Update.

I’ve been a bit quiet, obviously.

 

More stuff will be posted in the coming weeks. I’ve just been focused on doing other stuff. I have some new pieces to post, I just need to scan them.

Misc. Crystals.

Some of the crystals from the Crystal Migration image. Just a quick sketch using microns and copic markers.

Flow.

Another image inspired by a combination of Giraud and Final Fantasy, Crystals are pleasing to draw. So, here’s another one.

Red Panda: WIP

Just a Red Panda. This will eventually be turned in to a t-shirt graphic.

Quantum Tesseract.

This image was going to serve as the banner for a project that never got off the ground. I’m still satisfied with how the tesseract image came out, though, so here it is.

Future City.

Just a futuristic looking city I did a while back. I actually did the sketch and the initial lineart in 2011 or so, if not earlier. I didn’t get around to inking and coloring it until March-April of 2012.

 

Mini-illustrations.

Okay, this idea came about suddenly, but it involved some images I had been meaning to create for a while now. First off, these are ‘mini illustrations’. These are done on small bristol boards, each of which measures 2.5 x 3.5 inches. Each board has an image on each side. They were sketched out, and then inked with Micron pens, and finally colored with Copic sketch markers and black india ink, as well as a Copic brush multi-liner.

 

Now, as to the content. These are depictions of something I’ve wanted to do for a while. I find the idea of a large, dark, interior space such as this to be very frightening. Like an endless, artificial cave that goes on forever in all directions, made up of both expansive nightmarish vistas, as well as claustrophobic, twisting mazes.

 

The first image I created was the one of the darkened doorway, with the two tan columns on the right wall. Initially, these spaces were going to just depict cold, empty spaces made of nothing but old, worn down concrete. But that wasn’t working. It wasn’t visually interesting enough. At the same time I didn’t want to add anything too ‘conventional’ looking. In the end, I went with the organic sort of columns seen in the image, and tried to draw them in such a way that they could almost be seen as plant-like growths. (This continues my penchant for drawing alien plants.)

 

The second image I draw, the tall columns with the doorways and the membrane-like growths, is probably the one I’m  the most satisfied with. Yes, those small black dots ARE doorways of average size, which gives you a good idea of the scale here. The curved pedestal image is accompanied by two structures that are meant to echo deep sea tube worms.

 

The colors used in these were, primarily, cool grey and warm grey. The last image, ‘the Hangar’, contains some browns, tans, and yellows, to create the rust effect on the metal plate.

 

There’s more to these images than all that, however, and I would love to expand on them in a short story or perhaps a short comic.

 

Mountains.

This began when I thought of the image of  young woman holding a mountain range. It went from there, as I decided to give her an ethereal, fantasy sort of look, with stylistic lines that hinted at wings. Gray-brown hair, and a white top and skirt, give her an almost monochrome look. I decided to add the water, as if there was a river flowing from the mountains.