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Lizard
January 19, 2015
A straight forward painting from reference with fun with the scaly details and pushing the colour with the blend mode overlay. Unusually I started with a pencil sketch which was how I used to start my pastel paintings but using charcoal.
The Fall of the Squirm
January 15, 2015
A falling creature which I call a Squirm, I felt that I am starting to get to grips with the lighting and applied a little more blending to this one.
RedRat
January 13, 2015
Extensive use of the fur and hair brushes for this one and even though the sticker spray brush in ArtRage does save quite a lot of time thought still needs to go into the layering.
Dark Willow
January 10, 2015
I had tried a Willow portrait before but couldn't quite get the likeness, so I thought I would have another go, this time the dark version. Simply mainly using an oil brush.
Ferret
December 21, 2014
I wanted this creature to look sinister in a very creepy way and to almost have a spiders eyes, the fur brushes were extensively used here to achieve an animal effect. I couldn't quite work out what to do with the body so I just cut it off, which I'm not quite sure worked too well. You will also notice a common background that I often apply from the default ArtRage texture section.
Melisandre
December 20, 2014
I really struggled with this painting as I found the likeness really hard to come by and the facial colours quickly started to get quite muddy, I felt like I was caught between using the oil brush and the pastels.
Robonator
December 13, 2014
I hybrid of robocop and the terminator I always enjoy a mash up and also a disfigured face. The detail on this was fun to improvise.
Hot Santa
December 13, 2014
I thought I would have a bit of fun with this one, combining a Game Of Thrones type dragon. To get the Santa facial expression I actually took a picture of myself and worked off that reference.
Unicorn
December 7, 2014
This came from a suggestion by a work colleague, of course I started with a horse reference, and then just added on the horn, I was going for a more pastel ethereal look.
The Penguin
December 6, 2014
Just the oil brush on an almost full body portrait which is unusual for me and therefore I had to have the challenge of rendering clothes! Of course I am currently watching Gotham at the moment!
Octodude
November 30, 2014
What would happen if an octopus played tennis? well this is the answer, as you can see I pulled quite a few references for this one.
Elf
November 25, 2014
I was inspired to start this in the style of some manga focussing on some big eyes and a flat colour to the face and then go from there. In effect I was trying out a different style. Again this turned out to be a more of an illustrative look, in hindsight I might have liked to have blurred more the background or at least done something a little more interesting with it.
Tywin
November 22, 2014
A very straightforward portrait, although the pose with a hand fully visible was quite challenging. I focussed on quite a watered down oil brush for an oil glazing effect to build up the colour.
Friendly Alien
November 22, 2014
I was playing around with this painting at the start, I knew I wanted to start off with something cute, so I focussed on the eyes and then played around until I felt an idea coming through, a cool dude of an alien idea then started to form and I just went with it, very much focussing on an illustrative look again.