Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

I’ve spent a lot of time working on commissions these past few weeks which doesn’t leave me a lot of time to work on my personal stuff (which is all I want to do in my life really) but I’ve managed to squeeze in a few hours over many days to knock this baby out. [...]

Oftentimes, I’ll start working on something and then I’ll force myself to change my original concept to suit the guidelines of, I dunno, whatever the hell. Case in point, I started doing this Morrigan piece and then I heard of a contest where you had to zombify a fighting game character and I used the Morrigan [...]

So I was gonna do Mario vs. Jack Cayman (from Mad World) before I worked on Mario vs. Crono. I was gonna do it digitally but the crappy composition I had and the crappy line art that I started forced me to pause and rethink. I scrapped what I had done, chose to work on [...]

I drew something similar to this in my sketchbook a few days back and I kinda wanted to give the idea more room. That didn’t happen and this basically turned into an excuse to try out a bunch of different, and not necessarily good looking, stuff. Can’t say I love it but there it is. [...]

I’ve wanted to do something like this (woman in skimpy outfit with some kind of demon nearby) for a while and, a couple of months back, I actually got as far as clean line art for a similar piece but it just wasn’t working for me and I scrapped it. Fast forward to a couple [...]

Kratos is easily one of my most requested characters so I’m glad to finally get him off the table. Just in time for Ascension too. This took a while, not just because the background needed the time but also because there was a lot going on with the characters themselves and I needed to be [...]

I redesigned Wonder Woman a long time ago (not my favorite piece honestly) so when Project: Rooftop asked for Fan-Art Friday submissions of the warrior Amazon, I wasn’t sure whether to go for the classic costume or to try my hand once again at a completely new one. Obviously, I went with the latter. I’m [...]

…or: How I started to color from grayscale and learned gradient maps. I tried to do some airbrushing stuff again and I started it in grayscale. I’ve always had difficulties in coloring when I work in grayscale but it’s easier to get the tonal stuff down that way. Many months back, I watched a tutorial [...]

This got put in the back burner because of health, commissions and work so it’s great to get it out of my system and be able to get on with other stuff. Not much to say here though. Rayman Origins is the only Rayman game I’ve played (loved it) so the look of this is [...]

Alternate title: How I learned to draw lightning. May I just take a moment to comment on Coipel’s amazing Thor design? Well, it’s amazing. There’s stuff about it that I didn’t realize until I sat down to draw it and man, it’s really the best Thor costume out there. Anyway, I’ve been working on this [...]