My first attempt at some digital work. Continuing my recent theme of horror, I produced this new 8 piece set of halloween pieces. Initially all the pieces were going to be colour splashed, but after producing the starting illustrations I felt that full colour might be a better option. As a result I produced both to give the audience a choice of which they prefer. I’m still shaky with my hand eye co-ordiantion on the graphics tablet so I drew these out traditionally first and then worked the colour on top, but I quite like the finished result. The colours you can get with digital are much more vibrant than those done traditionally and this reflects the neon kind of effect of the masks which I like.

My first attempt at some digital work. Continuing my recent theme of horror, I produced this new 8 piece set of halloween pieces. Initially all the pieces were going to be colour splashed, but after producing the starting illustrations I felt that full colour might be a better option. As a result I produced both to give the audience a choice of which they prefer. I’m still shaky with my hand eye co-ordiantion on the graphics tablet so I drew these out traditionally first and then worked the colour on top, but I quite like the finished result. The colours you can get with digital are much more vibrant than those done traditionally and this reflects the neon kind of effect of the masks which I like.

My first attempt at some digital work. Continuing my recent theme of horror, I produced this new 8 piece set of halloween pieces. Initially all the pieces were going to be colour splashed, but after producing the starting illustrations I felt that full colour might be a better option. As a result I produced both to give the audience a choice of which they prefer. I’m still shaky with my hand eye co-ordiantion on the graphics tablet so I drew these out traditionally first and then worked the colour on top, but I quite like the finished result. The colours you can get with digital are much more vibrant than those done traditionally and this reflects the neon kind of effect of the masks which I like.

My third horror themed simplified watercolour piece. This time I focused more on colour and bleeding to create a semi-abstract piece.

A popular quote that I wanted to stick into a new rpg design, if you like this piece also see the pattern of potions piece in my portfolio

A popular quote that I wanted to stick into a new rpg design, if you like this piece also see the pattern of potions piece in my portfolio

A collection of banners on parchment of the primary role playing classes. This piece works great as a poster for your gaming room or just as a T-shirt for your next tabletop adventure

The Sorcerer Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Warlock Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Wizard Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Rogue Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Bard Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Ranger Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Paladin Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Barbarian Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Druid Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Cleric Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Fighter Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

The Monk Class This collection of RPG prints caters to the class of your playable character. The T-Shirt comes in a distressed style and is the perfect thing to wear for your table top games

Continuing my current work on bird paintings, I decided to give this african grey parrot a try. The feather patterns are much more complex than those of the owls, so more practice on these is probably the plan.

Just finished this painting, it was barely dry by the time I was scanning it in. I’m not too fond of this piece, The techniques I used to paint this didn’t work too much in my favour and the overall result came out more messy than I planned. The idea was to create a vibrant, marble like watercolour to reflect the peacock’s colour scheme, but the watercolours would bleed and simply not dry quickly enough to create random colour variations. I think part of the probem was the composition here, since the body of the peacock is relatively small when the feathers are included and although they are part of the main characteristic associated with peacocks, there’s a lot of blank space and un-interesting colour in the feather area.

I had fun working on this artctic based watercolour painting. Given that the penguin itself has quite a simple colour scheme, I wanted a background that would really bring out the figure in a burst of colour.

This is the third of a set of pet portraits that I recently finished for a local dogsitters. I loved working on all four of these pieces and had great reference images to work from. Each piece is A3 and produced with watercolour paints and additionally acrylics were added to fill in the white areas and provide texture.

This Raccoon piece was developed with T-Shirt prints in mind primerally and it’s another development on my wildlife work.

Had a lot of fun painting this little guy, Had another experiment with the spray background technique but tried to make sure the focus was on the Red Panda. I finished this piece off with some soft pastels in places to give the fur a fluffy texture similar to what I did with my fox piece from a while ago.

Getting into the Christmas spirit with this watercolour painting. I always enjoy painting birds because they allow for a lot of texture and brush experimentation, this one focusing on colour bleeding and a paint puddle kind of technique. Seasonal card variations of this design will be available over Christmas, so be sure to check the print store for these.

My final commission of 2017, this lovely Bull Terrier was requested by the winner of my Christmas contest.

Just a quick and simple watercolour piece for this week. Having the challenge of painting a Sea Lion seemed like the result for a portrait would be too simple, since their forms are minimal and they don’t really have a texture or colour variation. So instead, I focused on composition for this piece using 3 Sea Lion pose references and working a background in to bring it all together. The end result is this piece which I think is quite a fun one and I’ve been referencing it as a hip hop album kind of homage.

I'm back with the faces this week, this time a follow up to a previous Tiger piece only this time I've painted a white tiger instead. When I first planned on doing this piece, I was just going to work digitally on top of the original, however I quickly realized there's more diferences between these tigers than just the colour of their fur. To do this piece I started with a base of blues, purples and yellows and then (the time consuming part) I painted the fur texture by scraping away white acrylic paint using a cocktail skewer. It may be difficult to see in this scanned version, but each area of the white fur has a raised line texture. I had to do this so that the colours wouldn't end up flat and dull and I found a brush was too broad for t

I initally planned on this piece being my usual watercolour based animal painting, but as I inked the background, I noticed that the brush strokes created the perfect texture to match the rest of the painting. Creating a dry brush texture in watercolours is do-able, but it’s much easier using a fast drying paint, so I went back to using acrylics which I originallly focused my paint work. I had a great time working on this, and the texture I got from the acrylic paint worked much better than the watercolour would have produced. I finished the piece using some soft pastel blending and pencils to add some small detail and shading to the piece without loosing the brush marks from the paint.

Back in 2016 I produced a series of portraits based on the classic monsters. This is the fifth piece. Boris Karloff's second most prominant role. The Mummy goes through two makeup designs in this film and it was difficult to choose which version to paint here. I chose his more human appearence in the end because you only see his Mummy form briefly in the film and that image has been done to death (no pun intended)

Back in 2016 I produced a series of portraits based on the classic monsters. This is the fourth piece. My favourite of the series of paintings and possibly my favourite of the classic movies. What I particularly like about this painting is the tone of the blue, to me it reminds me of electricity which needless to say compliments the subject

Back in 2016 I produced a series of portraits based on the classic monsters. This is the eighth and final piece. One of my favourite monsters, The Gill Man.

Back in 2016 I produced a series of portraits based on the classic monsters. This is the third piece. To me Bela Lugosi is the definitive Dracula. Charming, Charismatic and Devious. Lugosi's Dracula has a hypnotic gaze that only makes his interpretation all the more devilish.

Back in 2016 I produced a series of portraits based on the classic monsters. This is the first piece. The villainous Count Orlok, as portrayed by Max Schreck in the silent film Nosferatu. Whilst this character started out as a knock off of Dracula, Orlok and his iconic design has become something of an icon itself.

Back in 2016, I produced a series of portraits of the classic monsters. This is the second piece of the set, Boris Karloff’s Monster from Frankenstein. This character has always been my favourite of the classic monsters and it was also the first costume I wore for Halloween as a kid.