the alchemists

These are the alchemists. Not your typical wisened european chemists but men who are following the Great Work in various ways. This guy is more of a blacksmith, with protective leathers due to explosive endeavors. He has already lost a leg but still gazes deeply into his creations.
This fellow below is inseparable from his bopkin. He is selfish and dangerous.

This one is just a blue sky attempt - alchemy on an alien scale. Human ingredients are needed. His pose is reminiscent of giant buddhist statue, perhaps they used his form as a model. He has humanoid anatomy on the outside but his pose has no counterbalancing, inside he is boneless. His clothes are perhaps a crabs casing. Giant voodoo alien alchemist?

Needs a ride

Just a quick black and white undead bandleader patriot gunslinger looking for a ride.. A bit sloppy but I'm proud of how the tree branches came out - just made a crappy brush and threw em down in 5 seconds. Economy!

the dreamer

I tried some new stuff with this guy. Didn't take him to the level of finish I would have liked but my hand is hurting from the day of painting.

I do like how his face is hard to focus on, with an upper face it's almost like your eyes are crossed for a second when you look at him. His posture recalls hindu statues, double limbs and multiple eyes pimple his body. Two cherubim souls help unfurl his "wings" as he meditates.

I did paint over a sketch on this, it is showing through. Needs more work but I'll probably move on. The lighting came out ok but not as intentional as it could have been.

portraits

Creepy pin eyed priest, some surly snail-like alien smoking and an overjoyed undead fellow looking for love.


These potraits are taken from a scanned pencil sketch and colored with an overlay layer underneath the spencil set as a multiply layer. It's a pretty good way to do a fast coloration with value but still needs to be painted over if these are going to be taken to the next step of polish. A finished piece in this technique would have no pencil marks showing.

paintings and sketches of the inferno

Some demon types. The first cannot be reasoned with at all. it is all fury and smoke. It bends the air around it, pressure and shockwaves. the second demon might listen to you for a minute, if only to find out how to torture you more effectively. His skirt is leather made of souls, only the eyeholes are recognizeable, it is seamless.


The pit that forms the ninth circle of Hell. Traitors are frozen in a lake of ice called Cocytus. They enter this circle through the chest of Antaeus - a giant frozen into the firmament of the pit.

This rightmost image is inspired by the idea that Hell has fauna that predates the angels' fall. These industrious creatures work the billows in a smoky landscape.



A doorway. Escaping hell is not easy. This door doesn't go out anyways. It goes someplace bad, and it's not easy to get through the door. Sometimes anywhere else is better than where you are.


Various folks. Didn't shade them just took em close to final lines.

Something bad

This guy lives in hell. He doesn't have a personable face.. But he does adorn himself with a fur or two. He has his likes and dislikes but none of them have anything to do with compassion.

More figure study

More figure study from the afterwork group. 1 to 5 minute sketches, I added the highlites afterwards.