Gwuenevere and her First Spell

 

A short mini-comic about Gwuenevere casting her first spell at 32. It did not go well. 

Ink and ink wash for the majority of this sketch. Acrylic paint and ink for the crystal.

 

And a special blurb that inspired this below! Warning, it's a bit rough, so mispellings and typos abound! CW for self-injury, body horror, and near-death.

Sketchy Creatures....

(The new Blogger interface looks nice, good job Google.  Now let's see how it loads pictures and whatnot...)  Ok, some sketches, one new and two old ones.

New dragon/lion thing I came up some time ago.  I managed to flesh it out a bit.  It was originally a wingless cobra dragon.

Very old unfinished drawing for Vistalgia (dragon-form).  I actually like her old style. I might go back and finish inking it.  (Those wings..what was I thinking?!)

Dog beast thing.  One of my first ink tests on using the Wacom tablet and Photoshop.

Some Old Pen Art

Here's some of my old pen art I did back in 2005.  These were totally unplanned (except on the second and fourth pictures, those started with a sketch) and were done in ballpoint pen. (sorry for the giant watermark!):

This was a bookmark...

It took forever to shade these.

And this too.

Old rabbit species, Harrvarin.

Another Harrvarin rabbit.

I'm still here and I have WIPs

Sorry for the short hiatus.  I just got caught up in...Life.  I'm going to try to update on Mondays and Tuesdays for the rest of this summer until August.  

Anyway, I recently began watching a very odd show called Oddities on Science Channel.  It's based on the Obscura antiques and oddities shop in New York city and it's owned by Mike Zohn and Evan Michelson.  They sell and buy strange antiques including medical equipment, rare collectibles, and taxidermy.  I love this show for not just for stranger than strange objects but for the strange artists that come to the shop.  There was an artist who paint with his blood, another artist who create artworks from animal skulls, and one who explores different the different body part of the human body.  These artists are taking risks and taboos that others would have avoided and it's interesting to see how they take something grotesque like bones and blood into beautiful works of art.

And now WIPS:

I had a little trouble inking this in Photoshop.  I might try doing traditional inking with pen instead.

Here I'm trying to practice with color in Photoshop.

Character design for Vistalgia without wings.

Character desigh for Segieran (name pending...) I just got started studying his character by writing a short story about him. By doing that, I see how he reasons and interacts with the world around him.  I'll do the same with Vistalgia later on.