After watching the Queens Gambit, I was inspired, just a straighforward head on shot, which is quite unusual for me and really tried to push the colours and highlights.

The greatest show every, except the final season of course

A bit of a montage of art which every now and then I do, taking the art of Rey, Daenerys, Yoda and Darth and merging them all into an interesting coherent whole.

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Testing out Kritas rgba thick paint brushes with the new smudge engine in Krita beta 5

With Krita 5 on the horizon, playing around with smudge and smearing rgba brushes in the style of ArtRage!

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

A teenage witch!

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Using InfinitePainter and ArtRage on Samsung devices

Simply a cup using InfinitePainter and ArtRage

Based on an idea for my sister, a vampire diaries mash up showing the morphing of a ripper enraged Stefan to his boring normal ego. This one I found very tricky, it took quite some time to get the balance right and of course would have taken quite a while anyway due to the fact it is two portraits. Again I was having problems with the mid tones and getting the image generally to be bright enough and not look too flat, hence the palette cloudy blending.

A suggestion of an idea from my mum who at the time was writing a story about a Macaroni man with a story lodged in each pasta recepticle. I had already rendered such a monster but thought that I could not do a little better. This is one of the few pieces that I specifically created a sticker brush for to easily define the macaroni pieces.

I really should do more landscapes they are fun and actually fairly easy compared to a portrait, much more range for error. The key is to focus on the planes with the ones further away being lighter and having less detail, ArtRage is ideal for this type of texture rendering. It did take me a while though to figure out where to put the source of the sunlight and trying to get the beams of light to sit well.

A landscape with a twist, originally create off a Maddy livestream I thought the beach was just too boring so spiced it up with a sea monster and added in some story with a boat reaching out. Again this was texture heavy and landscapes are very much enjoyable.

Creepy creatures from the depths of my imagination

Running ArtRage Vitae on a Samsung Note 8, rotating the screen with canvas resetting to landscape canvas orientation canvas reset

Using a Samsung Note 8, when setting the oil brush to above 100 percent and then moving to the colour picker and back again the Oil brush size resets to 100 perecent. Sizes below 100 percent are remembered.

Using a Samsung Note 8, when long press colour picking is activated in settings the colour sampler jumps from its previous position to the new one, the colour picking works fine but is more of a cosmetic issue

Can't seem to transform all layers on ArtRage Vitae

Another originally created off a Maddy stream but of course morphed in someone who looks suspiciously like Daenerys, I added the lighting to make it more interesting and to be sitting in a cave, I am starting to realise now that telling a story is quite important, although it is not always possible with a simple portrait.

Using a Samsung Note 8

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets