The flames of the temple burst into being amid great brass braziers to either side and the air took on a drone of sonorous, monotone chanting from acolytes in thick robes and shaven heads, glassy eyes staring at the great blue square atop the temple.
The chants came. "Pixels. Pixels. Pixels. Pixe...
2019-05-01 01:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The final colours took a couple very long days, but days that I get to paint Cinders are very, very good days.
I was hoping to have had this done a couple days before the end of the month, but better late than never I guess!
I didn't want to overcomplicate this image. Its fairly personal, but definitely one ...
2019-05-01 01:48:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
I've been asked several times over the last few months about commissions, specifically if I'd be opening them up anytime soon.
I had originally planned on taking on commission work last fall, as I'm largely the most productive over that season heading into winter. I've had a bunch of different thing...
2019-04-28 23:31:35 +0000 UTC View Post
As Dr. Mulligan dug further, he found more and more dots. Every inch seemed to contain more glittering dots. He calculated, later at the university, that there were as many as 300 dots per every inch of digging they did.
His team was quite celebratory, they have struck neigh. There was no going back no...
2019-04-27 23:28:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally had an afternoon to sit and finalize the inks/linework I'll be using in the painting. Its been a bit grey and snowing here again for the spring. At least there's a warm neigh out there.
And maybe some coffee.
-T.J.
2019-04-27 23:25:58 +0000 UTC
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An image that has been in my head a lot lately, and which will be painted up for April. A more simple image this time around, but fairly steeped in personal meaning.
Hoping to catch up again on notes in the coming week. Easter was a bit of a busy time here.
I should have the inked version done this wee...
2019-04-23 01:31:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This one is mostly just a buildings idea I did as a warm-up. Sometimes when I'm not sure what I want to draw I'll break out a perspective ruler and start layering up a building in some fantasy city. This time around it was a book-store/candle store.
I'm not entirely sure where this would be in the world. &nb...
2019-04-16 06:46:51 +0000 UTC View Post
More sketches. I missed a few days for personal reasons but managed to get a bit of anatomy study in (getting really rusty) as well as work out a few more Lorrnathi clan symbols.
Will be attempting to get the sketchwork for a painting underway in the next couple of days, and processes will be shared as always.
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More sketches from the vault. All concept stuff from the Tides Comic, including a character I hadn't drawn in there yet.
More sketches from today. It feels good to transfer all of these random sketches I have in various books to a more digital format.
I got to do a bit of research on islands culture today, hence the Qiuloan Tide-Priest. I'm trying out different body-weights and more 'toon' styles when it comes to doing these s...
2019-03-30 00:03:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This time around I found a couple older sketches in a notebook fleshing out some of the lore/world from the 'Tides' comic. I re-did them quickly as sketches this time around, shoring up and adding bits and pieces here and that.
-T.J.
2019-03-27 22:51:35 +0000 UTC
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I was encouraged to start sharing sketches on here despite my worries that my way of sketching things out is absurdly messy, in some cases I'll actually just make silhouettes of what I have in mind and 'carve away at it' until it looks roughly right.
In this case I took the more readable sketches I had done over the las...
2019-03-26 19:50:32 +0000 UTC View Post
So many pixels. So much pumpkin.
2019-03-20 20:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post
The final painting of Pumpkin Troubles. I'd meant to have had this done yesterday but the internet here has been incredibly wonky and a bit all over the place the last couple of days.
I'm thinking of doing a series of 'info pictures' on Cinders and her family. I realize that most people don't know a lot abou...
2019-03-20 20:49:31 +0000 UTC View Post
More pixels, just as much pumpkin.
-T.J.
2019-03-08 01:16:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Cinders swears it would be far easier to have a cat 'help' her tie on her leg-guards than a millenias-old entity serving as her familiar inside of a pumpkin.
I subscribe to the belief in Tulpa (essentially, a creation can take on its own life) and this was an image Cinders introduced into the chamber-of-whistles that ma...
2019-03-08 01:14:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally got this patron-sketch done! This is one of those encounters one doesn't mind coming across in some lonely wood. I'm sure she's friendly.
...At least I think she is.
It'll be a bit of a 'neigh heavy' month as I have an image of Cinders to post up here next at some point as well. I guess a...
2019-02-27 01:15:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Coming out of a hectic week I forgot to share this sketch! I was given kind permission to share this one by last month's sketch recipient, and was given a broad free range to draw it.
This is just the rough sketch so far with the inks being worked on now. Naturally I had to draw a lovely mare asking the kind...
2019-02-24 09:39:03 +0000 UTC View Post
An image I had started while still sick. Having not done much sketching over the last while has left me incredibly rusty so it was largely my trying to get my brain back into that art space.
A fairly simple picture of Berrand chatting up Cinders in a sort of alternate-timeline thing.
2019-02-12 00:28:07 +0000 UTC
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Hey all. I'm quite a bit behind on this month's posts.
A couple weeks back I was run down with another illness, in this case gallstones, that forced me to have to sit around for 8 days in a row and not lean to far forward.. or backward.. or to my right.
To say it started driving me crazy is an underst...
2019-02-10 02:02:42 +0000 UTC View PostI had a setback this month due largely to a couple of 'events' with my health.
Technically the first such event was back at the end of November last year when I had an anomaly in the sight of my right eye. What I now know as a 'Migraine aura' was a completely new and frankly terrifying thing to happen out of the b...
2019-01-25 20:52:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a (very slight) bit of time recently to actually sketch some things for an upcoming D&D game I have. I don't run games often, maybe about once a month (Though maybe that's actually a lot. It doesn't feel that way), and I usually end up using downloaded art or maps opposed to anything I draw myself. &n...
2019-01-17 23:17:35 +0000 UTC View Post
More pixels. Just as small.
2019-01-10 20:58:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll have to call this one done for now. Its around the 20 to 22 hour mark for painting, probably about 28 hours from sketch to final.
It still makes me want to explore the gnomes and elves of the world. I've always liked the more fey/high-fantasy parts of the genre. Its probably why movies like Labyri...
2019-01-10 20:55:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I hadn't planned on posting the inks of this side-commission here, but had made enough revisions to it that I thought it warranted at least sharing. I shored up a lot of the things bothering me about the image.
The friend I'm drawing this for did like it, and was a tabletop gamer themselves years back. When ...
2019-01-03 23:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post
As a partial gift to a friend I was tasked with drawing a gnome from the Warcraft universe. I don't think I've drawn more than one image from that world, but I was pretty intrigued on trying something different.
Gnomes in Warcraft are ridiculously small. Their proportions tend to be about 2.5 heads tall, so ...
2018-12-28 03:19:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not entirely sure what possessed me to first get this image in my head just over a year ago. Its hovered around in there for quite a while and I've decided to finally try and sketch away at it.
I haven't done a 'scenery' piece in a while now. I don''t know how long its been since I did anything with a ci...
2018-12-22 02:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post
A huge, huge thanks to Airakar for being patient with me on this one. I got caught up in the holiday commitments/appointments/work treadmill over the last few weeks, and I should have had this done about 2 weeks ago.
I really, really liked working on pretty much every aspect of this. From being able to draw many sp...
2018-12-14 01:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a bit of a preview of an image I'm inking for Airakar as a patron sketch that was for November. I'm a bit late in getting this done due to varied life commitments, so I thank them for both their patience and for allowing me to to share a version of the sketch here for folks!
The image features N'roya, a half-cheetah...
2018-12-07 22:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I managed to have an evening to sit again after a solid week of appointments on top of work itself to sit and clean up some of the nagging problems I had with this picture. Its likely the next one to be painted, as I'm very interested in trying to do a dual pattern coat (Beraclewan, the Lorrnathi guy, is a paint 'vanner' s...
2018-11-24 01:55:14 +0000 UTC View Post
