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.

Gladiator

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.

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!

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!