Flying seed.

A watercolor sketch, essentially. These are a group of floating seeds, and the plants simply grow out of them in midair.

Castle in the clouds.

I’ve been working on this for a while. It is a watercolor and ink illustration of a large castle-like structure that is growing out of a pink cloud. The craft in the foreground is simply a flying vehicle.

Unfortunately, the image is very large, and WordPress will not display the actual resolution in the post. It actually looks squeezed. Just click on the image to see the true dimensions.

Forest creature.

This creature is based on a similar being that made an appearance in a dream I had back in 2008. The creature is made up entirely of animated leaves. There is nothing under the leaves. The mask is vaguely inspired by the flying masks in Super Mario Bros. 2. The branches near the ‘head’ are supposed to resemble antlers.

 

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.

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.