This is the sixth of eight interior images I created for a book “Nocturnal Academy” available through Amazon Kindle and Lulu. (I created the interior images while another artist created the cover).
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Wolfbane
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Ancient Grimoire
This is the fifth of eight interior images I created for a book “Nocturnal Academy” available through Amazon Kindle and Lulu. (I created the interior images while another artist created the cover).
Chunky & Stan
This is the fourth of eight interior images I created for a book “Nocturnal Academy” available through Amazon Kindle and Lulu. (I created the interior images while another artist created the cover).
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Mercurio
This is the third of eight interior images I created for a book “Nocturnal Academy” available through Amazon Kindle and Lulu. (I created the interior images while another artist created the cover).
Nocturna
This is the second of eight interior images I created for a book “Nocturnal Academy” available through Amazon Kindle and Lulu. (I created the interior images while another artist created the cover).
A video of the process (compressed into just under 10 minutes) is available on my YouTube account.
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Alice
This is the first of eight interior images I created for a book “Nocturnal Academy” available through Amazon Kindle and Lulu. (I created the interior images while another artist created the cover).
A step through video is on my YouTube account the process at various points. Some later images will be actual video.
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Dust
My first entry into one of CGHub’s 2D Drawing Jams.
This was for Jam #17 with a Wild Wild West theme.
They are 14 day challenges but I joined fairly late in the game. Still managed to get this much done over the four days before the deadline.
Zombie Girl
This is a t-shirt design I’ve created (available through the store link above or just by clicking here).
You can also see a few of the steps I went through here on my blog.
Scourge
A somewhat dark image compared to what I’ve been making recently – not sure where the idea came from, I thought I was in a happy place at the time.
We Want Your Brains
The Zombie Apocalypse Anticipation Party of Australia
We will be ready when the zombies come. Will you be standing with us?
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Armed for Peace
An image created for the cover of a study booklet for my church group.
(The topic of the event was ‘Armed for Peace’ and I was given free reign on what the actual cover image was but I thought it was appropriately themed.)
It was John 13 through to 17; the days leading up to the crucifixion. [...]
Bastion
The King’s Scarlet Falcon was the finest archer anyone had known, admired by her soldiers and feared by her enemies. Invaders would tell of seeing the sudden flicker of her red scarves from the parapet the moment after feeling the hot metal pierce into flesh and muscle.
Now she is powerless against the only invader she [...]
Blue Steel
More random practise portraiture.
This is a rather recent one.
Shell
More recent practise portraiture.
Bunny
An angry industrious timberpunk bunny?
I almost coloured this one… started and then decided not to for some reason.
My Djinneration
This Djinn has all she could ever wish for… Good music. Good times.
I won’t apologise for the play on words in the title … and if you don’t understand it Genie is the English translation of the Arabic term jinn, also djinn.
Software: Corel Painter X
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Apocrypha
Lost in the dance Apocrypha spins.
Tried doing something funky with the perspective in this one, don’t know if it was the best idea but I seem to have had a thing for circles recently.
Software: Corel Painter X
Freerunners
The desert centaurs, Jayne Bay and her bond-sister Celyna Grey, race through the stone fields. Lost within the thrill they hardly notice the sands of their tribal desert as it whips around their legs and breaks upon their powerful bodies.
I had fun making this one this week and learnt some new words for horse colours. [...]
Ice Dragon Wakes
An aching groan began deep within the ice but the volume grew with determination. Suddenly an ancient writhing neck reached into the sky with an explosive burst of snow and ice. The Ice Dragon wakes.
Painter X. My second completed work on my shiny new Axiotron ModBook.
Afro Wizard
Just practise and portraiture
Ascension
Aha finished, time to pack up and get some sleep… oh no.
Is that moving? What is happening?
Is she… is she coming to get… me?
What did I do?!
Software: Corel Painter X
Freefall
Kyrie crouches low to Alden’s back enjoying his otherwise terrifying drop. She knows that he won’t allow her to be harmed and they will level out before they hit the city, but time is against them for the ship has already left the harbour.
Alyssia
Reinterpreting an old character.
Software: Corel Painter X
Rainbow
With the the arrival of spring, the first hunting party from the Rainbow tribe sets out from the canopy.
Lise
Some practise portraiture.
Beautiful Smile
If you have ever wondered what the Tooth Fairy does with all those teeth… I have managed to catch her preparing for a night out.
If I drop off the face of the earth… or my corpse is found with tiny teeth marks you will know that I have paid the price for revealing this to [...]
Wildflower
Wildflower held her breath and bit her tongue to keep her silence, her smooth green fingers clawed into the bark of one of the trees. This forest once belonged to her people, the Sylvaen, the mysterious plant-people. She prayed to the ancestors that the ancient trees that her people had evolved from would hide her [...]
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Outlook
Software: Corel Painter X
Drakelle
Skin stained since childhood after the village elders tattooed her flesh with a sample of slightly-corrosive dragon blood – bonding her to their Celestial Queen forever marking her as a Dragon Priestess one of the elite guard that protect their draconic rulers.
One Winter's Night
Inspired by a Nightwish song… another art work that I had started last year before losing momentum.
I’ve been reinspired by the same song a few times since – so now I have finally rescued it from the scrap pile.
Self
Just a quick attempt one night at a self portrait.
General practice and whatnot.
Curiosity
…sometimes draws you too close.
Winter's Embrace
Winter wished that she and her beloved could stay like this forever… without knowing that he was no longer able to choose.
Corel Painter X
Moonlit Revelation
I hadn’t intended to write a description as I prefer people to read whatever they will from it.
But I think werewolves should take more care before they agree to a date.
333
333 – Only half-evil.
Partially inspired by that phrase which I’d seen as graffiti on a train.
Fugitive
An idea I’ve had for a while – created quickly over this weekend.
Wasn’t sure where to put this one [categorisation for DeviantArt]… Those ears don’t automatically make it fantasy… and it’s not quite horrible enough for macabre & horror.
Dragonkin
Yay, my copy of Painter had arrived to replace my dead trial version so I’ve been able to finish this.
Guardian
“Long after the war, a lone samurai robot guards the city of his master, whom will never wake again, from an enemy that will never return”
My Painter IX.5 trial expired mid-work and the store I ordered my full version from has stock issues at the moment.
Which leaves me without Painter for a bit. So I [...]
Boxing
An image I’d made shortly after “Thinking Of You”
Gehn
A few years back I’d read the first two of the Myst books before playing Riven. So I had a somewhat different image of what I thought Gehn would look like by the time I eventually played it. So I’d tried painting how I’d imagined him… though I think that even this idea was different [...]
Offering
I had this idea stuck in my head for a while so I started it sometime after my last artwork (”Thinking of You”).
Almost completely done in Painter.
Thinking of You
A warm-hearted image to last you through your Winter ChristmasHolidays.
Third place: Digital category in DeviantArt and ArtistsForCharity’s Christmas competition 2006.
Print now available here ( via `ArtistsForCharity )
Lotus Rider
Well, my first non-competition Deviation submitted was bound to be whichever work I finished first ^_^.
So here is one… it’s a bit of Guild Wars fanboyism really. Doesn’t require any more description than that
Malekin (2005)
“This mysterious young girl skips unafraid where even the King’s most fearsome knights wouldn’t dare go alone.”
Malekin is some sort of fairy child (human stolen and raised by fairies).
Warrior Vs Mage (2005)
The Title, however boring, is accurate.
I’m posting old work from 2005 retroactively for historical sake… I no longer know the exact date this was made.
Paine & Angel (2005)
I’m posting old work from 2005 retroactively. I no longer know the exact date this was created.
He’s a devious ghoul with a knack for maiming and torture. She’s the Angel of Death.
If you have problems with pesky vampires, hordes of undead or even your common everyday criminal – look no further than this duo of [...]