Hey everyone! Here's the poll for the next piece, with my intention being to deliver the finished painting by the 15th of next month, although with the caveat that even a generous deadline like that is likely to slip under the amount of work I have right now, between private commissions and contracted work. I'll do my best to get it to everyone ...
2021-01-15 15:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post
A commission of a client's OC, from the £150 bust tier!
2021-01-13 16:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Music is "Cave Man" - Oro's Theme from Street Fighter III: 2nd Impact
2021-01-10 19:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I've always liked Oro's design - the image of an immortal gnarled hermit with gold skin and those piercing red eyes is extremely compelling. Had some fun messing around with a portrait of him! Timelapse up soon.
2021-01-10 19:14:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's this month's fanart poll winner, Sanakan from BLAME! Sanakan is a character very dear to my heart - while i'm pleased with the outcome here I know i'll be returning to her again someday looking to improve on my take - I think I might spend my whole life chasing the perfection Nihei produces so effortlessly in her final chapters.7
I'...
2021-01-07 04:20:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe predictably given how quickly the tables turned in her favour, Sanakan from BLAME is the victor of the first poll of 2021! I've already started messing around - the above are developmental sketches and probably won't become part of the finished piece but i'm excited to share them nonetheless as I figure out how I want to paint her. 2021-01-03 03:16:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Witch from the Carmine Marsh Kingdom practicing the path of the "Echidna Disciple", which demands intense ritual meditation on the mutability of the self and the perfection of the Godhead Mother in her Destroyer Aspect. At the deepest point of ego suppression (The "God Head World") witches tap into a wellspring of righteous hatred - grasping the...
2021-01-02 22:17:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I'm continuing to work on the above piece, which is slowly resolving itself into something. It's extremely self-indulgent and improvisational, which is the kind of painting I needed to coast over into the New Year with.
It's been a hell of a start to the decade for obvious reasons - This year was a checkerboard of personal suc...
2020-12-31 14:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Uncertain what this is just yet but I figured people would be interested in seeing a piece at this extremely early rough stage. Hope everyone's having a good time over the weird temporal wasteland between Christmas and New Year or if you're not trapped there, the weird temporal wasteland of the final days of 2020
2020-12-28 20:47:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! Sorry on the delay for this month's poll - I've been buried by under-wraps client work and was also considering restructuring the poll for this month a little. I wanted to focus the contest down to fewer entrants over a shorter period, giving entries more of a shot to upset the current leader and add a little variety to the process...
2020-12-24 21:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Immediately after access to net reality is confirmed, users without psycho-encryption engrams will inevitably become the target of other predatory users and hostile artificial intelligence. Pictured - a "δεινός" class Avatar moments before interface with the victim.
Images like this are rarely recoverable from the cauterized neural s...
2020-12-22 01:40:53 +0000 UTC View Post
In between private work i'm unable to share at the moment (NDAs forbid me from sharing stuff even on a private channel like Patreon) i've taken a swing at a new piece - not from the Eco series but original nonetheless, depicting my conception of a cyberspace avatar - all the Cyberpunk buzz in the zeitgeist has set my interest in the genre alight...
2020-12-20 23:02:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Music is "Everywhere, Everyone" by Lilacs and Champagne
2020-12-16 22:24:11 +0000 UTC View Post
All finished! I cleaved way closer to Amano in the end, as I intended, but there's definitely something of Kawajiri's more brooding. heavy D in there as well. I love my D depictions to look androgyne in the tradition of bishoujou portraiture but I wanted a touch of straight up drag and glam in there as well, as befits a dashing and romantic figu...
2020-12-16 19:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Here's the first rough look at the last poll winner, Vampire Hunter D. I'm cleaving closer to the Amano look than the Kawajiri/Bloodlust take although both will influence the final outcome - I want D to look beautiful but profoundly alien or unapproachable at the same time. I'm recording all these steps so barring any mishaps I sho...
2020-12-13 22:36:53 +0000 UTC View Post
A sketch done for a client of the Dragon King from Kingdom Death!
2020-12-13 21:27:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The aftermath of "Hyperwarfare" leaves swathes of the former field of battle afflicted by contagious polymorphic hexes that twist matter into conceptual quicksand. Often, this haze of colour and form resolves into living mineral phantoms, hostile beasts in the shape of knights.
In the lawless Outer Kingdoms, declarations of war are commonp...
2020-12-11 21:44:07 +0000 UTC View Post
"We will meet again, under a stranger sun."
"Those days will come again"
2020-12-07 23:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an update on the next Eco piece as it develops - I love this stage with Eco work like this, where the surface texture and morphology is almost improvisational. I lay down a silhouette I can work within and beyond that a lot of the rendering simply goes wherever I feel like it! it's very satisfying and freeing to work this way, especially ...
2020-12-02 22:01:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I knocked this rough colour sketch out between stages of some client work and decided it was a good opportunity to showcase some of the work I do with my more improvisational/painterly pieces where I forgo a line sketch. In time I might move to using this as my standard approach, but sometimes precision is required in early construction and I do...
2020-11-29 23:32:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! The November poll for next month's fanart piece closes on the 1st of December, so if you haven't voted, now's the time! Vampire Hunter D is ahead still but there's still a good chunk of undecided patrons yet to cast a vote!
2020-11-29 18:23:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Here it is! The finished timelapse had to be cut together from a couple of individual sessions so it's a little jumpy in spots but I think you'll enjoy the results regardless!
Music is "Little Dark Age" from MGMT
2020-11-28 20:26:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Another YGO tribute between client pieces - this time, my take on the infamous JINZO. I should have a progress video for this one up soon!
2020-11-28 18:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the finished version of that WIP I shared earlier! This was a £300 full illus. piece for a private client of their character.
2020-11-26 14:08:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I was cleared to share the splash page illustration I produced for the first issue of the horror anthology "Razorblades" released earlier this year. At this point the contract only permits reuse in a limited capacity so I thought it would be a cool bonus for the Patreon, especially since many of you may not have picked up Razorblades. I had a lo...
2020-11-23 22:08:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I rather like how this piece for a client is coming along - I decided to share a WIP and check in! How is everyone? I'm excited to get started on the winner of the Patreon poll at the start of next month. Does anyone have suggestions for stuff they'd like to see in the meantime?
2020-11-23 18:19:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished playing through Killer7 for the first time with a friend a couple of nights ago and it's still echoing through my head - I have every plan to visit more subjects from it beyond this piece alone as well, but we'll have to see whether I can find the time.
2020-11-20 19:03:41 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! With last month's poll piece completed we'll be starting a new poll which will run from today to the 1st of December. While some previous poll entrants will be rolling over as I originally planned I don't want to clog up the polls for months on end with less fortunate entries so not everything from last month will be represented &n...
2020-11-13 23:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone! Here's the finished piece - There are some things I wish I could have done differently but overall i'm extremely pleased with the final results, and I hope you are too! I took a great deal of footage over the course of the last few days but I might have lost some segments in the process... i'm going to take stock of what i've manag...
2020-11-13 22:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's an update on the rendering process! I'm having a great time redefining some of the inorganic plating as muscular forms.
2020-11-09 22:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post