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Black Dragon, Black Sun

Last week I learned how much fun block printing is. I also have no less than approximately 2 billion b-movie horror art ideas concerning the upcoming eclipse, and completely beside myself with nerdy goblin glee over which spooky eclipse idea I should pursue next.

"Death Is Not A 10"

What started as an illustration sketch for "Masque of the Red Death" quickly took on a life of its own. Granted, there's been no shortage of disaster scenarios to serve as inspiration.

Ink, Copic markers, Faber-Castell polychromos on toned tan paper.

grotesque #1

Faber Castell Polychromos are pretty cool, I guess.

Rat King

 Copic multiliners on 9"x12" bristol board.
I feel like I've been drawing rats for three years.

"Fight Bird" and "Space Bird"

I recently joined the BirdWhisperers Project. Every month the Birb Council selects a photo (with permission) of a certain bird, and the group members do a piece based on the photo.

"Fight Bird" (Grey Jay/Whiskey Jack) was my December 2016 entry. The Whiskey Jack is a small bird that looks like it can, and will, fight everything, and pretty much summed up my feelings about 2016 in general.
Ink and graphite on 6"x8" mixed media paper

The common raven was selected as our first bird for 2017. Corvids are some of my favorite birds, based mostly on their willingness to prank and tr0ll other birds and spread general birb anarchy.
"Corvus" ("Space Bird")
Colored pencils, ink, Copic markers and metallic gold and silver paint pens on 9"x12" bristol.

Red Mermaid

Red mermaid done in Copic markers on 6"x8" mixed media paper. May be the start of a mermaid series.

Sketch Card- Amphisbaena

Experimental drawing of an amphisbaena-like dragon on a 2.5"x3.5" sketch card. Coffee washes, watercolor pencils, ink, and gold paint pen.

Dryad

Experimental Dryad drawing done in Copic markers and colored pencils on 6"x8" mixed media paper.

Hydra

Small, experimental drawing of a hydra in ink and grapite on 6"x8" mixed media paper. Might also begrudgingly acknowledge that a friend labeled this drawing "Senpai Eels," and now I can't look at it anymore.

Brain Vomit (and other vagaries), part 1

Personal piece.

Copic multiliners on 11"x14" Bristol.

Edit:
Original is available for sale at Corvidae Collective.

[Obligatory nostalgia post?] "Tree God" original graphite version + digital version

Picture from 2013. This is what the final sketch looked like before scanning and coloring.

(Nostalgia post since I'm finally considering parting ways with the original.)

The Thing in the Chair

All hail the amorphous, celestial, nightmare calamari.
(I may or may not also be playing too much Bloodborne between commissions.)

Copic multiliners on toned tan paper, 5.5"x8.5"

Chamber of Miasma

My entry for the ‪#‎RageOfDemons‬ T-shirt illustration contest.

Link below if you care to rate!
http://community.welovefine.com/m/contests/design/41061

Pelgrane Press: Or, Why Children Shouldn't Play with Demonic Matches

A couple drawings I did for Pelgrane Press a while back.

© Pelgrane Press

Faerie sketch

A sketch of a faerie for reasons (no reason).

commisssion: Makatza (before and after)

Commission of an OC for a Promethean: the Created campaign. A scene before the Galataean was able to escape the clutches of her tormentor, and adventure with a ragtag group of other supportive Prometheans. Sometimes the right spark of inspiration can take the form of a cat (her athanor, a little similar to a totem) nonchalantly batting at one's [metaphorical and physical] chains.


Companion piece to:

Commission of an evil master finance wizard/lich (Capitalist lich....capitalich?) and his army of undead stock brokers.

more Japanese mythology one-shots

More mini scenes from Japanese mythology I did for an anime convention I recently attended (my first art booth, yay).

"Atsuuikakura." 

Copic markers on 4"x6" bristol. 

Atsuuikakura is a creature from Ainu mythology. It is a profound, life-changing story of a dead woman's haunted undergarments washing ashore and transforming into a giant human-eating sea cucumber by night. 

"Kappa."

 Copic markers on 4"x6" bristol.

The Kappa is a bizarre and whimsical critter who is fond of sumo, cucumbers, and luring people and horses into water to drown them so they can rip their livers out through their buttholes. 

"Yuki Onna"

Copic markers on 4"x6" bristol.

The snow woman. His body is ready...to freeze to death.

"Ao Oni, Aka Oni"

Copic markers on 4"x6" bristol.

Birth of Gashadokuro

Micron pen on bristol.

Gashadokuro is a ginormous (like, 15+ meters) ravenous skeleton formed out of corpses of those who have starved to death.

...I've been watching a lot of Attack on Titan.