A simple rendering of a spaceman reference, it is not often that I attempt something that is more mechanical. Started in InfinitePainter to get the basic shapes and composition quickly constructed. Added an extra thick oil brush so the paints topology could reflect the creases of the suit. If you look very closely you can see that in fact I have overlaid a photo of my garden as a reflection in the visor. This piece of art was picked for the inclusion in a book called Teeny Tiny stories.

This is pretty typically of the style of portrait I usually produce, chunky colours, plenty of texture, saturation, simple background and a little twist.

This painting caused me quite a few problems, the main one being the yawn, it took me a very long time to define the correct shape and I was struggling to figure out how to apply a tweak to the reference, in the end I just added some extra texture.

Something very different, I started in InfinitePainter and spent quite a while drawing lines, I wanted almost a Blade Runner type vibe but with my own design and it is not often that I involve a sense of perspective in any of my paintings.

Another superhero, this time I wanted to be very original, my initial reference was a creepy clown doll which I tweaked to look like the joker. It was interesting to do a profile portrait for a change and the background was rendered separately and then brought in with the batman sneakily in the background. So this painting turned out to be more of a story to it and I had to focus more on the composition.

I thought of a simple concept, to draw a cute cat!. This turned out to be very close to the reference and actually I ended up completing most of it in Infinite Painter.

I really liked how this one turned out in the end it has quite a nice old fashioned painterly vibe. This was from a simple reference, but tree frogs tend to have some very interesting colours to them. This one I started in Infinite Painter and managed to get quite a realistic look quite quickly.

I had the same idea for this as I did for my previous yoda painting to focus mainly on the light sabre and have the lighting set up springing from mainly this single source of light. I had to work very hard to make the portrait as bright as possible without actually making it too bold.

I twist on Darth Vader I almost wanted to try out my own design and have his face emerging from the gloom, maybe a future Darth with some upgrades.

Taking some old pieces of Alien art and combining them into something new. Trying to stay faithful to my original pen drawing that I did a very long time ago by layering my previous alien paintings over the top. In the end I was quite happy that I achieved the correct texture balance and gave the alien I slightly different hue.

Finally a Sansa portrait that I was at least reasonably happy with, I still don't think I quite got the likeness of Sophie Turner but it is close enough and the texture and the warm almost sepia tone gave an almost old master look.

Putting my own spin on a superhero character, I really wanted to do more than a portrait here and challenge myself to a more of a full body pose.

Of course I started with an Ewok reference with the initial aim of adding this to my Star Wars gallery, but half way through I wasn't really feeling it, so had a little fun to create something else that possibly might reside on Endor!

Yes sadly he is no longer with us :(

In the end this was a pretty faithful reproduction of the reference but I really wanted to push the texture, I think in hindsight I may have overdone it a little, especially with pushing the high pass sharpness filter.

Another eagle!, this time face on, copious use of the bear fur sticker spray for this one and the key for this one I think was probably getting the crop right.

Putting my own spin on a superhero character, I really wanted to do more than a portrait here and challenge myself to a more of a full body pose.

A lot of this painting was spent in Krita and following a simple reference of a squirrel, I went quite a way with it until I couldn't quite get the composition right and in the end brought the warp tool out to create a slightly different creature.

I haven't seen IT, but a portrait of the main protagonist seems to be right up my alley! It gave me the opportunity to try again a little lighting from below which I thinks works very well for a portrait and is not something you often see. At times I was struggling with the composition as the hair never seemed to give me a satisfactory shape.

Another go at Robocop, this time in simple profile, I wanted to try and make this as original as possible in my style and found that making it a warmer tone rather than the traditional blue metallic hue worked better in this case.

Started the painting in Krita working my way up from a thumbnail. I wanted to tweak the colours a little here as the original reference had blue eyes, so I exported at one stage to GIMP to have a tweak and then blurred with the palette knife towards the end which is something I have learnt to do with an animal portrait.

A paint over of a GOT dragon that I painted about 5 years ago :)

Yet another eagle!, I always love to draw these and this painting only really came together when I applied a cloud type palette knife to mess around with the edges of the protagonist.

I was playing around with the idea of a monster montage and a rough idea using a hard airbrush, after a while I started to feel some kind of zombie coming through, as it the usual with me!. Towards the end I think I cropped a little too much and should have been braver to keep an earlier idea to show more.