Based on a reference photo of a scary looking tree at my parents and then pushing with a moon environment, there was extensive use of the foliage sticker spray to layer up the tree bark.

A card I created for my dads birthday using just ArtRage.

A simple landscape based on a reference photo I took at my parents. Mainly pastel based as it seems to give me a better blend in ArtRage.

Similar to my Mr Robot portrait I wanted to emphasize texture on the skin and to apply some blood type scars.

I found a really good reference of a cloud and to have it sitting over a creature, I also found a raindrop sticker spray.

I wanted to create an original monster character with a very simple background and applying leaf textures, this is the main theme of a macaroni man.

Based on a reference from Istebrak's Portrait Studio which allows any light setup for a model. I liked the idea of lighting a face from below. I had an idea to abstract out the eyes for some reason, maybe as I couldn't quite get the eyes in the right place, so I cheated!!

A commission for my mum off the back of my Clanger art.

Based on an idea my mum had for a story and I decided to save some time by creating a new sticker spray brush based on a photo I took of a macaroni piece.

A commission for my mum's workplace for a health and safety presentation she did for her work colleagues.

A more complicated painting with a full torso protagonist with a landscape background, yes really out of my comfort zone here. With a smaller figure I really struggle sometimes with the detail as you have to be very precise. In the end it all came together quite well.

This was an experiment, I had little idea of what I was going to achieve except some kind of creature. About half way through I decided to export into a program which I massively stretched and distorted the image, this was my first foray into exporting to an external program to cover the functions that ArtRage doesn't have.

A commission which I did for one of my dad's friends and printed on canvas. The soft palette knife was used extensively to pull out a lot of the hair.

I had an idea to adapt some reference of a cow I took from my parents and to create a Minotaur type character.

Trying more experiments with the technique of starting from a black background and then using a harder airbrush to build up the tones using pressure sensitivity. As it turned out it ended up looking like my dad!

I am currently watching Orphan Black and created this very much pastel based portrait.

Experimenting with the paint tube after watching a tutorial demonstrating how to create atmospheric clouds and then the palette knife to smear the paint around in a haphazard fashion.

Something fun and made up based on playing around with the sticker spray. I thought I would use a digital art trick on copy and reflecting the foreground character to simulate a floor reflection and applied the background as a kind of disco light using the radial bucket tool

My yearly portrait of an alien.

I started with a shape and then with a lot of colour formed some neon fish like creature.

I wasn't too happy with how this portrait was turning out so I overlaid an overlay layer of texture. In the end face looks like some delicious ice cream.

This was a commission for my mum for her work. Went for a much more illustrative look and start off with the ink pen with some smoothing and then tried to keep a watercolour like approach.

I decided to start this off using a fur sticker spray brush to form the basis of the painting and then to overlay some oil painting on top.

Wanted to take a different approach in to start with a black background and use the airbrush in a harder mode with pressure sensitivity to generate a more subtle variation.