Monsters

The Thing Poster

My entry for a DeviantArt contest, the BeckyKidus’ Contest: Scary Posters …

Gallery -> Monsters

Creepy creatures from the depths of my imagination

Macaroni Man

A suggestion of an idea from my mum who at the time was writing a story about a …

AlienStand

Taking some old pieces of Alien art and combining them into something new. …

Moowok

Of course I started with an Ewok reference with the initial aim of adding this …

Ollofalong

A lot of this painting was spent in Krita and following a simple reference of a …

Monster Video

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Swamp Monster

I was playing around with the idea of a monster montage and a rough idea using a …

ManicOwl

Again started using Krita and based on a reference of a little cute own …

Phoenix

This started life as a pelican and I added some rim colour dodge to turn it into …

Bird Monster Video

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Sea Bird Monster

Started as a painting from a parrot reference, but during the initial render I …

Old Age

Using a Buffy painting as the base and playing around with texture and the …

Medusa

This was a rework of an original piece that I had painted on my rucksack when I …

FloatingFireDemon

Something very strange, I just was having fun and playing around with just about …

Zombie Doll

Sometimes I like to take a reference of an innocent children’s toy and …

Little Dragon

A spliced painting taking my dragonfly painting as a background and then the …

DragonBee

An amalgamation of several paintings I had previously finished.

Demon Baby

This painting changed quite a lot during inception as originally it was supposed …

Evil Jellyfish

A fun monster, overlaying many of my previous monsters combined with the use of …

Troll Spike

An experiment to adapt my original Spike piece into something else, a troll. My …

Troll

This painting was based on my airbrush based Spike portrait as I wanted to …

Cyclogre

This painting ended up being quite the experiment. I started off by mangling a …

Blackbird

I took a piece I had originally finished with the aim of turning it into …

Rabbit Sorcerer

The main inspiration for this painting was my weird squirrel dancing fur ball, I …

Xenocorn

Another one of my hybrid creatures from old paintings, taking the alien queen …

Space Fiend

I wanted to go very digital with this painting and create a metallic type …

Thing

I decided to go all out on using the new ArtRage warp function by seeing what I …

Skeleton Rising

Taking some texture and then overlaying a face to get the sense of a horror face …

Alien Skull

Playing around with lots of digital tools at the start, including the gloop pen …

Axolotl Colour

I took my original axolotl painting and wanted to massively push the colour, so …

Demon Chicken

This was originally going to be a straight-forward animal portrait, but I …

Lazy Alien

Playing around with some random contours and fills to get an idea of any kind of …

Leaf Lady

Similar to my dragon foliage piece of art I started with a picture of some …

Zap

Started in a very digital fashion using a hard airbrush to define the basic …

Zombie Cow

Taking a cow reference from my parents and then applying the palette knife to …

Swiss Roll

Overlaying lots of my previous monster painting to try and create something …

Adoration

A huge experiment with texture and ArtRage brushes, I have no idea what this is …

Slug

A weird slug like creature really focussing on the sticker spray and pushing …

Tree Dragon

Here I took a reference of some foliage and then layered and moved the image …

Tree Monster

Based on a reference photo of a scary looking tree at my parents and then …

Fly

I found a really good reference of a cloud and to have it sitting over a …

Leaf Man

I wanted to create an original monster character with a very simple background …

Macaroni Man 0

Based on an idea my mum had for a story and I decided to save some time by …

Evil Ostrich

This was an experiment, I had little idea of what I was going to achieve except …

Minotaur

I had an idea to adapt some reference of a cow I took from my parents and to …

Mad Face

Trying more experiments with the technique of starting from a black background …

Starfish Man

Something fun and made up based on playing around with the sticker spray. I …

Fish

I started with a shape and then with a lot of colour formed some neon fish like …

Zombie Face

I wasn’t too happy with how this portrait was turning out so I overlaid an …

Clown

Wanted to take a different approach in to start with a black background and use …

Space Dragon

Started again with the harder airbrush, applied a little texture and some …

Day of the Eggplants

I started off with the airbrush to create a very digital cute face and then …

Shark Horror

Again an experiment and mainly with blend layers to produce a horror portrait, …

Squid Face

For this painting I started with the paint tube to apply some shape and then …

Star Man

A massive explosion of texture, I literally threw everything at this one!

Grid Eyes

Pushing my original grid based Darth art with extra colour dodge!

Worms

I created a sticker spray with a 3d aspect with an idea to duplicate with small …

King Kong

Having fun with Portsmouth’s Spinnaker tower, a few references for this …

Tree Lady

Based off an ArtRage forum post which defined the original line art to colour in …

Rayman

A landscape with a rampaging alien, I basically threw as many textures as I …

Ladybird Monster

This painting all came together when I exported out to GIMP and I warps …

Flower Monster

I started from a simple reference of a flower from below and wanted to use thick …

Flower Monster Video

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

Flying Madness

I wanted to produce some epic art, a hero standing powerfully, as can be seen …

Melt Man

As you can see I went palette knife crazy, this originally started off with a …

Swirly Alien

For a long time I was really struggling to find the idea for this painting but …

Crying Alien

More airbrush on a black background to form the foundation and then using the …

AlienFace

More airbrush to start the painting and I think with this one I finally figured …

Crone

Lots and lots of palette knife here and showing the power of the ArtRage mixing …

SwampSad

A strange sad creature and for this one a slightly different colour palette than …

Demon Child

Another initially thumbnail piece of art that I scaled up and turned demonic!

Fire Wraith

An expansion of part of an entry to an ArtRage forum competition / collaboration …

Chilled Alien

Another piece from my dark imagination, I wanted to produce something that …

Fluffball

This took a long time and for most of this painting I had no idea where I was …

Pink Yeti

A completely made up piece using no reference, the sticker spray made life much …

Submerged Eagle Monster

My initial reference was an eagle but half way through I was a bit bored so I …

The Fall of the Squirm

A falling creature which I call a Squirm, I felt that I am starting to get to …

Smoke Zombie

Who doesn’t love a zombie, and also they are fun to do especially with …

Me Troll

This was my first self portrait!, or more precisely creating something a little …

Hungry Monster

Me just having fun and making something up, but with using a reference of a …