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!

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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!

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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.

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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.

This year sadly was the passing of my 40th year :(

Using ArtRage on a Surface Pro to create some digital art!

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