Repel the Tides, Magog, Studies

Some good ol' classic Warcraft art, a Night Elf Hunter kicking some Naga nads in Azshara!

This took two crazy weeks to finish in between freelance, probably the most complex piece I've done to date, and I think it's much improved over the last piece I attempted like this. I've been trying to focus more on the composition and drawing stages of my images lately, and I think it's resulting in much better finishes.

Then here's a character design I've been working on, a redesign of an old Heroes 3 character that's kind of gone in its own direction. :P

And lastly some studies too keep the ol' drawing hand in action. Aww jeuh. 

More Game of Thrones!

 Here's some more work I did for the new Night's Watch handbook for the Game of Thrones RPG!

This first one is Ser Waymar Royce facing off against a white walker, this one is probably one of my favorites of the set! The translucency effects were a blast.

This one is of Harma and Rattleshirt, a couple notable wildlings, getting in to some territorial shouting matches. :P

And lastly a character lineup of some of the new characters in the expansion! The Defeated Sellsword, the Spearwife and the War Leader.

I've also been doing a bunch of figure studies to get my draftsmanship game up. Practice practice! 

Big Ol' Update

Here's a bunch of stuff I've been working on lately; I haven't updated cause it's all mostly been studies, but I have some finished stuff to drop now so here it is all at once!

The first piece here is one of the ones I did last year for the new Game of Thrones RPG handbook, the Night's Watch! The book has been released, so I'll be posting the pieces over the next few days.

The second (the merdude) is a remake of a piece I did in 2006 and 2010, pretty fun to compare. :P

Then here are a few portrait studies I've done from photos.

And lastly here are some figure drawings from photos and life, trying to focus on painting directly with color rather than starting B&W and adding washes of color later.

That's all for now, more updates on the Game of Thrones stuff over the next few days! Thanks for looking!

Lady Sanguine + Warmup

Here's a personal piece I just finished to add to the ol' portfolio. I had the idea for the headdress and kind of built the rest of the character around it, pretty pleased with the outcome! I tried a new process of jumping straight in to color rather than doing value and adding color on top, which was a lot of fun, definitely gonna stick with that method for future pieces.

Then here is a gif showing the process of creating the piece, and a warmup character I did experimenting with a little bit more of a stylized direction, inspired by Torchlight 2 concepts.

Thanks for looking!

Aliens, portraits and a gypsy

My my, November already! Next thing you know it it'll be December and the world will end, just when I finally learned to tap-dance too! (I do not know how to tap dance)

Oh well, here's some artwork to look at instead. The first is a commission for a friend on dA, had a lot of fun with the slimy skin on that one! The second is a portrait I started for practice but it ended up getting a little more finished. I don't think I'm quite done with it yet, still have some things  to touch up and tweak, but it might be a while before I get to it.

Then these two are some photo studies; the left one is a friend of mine who made a super awesome costume that I just had to paint, and the portraits are studies of some famous people and a random lady from google, need to keep working on my portraiture. If you can guess them all you'll get a private tap-dance lesson! (You will not get a private tap-dance lesson)

And that's it for now, thanks for looking and happy Thanksgiving! :)

Ponies, Purification and Studies

Yikes, been a while since my last update! Alas, but here is some stuff regardless!

These first couple are some recent finished works; the cultist burning one for a client on dA and the merpony the result of a hilarious bet/dare/collab between me and another artist. She did the drawing and I painted it. Needless to say, my little pony + mermaid = win.

Then these here are just a couple studies, the first to try and practice more deliberate markmaking and lost edges, and the second to get a feel for drawing birds which I'll be using in a future piece.

And lastly here's a bundle of sketches, these are mostly studies from photos. I'm trying to better understand costuming and design and also improve my line quality; killing two birds with one stone! These are also a ton of fun to do, and don't take much time, so I think I'm gonna start making it a point to do these daily, cause I can already see them improving my work. Fun fun!

 And that's all for now, thanks for looking! More to come soon!

Character & Studies

Moar stuff! Here's another character commission for a friend of mine over on dA, had a lot of fun with that one, crazy aliens with energy wings are always good! And then another chunk of figure/portrait studies, gotta get that draftsmanship up! Gonna try and keep cranking out as much of that kinda stuff as I can in between all the other mountains of work.

Cheerio!