Due to recent events, I have a lot more spare time on my hands so I can get back to working on stuff I haven't touched in a while. Apparently I haven't updated this chestnut since February, so I got on the case. I couldn't find a hand pose that was perfect so I had to combine a few and then look up what hands covered in blood looked like separately. I think in general I need to add more atmosphere, especially to the face, now that the rest has become so loose.

Guild Navigator

More Dune!

I've been trying to come up with a Steersman design for a while, this is the closest so far.

Here's the original description, summed up nicely by Wikipedia:

 ...a "humanoid fish," and described in his tank of spice gas as "an elongated figure, vaguely humanoid with finned feet and hugely fanned membranous hands — a fish in a strange sea."


 ...they possess a "tiny v of a mouth" and "ugly flap of nose" and that "Mouth and nose appeared small on a Navigator's gigantic face with its pulsing temples."


I wanted to make this creature interesting with contrasts; a round belly with an angular, lanky figure, appearing old and yet still undeveloped, frail but threatening for some reason. Although they are incredibly powerful they are also driven by their addiction to spice, so it was important to illustrate that they are driven by greed as much as they are by intellectual pursuits.

Technically they are even supposed to wear a leotard and a utility belt, but I might take some artistic liberties and do away with that... I dunno we'll see.

Another dump of sketches. Again, these are from over a few sketch books, most of the ones on the top are from my head and the obviously posey ones on the bottom are from life. I thought I'd keep up with the themes, so this time it's all girls! Yeeey!

Callie Started

Workin' on Callie Maggotbone from Ugly Americans. I love this show, and I wanna finish this before the season is over. Bonus, there's tentacles in it!

Lunch time sketch. Bicycle sphinx...?

So. I got a scanner.

After 6 years as a professional artist, I finally have my own scanner. How sad is that? Pretty sad. Contrary to popular belief I DO actually use physical (analog? so pretentious) media often, but mostly it's all in my sketchbooks and nothing ever finished. To start, here is a collection of stuff from Dune.

From top left - Laza tigers; Fremen costume; Shai Hulud; princess headdresses; krysknives; chairdog; old steersman concept (outdated, I've since redesigned them based on the book descriptions more closely); Alia, from a scene in Children of Dune.

I'll post more later once I get them arranged.

Ritual Update

More progress on this thing. Man, once I start doing freelance my schedule for updating goes right down the toilet.

I bumped the contrast and colors like crazy, figured I could do something interesting with the incense smoke. Still afraid to touch those handles right now.