Two Headed Dragon and War Beast

Ink sketches from earlier in 2024.

I've been very busy at work this year and don't even have time for sketching during meetings... Sad! Very Sad!

I intend to come back and work on both of these drawings at some point, just not sure when it will happen. They both look really good in the real world though, very difficult to photograph or scan properly. This is one of the things I'd like to figure out how to do better because the reflective ink is actually very hard to capture digitally and for it to look good.

Art Practice - Demons and Dragons - from February 2021

This was done in the height of the COVID pandemic and lockdowns. It was such a good time for me, nothing much changed in my life, but the rest of the world went away. It was nice! If this is what the apocalypse and the end of the human species will look like, I for one welcome it!

This was entirely done in Photoshop, testing a buch of new brushes, then making something out of the patterns. Subseqwuently I ended up making a number of much more detailed paintings from this practice dump.

Procreate Sketch 2021

There was a period after I got my Ipad that I used Procreate quite a lot. The applicaiton is extremely powerful and certainly something that can be used professionally, a very good alternative to Photoshop. But after a while I of course once again went back to Photoshop where everything is familiar. This is a fairly rare experiment where I wanted to sketch in Procreate sometime in 2018. I didn't have anything in mind, just sat down and started drawing things.

It makes a buzzing sound!

This fairy was painted as a demo on stream for about an hour in 2021. While not being an actual speed painting, this is about as speedpainty as I go... No refs were used, matter of fact I didn't even know what I was going to paint when we started, but it was February... so it descended into a Faebruary sketch. The entire thing was done in Photoshop.

Sword Hand

This is a drawing from 2009. At the time I made this drawing I was a member of a team on conceptart.org which was called Doomsday Dream Clan, and we were in the midst of trying to participate in a team challenge. One of our team members was a young kid whose online handle was "Sword Hand" and I made this drawing in his honor. A reference of Adriana Lima was used for the face, but outside of that it was made up. Now about 15 years later I stumbled upon the original drawing while browsing my old archive and had to touch it up. If any of my old teammates stumble upon this, hit me up, miss you guys!

The Nightmare Chalice

Don't drink! Just sip...

Victoria's Secret Sketches from 2009

I used to do a lot of drawings strictly for practice, trying to learn how to draw the body and the face. This is another example of it. Pencil sketch modified in Photoshop.

This is also a pencil sketch that was modified in Photoshop.