Werewolf

Been a while since I have posted. Had lots of work and some nice projects to complete. I basically had to nail myself to my chair and work, work and work! Luckily I love what I do!

So here is a werewolf from the children's 'Book of Beasts' I illustrated. Check out earlier posts to find out more about this book and see more creatures!

Thanks for looking!

Book of Beasts released by Ticktock books on Amazon.

Hi folks,

the children's 'Book of Beasts' for which I designed and illustrated all the main creatures has been released. You can view part of the book and see some new creatures here:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1848988966

What you waiting for...go and check it out!!!!  Better still buy a copy;)

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!

Book of beasts published by Tick Tock / Octopus Publishing

Here is the official press release for the 'Book of Beasts' from Tick tock /Octopus publishing that I worked on as lead character/creature artist! Can't wait for receiving my hard copy! You can see some of my creatures in the press release below!

Thanks for viewing!

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!

Warrior Viking axe

First an apology, it has been a long while since I have posted something. Truth is I have been tied up in a huge project since the middle of last year. Hopefully it will be released in the Autumn and I can then post a selection of that work!

Anyway, here is a new portfolio piece. As well as creatures and humans I love creating items/weapons.   Here is a Bearded axe with Viking influence and a little bit of fantasy. I hope to have some more crazy designs pushing the fantasy button real soon.

As always thanks for looking!

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

Dragon Elemental Sketches

Here are some dragon Elemental sketches I created for Das 'Schwarze Auge' or 'The black eye' in English! It is basically a RPG character manual published in Germany by Ulisses Spiele.  I had real fun doing these, some nice descriptions for the required dragons by the editor! It was also great to get back to creating some artwork in pencil after working for so long with photoshop and the Wacom tablet!

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/

Creature logo design for band

Here's a creature logo design I created for my band called Wulf of Collision. Something different to what I usually do and I had to create it in Illustrator as the design is going to be used in many different formats such as on cd covers, bass drum, internet and a banner that sits behind the band.

You can hear our 3 track demo here:

https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Wulf-of-Collision/306583816028927?sk=app_178091127385

Fantasy Dragon and Phoenix card artwork for Levynlight.

About time for a new post! I've been pretty busy with commissions of late. Here are a couple I did for a games studio called HitGrab. They develop games for Facebook. I was commissioned to create some artwork for a fantasy game they have called Levynlight. I got to create some Creatures, equipment, weapons and items for card art used within the game. Here you can see a dragon and a phoenix. I'll post some more soon. The images below are copright  © Hitgrab 2012.

Dragon concept sketches in good old traditional pencil!

I have been recently looking through some sketches I had done to present to a publisher. hopefully we will work together in the future. Thought I would post a few fantasy dragon sketches I had created.

These are all pencil sketches.

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 costume concept/design for novel number 2

Working on a second commission for costume design. If you scroll down you will see a previous entry with my first costume design for the client. This new design is almost complete, a few alterations and I will post the final version.

More older craft and mech concept sketch designs.

Here's some older concept sketch designs created for the games company 'games construct'.