Fruit and Monsters

Ever the fan of painting fleshy gross things, I tried my hand at a pomegranate last month. I had anticipated the fleshy parts to give me more trouble than the arils, which turned out to be false. The powerful red of the innards required much more delicate handling of layering and white use than I anticipated.

 Portrait of a friend. Whoops, cut off the feet.

 Started a self-portrait. My blank, condescending expression inspired me to start a series, called Stages of Disgust. I generally consider myself not photogenic unless I'm making stupid faces, so each stage will be one step closer to a horrible expression.

 See, much better already.

Shit, ran out of medium.

My friends hate when I talk about Pathfinder, so I'm going to talk about Pathfinder! One of the major reasons I'm so uncomfortably enthusiastic about my campaign is that it gives me plenty of things to illustrate. Role-playing is so much more engaging when there's a visual, so I've taken it upon myself to illustrate characters and monsters from the campaign. And also print out letters and tattered spellbook pages.

Since my campaign's dealing with dreams, there are of course going to be nightmares. Yaaay terrfying monstrosities! After watching a significant amount of Doctor Who, I fell in love with the Cybershades, bestial versions of the Cybermen. That became the inspiration for my first nightmare.

My second nightmare is, uh, yeesh I don't even know. It's gross and creepy.

 Isn't there something inherently unsettling about antelope? I think there is. Let's give it a whale skull to wear! And is that a human face underneath it? Yeah, I'm having a field day with creep factor.

 Some sketchy character designs:

One of the many variations of the main villain. Started off great, then I realized its face looked kinda stupid upon completion.

I believe this is much better. Coloring him will be incredibly tricky, as it's in its nature to constantly change its form.