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.

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Saint Nick

Christmas Card - Saint Nick and Rudolf
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.

Saturday, December 14, 2024

End of a Journey

The 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.

Friday, December 6, 2024

Warrior - Sketch from 2010

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.

Gladiator

Gladiator Woman Sketch - Design from 2010
This is a character I designed sometime in 2010, my recent search through my old files uncovered it and I decided to refine it. I don't normally work with lineart, I prefer shapes and to work with shadows, so this is different from the drawings I typically crank out. In the end I couldn't resist and put some suggestion of shading onto this drawing.
I've ran into a moral dillema recently when it comes to these drawings and where to put them on the page. Their origin is way in the past, but what I am doing with them now I did not used to have the skill to do in the past, so I am going to put them down as current work if I do drastic refinements over them such as this one.
Gladiator - WIP Animated GIF
Here's the WIP. What I had was the old sketch done in pencil, I cleaned it up refined it on a separate layer in Photoshop. About an hour of work went into this process, which doesn't include the original art but as you can see that was just a quick unfinished sketch. I have no idea if references were used for the original sketch as I don't even remember making that drawing, but I know it's mine because my notes were on the same page... Thanks for visiting!

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Nibru - Character Design from 2009/2010

Nibru - Character Design from 2009 2010
This has been a theme lately with my art. As I've stood this website to showcase some of my art I've been going through some really OLD stuff. This particular drawing was started back in 2010, but at first I couldn't remember the details as to why I even started it. I knew it wasn't my character, if nothing else due to the name. I started searching online and found THIS POST by nJoo on DeviantArt... and oh the memories flooded back. This was almost a meme on conceptart.org, as some random person posted a request to have his character drawn. If you've been on art community websites this is a constant occurrence, which normally results in everyone ignoring it. However, in this particular instance, EVERYONE took a stab at designing the character based on the brief, including some famous artists like the one I linked to. I also decided to do it, but never finished the image. Last night as the memories of this event came back I decided to just push the piece a bit more and get it polished up as I liked some of the things I'd done in that sketch.
And here's the WIP. The entire thing, including the original sketch, were done in Photoshop. Cheers!

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