Pug Medusa

Here's my first post of 2016:

A pug medusa.

Shut up.

It's still January.

Donut

Donut Monster!

Walkies

Just doing a bit of Cerberus inspired character design for this game....

Griffins I Adore

Here's some griffins. I adore them. Griffinadore...

Suit yourselves.

St George's Dragon

It's St George's day today, so that's as good an excuse as any to draw a dragon. Eng-ger-land!

Girl on a kelpie

Can it really be a month since I updated this blog? Where does the time go? It's been such a busy few weeks, although thanks to NDAs I can't prove it, you'll just have to believe me. Oh well, here's a picture of a kelpie. Hopefully I'll post more than one image during July.

Pteradoctyls

I'm in a bit of a gradient and star funk at the moment. I hope it passes quickly.

Two faced dog thing

Look at this adorable chap. I don't know what to say to justify this creature, which I suppose is some kind of dog. But just look at him, he's such a cutie.

Ultra Man inspired screen prints

I made some Ultra Man inspired screen prints. I really need to sort out some kind of online store to try and sell these. But until I do and you'd like to buy one just send me an email, let me know if you want a blue or green version and it's as good as yours.

Sketch of a dog with a funny head

My dog's got no nose.

Well how does it smell?

Awful.

I did a little biro sketch on the train the other day and I quite liked it so I coloured it in on a computer so that I could put it on here. I don't know what I was thinking as I absentmindedly doodled it, but the rest of the page was filled with pictures of rotting animals too. They were all pretty rubbish though.

Creepy clutch

Here's a little sketch I did for a show I'm proposing. The pitch has been sent off and this isn't really any kind of spoiler so I thought I'd archive it here before I bin it. Now I've got you all wondering. What can this show be all about?

Tricerablobs

Look at this adorable plush monster I made. Like a modern day Frankenstein I bought a load of old charity shop cuddly toys, cruelly dissected them and then restitched them back together again into this monstrosity. I think it works.

Spiral pterodactyl

This is a print of some kind of flying monster I did. this turned out to be one of my favourite prints as when it came out the colours were amazing. You can't go wrong with a blue & pink colour scheme though.

Monster ball

Monster Ball! Not that film I've never seen about the mental hospital (looks too harrowing) but football, with monsters. This piece is quite old and Nike never used it in the end but I quites likes it. Looking at it again I think that the main monster looks too feminine - and that just won't do in the manly world of football.

Dungeons that drag on - Gelatinous Cube

People are loving the jellies. Here's one from the Dungeon Master's manual that I had been unaware of: The gelatinous cube. It's just a square thing that goes around engulfing and digesting all it enconters. You'll be alarmed to know that it's impervious to magic too. Can nothing stop it?

Dungeons that drag on - Amorous Blob

This is the flip side of the afore mentioned amorphous blob: The amorous blob. This sexy creature lives to love. It's a lover not a fighter and pudding though it may be, it's not a deadly one. I don't think the amorous blob was in Dungeons & Dragons, not even in the advanced version but it should have been.

Dungeons that drag on - Amorphous Blob

The amorphous blob also known as the deadly pudding is a gelatinous mass that slops about engulfing things. I hope you can roll equal or above your luck on a twenty sided dice otherwise you'll get your just desserts. Get it? Jelly is a dessert.

Dungeons that drag on - Owlbear

My acclaimed Dungeons & Dragons series continues with this monstrous chimera, no not a chimera the mythical beast from Greek myth but the Owlbear. It is a monster that has qualities of both bird and mammal, a bit like a platypus. I only recall this one from its Citadel miniature which I ruined when I attempted to paint it, but I remember it looked pretty cool before I got my clumsy paint brush on it. Cute but deadly.

Dungeons that drag on - Beholder

Recently, for some reason, I've been thinking of Dungeons & Dragons, the game. I was never really into it as a kid. All those spread sheets and charts and that, but I was keen on the idea of it. I especially liked looking through the bestiaries. I loved the Citadel miniatures, I still do, but whenever I tried to paint them it was a disaster. I thought I'd try and recreate, from memory, some of my favourite creatures from the creature back catalogues and but them on here as a kind of mini series to enjoy a little nerd time with myself and of course you.

First off is that floating omni-optic orb known as a beholder. Stay tuned for more D & D(elights) soon.

Mythical Petting Zoo

For those of you that know me, you'll know that I've been chipping away at a massive project for the last year or so in my spare time. Although nothing to do with illustration I do find that I like to doodle away while I think about it. Here is one of those doodles, worked up a bit for your viewing pleasure. It's a subspecies of the griffin family. It makes me laugh, when I was doing my art GCSE I was told never to draw monsters or cartoons as it wasn't real art and I'd never get anywhere doing that kind of nonsense, yet here I am now drawing them all the time for a living. So thinking back on it, Miss Powell was right. Curses!