Some more critters for your delight or fright!

Here are a few more critters I created for the German fantasy Roleplaying publisher Uhrwerk Verlag! Some nice descriptions that I could get my teeth right into!

Artwork created in photoshop!

Thanks for looking!

Illustrations for fantasy creature field guides published by Capstone Press.

It's been a while since I updated with some new work! Here are characters I created for the Fantasy Field Guide series by Capstone Press.

I created 2 creatures for each of the following books from a 4 book series:

A field guide to Elves, Dwarves, and other Magical folk.
A field guide to Dragons, Trolls, and other Dangerous Monsters.
A field Guide to Goblins, Gremlins and other Wicked Creatures.

http://www.capstonepub.com/library/search/?series-property=Fantasy+Field+Guides

Here's two of the 6 creatures I created. Check back soon for more!

All work Capstone press © 2014

Zombie hoard sketch.

Here is a sketch created for project I'm involved with at the moment!

As you can see it depicts a zombie hoard. Make sure you have a good look a round the image, quite a few details to see + a few secrets in there!

Pencil on paper.

Thanks for viewing!

Book of Beasts - Creature taster, Ticktock books.

Here are a few creatures from the 'Book of Beasts' Children's book which I worked on for Octopus books/Ticktock books. I was lead creature/character artist. There was also another artist involved who illustrated battle scenes for each chapter.

The book comes out at the start of October 2013, not long now! Bloody excited!!!

Official webpage to purchase book: http://www.octopusbooks.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9781848988965

Here I present a Troll, Dark Elf, Jotun Frost giant, Black Shuck, Draugr and beast.

Thanks for viewing!

Private character commission of a bassist and fan of Iron Maiden.

I recently had another fun project which was to illustrate a friend of mine. He didn't actually know about it, it was another family member who commissioned me for his birthday....so all the more fun! He is a bassist and one of the bands he is a big fan of is Iron Maiden.

I pondered on this one a little while and decided to do something with Eddie from Iron Maiden and also the devil. See below for the outcome!

Created in Photoshop!

New Harry Potter movie: Fantastic Beasts and Where to find them!! Come to me and I will design you some!

Anyone hear That JK Rowling is writing the script for a film based on the textbook Harry Potter and friends study back in Hogwarts! This is going to be in conjunction with Warner Bros Entertainment. Apparently set in the Potter universe although many years before the existence of young Harry!

Really exciting news, what a subject and project to be involved with. I would love to involved in such a  project designing the creatures. If anyone is listening or reading this including JK Rowling or Warner Bros Entertainment, give me a contact....we can make fantastic beasts together! From Goblins to dragons to werewolves you name it I'm your man!

New 'Book of Beasts' being published by Octopus Publishing containing my artwork.

I am happy and excited to announce this new book being published by Octopus Publishing containing my artwork which comes out on October 7th this year!

I designed and created all the main character beast artwork throughout the book. There are a also a couple of other artists who created battle scenes and spot illustrations.

It was a really cool project to illustrate, lots of wonderful creatures for me to get stuck into and let my imagination run wild. On the front you can see a Draugr, Krampus and a Zombie. The book is going to cost £9.99. Official link below:

http://www.octopusbooks.co.uk/OctopusPublishingGroup/books/detail.page?isbn=9781848988965

Here's a little character commission I did for a private client recently. I had a little bit of fun with it as you can see. Created in Photoshop!

Creature / Monster RPG character designs for Das Schwarze Auge

Here are some works I did for the German Fantasy publisher called Uhrwerk Verlag. The work was created for a tabletop roleplaying game called "Das Schwarze Auge" or "The Black Eye" in English! This particular "Das Schwarze Auge" publication was a roleplaying manual called Myranische Monstren. I was commissioned to create a nice selection of creatures/monsters. As you can see I had a few prehistoric dinosaur types similar to Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex, prehistoic terror bird. Also had other creatures to illustrate including a street dog, giant bear and an Uralor. Here are the correct list of names in German:

Schardorus-Bar ,  Jharranoth , Tyrannenechse , Fischerspinne , Strassenhund , Uralor,Vulturn

I'll post more images in the future. You can check out, and order the book here:

http://www.uhrwerk-verlag.de/?page_id=1011

All work © 2012 Uhrwerk Verlag

Roleplaying female fantasy knight character

Here's a female knight character I was commissioned to create for a roleplaying game. It is set in an age of Conan style world. The costume had to have a Roman influence although there was room for the use of imagination. I created the character in Photoshop. 

RPG character designs commissioned by Ulisses Spiele for Das Schwarze Auge.

Time for some more updates, it's been a little while. I did some character designs for a German publisher at the end of last year. Here is a selection of what I can show! The publisher is called Ulisses Spiele. The characters were for a publication called 'Das Schwarze Auge' which translates into 'The Black Eye'. The book was offically released and I got my complementary copy through the post this morning! Very nice high quality book of 208 pages in colour. Some great characters by the other illustrator!

Das Schwarze Auge: http://www.dasschwarzeauge.de/

The other illustrators: http://www.florianstitz.de/startseite.html
                                    http://www.melaniemaier.de/
                                    http://annasteinbauer.blogspot.com/
                                    http://belijaal.blogspot.com/

Dwarven head and sword pencil study.

This is a pencil study/concept design I did of a dwarf head and sword.

RPG character design

This is a RPG character design I was commissioned to create.

fantasy character costume designs.

This is a costume/character design commissioned by a writer for a novel. I'm allowed to show my contribution but not actually talk about the details of the project. so here it is.

More fantasy costume designs including weapons.

Here the final round of designs for the first of a number of costumes I have been commissioned to design. The sword and the dagger were actually designed by the commissioner themselves. I have designed everything else including the sheath designs and weapon position.

So now they have been approved I can move onto colour and final render.

Some fantasy character/costume concepts.

Here are some sketches/concepts I have been commissioned to do for a project. The commissioner has kindly allowed me to show them. That's all I can say, so enjoy.

Wow, didn't realise so much time had passed since my last post. Been quite busy to say the least and it doesn't seem to be slowing down!

Cyborg scout

Here's a quick concept I have created for a project I'm involved with. Robot/cyborg scout

Krampus full creature character design

This design was originally created for the creature krampus challenge on artorder. I developed it a little and will post a final version soon!

battle dwarf character design

Thought I'd post the completed Battle dwarf character design. Fresh from battle, armour scarred and a little blood stained!

Name: Thorslecg Oxarine

Occupation: Front line battle dwarf, shield wall breaker.

warrior concept/character designs

A couple of quick helm designs for a warrior concept.
Created in photoshop.