Lots and lots of palette knife here and showing the power of the ArtRage mixing engine to produce some unexpected colours!

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

Pastel based and deliberately applied some blur to give a more cinematic appeal, warmed up the original reference and pushed the face to emphasize the terminator endoskeleton coming through.

Finally a Buffy portrait that turned out well. Mainly focussing on using the pastels especially the hard one to help with the blending. The final painting very much looks like one I likely would have produced using traditional media.

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

Started this using the hard pastel to blend more easily, this painting came together pretty quickly, and drawing hands is really quite difficult!!

A strange sad creature and for this one a slightly different colour palette than normal.

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

This painting came together quite quickly and was helped by my technique of blending a hard pastel for realistic skin tones. I experimented a little with a more complicated background, but the simpler the better.

All palette knife!, I tried to be as loose as possible mainly focussing on the simple lighting and high contrast.

Finally I managed to figure out how to use the fur brushes! this is one of my favourite paintings so far and I accidentally managed to achieve and interesting dynamic pose.

I wanted something dark almost mechanical but with a subtle zoom effect applied.

Another initially thumbnail piece of art that I scaled up and turned demonic!

An expansion of part of an entry to an ArtRage forum competition / collaboration which started originally as a ghost but I had an idea to really push the colour and give him a fiery effect.

Something different, more of a mechanical creature, it reminds me of the cover of a Fighting Fantasy novel I read as a child and I really feel a got a good hold on the form this time.

Another piece from my dark imagination, I wanted to produce something that looked quite digital but also with an alien type style.

This took a long time and for most of this painting I had no idea where I was going but I always strive to finish and I suspect I ended up learning a lot.

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

A completely made up piece using no reference, the sticker spray made life much easier to generate the snow texture.

A big experiment with the soft palette knife to try and bring some blending and sharp edges, in hindsight I think I should have added more texture and contrast.

My initial reference was an eagle but half way through I was a bit bored so I turned it into some kind of creature!

My idea here was to plonk some paint down and then use mainly the palette knife (the soft one) to move the paint around to achieve a smoothing effect. I really had a good go at pushing the lighting and trying to achieve a fiery lighting effect.

Started this painting with a little tracing and wanted to primarily use the airbrush to see if I could figure out a better way to apply gradations to the skin, in the end it doesn't quite look like my style as the edges and texture are not really there, but with all these experiments I ended up learning a lot.

I am starting to feel a little more comfortable with the oil brush, again I mixed the media, by applying an airbrush at times for subtlety and also the pencil which gives me a level of detail and roughness.