Mageasaurous

'Mageasaurous'

Mission ubsurd ( nerd protocol) : go to museum, draw gazillion year old fossil, bring said fossil to life, activate DnD powers by throwing a 12-sided dice.... mission complete. I give you 'Mageasaurous' , a Lvl 25 Archmage, chaotic neutral.

While others draw cutesy characters that would not be out of place in 'my little pony'. I activate nerd powers.

Pen n' Ink drawing coloured digitally with PS5 and Wacom

Magnus the Unicorn Hunter

Coloured an older character drawing with very 'watery brushes', One of the first I did that was this detailed. But was happy with the results. I still feel I need to do ( for myself) one without the line-art.

 But there you have it folks: 'Magnus the Unicorn Hunter'...after he had killed all the unicorns, he would go onto have a successful career as Yul Burner impersonator in vegas.

Pen n' Ink drawing coloured digitally with PS5 and Wacom.

Flying Monkee

I am trying to change my 'painting' style, trying to move away from my regular 'comicbook' style of colouring, so far happy with the results. Trying to move away draftsman mentality.

Pen n' Ink drawing coloured digitally with PS5 and Wacom.

Inspiration Gnome

I keep getting a lot of requests from friends for more cartoonish style of characters, so I tried my hand at it.

This is an ' Inspiration Gnome ' , if you feel lazy or uninspired, he hits on the head with his staff and Presto !  You feel inspired to draw or send in that application.

Pen n' Ink drawing coloured digitally with PS5 and Wacom.

Characters and Design 3

The classic Good vs Evil.

Being a life long D&D fan, I have been drawing Dwarfs, Dragons, Elves and Mages all my life. I seem to have a strange fascination with swords/sorcery and other Sci-fi/fantasy elements.

So here is my take on more classic D&D themes of Paladins, Deth Knights and Necromancers and garden variety mages. I tried to use 'Iggy Pop' as an inspiration for the Necromancer.

Hooded Ronin

The idea was to create all the visual elements of a given story and to make it your own.

I choose the classical story of Robin Hood. The idea was to show the classical tale in a Japanese setting, with all the visual clues and elements that go with it.

I came up with 'The Hooded Ronin and the Ninjas of Sake'wood forest '. ( I tried to use as many bad puns as possible....)

The Hooded Ronin himself

The idea was to make a cross between the merry men in tights with japanese design clues with a little artist licence throw in the mix

Character development for the Hooded Ronin

My Idea of Little John, a failed Sumo-wrestler with big heart and an over sized naginata.

Character development for 'Little John'

My take on FRIAR TUCK, a Monk who loves Sake more than life, his excuse...it gets him closer to Lord Buddha, in size he is almost there...

My take on Maid Marian : Mariko ( I warned you I'd used as many bad puns as possible...) The first is her as Prim and proper Japanese noble lady, the second is her after she joins the Hooded Ronin gang, armed with twin-Tantōs, mirroring Ronin.

Visual development of the Mariko.

My take on the Sheriff of Nottingham : Shogun of Nishizawa, one is showing him in traditional samurai armour, the other is him in more noble japanese garments.

Visual development of the Shogun.

Hand gestures.

Character line-up

Turn-around of Hooded Ronin

Visual development for the environment.

The classical and cliched 'hero does towards the fortress....'
The drawing was easy and done in a matter of hours, but the painting took forever with several colour/mood variants. I never have this problem when I am drawing, I get the choices sorted out in the sketch stages...but while colouring.....discovered many wonderful methods of working. One of those works where you go ' hey I never knew that...' and 'why didn't think of that before...'

Line art

At one time I wanted to be a comic artist ( not the stand-up kind...), so in the process I refined and tried to perfected my line work. Also in the process of learning to ink, I started to develop a proficiency in quills and tech pens. I have a long way to go, but I am happy with the line work I can do with pens.

This is my take on Circe, it was supposed to be the line art for a watercolor painting.

I loved this , which guy doesn't like drawing knights, swords and ogres ? I was still experimenting with tech pens and quills when I finally found my stride with Pigma-Microns.

My take on the Ice-wind dale books the 'Icingdeath' scene , this is the first time I used the pigma markers to render in this way instead of my trusty quills. 

My first time using a quill, I have gone a long way since this drawing. This has been called Moon clan priest, Lunitari, Night Shaman.....amongst other absurd names. My skills in the art of nomenclature has not improved over time...