Taking a cow reference from my parents and then applying the palette knife to tweak into a zombie character.

Started in a very digital fashion using a hard airbrush to define the basic contours and then playing around with text and colour. I thought I would play around with the text tool in ArtRage for a change and turn this painting into more of a poster concept.

A painting for a Christmas card and I thought it would give me the opportunity to use the text and stencil tools in ArtRage to create the speech bubble.

Originally this painting started out as a straightforward reference based render of Joyce Byers from Stranger Things holding an axe, but I had an idea midway through to apply some colour and focus more on a montage, overlaying a macaroni man painting I have completed in the past as I thought he looked quite like a demagorgon.

A commission for my mum for her aunty. I started with a little tracing and then applied quite a number of textures. The difficulty with this portrait was mainly the monochrome nature as I am so used to pushing the colour.

Based on a reference from my sisters hot tub, I had the idea of creating a mermaid just quietly lounging. I found a reference but I didn't quite get the pose or lighting set up properly.

Similar to my dragon foliage piece of art I started with a picture of some flowers and with the palette knife and overlays managed to find an old lady!

Playing around with some random contours and fills to get an idea of any kind of shapes and then developed the idea from there. I find I always learn a lot when I experiment and go out of my comfort zone. At one point I exported the image and distorted as ArtRage hasn't yet got a liquid transform function as of yet.

This was a painting I did for my dad's birthday of his favourite cat, my aim was to go for a very much photorealistic look and of course that would involve extensive use of the hair sticker spray brush.

I pushed the colours on this one to give a more illustrative look and colour dodged some rim lighting for effect.

This time I decided to start off by tracing using pastel and then work from there. I focussed on the detail of the feathers using the pastel and then simple fill tiled a simple background at an angle.

This was originally going to be a straight-forward animal portrait, but I thought I would like to add a twist by adding some rim light and a little demon twinkle in the eye.

Taking an original Darth painting and then applying some highly saturated texture.

I took my original axolotl painting and wanted to massively push the colour, so started with a high saturated overlay.

Playing around with lots of digital tools at the start, including the gloop pen and watercolour and defining initially some very cute digital eyes. The rest of it was just made up!

I had an idea to render a variation of an alien, namely the one in the film prometheus but to add something extra, my own spin on it. This involved mainly plenty of colour dodge to present an almost luminous effect to the skin and to overlay a single light from the eye, although I'm not quite sure I positioned it correctly.

Overlaying lots of my previous monster painting to try and create something original, lots of experimenting with texture and distorting and moving paint around.

Pushing my original Jon Snow portrait and combining with my White Walker portrait to see what Jon would look like if he was white walkered.

I wanted to apply a lightning techy type of luminous texture on the skin for this portrait.

Applying a face to my original palette knife based saturated dragon. This used to create a birthday card for my mum.

Originally this portrait started out as a famous screaming scene from Game Of Thrones when the Mountain did what he does, but it was very difficult to get a good likeness, so I cheated and turned it into a horror face which meant I could get away with quite a lot.

A huge experiment with texture and ArtRage brushes, I have no idea what this is but I did have a lot of fun!

A weird slug like creature really focussing on the sticker spray and pushing colour dodge.

Here I took a reference of some foliage and then layered and moved the image around to form a dragon / creature emerging.