lost in time, never lost in love

Gandalf sketch from a few months ago.

Started out as a random dwarf sketch and eventually turned into Gandalf 😅

Mermaids are high complex creatures. An anatomy that seemingly incorporates aspects found in both aquatic mammals and fish. Despite this vast dimorphism, the internal anatomy is largely shared amongst the varying species with some evolutionary adaptations that may be specie specific such as the Labyrinth Organ.

Bestiary log: The term mermaid, despite it’s intrinsic feminine connotation, holds no gender specific marker when discussed or noted. The vast majority of Mermaid, or Merfolk, species have both males and females. Some with obvious sexual dimorphism, others more subtle. However there are species that are hermaphroditic and even fewer that are single gendered, such as Tritons. 

⚔️ STRATEGY BREAK ⚔️

My latest illustration which features Sabriel and Mogget from the Abhorsen series by Garth Nix! This was one of my favorite series growing up so it was a lot of fun to draw! If you're into fantasy and looking for a new series to read, I recommend it!

This piece is also this month's art club reward on Patreon. If you want to get a metal print of this sent to you in the mail, be sure to pledge the Art Club tier on Patreon before Nov 1st!

Hey everyone, this was an image i did for an annual illustration competition over at @foliosociety, an amazing design and publishing studio in London which does incredible special editions of notable books with top illustrators. Unfortunately my image didn't place within the top 20, but if you take a look at the longlist youll see the competition was fierce this year! I'll try again next year.

We were asked to illustrate a scene from the short story, "The Flyers of Gy" by Ursula K. Le Guin about a humanoid society that sometimes develop wings and risk their lives to fly.

The image I chose to create was from a scene in the story explaining one of the tragic plays that came out of that culture. I figured this would be a chance to do some high drama and gothic romance atmosphere. I worked really hard on it, and ill be throwing up some process videos this week.

Thanks for looking! xoxo

Sketch of Jude Duarte ✨

Here’s a commission I recently finished for @silvereddaye featuring Fae!Luke from their Star Wars fanfic! Thanks again for commissioning me <333

With these fiercy and playful noodles I want to announce that my once a year, original character commissions are open!

All the details are in the form here: CLICK https://tinyurl.com/5n75ztmp

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Blast from the past. I drew this back in 2019 and I still like it. I used my son as a model (irl he was holding a small rabbit)

“Berserk” is a special story that has been with me for so many years and will always remain in my memory. I will return to it again and again. Truly difficult to fully convey in words the influence that it had on my worldview and creativity. Thanks for everything, Kentaro Miura.

Vin illustration for the Mistborn Deckbuilding Game!

So, it seems I get to share this one a bit earlier than expected since it was shown at Dragonsteel 2023 last week! Stormlight and Mistborn (and the Cosmere as a whole) are some of my favourite stories of all time so it's been incredible (and very surreal) getting to work on both this and the Stormlight Archive RPG. Huge thank you to Johnny O'Neal and Brotherwise Games for the opportunity!

This terror of the skies was inspired by all the incredible Magic the Gathering illustrations I’ve been seeing. While I didn’t work on any of the current card illustrations I did work on the MMO Action RPG Magic: Legends as a contributing concept artist. It was one of the highlights in my artistic career that I am forever grateful for. 

Ixalan was one of the projects I worked on and the Aerosaur was a particular favorite of mine. This is a bit of a reimagining to the original Aerosaur design. More avian vs overtly dinosaur. 

Make Me Water

New illustration with handsome mermaid guy. I am really enjoying of drawing beautiful men haha.

The Silmarillion, ch. 2: of Aule and Yavannah

Did a Frazetta style study/tribute thingy