I had an idea that to truly test the power of the new Warp tool from ArtRage I could take the original Groot portrait I had completed and see if I could produce a grid of differing expressions, and here is the result!

The main inspiration for this painting was my weird squirrel dancing fur ball, I thought that I could push the colour and as it turned out it looks a little ore like Danger Mouse!

My base for this experiment was a portrait of Daenerys and I took the opportunity here to try out the new ArtRage warp tool

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Another one of my hybrid creatures from old paintings, taking the alien queen and then combing a unicorn to form somewhat of a potent mixture. These kind of experiments really give me the opportunity to experiment with the features of ArtRage and also get a feel for the blend modes.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Started off as a straight forward render of a reference but while developing it struck me as being a little dull so using the selection tool I tweaked the proportions a little to give almost a caricature effect.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

I wanted this to be very close to the reference but with some extra texture applied. I used my favourite bear fur brush to apply a feathery like texture.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

A portrait I printed out and framed for my dads birthday. I wanted this of course to be very close to the reference but with a few extra textures and it turned out that a subtle blurring vignette would just finish things off quite nicely.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

I simple render from Rogue One but with the colours pushed towards the end with an overlay and a little lens flare effect.

I wanted to go very digital with this painting and create a metallic type monster, almost a zombie Megatron! This was one of the paintings that was chosen to feature in an art book of short stories.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Started with soft pastels and then really looked to apply a bark like texture. A lot of textural experimentation here with a final flower flourish!

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

I decided to go all out on using the new ArtRage warp function by seeing what I could create while getting a feel for it.

Taking some texture and then overlaying a face to get the sense of a horror face emerging from some lava pool of texture.

Taking a cow reference from my parents and then applying the palette knife to tweak into a zombie character.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Started in a very digital fashion using a hard airbrush to define the basic contours and then playing around with text and colour. I thought I would play around with the text tool in ArtRage for a change and turn this painting into more of a poster concept.

A painting for a Christmas card and I thought it would give me the opportunity to use the text and stencil tools in ArtRage to create the speech bubble.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!