I'm dipping back into the AI well for this piece.
I meant to just pop into my reference folder for this card and see if there were any AI generations that I wanted to use for this painting an...
2022-10-25 17:40:57 +0000 UTC View Post
One should fear accumulating forever without release. The burden of carrying all moments of one's life is too great. It is better to lighten the load, lest we become paralyzed by the weight of memo...
2022-10-14 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Brightening things up and tightening them down!
2022-10-12 18:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
With Purah wrapping up, I'm finally at the stage where I can lay out the final art on the Oracle of Watchers cards as well as the remake of the Oracle of Emanations deck.
The ...
2022-10-12 14:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post
A classic color palette feels right for this piece. Hoping to make the colors easy on myself since I'm challenging myself in other ways on this one.
The head dissolving into blocks looked rea...
2022-10-10 18:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the long absence, I have been having a challenging couple of months and I don't know where my time and attention are going right now. When I'm in a tough place, I tend to avoid posting wo...
2022-10-10 18:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks,
Would any of you happen to know of a book distributor in the UK that might be interested in the Angelarium books?
I'm just about ready to give up on my UK shipping hub and I w...
2022-10-10 18:01:12 +0000 UTC View PostHi folks,
I've been working on the last couple of pieces for the Oracle deck this last month and the plan was to post them before the end of September, but I got hit by a couple of things tha...
2022-10-03 17:20:41 +0000 UTC View Post
There's a lot of little tweaks in this that I ended up committing to as I began work on trying to wrap this piece up. Some of the changes were due to my pickiness about composition and detail while...
2022-08-21 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The big changes here are me messing with Butator's staff. One of the things that always ends up being true, is that when I add elements that loom over the Angel's head, the scale of things starts t...
2022-08-20 20:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
After a few failed attempts, I managed to get a sketch I'm really happy with. I wanted this piece to have a more dynamic view than the other recent Watchers pieces. I love a good wide angle portrai...
2022-08-19 20:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post
What an interesting month! I'm finally delivering the extra quantities of art that I'm always promising :) The progress shots, high res images, and layered files for The Death Tarot, Apollyon, and ...
2022-08-08 17:13:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The tao that can be described
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be spoken
is not the eternal Name.
The nameless is the boundary of Heaven and Earth.
The named is the mothe...
Hi everyone.
I need someone with web development experience to talk to about my site. I'd like to hire someone to help me upgrade the Angelarium Shopify site, but I haven't had a good experie...
2022-08-03 17:20:44 +0000 UTC View Post
From atop the hill, a river flowed down to the little people. The Watcher's wordless mouth came the click and clack of metal. It's abode smelled of copper and ripe flesh. A dangerous thing was he. ...
2022-08-01 20:39:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Everything in the shop has an extra 20% discount right now. If you could help me get the word out, I would greatly appreciate it <3
Unlikely that this card actually represents a physical death. Typically it implies an end, possibly of a relationship or interest, and therefore implies an increased sense of self-awareness. The ca...
2022-08-01 12:18:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Just now I'm realizing Az has a real Dr. Manhattan vibe in this piece.
Anyways. I feel like Azrael's hood gets floppier every time I draw it. Someday that thing is going to be hanging down to...
2022-07-28 20:58:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm working on a lot of stuff recently huh? The plan is to get back to weekly posting once I'm all caught up. Almost there!
This piece is part of the growing collection of work experiments wh...
2022-07-27 12:31:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In my mind, I've always seen this guy as being dark and colorless but I didn't want to leave this painting all black and gold. The more I poked around it, the more this blue sky fought to emerge fr...
2022-07-27 12:18:44 +0000 UTC View Post
After a few failed experiments, I settled on this composition with a dark/light split down the middle. I felt that having elements of the composition passing back and forth between the two halves w...
2022-07-27 12:12:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The Sign of the Chosen had the ability to animate the natural world in wild and unpredictable ways. Once activated, trees and rocks would unmoor themselves from the earth and take on a extreme pers...
2022-07-27 12:07:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished this piece over the course of a couple half days of work, so I'm just going to post all the progress shots at once :)
The first goal of working on this piece is to block in the maj...
2022-07-27 11:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I've baked out a ton of image prompts with Disco Diffusion over the past few months with the intention of polishing some of them up for release. A lot of them are cool to look at but none of them a...
2022-07-27 11:49:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Putting Azrael on the Death card for the Tarot was the biggest no-brainer ever. The main challenge is doing something new with him since he's the Angel I've illustrated most often over the years. 2022-07-18 15:36:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The second new Watcher that I'm working on for the Oracle deck is Apollyon!
I had a special event on the MidJourney Discord last Friday where I was demoing how I paint and doing a Q&A. I ...
2022-07-18 15:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This post is predictably late, but I've got an awesome month lined up for the rest of July. While I was procrastinating on this post, I actually finished the next tarot piece, so that will be poste...
2022-07-18 15:26:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's my first new piece that's coming together for the upcoming Oracle of Watchers deck.
Sachiel is an Angel popularly known for being associated with wealth, so I'm using the name for the ...
2022-07-12 18:30:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Everybody in the art world has been messing with AI recently, and I’m no exception. Personally, I find these tools really exciting and I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with how I can integra...
2022-07-12 13:53:40 +0000 UTC View Post