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Painting of Bron - Step by step

Here's the process my my painting that I posted last month! I hope it's legible and helpful in some way. I'm by no means an expert, but this gives a rundown of the process I've found that works bes...

Flying Lessons (complete)

aaaand finished!

Flying Lessons (panel 1)

finished the first half of this personal piece.

Bronwyn

more building on my technique. this time I made note of the process and I'll upload the step-by-step with some tips. I'll also try and record the next one I do so I can make a timelapse!

Flying lessons

Winding down from work. here's martin teaching 16yo sonny how to fly in a cessna 152, out over western australia.

i'd like to turn this into a full piece when I have the time! landscape image...

January sketch requests

Thanks everyone! there were a lot of fun characters to work with here.

Undress me (CW medical imagery/gore)

finished! I had fun with this. I definitely want to continue working with spot blacks and a limited palette, I'll have to see how I can continue to push myself in that direction.

Undress me (inks) CW: medical imagery/gore

Doing a personal piece to unwind from uni work, which i've now commenced full-time, and sketch requests

character sketches 040219

Above: Miloš and his daughter, who live in the habitation on BODE-1c, AKA Big Red, the planet orbited by the ISS Astrolabe. Big Red is hot, dry, and inhospitable, but because of its life-sustainin...

Commission Work (Complete)

This large piece is finished! It's a key visual for the client's upcoming visual novel. I plan on making a walkthrough of how i produced this as i was very deliberate with separating my process int...

January Q&A and Feedback

I hope everyone's been enjoying their new year! if you have any questions, requests, or feedback, I'd love to hear from you. since this page has been running for some time now, I'd love to know wha...

Painting practice

I wanted to see whether doing studies has paid off, and (surprise), they have. I feel like I've finally found a digital painting style that works for me, and the key all along was to treat it like ...

ISA Standard Uniforms (& notes)

A little clothing ref I made for myself I found tucked away in last year's files. 

ISA (International Space Administration) service dress includes a double-breasted jacket with buttons h...

horse taming

doodle fanart for BOTW. trying to practice more limited palettes

John Singer Sargent portrait studies

working on my painting skills a bit to warm up

Commission work (thumbnails)

Colour sketch for an illustration for a client's project! Below are the thumbnails i used in my decision-making process for the composition.

2019-01-14 06:40:43 +0000 UTC View Post

Golden kamuy fanart (complete)

I had a lot of fun with the inks on this one so it was a challenge to try and colour it in a way that complimented the linework, and now i think i've developed workflow that sticks!

Golden Kamuy fanart (inks)

just something i've been picking away at between work! GK is probably my favourite ongoing manga series at the moment

Watergun (complete)

2019-01-08 09:05:14 +0000 UTC View Post

The bad guys

Design work for Hagen, a fanatically violent and self-righteous bounty hunter in charge of a private mi...

Snowboard

A conversation reminded me that I've been meaning to draw snowboarding gear for ages now, and why not also pay homage to some of the amazing(ly ugly) fashion that emerged from the culture in the 80...

Short autobio comic: inks

Happy new year, everyone! let's make it a good one. to kick things off, i have the inks to a 4 page comic i thumbnailed a little while back. this is based off a childhood memory i've never been abl...

November Sketch Requests

All done! Thanks everyone for waiting.

Illustration WIP & Update

Hey folks! Between working on November's sketch requests i've started (another) illustration, which i'll be finishing up next year. 

Apologies for things slowing down here, since life on my end...

ink & watercolour sketch

I painted some inks I posted to twitter last night. I use a windsor and newton cotman pocket watercolour set for these!

Story character sketchdump

2018-12-02 08:25:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Brons

Bronwyn Lloyd, one of the main supporting characters for my comic! As you may guess she was born and raised in southern Wales. Bron is a talented engineering graduate with a major in robotics, and she...

Tobias, Dominik, and Dog

Riverside (thumbnail)

planning a new illustration! this one's also fanart. more original work coming soon too, i've just been spending a lot of time on scriptwriting lately.