Practice

Been doing some practicing lately with random images and trying to paint things out of them, I just google "picture" and grab the first one I see. Today it was this pic

And painted this out of it

Tis good fun

Guitar Girl

A pencil sketch that I cleaned up in photoshop, I think I might render it in pencil on bristol board for the giggle

Practice

Trying to paint freely in photoshop, using a textured brush to start making random shapes and then seeing something in it and running with it. This is what I did today.

The hound and the bull

I'v been trying to come up with an idea for the upcoming Islander Art exhibit. So far the only thing I like is a picture of Cuchullain having killed his friend Ferdia, those of you up on your Irish mythology will know the story of course : )
After a whole bunch of sketches I'm getting happier with this image

This is one I did real quick in photoshop just to play with the colours. The shape of the overall image is based on a celts shield and I prefer the idea of showing just the hand to leave the viewer to figure it out rather than having the body float away, which is how I had it originally.

Photo restoration

Havent fixed a photo in a while, but here's one I did today

Before

After

 

The Evil Queen Dorgana

I started writing a story when I was teenager, so quite a while ago now, I'v rewritten and changed it a lot over the years and still love playing with it. Most of it has changed since the original incarnation but one character in particular has always remained, the evil Queen Dorgana (although that name is quite new, a little tribute to my girlfriend Beena when she gets mad at me, her second name being Dorgan)

Her story was fairly straight forward stuff, she was a good woman, a healer and living a happy life in the woods until her great love was killed. In her grief she turned to dark arts to try and ressurect him, never succeeding but discovering several things along the way, how to make the undead and how to make herself immortal. All this darkness has clearly taken a toll, her growing big horns and being generally evil  an all.
Here's a guy she doesnt like...

Warrior types