarding Beholders, having these really bright burning central eyes. The drawing above was done for COW #156 (Creature of the Week) prompt on conceptart.org with the prompt "Red Hot Doom." Below are a couple of sketches with the same theme.
Beholder Summoning
Beholder Chase

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Black Tooth Cave Dweller

Black Tooth Cave Dweller
This was done sometime in 2009 as a COW (Creature of the Week) #154 over at conceptart.org withg the "Hanging Upside Down" prompt. The idea is that this little cutie hangs in caves, waiting for guests to arrive.
Black Tooth Cave Dweller Sketch

Dragoner

Dragoner - Illustration from 2009
Hard to believe, this was from 2009. I remember making this drawing, I guess it was one of my better ones at the time. The girl was modeled after a photo of Kate Beckinsale. All painted in Photoshop. Here's the WIP:

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Naga

This started as a really cool ink sketch. However, it scanned horribly, there's something about the ink which reflects during the scan process and makes the entire image look bad. I actually made this drawing sometime in 2023 and have been fiddling by painting it over in Photoshop in an attempt to make it look decent. I'md rather happy with the end result now and want to move on to other pieces.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Arctic Foxtail Prompt

Arctic Foxtail
This was a drawing for a creature called the Arctic Foxtail, a prompt from Justin Gerard on his Twitch Stream. Ink sketch which was painted over in Photoshop quickly. These went into the #letsdrawmonsters category.
The original sketch. This was from the 4th of February 2021.

Monday, February 5, 2024

K'Chain Che'Malle

K'Chain Che'Malle
Pencil drawing of a creature from the Malazan Empire series by Steven Erikson. Made in 2011, it was one of my finest artworks that I am most proud of.

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Dragons - Ink Sketches from 2019

Here are a couple of sketches I made in the year of our Lord, 2019.
This one is a baby dragon on top of an egg that hasn't hatched yet. This sketch would serve as a basis for a digital painint I made a couple of years later.
Dive bomb! Dragons are never far from my mind. I grew up roaming the hills looking for lizardss and snakes. I love scaled things that are cool to the touch! Do you feel the same way?

Scaled Hounds - Sketch from February 2019

One of my favorite things to do during meetings is to draw. Sometimes people think I'm not listening, but I can breathe and chew bubble gum at the same time too!

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Beholder - September 2016

Beholders have always fascinated me, but in my imagination they are quite different from the classic beholders portrayed in fantasy art.
Beholder Sketch
This was a tiny ink sketch which I painted over in Photoshop. This was made sometime in 2016.