I'm not really sure why I don't indulge in more still lifes.

Ah yes, my perennial Alien art!, after watching the film Alien for the umpteenth time I saw an image right at the end of the film which I liked a lot, so I snapped it with my camera with a resolution to artify it!

Extreme experiments in ArtRage textures. You will notice some bubbling effects which was an overlay from my camera from fat globules rising to the surface of a hot watered roasting pan I often use this text as it add much interest. The effect was either a marbly man or a rock of a man emerging from water. The detail was brought in by copious use of the palette knife.

After watching the Killing I was inspired to render my favourite actor, that of Joel Kinnamen. I had the idea of warping and blurring to perspective the gun to add a 3d effect.

Yes thats right!, pretty much my first portrait, mainly due to the dearth of my facial pictures. As you can probably guess I was lying down for this one, but uprighted for the portrait itseld, I think in the end I was quite pleased bow it turned out, the key was the mid tones, which I am working on as I tend to focus on the darks and lights too much and get carried away.

After watching the Queens Gambit, I was inspired, just a straighforward head on shot, which is quite unusual for me and really tried to push the colours and highlights.

The greatest show every, except the final season of course

A bit of a montage of art which every now and then I do, taking the art of Rey, Daenerys, Yoda and Darth and merging them all into an interesting coherent whole.

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Testing out Kritas rgba thick paint brushes with the new smudge engine in Krita beta 5

With Krita 5 on the horizon, playing around with smudge and smearing rgba brushes in the style of ArtRage!

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

A teenage witch!

Using ArtRage and InfinitePainter on various drawing tablets

Using InfinitePainter and ArtRage on Samsung devices

Simply a cup using InfinitePainter and ArtRage

Based on an idea for my sister, a vampire diaries mash up showing the morphing of a ripper enraged Stefan to his boring normal ego. This one I found very tricky, it took quite some time to get the balance right and of course would have taken quite a while anyway due to the fact it is two portraits. Again I was having problems with the mid tones and getting the image generally to be bright enough and not look too flat, hence the palette cloudy blending.

A suggestion of an idea from my mum who at the time was writing a story about a Macaroni man with a story lodged in each pasta recepticle. I had already rendered such a monster but thought that I could not do a little better. This is one of the few pieces that I specifically created a sticker brush for to easily define the macaroni pieces.

I really should do more landscapes they are fun and actually fairly easy compared to a portrait, much more range for error. The key is to focus on the planes with the ones further away being lighter and having less detail, ArtRage is ideal for this type of texture rendering. It did take me a while though to figure out where to put the source of the sunlight and trying to get the beams of light to sit well.

A landscape with a twist, originally create off a Maddy livestream I thought the beach was just too boring so spiced it up with a sea monster and added in some story with a boat reaching out. Again this was texture heavy and landscapes are very much enjoyable.

Creepy creatures from the depths of my imagination

Running ArtRage Vitae on a Samsung Note 8, rotating the screen with canvas resetting to landscape canvas orientation canvas reset

Using a Samsung Note 8, when setting the oil brush to above 100 percent and then moving to the colour picker and back again the Oil brush size resets to 100 perecent. Sizes below 100 percent are remembered.