With the approach of Slave Zero X's release - which is also my birthday - on the 21st, i've been kind of spinning my wheels in panic mode over the final culmination of four years of work. That slowed down a lot of my other projects as it became hard to focus on anything but anticipating the ultimate response to what has been my longest eve...
2024-02-20 18:28:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The client requested that this piece remain unposted and that both they and the subject matter remain anonymous (At least for now) but I was happily able to get special dispensation to share it here. The reference provided was for a fairly low rez "sprite" design I was free to interpret as I saw fit, and I relished reading into every aspect and ...
2024-02-07 15:34:34 +0000 UTC View Post
A custom Avatar/Pilot commission in the setting of my One Thousand Heavens book, designed in part through collaboration with the client.
[Deranged Pilot who broadcasts herself slaughtering willing and unwilling opponents in cyberspace to her slavering audience. When the chat calls for "Grand Guignol", she and her target beco...
2024-02-01 00:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post
"Enter gently into the innocent and blameless grasp of the fate I have chosen for you. My hands settle around your future, and it becomes part of mine."
For years the "ATTRIBUTE" icons that denote the elemental affinity of a given card in Duel Monsters have struck me as immaculate pieces of graphic design, little time capsules of a s...
2024-01-03 11:35:40 +0000 UTC View Post
You can Ritual Summon this card with "Resurrection of Chakra".
[If I cry out, would you hear me? Is there some spirit in this place that will watch over us? Is there some cold hand that will join with mine?]
A sketch of one of the more infamously useless but memorable ritual summons in YGO - Chakra, the mysterious b...
2023-12-30 21:44:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Pure indulgence, a personal whim I decided to follow to completion here in the phantom zone between Christmas and New Year.
"In those days, those born under an evil star were made to live as weapons. They were called "Gundam" - a word which means "human who has ceased to be human""
2023-12-27 22:42:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This piece was one I was extremely grateful to be given complete creative freedom on - the guitarist of a specific band (I'm not sure if i'm permitted to name them at present) contacted me after purchasing some prints earlier this year with an eye to getting a full piece done for use as the pickguard on his new guitar before a tour in Euro...
2023-12-24 11:50:57 +0000 UTC View Post
A commission for Doginra on twitter of a character from his ongoing "Doginra Tales" project. I was asked to design a draconic variant on his existing character, a red-armoured figure with a segemented chainlike tail.
I was obsessed with drawing dragons as a child - first and foremost, almost every single thing i drew between the ages...
2023-12-16 12:33:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This is something wholly novel - my wife, who is an accomplished sculptor both traditional and digital, is in the process of creating a digital scul...
2023-12-15 00:40:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Something i'm planning to noodle with on/off over the next few weeks probably is this attempt to portray Kenki Fujioka's inimitable "Gundam Woundwort" design from Advance of Zeta in biomechanical form, like several other mobile suits in the past. The Woundwort exemplifies Fujioka's approach to mecha design with it's slightly neotenous proportion...
2023-12-14 12:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A commission for an enduring repeat client whom I deeply value, this depicts their OC from the Cyberpunk 2077 setting, an assassin in the employ of Arasaka. In the tradition of many pulp female assassins, she has a somewhat risque outfit, but the most difficult thing to depict here was easily the embroidered roses on the jeans.
2023-12-14 12:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a little crazy here trying to simutaneously manage the Kickstarter campaign (Still going over here! ) , tax filing AND my client work, and last night I needed a moment for myself, so I painted some fanart. Jujutsu Kaisen, ...
2023-12-14 12:17:19 +0000 UTC View Post
[ Between Sky and Earth - Between the petrified cities o...
2023-11-25 22:30:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Several years ago now I launched, between 2017 and 2019, two separate artbook Kickstarter campaigns - first "The Occult Supergiant Primer" and then "Ars Goetia". They respectively marked the beginning of two new eras for me - one, my first foray into longform work and publication, and two, the end of my illustration degree. While it's not been m...
2023-11-22 13:20:27 +0000 UTC View Post
So this is something novel - this week's episode of Jujutsu Kaisen featured a prominent role for "Eight Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga" (Sometimes alternately translated as "Makora"), one of my favourite designs currently at large. Seeing Mahoraga in full motion after all these years ignited an unexpected response in me - a...
2023-11-17 01:56:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Another client commission, this time featuring a hypothetical version of their rpg character after making a pact with a being known as "Violence in All Languages", represented here by the skeletal minotaur at the base. The client specified an excess of leather and spike motifs and I immediately went to images of the Botswana "Death Metal Cowboy"...
2023-11-07 02:21:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Sketch of a client's Cyberpunk RED OC, "Turbokiller"- i'm a sucker for skeletal motifs of any kind and goat skulls rank especially highly. I'm also growing increasingly fond of any opportunity to paint sharply rendered black leather - I feel like the creasing surface has a natural (And obvious) resonance with flesh/skin (My favourite subje...
2023-11-04 03:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A design intended for use as a tattoo, with the core motif of a hannya-esque leering oni face featuring elements that recall oceanic fauna. As it turned out the principal source for those traits was crustaceans, and the client and I had a fun exchange that resulted in the novel concept of using crab/lobster claws as "Horns"...
2023-11-01 23:45:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't think I anticipated painting Dagon, a member of the Disaster Curses from Jujutsu Kaisen before any other character from the aforementioned series, but I also don't think I anticipated painting anything this elaborate in the brief pause between client work i took over the weekend. It felt very good to indulge in the simple joy of renderin...
2023-10-30 01:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post
A preview for patrons only of a piece for the upcoming TTRPG setting/rulebook publication for Jonathan Wojcik's (Also known as Bogleech) "Mortasheen" - this is one of the faction leaders within the larger world of Mortasheen, Laverne, who represents the "Sectilian" insectoid...
2023-10-26 21:47:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I took a little while to upload these because I couldn't decide whether to compile them all as one set or individually - ultimately I plumped for the compilation, partly because it's less work than 6 separate posts and partly because it would avoid spam...
2023-10-26 21:39:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A commission from a repeat client I thoroughly enjoy working with - I was given a great deal of leeway with the design and pose here, and ultimately returned to my abiding love for crimson chitin/flesh.
2023-10-13 23:01:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a fairly large post by virtue of the inclusion of every proposed thumbnail for this project, which ended up being quite a few!
I was first approached by Claymore with intent for the album cover to feature a character functionally indistinguishable from Miura's Nosferatu Zodd - after providing the first set of thumbs, the band...
2023-10-13 22:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Events conspired today to make getting work done a little harder than I anticipated, but I still had time for this, which I was very pleased with the outcome of!
2023-10-08 00:09:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Sketch for a client of their friend's rpg character, a cyborg described to me as roughly resembling Edward Scissorhands, which of course lead to me teasing as much Nihei as I could possibly get out of the image.
2023-10-06 02:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post
FFXIV's Shiva design (courtesy of Hiroyuki Nagamine) rendered in the style of a biomecha. I took some liberties with some speciifc elements but the overall silhouette came through I think - I was thinking about Kenki Fujioka's "Woundwort" Gundam design while choosing proportions here - someday i'd like to return to this concept with more time to...
2023-09-26 20:05:26 +0000 UTC View Post
It might surprise some people to know that i've never even touched Bleach - not because of any specific distaste for it, just because it never really came into my field of vision until it was years after the point where it could happen organically. I've been considering checking it out though, and one of the things sparking that interest is this...
2023-09-26 20:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post
A few months ago I was contacted by Nyhmnim, also known informally as Gage, a professional Yu-Gi-Oh tournament player/Youtuber who commissioned a shirt design from me of Goblin Zombie , a YGO card that while mostly irrelevant in the modern format has become some...
2023-09-24 11:51:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Piece of a client's multi-armed Oni character, which I thoroughly relished placing atop a pile of severed demonic heads. I also took the opportunity to indulge in my current fascinating with pure primary trio palettes - solid red, blue and yellow. Intense yellow as a backdrop especially is looming large in my mind recently.
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A "sketch" (These always get a little more elaborate when the client picks a subject near and dear to my heart) of the deranged Marx in his "Marx Soul" form from Kirby. Kirby has acquired something of a reputation now for having jarringly unsettling or dramatic bosses in a game that otherwise presents as superficially twee or saccharine, but the...
2023-09-22 22:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post