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Spectre

Finished painting commission for Micah, made in CSP! It's really fun painting in this watercolour style and I'd like to take on more work like this. 

Members of Ace tier can see the behi...

Spectre - Pencils, thumbs etc

Pencils for a new painting commission with a supernatural neo-noir vibe. As you can possibly tell I've been watching a lot of horror films lately so I was very keen to flex my horror muscles. ...

Adrift

Completed painting commission for Cam! Ace tier patrons can see the thumbnails and greyscale underpainting for this. I took a (really) long time experimenting with new techniques here and despite m...

Space Royalty

Hi Patreon, I'm catching up with some crossposting. First up is this portrait painting commission for Kye where we decided to go with a baroque style for a scifi monarchy. The patterns on the tapes...

Mutagenesis - CRT "screenshots"

Feeling the inevitable "this sucks wtf am i doing" emotional stage of this project but pushing through it bc thats all you can do! Currently trying to knock out as much remaining art as possible an...

Deserted shuttle - underpainting and thumbnails

Happy new year! I'm back at work! This is the greyscale layer for another commissioned painting. I'm really fond of how this looks as is, maybe I should consider doing more painting in monochrome. ...

Mutagenesis - Cover + Thoughts

And this is finally done! I had loads of fun with this and I'm very satisfied with the result. All done digitally in CSP. Now onwards to finishing the zine...

So a lot happened this year but ...

Mutagenesis - Cover pencils

The raw lines and shading for this cover painting, done in CSP. I really enjoyed experimenting with this new process and it was enormously beneficial to lay down the details and values before apply...

Mutagenesis - Title

More fun stuff - designing the title. My type skills are a bit rudimentary with what I can do in CSP but I got to try another thing I've wanted to do for ages and make a hand-painted title :) I als...

Mutagenesis - Cover thumbnails

With upcoming cons I'm really starting to think about finishing this project ASAP - and to encourage myself I'm doing the most fun thing first :) I've also been hankering to do a piece like this fo...

Skate

Completed painting commission for Magnumb! Thanks again for letting me have so much artistic freedom on this - it's probably one of my favourite paintings to date now.

Made in CSP and Rebelle...

Skate - WIP

My next painting commission is for Mag! I took a slightly different approach than normal by painting in the values of the figure first. This is a well known technique that I used when I was first t...

Sunset Over Orkney

Completed painting commission for Jordan! (@degrinner) Thanks again for this amazing opportunity <3

Created in CSP and Rebelle 5

Sunset - WIP and process

Many thanks to those of you commissioning paintings from me! Work is slow but steady atm so I appreciate your patience. I'm really grateful for the the opportunity to do paintings for others as I'v...

Back for more (Wyvern redesign WIP)

The more I was sitting with the Wyvern's design the more dissatisfied I could feel myself getting... typical!! I needed something light and organic that has a more prototypical, bestial feeling. I ...

Commission Form OPEN

Now taking responses! Please fill out a form if you'd like a slot :) I'll be leaving responses open until 30/08/23 5:00pm AEST

Opening for commissions today

Hey guys, I’ll be taking on a new round of B&W fullbody commissions over the next couple days. I’m making some adjustments to my workflow and pricing to reflect the amount of time spent on ...

ToTK Fanart WIP2

Still wasn't happy with the colours and lighting but after some thinking and messing about i've finally been able to nail the look and commit to painting the bg. Very happy with how it's turning ou...

ToTK Fanart WIP

I finished playing tears of the kingdom recently and can easily call it my favourite game. i really don't play a lot of video games and least of all to completion so this is a big deal for me LOL &...

Triangle Tangle Tango

after working with B&W for a while i always get the urge to refresh my palate with colour so i did this today for some painting practice :)

i recently discovered the Zorn palette and was ...

Leftover convention stock for sale

Hey everyone, apologies for being quiet lately :') the past 6 months have been a nonstop series of events but i'm finally finding the time to get back into art. 

Last month I had an amaz...

MUTAGENESIS poster - Take 3 (WIP)

This project is still on the backburner but not forgotten. after sitting with the second version of this poster for some time i realised i still wasn't hitting the desired mark and decided to give ...

Activation

Finished and unmangled version of the inks i posted earlier. i spent about as much effort on detailing the colour work as i did with the lines and had a nice time :) $3 tier patrons can check out t...

Activation (Inks)

Getting back into the feel for things by being self indulgent. this began as my tight sketch layer but i decided not to ink it bc i liked the lines as is. 

i've been watching scale model...

Sticker designs preview

This June i'll be having the pleasure of tabling at Aurawra in Sydney, which is going to be the first time i've ever had a dealer's table at a con @_@ so i'm starting off with making sticker design...

Wyvern - Cover design finalised

Sneaking in at the last minute with the finalised thumbnail for Wyvern's first volume cover. i had to wrack my brain on this for ages but i had a lot of helpful feedback from friends and now i'm ve...

Chapter 1 roughs - pg 12-14

Back to work on Wyvern chapter 1! always a challenge to make back and forth conversation look interesting on the page but i'm getting the hang of it. doesn't look much like a friendly work chat...<...

Sirius Alpha mech design (WIP)

Wow thanks everyone for being patient since my last update!! since recovering from surgery i've been playing catchup with life admin and we're also going to be moving in a few weeks so things are p...

Chapter 1 rough sketches (pg 5-9) + notes

With dialogue! Sonny goes about his very normal day. some pages i think look a bit nicer than the rest of the vague scribbles i've done so far. 

a few designs crop up in the chapter such...

Cover design sketches

happy new year! aside from sketching more comic pages my first art of the year is a revisit of the design for Wyvern's first cover. i am currently tossing up between thumbnail 2 and 2a, what do you...