History on a grand scale

Blood and Iron

a green and pleasent land

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

Pacific rim

Gypsy danger is a real challenge to pose as the proportions and dimensions are absolutely insane.
I wanted to get across the lumbering Mexican wrestling themes in the film.

forever wandering

a continuation of the little red wanderer series.

sleepy hollow

A Sleepy Hollow speed paint.
I’m currently waiting on a client from Hong Kong, and the work is all pretty neat and cute so I decided to paint something spooky while I can.
The Headless Horseman Is one of the more striking characters of American fiction. there are loads of European legends of a ghostly or demonic hunt. even ones where the rider is headless. but there’s something just so arresting about the lone headless man about to run you down.

shipyards

You can blame my friend Catherine for all these ship based paintings. I think the top one turned out better as i'm trying to do more painting with hard surface objects. but i still got to ad some of my favorite things such as fire and mountains.

Dungeon monsters

So me and a friend wrote and are D.M'ing a comedy dungeon. now it may be a comedy but its a dark comedy. so lots of discussing and nasty creatures within. some are creatures you can find in the bestiery but I wanted to do my own spin on them.  I will update more designs after the guys have encountered them.

legendary creatures that once ruled the earth

Thought I'd forgotten about ya eh? well ive been busy ok. to prove it here are some screen caps of the animation I'm making at the moment for Stuffed Fox films. Its been exhausting so far but hopefully it will turn out ok. I mean, who doesn't like dinosaurs?

A blasted land

30 min speed painting. i wanted to give this one a national geographic photograph feeling to this one.

at the mountains of madness complete

so i took it upon myself to illustrate H.P Lovecraft's The Mountains Of Madness to see if i could still illustrate worth a damn. Im pretty happy with the result and I will be selling prints at the next london mcm. or hey, drop me an e mail if you'd like one, or the set!

the mountains of madness. part one.

these are part of a larger collection when its done will span the entire book. these are still tecknically works in progress but i like how they're coming along. Horror illustration is much fun to do.  

REPER soldier

So ive been reading This book is full of spiders. the sequel to john dies at the end. so far its pretty cool reading a monster zombie outbreak from the first person, but it being mostly about the people involved rather than just a story that cant wait to get to the action bits. So in the story these special forces guys show up and are all kited out to take on the zombie apocalypse. I researched a lot of combat and riot gear covering all the important bits but still allowing movement. the helmet is modeled on a US air force helmet. its creepy and kind of makes him look like an asshole.

the new forrest

Some place near where I grew up.

the white orc

this dude had a lot of design choices i really liked; the almond eyes, the flattened nose and the more vampire king look to him was really cool. That and i find facial scarification fascinating. I did this painting from memory so he’s not 100% accurate to what he looked like in the film. but nevertheless this was fun to paint.

Sir Brum Esq

Sir Brum esq. the bugbear barbarian lawyer.
when creating the character on sheet i just kind of went with whatever rolls i got. having no ambition to purposefully build a character. what i got was a immensely strong barbarian with high charisma and intelligence.  so without knowing it I had a character that resembled Hank Macoy. this was a big factor on designing this smug basterd. i like the more bestial lion like look of more recent incarnations of beast but i didnt want to include the bright blue fur. so i opted for a more rusty red.
I thought it would be cool to have a character that was always trying to appear above his station. a monster with class. thus the lawyers tail coat and commerband over the amour shaped to look like a steel waistcoat. and the cute little bow tie.   below is an illustration from the current quest we're on. where he had to scoop up two party members under his arms and crash through a window to escape a burning room filled with hellhounds.

Grizzled General

A reinstated Danport back in the great machine of the Tecknologists Empire. with ceremonial helmet custom made to further his reputation and legend as the old lion. he's mostly held together by his power amour but is still ferocious in battle, refusing to lead from the safety of forward command.

Lone Tree

so I'm slowly getting over my inability to do architectural landscapes and forms. I think i over did the light beams on this one but i wanted it to have a dramatic quality. again more influence from games like fallout and mccartheys scant but haunting descriptions of the dangerous city scapes from the road.

watch duty