Horace

Here is another play with the marvellous Kyle T Webster brushes.

Hellboy

Here is a lighting study that slowly turned into Hellboy. I have been meaning to have a good play with the amazing Kyle T Webster brushes and this is the result!

The Young Cleric

This was done for a character design challenge on the concept art forums. The brief was for a young boy who has strange birthmarks and has a mysterious power. I wanted to portray a melancholic boy who sees his power and sudden cleric promotion as another step from normality that he longs for.

 And here is the process

colouring a spud

with the Noctureshire population growing, I'm still curious too see if there is a way to colour them that doesn't detract from the line work.

Here is a latest attempt on Spud.

The original

I tried going for a sepia look with a subtle paper texture

And then a watercolour effect

Colour experiment

Whilst I'm populating the monochromatic world of Nocturneshire, I have always been tinkering ways to possibly add colour to them.

For the old characters, I did colour them: examples here here and here. I always felt that the colouring detracted from the work rather than add to it.

A glutton for punishment, I have tried a different approach to colouring but still the same problem I think. I thought I would share anyway.

Here is The Rambling Man, posted today:

And here is the coloured version of him. The problem of the colour making it busy remain, but was an interesting experiment.


Here is the process behind it.

A trio of animals

Here are some animals for my daughter's nursery to fit in with the jungle theme.

Here are the finished canvases I had printed in the nursery, they turned out really nice.

Here are the process gifs for them.

Here they are in the nursery