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Candle Magic

Wolf-Troll Goma in an underwater sea cave. The wax from the candle in his mouth drips into a center pool of candles. Consciousness is concentrated on the flame, which transfers to the drips, and the magic enacted through the ripples and reflections in the pool. This is how he managed to get himself into a cave at the bottom of the ocean in the first place. (Also combined sex magic to increase the potency of spells.)

Week of Watercolors (December 2022)

1. Vortex

2. Acrylic Ink Practice

3. Lion Gohma

4. Color Moon

5. Sword Whistle

6. Jewel Flame

I've been practicing watercolors this week, along with experimenting with acrylic inks. The second picture was colored entirely with Process Yellow, Process Cyan, and Process Magenta (with some grey and black to contrast). This practice in particular was trying to get as much as I can out of penciling only, and it is extremely difficult for me. I really struggled. ...

Rubble of the Lotus Pages 54-56

The journey into the Wrecking Ball Realm continues.

Pages 1-21 https://www.patreon.com/posts/rubble-of-lotus-68358437

Pages 22-26 https://www.patreon.com/posts/rubble-of-lotus-71092670

Pages 27-37 2022-12-09 01:15:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Rubble of the Lotus Pages 49-53

Emerging from Abstract Space into The Wrecking Ball Realm.

Pages 1-21 https://www.patreon.com/posts/rubble-of-lotus-68358437

Pages 22-26 https://www.patreon.com/posts/rubble-of-lotus-71092670

Pages 27-37 2022-12-01 22:50:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Spirit Navigator

A plane powered and guided by a mystic entity makes it's way across a hidden world.

[12/4/2022] Color version of the image~

Scorpionbox City

A vessel with a magic city within. Whether the box is really a box, or an illusion of our perception is open to question. So is whether this box is located in our world, or if it's anchored somewhere else. But if you know how to approach it, you can walk from here into the city.

11x17in. India Ink

In a Warehouse

Colors-Inks-Screentone

Fox and porcupine goma. I would love to introduce goma based off different species in a different way, but oh well haha. I like porcupines because of all their spines give them a seeming "unfuckable" quality, but that very unfuckability actually gives them a much more delicate and erotic sensibility, of something beyond just the sort of typical body types that are presented as "desirable". That their bodies have to be navigated in an atypical way. In fact that ent...

Rubble of the Lotus Pages 38-48

Star Rotten makes his way through the abstract realm opened up in the Paper Cathedral.

Pages 1-21 https://www.patreon.com/posts/rubble-of-lotus-68358437

Pages 22-26 https://www.patreon.com/posts/rubble-of-lotus-71092670

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Manifestations of Ink

Books pierced by blades, coming alive, surrounded by insect and geometric imagery.

This image began from the thought of pierced pages bleeding armies of ink, and other fantasies, and as it grew out of that became a collision of symbols and ephemera. 

I like the thought of the ideas contained within books sitting in some kind of psychic/magic layer just beneath/within the paper, and that this layer can be permeated in some way. Especially mass produced books. What sort of thin...

Coastal City

9x12in. Walnut Ink, Gouache, Conte Crayon.

Foreground we have a fox goma, and a red coral sage/goma (I haven't quite figured out just what they are yet).

And then a flying ship in this distance, attached to a sort of giant marble sphere which gives everything attached to it the power of flight.

Werewolf!

I drew this with the "Monster" images, and then accidentally forgot about it until I flipped through a pile of papers the original was in.

11x17in. Pencil.

Dragoncave

And fox goma. The dragon is also a type of goma, but I'll explain their deal later.

9x12in. Walnut Ink. Pencil.

I started off really happy with the pencils on this piece, then the initial washes went really well... but sometime towards the end I overworked the whole piece and hated it. I ended up loading a whole bunch of water on the painting, scrubbing it with a large brush, and accidentally created this kind of hazy impressionistic effect, which I've kind of fallen in love with ...

Rubble of the Lotus Pages 27-37

I've been focused on finishing these pages up for the last couple weeks. Glimpses of mythology and the entrance to an abstract realm are the central feature of these 10 pages.

If I can keep this focus up I think I should have through page 50 ready pretty soon!

Here's links to the other Rubble posts

Pages 1-21 https://www.patreon.com/posts/rubble-of-lotus-68358437

Pages 22-26 ...

Monster 5 & 6

Wolf warrior with terrifying codpiece and morning star whip & a monster made out of stone-like material with strange tendrils.

I'm losing steam on this series, so these might be the last couple illustrations in it for now. I never quite figured out how to depict the the things I was attempting to (getting my lighting and surface rendering better, working on action and foreshortening, and figuring out a world and series of themes and ideas for fantasy and violence). However I think I...

Monster 4

This is the first image of this set that I felt like I captured what I was going for. I don't use foreshortening like this very often because I don't draw a lot of action in my illustrations, but this sort of distortion and weight of the body is what I was going for but not quite achieving.

I think the positioning of the arms on the skeleton feels a bit static, and the picture could use some darker values, but I'm happy with what I got out of it.

Monster 3

Splitting some skulls.

Monster 2

Continuation of efforts from the other "Monster" image.

Starshower

Stars falling over mountain meadows, nearby an old but still tended shrine.

Monster

Normally I don't draw a lot of weapons, and almost never with the goma. This is because I when I was a teenager I had a moment where I came to the realization that the only purpose of a sword is for humans to kill other humans. What became the goma was my way of exploring a fantasy world that didn't center around violence, particularly the hierarchical violence that most often accompanies the construction of swords and armor.

I still think that a sword is just a really long knife whose ...

Shady Fountain

Fox goma drinking from a fountain. Trying to get a little better at painting, which I struggle with. Lots of progress images though!

Blue Pillar

Ram goma with a gold face sitting beneath the pillar, listening to the strange things the snake speaks.

Meadow Light

Fox goma with a travelling bookcase, meeting a light-bearing dragonfly in a small field of horsetails and rhododendron.

I was trying to incorporate some elements of lighting that I've tried photographing (for example with the photo I've attached), and there were quite a few times where the image came together, but then fell apart as I kept adding details, and in the end I'm not sure how I feel about how it turned out in the end, but I think the tone turned out interesting at the very le...

Walking Stone

Fox goma and minotaur goma. The stones have a sort of flexible metal body around them which allows them to move. The rocks are sort of halfway between an animal and a vehicle. They have interior lives of their own, but it comes from somewhere else, like a receiver, a radio picking up the voices from some source from afar. If they're left alone they'll wander around and do their own things, but sometimes they can just sit in a grage and do nothing until disturbed. To be honest I'm still decidi...

Broken Pillar

Lion gohma and a boar goma.

Walnut Ink, White Highlights, 9x12in.

Gohma Lair

India Ink, Watercolor, White Highlights 12x16in.

The Gohma appear in and some times can transform into many different sizes. In this image are the 4 most common. Large, very large, colossal (3 Lion Gohma in background) and small enough to be held.

The fox goma is a bard who has wandered to this lair to play. As far as bards go for the goma, they are inspired in particular by the Welsh and Finnish bardic traditions. Particularly inspired by Finnish mythology, in which the 3 princip...

Copper Faun

9x12in. India Ink, Watercolor, Gouache.

The copper faun in this image is a sort of combination between a satyr and a green-man with a metal body. The emanations coming out of the stone behind him are larger forms of some of the elongated shapes silver will sometimes take in it's natural shape.

KAYA

Art of Wes Craig's upcoming new comics series, Kaya, that he's writing and illustrating.

It'll be published by Image, but you can read the prologue on webtoons here -- https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/kaya/prologue/viewer?title_no=789578&episode_no=1

And thankfully this time I remembered to photograph some in progress shots of the inking!

Rubble Seeker

A giant machine wandering over landscapes looking for ruins and other forgotten things.

Walnut Ink. 9x12in.

Fishhook Wand

Raccoon Dog character along the coast.

India Ink, Walnut Ink, Gouache. 9x12in.

The fishhook and the lures swirling around it are for coaxing out spirits and sources of magic. The hook itself isn't necessarily for piercing anything, but rather operates more symbolically, for catching things, aspects, ideas, etc.

Rubble of the Lotus Pages 22-26

The next 5 pages of Rubble. Here's a link to the first set of pages https://www.patreon.com/posts/rubble-of-lotus-68358437

I was in kind of a low mood for most of the summer and I lost the momentum I had on the first part of the story, but the last couple weeks have been good and I've got through page 35 pencilled, and I'm on a steady clip inking, so I think you can expect some proper updates ...