A map I did of Faal Torin.  It's a very fertile land mass with almost complete coverage of farmable land.  It doesn't have many hilly areas or mountain ranges, but a few exist. It is broken into 3 main areas with a 4th land mass that is not connected in the south west.

 A dragon warrior I designed.  I included an earlier version that still has line on it aswell.

I had to do a monster before Halloween.  This is a zombie ogre that gets resurrected by some crazy people doing a ritual.  He has an axe but he really doesn't need it.  The average human stands at just below his chest so he's pretty big.  Plus he has sharp boney protrusions and gnarly claws.  I'd say he's quite a threat.

This time of the year I'm always in the mood to play resident evil 4.  The game has some very beautiful designs and I wanted to do a piece inspired off of the castle area.  This is a reading room in a castle or mansion type structure.  I wanted to do a piece with lots of soft light hence the fire and lamp being the only light sources.

I decided to do three more characters in my medieval batman series.  I did Robin, Bane, and Two Face.  Robin has light armor and I pictured as a good archer.  Bane obviously is an executioner.  Two-face and Robin I took a little more liberty with.  There isn't a medieval character that has half a face as far as I know so I had a little more freedom designing him and wasn't transposing him as I did with the other characters.  Meaning, Joker to a jester, Bane to an executioner etc.  I gave him a disfigured half face and armor on his right arm.  I never liked the half and half costumes, and I feel this sort of hints at it without being completely obvious.

I also forgot to mention in the first post that I did these to test out scanning pencil drawings and manipulating them to look like ink drawings.  The original batman was a 20 something minute sketch out of my sketchbook and the rest are similar amounts of time.  The process still needs some tweaking, but I'd say it has promise.

I did a sketch of medieval batman and it got me to thinking batman would be really cool if it were set in that period.  I really liked the idea so I decided to do a quick painting of it.  After just finishing up a freelance job this was a nice little project of my own to do. 

It really makes sense if you think about it.  Bruce (or the medieval equivalent) would be rich so he could afford the suit of armor and stuff.  Being that other criminals might not be able to afford armor for their henchmen it makes sense that he could beat up a horde of them if they are so out matched.  His fighting skills would be even more useful because of the lack of guns.  His batarang would fit in more with the medieval setting too.  Plus his nick name is already the Dark Knight!  Like I said, a lot of it makes sense.

I also did two of the villains.  Penguin and Joker lend themselves to this era very well.  Penguin obviously having the plague doctor mask and Joker equally obviously being a jester.  I might make another sheet of more villains and maybe robin just because it was so fun.   

A little battle area in a steel mill.  In sort of a robot apocalypse scenario a group of people made a stronghold in this secluded area and managed to thrive.  I've been working on this piece sporadically over the past couple of week taking breaks to do other pieces, so I'm glad to have this one done.

A big nasty boss monster known as Arachnarog, but sometimes called the spider dragon.  Designed for a video game, the player would be exploring a cave and come to a room with a bridge like structure that has a pile of loot at the end of it.  When the player moves to get it Arachnarog scuttles up on top of the bridge and knocks the player down.  All in all quite a frightening experience.   

Another book cover.  I tried to utilize the style I used in Murders in Rosewood and I think it was effective.  I think I'm going to continue with this style.  So far it's been very effective with more serious, scary, or suspenseful images.  I don't really see it for a more lighthearted piece, but that's something I'll have to tinker with. 

I did some artwork of armored warriors.  The first one is obviously meant to have high defense at the cost of movement speed.  It is built so that the face is partially hidden by the chest area and the shoulders are raised creating an odd proportion.  If the helmet was removed one would be able to see the top of the head sticking out and the shoulders would seem to be in line with the bottom of the chest. 

The second two are a balance of defense and speed.  The left is a sophisticated suit of armor with a primal twist to it.  It has some fluting and leather straps with iron studs.  It's expert construction provides great defense allowing one to preform the wide swings of the axe hammer with less fear of receiving a blow.

The third is an angular set of armor made for a female.  It also has very good defense as well as a stylistic appearance.  It would be a very expensive set of armor,  but isn't just for show!

 The last is armor worn by a slave driver.  The armor doesn't have the best construction and has many weak spots where the wearer is only protected by chain mail.  The armor however isn't meant for armed combat or to protect against blows from swords or maces.  It is meant to protect the wearer in a heard of unarmed and unarmored slaves.  In this armor, simply walking into a crowd can cause fatal injuries, so the slaves wont try attacking the drivers even when they are armed with a rake.  He's a nasty looking guy, but the combination of subpar armor and only having a razor whip and the spikes on it's armor makes it easily stopped by a noble knight.

1 hour practices

practice

I've been doing quick 1 hour paintings to increase my speed painting.  It's annoying to have to stop after 1 hour when you want to keep working, but I think it will help me to paint faster.  Here are a few of them.

A sheet of 4 different types of cyborgs.  I used the same line drawing of the human figure and added mechanical parts, but I painted everyone separately for the practice.  The first is the most human having only a mechanical arm and knees along with the left thigh.  The second has much more cybernetic parts.  A claw hand, an entirely robotic leg, most of the head is now machine.  The third is more balanced between human and robot. Both the arms are robotic, half the head is robotic, and the legs have plates on them for armor.  It's left arm is also an electricity based gun.  The last one is also highly robotic.  It's more streamlined and has a more futuristic quality to it.

A label and carrier design for 3 Witches' Brew!

I re-did an old piece of a castle like structure.  I don't rely on line so much in the newer one.  In fact the line drawing isn't visible.  I also warmed up the colors and made a more expansive background.

I realized I haven't done any regular cars so I wanted to do something more present day.  I wanted to do a car that looked fast and at the same time had a beefy look to it.  This is what I came up with.  I think I met the criteria I was looking to accomplish, and created a zazzy looking car.  I'd drive it, although if it were real I couldn't afford it.

A vehicle specifically designed to speed through the desert.  It is wider built to help prevent it from flipping over and had massive tires to help in the sand. The solar panel on the top helps keep energy usage down while that ball of fire is blazing in the sky.

I've been wanting to do this walrus warrior for a long time, but I forgot about it and started doing other projects.  I came across my line drawings the other day and I decided it was walrus time.  The story is a guy living in an extremely cold climate befriends a group of walrus and hammers out these huge suits of armor for them which he calls "iron blankets."  The weapons are designed so the walrus can walk (or whatever walruses do, frumple?) while they are holding them.  I can't help but smile looking this derpy guy.  Walrus!

I went outside the other day to help my dad clean the gutters and mow etc.  As soon as I stepped outside my eyes started watering and my nose began to run.  Allergieeeeeeees!  It's been that way a majority of my life.  I can't remember ever having enjoyed a cool spring breeze without the repercussions of allergies.  That inspired me(if one could call it inspiration) to do this piece.  It's a town taken over by this scrofulous infestation of a plant species.  It disorients people with it's pollens and absorbs them to grow.  Because of the nutrition gained by people it doesn't need as much sun,  which is good considering its pollens muffle the sun's rays.  It can also make plant creatures to attack people and bring them to be consumed.

I call this big orange guy a Beam Walker.  The base arm has a cannon in it that shoots a high powered particle beam.  It also has arm attachments on them making it capable of picking up objects and preforming other tasks. It has heavy armor and is a pretty bulky robot with high attack ratings and lower ratings on the speed side.

Sci-fi book cover for Precept.

An aerial fortress with massive ordinance.  It's main gun has tremendous firepower and can blast through about anything.  It has thick armor and thus is heavy, requiring 4 high burning rocket engines to keep it in the air.  They are also helpful in preventing it from becoming wildly unstably while firing.  It also has gun domes and missiles to shoot down enemy aircraft as well as laser domes to shoot down enemy missiles.   

A book cover for Murders in Rosewood.  As I'm sure you have already deduced, it's a murder mystery.  I wanted to try expanding out my style to include some more graphic imagery in my repertoire.  The Evil Dead image of the hand containing the cabin scene was part of my inspiration for this image, and it's a style Im going to try out in the future. 

A concept of a group of fire soldiers.  It shows the lowest ranking on the left to highest on the right.  The warriors are given a fire resistant metal glove with a red jewel in the palm used for pyromancy.  All the clothing used is fire retardant and repels stray sparks and wisps of fire.

Chinese style housing.  I actually envisioned it to be the home of this big fat greedy demon.  He has a bunch of servants and doesn't like others to have things nicer than him. The setup is 4 buildings: the main house, to the right of it, a hut to view the river from, and the last two are smaller houses.   The main house is where he lives and his servants are in the other two.  The structures are connected by covered walkways, and the center is a grassy area with a tree.  Fights are often held in the center for the amusement of the demon.

A book cover for "The Era of the Atomic Children."  I wanted to play with color and get away from average lighting from above via the sun.  I learned alot from this painting.  It was a fun time.  I wouldn't want to be someone in this book though.

A crane made by a group of mechanics out of old crane parts and other scrap.  It can lift heavy loads because it has 28 steel cables holding it steady.  The arm can extend so it can lift objects higher and further away. Also there are a few doors allowing access to moving part so they can be maintained.

This is a space station as I'm sure you already noticed.  I wanted to do something complex and this came to mind.  I like how it turned out, but I wouldn't want to live there haha.

This a walking tank I designed.  It fires the HEAT rounds used with a sabot in the M1A2 out of a smaller barrel so there is no need for a sabot and the barrel is lighter.  It carries large magazines of about 18 cartridges for it's main gun and has 500 .50 cal cartridges stored internally for it's secondary armament.  When the magazine is spent the tail mechanism grabs it and holds it out while an ammo drone drops a new one in, stabilizing it's self on the posts on either side of the TR-274's head.  Then the clamp section of the tail spins around so the butt of the magazine is facing up and the ammo drone can retrieve it by grabbing onto the spikes on the tail clamp, and fly off to get it reloaded.

I wanted something more lighthearted to add to my portfolio and what better than a girl with puffy shorts?  I also included some different hair styles and an alternate costume.