2015

Rey Awakens

A more complicated painting with a full torso protagonist with a landscape …

Rey Awakens Video

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Evil Ostrich

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

Evil Ostrich Video

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Angus

A commission which I did for one of my dad’s friends and printed on …

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 …

Mad Face Video

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Helena

I am currently watching Orphan Black and created this very much pastel based …

Apocalypse

Experimenting with the paint tube after watching a tutorial demonstrating how to …

Apocalypse Video

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Starfish Man

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

Starfish Man Video

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

Alien

My yearly portrait of an alien.

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 …

Clanger

This was a commission for my mum for her work. Went for a much more …

Clanger Video

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Dog Andy

I decided to start this off using a fur sticker spray brush to form the basis of …

Dog Andy Video

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Clown

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

Clown Video

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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 …

Mary Tamm

Trying to overlay some textures on to this portrait of one of the Doctors …

Mary Tamm Video

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C3PO

I wanted this painting to have a blurred star wars ship type background, so that …

C3PO Video

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Window on a World

A made up world, full of green and the soft palette knife.

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 …

King Kong Video

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Tree Lady

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

Tree Lady Video

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WhiteWalker

A combination of extreme texture, saturated colour, contrast, palette knife and …

Rayman

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

Somerhalder

This was a commission I did for my sister whose favourite show is the Vampire …

Somerhalder Video

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Vampiress

I ended printing this to canvas I giving it as a present. This was a standard …

Ali Dog

A commission for one of my dad’s friends. I thought I would start off …

Ali Dog Video

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Christopher Lee

Trying a little ArtRage tracing and then created a splatter brush to simulate …

Christopher Lee Video

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Jon Snow

Extending my series of Game Of Thrones portraits I wanted to use the palette …

Jon Snow Video

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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

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Flying Madness

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

Sansa 2

Having another go as Sansa as Sophie Turners face is very difficult to get …

Melt Man

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

Dracula

The ultimate dracula of course being Christopher Lee, all I knew for this …

Carrie

Mainly using the pastel at the start to apply a little blending, playing around …

Carrie Video

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Crested Bird

Quite a quick and simple bird painting, managing to get the hang of the oil …

Crested Bird Video

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Sookie

I am currently watching True Blood so I thought some fan art was in order. I …

Sookie Video

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Daenerys2

I think it was more by luck than judgement that this ended turning out so well, …

Arya New

I wanted to start on a black background and very gradually build up the colours …

Arya New Video

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Sandcrawler

Unusually for me this was more of a landscape and also featuring a piece of …

Sandcrawler Video

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Swirly Alien

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

Terry Pratchett

A very straightforward reference copy using a hard pastel, although I think I …

Terry Pratchett Video

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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 …

Owl

I really went to town with the fur brush here, possibly a little too much and in …

Crone

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

Galvatron

I grew up admiring the art of the Transformer comics and would try and reproduce …

Galvatron Video

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Terminator Summer Glau

Pastel based and deliberately applied some blur to give a more cinematic appeal, …

Terminator Summer Glau Video

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Buffy

Finally a Buffy portrait that turned out well. Mainly focussing on using the …

Spock

Started this using the hard pastel to blend more easily, this painting came …

Spock Video

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Princess Leia

This painting came together quite quickly and was helped by my technique of …

Princess Leia Video

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SwampSad

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

Lonely Robot

All palette knife!, I tried to be as loose as possible mainly focussing on the …

Gruff

I wanted something dark almost mechanical but with a subtle zoom effect applied.

Rabbit Mover

Finally I managed to figure out how to use the fur brushes! this is one of my …

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 …

The Destructor

Something different, more of a mechanical creature, it reminds me of the cover …

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 …

Pink Yeti Video

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Wight

A big experiment with the soft palette knife to try and bring some blending and …

Submerged Eagle Monster

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