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The English Mansion Triptych - Process part 2

A busy day today finishing off the current painting - as you can see finishing off the front-to-back approach.

The final image in this post is the step just before I do the final pass of lighting and tweaks that pull the whole image together.

I will coordinate with Mistress Sidonia about when we're revealing the f...

The English Mansion Triptych - Progress & Update

Hey guys

I hope you are all happy and well.  Just dropping you an update on this monster painting as I'm past the halfway point now, and figured you deserved to see how things are getting on, as you're all being so patient.

I also had a few days' vacation last weekend that meant lots of free time for me, but ...

The English Mansion Triptych - Flats

So it might not look much, but isolating all of these individual elements into separate layers has taken quite a while.  But, with that done, it means I can overpaint any part of the painting without ever having to worry about painting outside of the lines.

Time to dive into the painting proper now!

English Mansion - Quick Update

Great news from Miss Sidonia at The English Mansion - she's really taken by the sketch, the likeness of all the ladies and loves the approach I'm taking (including her lovely long legs.)
So I'm now full-steam ahead on painting in those flat layers.
Currently pondering whether to concentrate on getting the likenesses of ...

The English Mansion Triptych (Sketch)

Well, this was a doozy - I decided to stretch myself on this one, to hopefully do the mansion and its myriad mistresses justice, and to attempt something I've never done before - a triptych.

Been a lot of sketching to get here, but from left to right, Princess Aurora, Mistress Courtney, Mistress Sidonia, Dominant Dolly,...

Back to the Mansion!

Quickie update from my phone regarding what's coming next...

I've been chatting with Mistress Sidonia of The English Mansion about a possible artistic collaboration after the lady herself has become a supporter of my work.

So over the ne...

Artemis

And here's Artemis and her pack enjoying a moment in one of the side rooms at the club...

...with the obligatory heavy rubber version, of course.

Artemis - Process

Painting this piece, once I had the sketch down was reasonably straightforward. As ever, I began with the background (eat your greens, first!) before going onto the fun of painting all of the characters.

With a lot of these pieces it's a balance between painting the bits of the background you'll see in the finished piec...

Artemis - Sketch & Flats

Had a super-busy work week, this week which slowed down my progress on the sketch for this one. But a quiet Saturday has given me plenty of time to conjure up some delicious outfits and also break the image into flats, ready for painting.

Artemis is a sister painting to The Entourage from earlier last month - I imagined...

The Inversion

I had the idea for this inverted table (and the thought of what it might feel like to be in such a predicament) so I just built out from there.  The perspective on our patient almost killed me (the heavy rubber version's mega-gas mask particularly!) but it was a real fun challenge to pull off.

Here are 3 variants,...

The Inversion - Process

Here's the process for this particular painting - I must confess I disappeared into a real rabbit hole of trying out various torments for our dolly patient in this one - as well as coming up with a few options that make it a little more Instagram-friendly (such as reducing the number of 'probes', nipples, fake fleshy bits and...

The Inversion - Flats

Lots of intricate details in here to flat our, and needed to draw cleaner lines on our patient before I could even start the process.

Time to dive in now and as usual, begin on the backgrounds.

The Inversion - Sketch

So I had an idea about this kind of scene with a tilted exam bed and ran with it.  Then I spent far too much time adding more and more details...

Time to start organising my layers and flatting out the art.

The Entourage

I'm not sure whether I'll ever be able to attend an actual fetish event at a nightclub but that doesn't stop my brain from conjuring images of one.

This image of a fetish queen and her anonymous entourage parting the crowds came to me during one of my morning meditations. I just had to paint her.

(And a heavy rubb...

The Entourage - Process

Well, who would've thought that a crowd scene with quite so many people and costumes in it would've taken this long?  (Thanks for your patience, guys)

A fun exercise in replicating an image from my head - learned a lot about perspective and how to pack figures into a scene to create the sense of a crowd, and discov...

Heavy Rubber magazine issue 42!

The postman delivered my advanced copy of Heavy Rubber magazine today featuring 8 pages of my artwork and an interview with me about my work.

I'm stunned not only by how good the images look in print but the fact that my art was noticed by legendary photographer and founder of the magazine, Peter Czernich whose various ...

The Entourage - Linework & Flats

Wow it's hot here in the UK.  And wow, this linework has kicked my butt - trying to get the perspective right on a crowd scene for the first time was a bit of a brain noodler (so...many...legs!)

But here's the flats. Time to grab something cool and start painting proper.

Normal Service Will Be Resumed...

Hi folks

Well, that's was a week....and I'm pleased to say that things are starting to get back to normal for me.

Today the cast on my wrist finally came off so I can once again hold my drawing tablet a bit easier and can touch type with two hands again.

And yesterday evening, after a week of trouble, I figu...

Pacifier

At the last minute on this one I decided to see what it would look like if the nurses wore masks - I think it works and makes the piece feel even edgier.

Time to plan my next piece - which I think will incorporate a bit of a crowd scene...

Pacifier - Process

For some reason or other this weekend gave me a whole heap of time to crack on with this painting, which was satisfying for me as the sketch process on this one seemed to take an absolute age.

As ever, I dove in with the background first, then working up our helpless patient and her transparent layers.  After that ...

Pacifier - Sketch Process & Flats

WOW this sketch has kicked my butt...

As my last art-related post said, I thought I'd benefit from working faster on simpler images for a while. So, after making that post I dove into Clip Studio and started sketching - a simple scene - a nurse figure, a patient and some kind of large sensory-deprivation helmet.

I...

Heavy Rubber issue 42!!!

I'm so pleased to be able to tell you this (as I've was forced to sit on this for months) but Heavy Rubber magazine issue 42 is going to feature my work.

If you didn't know Heavy Rubber was started by fetish photographer Peter Czernich  in the ...

Anointed by the Mother Goddess

Here's the final piece.

As ever, please feel free to project your own imagination into this - imagine yourself as any of the characters in this situation and create your own stories - I don't quite know what this piece means - as I explained, it bubbled up pretty much fully-formed in my imagination during meditation...

Anointed by the Mother Goddess - Process

I attacked this piece knowing the colour scheme I was aiming for (which is a change - I'm often working this out halfway through the piece.)  Working background to foreground, on this one I decided to really polish each figure to very close to final this time - normally I'll do a secondary touch-up pass (usually minor) b...

Anointed by the Mother Goddess - Flats

So a very brief update - all the art has been separated into its own layers, each shape silhouetted and filled. Time now to jump in and start painting that background pod and all those pipes!

Meditation & the Art of Latex

As you probably know, since I discovered meditation last year I've found that it increasingly inspires my art. I decided to write a blog post on the subject on my site.

Namaste, people!

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Anointed By The Mother Goddess - Sketch

This latest one popped into my mind as a pretty fully-formed image until it came to the design of the matriarch figure in the foreground - I resolved to work up everything else in the scene and worked-and-reworked her particular outfit multiple times.  (So funny to have such clarity for an idea yet for one aspect of it, ...

The Faces I Desire

I imagined this scene during a morning meditation - I'd love to have a collection like this to play with.  And the outfit she's wearing, I wouldn't object to, either.

The Faces I Desire - Process

Hmmmn....whodathunk that drawing an image featuring 23 individual masks would have taken longer than I'd expected...?

So here's the process breakdown - as ever, working from the background forwards, I chose to bring up the rendering on the masks in passes so that I wouldn't end up sinking too much time/detail on any giv...

The Faces I Desire - Flats

Did a bit of two-stage flatting of the art on this one - first separate out each layer in grey tones.  Then with the layers worked out go in and fill over in base colours.  Time now to render those bookshelves!