Kavaeric

[HR] Anapa

The old man's grown his hair out and stopped colouring it.

[HR] Sideswipe (commentary)

Vent pieces are always interesting.

Always have trouble being a beginner again, because after pursuing something else for so long you realise that you forgot what it was like. Music is of particular difficulty for me because it is so far removed from the visual arts. The framework for its theory is completely different and any skills you have with the visual arts have basically zero application in the realm of music composition. The stuff hits you real hard and I find it very easy to ge...

[WIP] untitled.flp

[WIP] Breathing room

Thank your local Black and Indigenous activists.

[WIP] Mars

Old trawlers from a regime gone by

[WIP] Desert sergal

Forever war.

[HR] Low Approach (commentary)

Painting mountain scenery continues to be equal parts fun, invigorating, frustrating, and nightmarish. It's hard for me to articulate, but I think the shapes caused from the exposed rock showing from under snow are incredibly subtle and hard to capture easily and quickly; you just have to spend time rendering every little crevasse and ridge.

On the flip side, I do now at least have one more piece of Kathid and Lis actually, like, flying, and with Kath's new ike anatomy too. Hopefully I ...

[WIP] Ranger bush flying

Low flying sport for iakans.

[HR] K-Guerrilla (commentary)

Something of early access, I suppose. For the record, I'm not into dronification or latex beyond what they are now as a mental exercise for my design/concept skills.

So following a commission by Meredith earlier this year I ended up growing really attached to the guerrilla fighters in the background, and decided to take it to a proper design extent the same way I did with Shock Army...

[WIP] Arms and gear PSA (Taborlin123 parody)

With permission from @Taborlin123, I got to parody their PSA about fantasy TTRPG gear and give it a +700 scifi spin.

Favourite is, of course, motherfucker unlimited on the right.

[HR] ZeonVibe clothing concept

An experiment to bring Black influence into +700 fashion sense. Found that the muted colours of the latter allowed bold accent of the former, and the end result ended up being a pretty good balance that wasn't too skewed in one direction or the other. Still, I mostly worked with a Japanese priest-like kimono on the part of the +700 side of things, so trying other "templates" will yield more interesting results, I reckon.

Of course, I would be interested in doing more of these, especiall...

[HR] Honda Clarity PHEV study

Keen viewers will note that, indeed, the Honda Clarity's aesthetic is Extremely Me.

Gloss and metal, especially chrome, has been a pain in the arse for me to render in the past - so I'm trying to get as much practise in as I possibly can.

What was very interesting about this car was that its A-pillar (the front pillars next to the windscreen) are incredibly shallow. Normally, the A-pillars of a saloon car like this would eventually intersect with the centre of the wheel, but with ...

[HR] They Wouldn't Have Created Us (and commentary!)

SORRY FOR SPAMMING THIS REPEATEDLY but it is a piece I'm pretty alright with the outcome.

You've probably noticed that I've been using this gouache brush a fair amount recently - I think it puts me in a good mindset about how to render. These gouache brushes are, by nature, difficult to blend, and so I'm forced to stop worrying about blending colours and getting specific gradients, and instead concentrate on getting large blocks of colour and value down on the canvas first. It's proving...

[WIP] Synth Liberation Front poster 2

[HR] Lexus LS 400 study

Not a fan of rendering gloss.

[WIP] Synth Liberation Front poster

Fun with propaganda!

[HR] Refusal

Painting with gouache brushes is fun

[HR] Anapa sketch

Some experimentation with some Kyle Webster guache brushes. I'm alright with the brushes and my application of them, but I don't think I did a really good job with the form of his head and anatomy.

[WIP] Synth wartime poster

This'll probably be cropped above the grip to work with the poster composition

[WIP] I am a long haul driver

And I'm leaving at dawn

[WIP] Rendo repeating crossbow

Bit of a toony style with this one

[WIP] Fantasy weapon concepts

Rendering quality may vary

[HR] Violence

Shopping for shoes and clothes exposed me to a lot of bombastic poses

[WIP] Revolution

[WIP] Kav stickers 2

"It's tiny human stickers!"

[WIP] Kav stickers

ME

[HR] The Edge of Air

[HR] Supercaravel

It's possibly a French design.

[WIP] Anonymous dragon sona design (body)

Continuation of that last project

Anonymous dragon sona design (bust)

Dragon sona design for a friend