Horse Flesh

Keeping in the animal theme. These are all digital pieces done with a Wacom tablet. They were a commission for some sort of adventure handbook neither of us can remember the name of. But it's out there somewhere. You need to know what sort of horse your hard earned gold gets yer!

Green...

This weeks illustration friday is just plain "green". Being football mad it made me think about the footy pitch so here's my donation to the green theme! It's Liverpool's Luis Garcia hurdling a challenge from Carl Robinson of Sunderland. The picture was done about a year ago just for fun. It's done entirely in Coral Painter from photo reference and is 100% graphics tablet work, no photo manipulation. I did a couple at the time the other can be seen in my deviantArt gallery here.

Self Portrait

This one's just been finished and posted on the CGTalk forums for feedback. Basically it's an exercise in skin tones, lighting etc...

Sticky...

What could be stickier than a dungeon chamber full of filthy, rotten sludge? A living slime that slowly builds up over time eating anything small or slow enough to fall into the thick ooze. This is my take on Illustration Friday's "Sticky".

Originally produced for Ronin Arts as part of an ooze series.

Rain...

This image was originally created for "A Game of Thrones" Collectable Card Game, by Fantasy Flight Games. The card is called "Price of Excess" and features a peasant revolt against the nobility.

I remember at the time I wanted to catch the moment of the revolt in typical wet English weather. Not only are the damned peasants revolting but it's bloody raining too. The card game is set on an imaginary world but I picture the game's time frame similar to around the 1400's.

Anyway the rain was something I remember trying to capture, which brings me to the reason I chose to show this on Illustration Friday. Rain.

White Tiger

Over the last week I've changed jobs, so I now design & sell kitchens. However, while the World Cup is on, appointments are thin on the ground, so I've had a fair old chunk of time to play around doing some digital painting, as well as watching loads of footy.

I decided to draw & paint a White Tiger, and learnt something new about them in the process. Please take a look at the link below as it draws attention to the fact these beautiful creatures are the result of what I consider to be abhorrent human behaviour.

http://www.bigcatrescue.org/white_tigers.htm

Monster...

This once mighty dragon has now become a rotting corpse still tainted by the magical energies that slew it. It was commissioned for Ronin Arts, an RPG publisher I have done a small amount of work for recently. I have also posted the image for Illustration Friday, an idea that my girlfriend introduced me to.

Last Friday's illustration was "monster". I thought this was just the ticket.