The Egyptian God Sobek and a creature that I imagined he would be spending time with- a massive War Crocodile raging around the Nile River!
Nidhogg & Sköll at Yggdrasil Pencils
More Norse Mythology and Norse Mythological Creatures in action!
This was a different type of dragon(the Nidhogg) for me, and loved doing the wolf (Sköll- son of Fenrir) and runestone with the Nordic rune for Yggdrasil on it!
Cerberus – Pencils
Cerberus at the Gates of the Underworld… Another Mythological creature…. Ancient Greece!
Sphinx – Pencils
The Dangerous Sphinx – Another Mythological Creature, welcome to Ancient Egypt!
New Convention Banner
OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW!
2016 “Draw or Die” Tee Shirt Designs
Another year, Another metal themed convention tour tee shirt for Jason Lenox. 20165 is a tribute to one of my favorite metal bands, Motorhead, and I based this years play on words on my first Motorhead LP- “March or Die”.
Sadly, we have been working on this for a few months- and Motorhead’s founder Lemmy Kilmister died while we were doing editing on this project.
R.I.P Lemmy.
I used my CHIMERA and VALKYRIE artwork for this year’s visual elements.Thanks to Andy Mylin for the layout and Collegiate Pride in State College, PA for the production and coordination!
Front Artwork
Rear Artwork
Ride of the Valkyries- Final Inks
I used a lighter inking style 3 for Valkyries, Flying Horses, and Huginn and Muninn the Ravens of Odin. I wanted to keep this piece lighter and more ethereal with less blacks.
Enjoy!
Manticore Pencils
The extra time to do this fell in my lap, and I had everything gear up from the Chimera to do another similar piece of art- this time, into Greek Mythology with the Manticore!
This was sort of a backup composition and layout to the prior piece with the Chimera. Similar, but different.
From Wikipedia: The Manticore (Early Middle Persian Martyaxwar) is a Persian legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), sometimes bat-like wings, and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both. The tail is that of either a dragon or a scorpion, and it may shoot venomous spines to either paralyze or kill its victims. It devours its prey whole and leaves no clothes, bones, or possessions of the prey behind
Enjoy!
Chimera Pencils
Another exciting foray into Greek Mythology, this time- one of my favorite creatures- The Dragon, Lion, Goat headed Chimera! In addition, bat wings and a snake for a tail. This project was exciting to make, and it played to one of my strengths- exotic creatures!
The mini Greek Temple in the background was just to balance the composition and to give a cultural touchstone to the artwork.
From Wikipedia: The Chimera (/kɨˈmɪərə/ or /kaɪˈmɪərə/, also Chimaera (Chimæra); Greek: Χίμαιρα, Chímaira) was, according to Greek mythology, a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of more than one animal. Usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake’s head,[1] the Chimera was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra.
Enjoy!
Ride of the Valkyries- Final Pencils
Following up on Last Year’s Medusa Mythological Creature poster- here are the Nordic Valkyries. A fun project to make, and I was please on the composition and how the pencil part of the project turned out- the 3 Valkyries and Odin’s two Ravens all really became unique characters with personality in this artwork!
Without further fanfare- RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES!
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