And The Second One! I Bet Everyone Would Have Thought This Was Really Cute On Halloween.

And the second one! I bet everyone would have thought this was really cute on Hallowe’en.

day 31 - brush inking, coloured ink (which was harder to work with than I expected)

Tabitha is very proud to have been entrusted with Granny’s All Hallow’s Eve deliveries.

Inktober day 6 - mapping pen The best and most entertaining way to practice telekinesis is to throw your only friend in the air. It’s okay, he likes it too.

Cheap mapping pens are probably my most reliable inking tool. The only downside is I now have several and I struggle to remember which are the good ones and which are the effects-only broken ones.

Inktober 2015 - Day 1: ink and water Is Isaac an angel, or a ghost with delusions of grandeur? Maybe even he doesn’t know.

I managed not to goof up the first picture this year, but I’ll be posting them a day late as usual. Especially since my scanner recently became an expensive footstool, and actually getting the pictures online is a huge pain in the neck.

Another piece from the dark days of computer issues.

This is an example double-page spread from a children's book concept, in which a girl descends through different levels of the ocean in a bathysphere. The full book would have a double page per ocean region, and probably some extra pages in the back with facts about the real sea life that appears and the development of the bathysphere and such.

Please feel free to critique my feeble attempts at poetry!

Two more illustrations for The Spook’s Apprentice. Yet more fun with foreshortening, which is usually my mortal enemy. I think I’m slowly getting the hang of it.

Are the illustrations scary enough? Or... too scary? Probably not the second one!

In today's episode of 'things from when I had no computer', some different types of soldiers from the English Civil War.

Researching these turned out to be very hard, there was a lot of conflicting information. For example, would a pikeman have a sword? I found books saying both yes and no. In the end I thought that being in the front line with only a heavy, 3-4 metre spear would practically be suicide, and I couldn't see anyone agreeing to do it unless they also had a close-range weapon.

Anyway, I did my best with the sources I could find, but I won't be surprised if a historian pops up and points out lots of problems!