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Magpie

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:34:38 +0000

Something a little different.. sort of.. oh who am I kidding, if I could draw what I please all day long I'd draw creepy and shiny things non-stop. Anyways!

I was mulling over the idea of illustrating something along the lines of seven deadly sins, but the result was instead something of an analgam of several - wrath, lust, pride, greed, vanity, but not much on envy or gluttony. Those two just didn't really fit in without making it a whole lot more complicated and awkward.

It is very detailed, most of which is lost at this size, but should look pretty sweet in print. A detail shot(at 33% of the full size, mind you!) might give a general idea. I had a lot of fun with the sword designs - there's a big dragon halberd, some hilts with snakes, one sword with a giant butterfly (hard to spot though), one with an elaborate celtic knot (my first one ever!), one with a horse skull etc. etc.

All in all this took about 16 days of extra furious scribbling in Corel Painter 9 (and complaining to everyone willing to listen) with Wacom Intuos 3.

May be reposted unmodified for as long as my full name and preferably a link back to my gallery are provided along with the image in a clear fashion.

Inspiration

Mon, 19 May 2008 20:29:42 +0000

No, there is no explanation. I've had a slight artist's block for a few weeks now, and got my copy of Expos� 6 a few days ago and looked through it and WHOOSH! Inspiration hit.

I had that particular pose in mind from the beginning, but it was tricky to find or shoot a ref, so I pulled out my dusty copy of Poser 6 and (mis)posed a figure, then threw it into Vue d'Esprit 4 and rendered for reference. The result was absolutely godawful, but it was still better than nothing. After that it took 3 days of scribbling with Painter 9 and Wacom Intuos and there you have it, in all its incomprehensible glory.

Detail Shot:
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4141/inspirationdetailne7.jpg

Moth Diva

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:30:58 +0000

This is a promotional and CD cover (well after some cropping obviously) image done for the band Butterfly Fan The Inferno. It took a while, but the client was pleased.

Corel Painter 9, Wacom Intuos 3, 3900x5700 pixels.

There are 54 moths, 4 big caterpillars, 30 small caterpillars and 7 cocoons in it. o/

No altering, cropping, avataring, tubing, using for personal rpg portrait and so on and so forth.

Sunlight

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:49:56 +0000

Still alive! ^^; A (fairly heavy) manip of a self-portrait photo.

Corel Painter 9, Wacom Intuos 3, a day of furious scribbling. ;p

Source photo: http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5779/sourcedp9.jpg . (Don't look, it's bad! D: )

Crits welcome.

Egg

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 20:44:15 +0000

I was listening music and drawing. And I drew just that. o.o Only in a different way. ^^'

My favorite part of this is the dragon's paw. Can you find it?

Corel Painter 9, Wacom Intuos 3, and I completely lost track of time.

Links of interest:
Larger version
Detail 1: egg&hand
Detail 2: body
Detail 3: dragon (Obviously don't click this if you'd rather find it first yourself.)

Edit: fixed the links. ><

Fervour

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:56:41 +0000

There are several story ideas that I had while drawing this picture, but in the end none of them really fits anymore, so I'm skipping the poetic part (leaving it up to the viewer's imagination of course) and moving right to the OH.MY.GOD. too much flarking ORANGE. x_x This is the last time I lay out the color palette while tired. That never ever ends well.

Corel Painter 9, Wacom Intuos, a week and a half.