Lost! (revisited and expanded)

So this, it seems is on its way to being published under a one time, non exclusive license. I extended the left side to show the wall off. Feels kinda new. :)

Below i've posted a close up of what I usually fear people miss when looking at my art, it is a detail from the domed ceiling of the sinking ruin the guy is in, Cherub painting is flaking off of the ceiling:

Doodles and sketches

My sketchbook hasn't featured here for a while. These are a few recent doodles, sketching without any aim just for the hell of it should be a daily regimen. Preaching to myself here! Doesn't matter if the results are 'good' or 'bad'. The experience, practice and experimentation are what counts. All of the above were done with my left. The strange egg doodle was inspired by a kid called Ray (he drew a doodle that I liked...).

Darkness Falls

A few tweaks might follow, but till then I'm done.

Darkness Falls (The Dark - version 2.0)

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So I was far from happy with the final of 'The Dark'. I felt it lacked so much in so many areas. I was trying to reduce the amount of information I put into an image. trying to make a harder, more simple impact. I was not happy with the end result. I could kick myself for not letting myself do what I do,  jump streams and see things from different angles. Instead I got stuck on the particulars of the image. Trying to force a cylinder into a square slot. Lesson learnt, over and out. Here's 'Darkness Falls' ('The Dark' 2.0). It's not complete, rather a work in progress shot. I've got details to finish on the figure and background, stone and water stuff... but really close to finishing.

Wip 2:

Wip 1:

Quick photostudy

Interpreting, not copying.

Master Study - Henry Semiradsky - WIP

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Here is my latest master study, Henry Semiradsky's 'Christian Dirtseya the Circus of Nero'. I'll be posting progress shots as I find time to do work on it. I don't have a whole lot of time available for this, as I am doing different projects at the moment. I do master studies to learn from the master's work and sharpen my skills. Here I'm blocking in the colors and bringing in the proportional relationships in my rough sketch. I love this color palette. You'll notice I started working a little more on Nero.

wip 1:

close up:

The sojourner and the dragons 2.0 wip

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I'm re-doing 'The sojourner and the dragons' using a different thumb I had from my ideation process. This one I'm doing in a completely different style to the first. This is early on:

Update - still sketching in, laying in areas, etc - 1 march:

Painting Process - WIP : Sojourner and the dragons.

Aside from some minor details I want to add at a later date I'm calling this finished.

Files crashed and corrupted, lost all my work from the image below on. By some sheer luck I managed to patch back some of the work done from fragments of files and losing other portions. Think I know what happened but it could very well be weird electromagnetic debris from our recent solar max for all I know. The patched file with some additions Posted above:

Working back to front, pass by pass ;)