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!

Ugla

Here is a character design I made at the Conceptart forum for 'Boris the Lovable bodyguard'. I don't think he looks like a Boris, so I named him Ugla. I know, a strange name. It is from the origin of the word owl, which Ugla loves so much.

Taken from dictionary.com

before 900; Middle English oule, Old English ūle;  cognate with Low German ūle, Dutch uil;  akin to GermanEule, Old Norse ugla

I put a background in to show a quiet moment this hulking warrior with his private love, his pet owls.

I did the piece mostly in rough chalk brushes, I really liked the looseness.

The tattoos are always fun to do, the break in the tattoo where there are scars was tricky to get right.

Some close ups

Here is the process 

for Ugla

and the background 

For the wall and foliage I went to Matlock Bath and took some photos for reference. They are in my flickr album full resolution for you to use as you see fit.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/steventopley/sets/72157645506430875/

Keeper of Lost Things

Here is a keeper of lost things. I made it for a character design challenge at the conceptart forum. I wanted to do something besides a miniature person (like The Borrowers) and have some rat like creature with superb taste in facial hair.

I have added a background in to finish it off, I had no idea bricks would be so tricky to paint! I do like woodlice(in their own ugly way), so I had to put a little feller in there.

And here is the process behind the character. I dropped the ball on taking steps on the background, sorry.