Trespassers: Beware

 

TRESPASSERS: BEWARE

1600 x 1920

SketchBook

'Tis the season to be creepy~
mua ha ha ha HA!
ha HA HA HA!

Anyways, Happy Halloween, y'alls! 🎃🎃🎃

Here's the painting without the frame and title. 

Dreams Of Montana II

Dreams Of Montana II

3058 x 2480

SketchBook

Yeah, more landscape art inspired by Montana, cos why not? 

Also today, while painting this, I was reacquainted with an old classic, through a new re-recording, which I have only just found out about. 

Hehehe, this brought back so much childhood memories with SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON, I couldn't help but let the movie's setting (which I later found out was Oregon -- not too far from Montana) inspire bits of the painting. 

AUGUST 2022 SKETCH WRAP-UP

So it is the end of August, and here be some sketches which I have done for the month. Had me the pleasure of watching 'THE NORTHMAN' and also 'THE SANDMAN', which essentially make up the bulk of my sketches here. This was also the month I created my OC Fyoden, and I have had some sketches of his face and figure as well. 

Okay, not all NORTHMAN and SANDMAN stuff. Later in the month, things get a bit more random as I jump from WESTWORLD's Lee Sizemore, to Alexander Skarsgard and Oliver Jackson Cohen, to the character shown in the new DUNE: AWAKENING trailer, before ending with a portrait of Floor Jansen seeing 'Shoemaker' at Hellfest 2022 (highlight of the concert for me).

JULY 2022 SKETCH WRAP-UP

And so another month has passed, and this month... has admittedly seen me doing quite a lot of different portraits. Okay, granted, most of them now in the early parts are Cal Kestis, but eventually I started going into other characters, some recurring and some which I have never really tackled before. (Also yes, that's sweet Steven Grant in the 3rd pic :') )

Some familiar, some not so, I'm sure. Also made a brief return to DBH after ages of not doing any fanart there too. 

And the one I am proudest of (sorry to brag for a bit) is the sketch of Sam from DS taking a break. I am actually very satisfied with how I did with that one. The details were crazy tedious and I was surprised I could pull it off somehow, and I love the way it looks. 

So that's July sketches! Jumping right on ahead to August now XP. See ya then~

Please Come Back

Please Come Back

1980 x 1200

SketchBook

. . .

Will you ever come back to me?

I was hoping to make the tears a little more obvious, but one can't really overdo it now, can one?

I was very much inspired by the third Fantastic Beasts film for this one. The movie is alright, pretty fun, but still ridden with loads of problems, but I'm not here to discuss that. No, I'm here to talk about my inspiration behind this.

[WARNING: Spoiler ahead!]

So at the climax when Dumbledore and Grindelwald dueled each other, I was blown away by the whole thing. Ignoring the blood oath shenanigan (I didn't really buy that element of the story, to be honest, I thought the story would have been better without it), the fight between the pair was very emotionally charged! The blows, the grunts, the expressions on their faces, the music! All of this revealed so much about them, their relationship, their past. They clearly loved each other and still do. The betrayal that Grindelwald must have felt, and Dumbledore's own guilt. It was intense and is perhaps one of my favourite moments in the movie. (I cried for goodness' sakes!)

This piece is me imagining Grindelwald just after the fight, when he has apparated to somewhere secluded, and maybe just taking time to recollect himself... and perhaps cry, too.

Ink Sketch of Finch and Jeff

Yesterday, I was working on a digital painting for #JanuaryDechART Prompt 28 (’Craving’) that I didn’t expect to be so tedious and time-consuming to accomplish. So at one point last night, I decided I needed to take a break from it because I was starting to get a bit of a headache working on the details, and that was when this little ink sketch came about. 

I had just finished watching Apple’s film ‘FINCH’ at the time, too, starring Tom Hanks as the titular character and Caleb Landry Jones as his robot sidekick. (Quick and massive shoutout to @voidoutbt aka @missteal1-blog​ for recommending this beautiful film to me! Thank you so much, hun!) The film didn’t have any business being this sweet and beautiful and sad, but I am glad that it is. An effectively emotional and gripping story that, while not being the most original, really does pack a punch. The robots are so humanised in this story, I legit squealed when one of them met a terrible and graphically violent end midway through the film (mind you, I still shiver from just thinking about it). 

(also this film reminds me so much of DEATH STRANDING, from the setting to the vibe to the costumes -- I love jumpsuit uniforms XD)

Anyways, about the sketch: it is inspired by one of my favourite parts of the film, where Finch is clearly distressed after finding out about something and he immediately runs to his fridge to get a can (of peaches, I reckon) to eat. He seemingly calms down after that first bite. It’s just a beautiful human moment for Finch, that I wanted to draw it, hence this picture. 

An ink sketch of Sir Gawain’s meeting with the Green Knight from THE GREEN KNIGHT

An ink sketch of Sir Gawain’s meeting with the Green Knight from THE GREEN KNIGHT

Ink, brush pen and white gel pen on paper. 

#JanuaryDechART

Prompts: Botanical, Sprout, Frozen

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Here is an ink sketch of a scene from THE GREEN KNIGHT -- again. Yes, I am currently quite obsessed with this story, and probably will be for a while. 

In this scene, Sir Gawain goes to meet the titular Green Knight at the Green Chapel -- an old ruin covered in creepers and plants -- to fulfil his half of the game, that the Green Knight shall finish the game by loping his head off, which have our hero frozen in fear moments before it is supposed happen. 

Here, I wanted to continue with the ink and yellow/ochre brush pen style that I have been doing, only used in a different way this time -- to suggest illumination. Had some help from the white gel pen too. A fun little piece, and I’m quite happy with the way it turned out. 

(Please ignore the Anglo-Saxon runes. I basically took most of the letters over to runes, with some exceptions depending on the sounds made. Mostly guesses based on my (relatively basic) understanding of runes) 

(By the way, if anyone here wishes to correct me on the runes, I welcome the corrections)

An ink sketch of the countryside landscape as seen in THE GREEN KNIGHT

‘An ink sketch of the countryside landscape as seen in THE GREEN KNIGHT’

Ink and brush pen on paper

#JanuaryDechART

Prompt 9: Healing

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Today was a little bit of a low energy day (mostly a bleed-over from the previous day), and I was feeling the urge to create art as personal therapy. I initially opted to create something original and digital, but after blocking in the colours, I abandoned it. I just wasn’t feeling up to it. I wasn’t in the right mood to work on anything original and I didn’t want to have to look at a phone screen for this, too. 

It was then I decided to pick up my sketchbook and ink pen and just go with a screencap I took from THE GREEN KNIGHT, which is of a breath-taking landscape shot seen when Sir Gawain rides back home after his second encounter with the Green Knight. 

It had been a long while since I last drew a landscape piece with ink, so I thought I’d give this a try. 

I’m still feeling a little low energy, but I feel better now having completed this piece. 

Touched up with a bit of light ochre highlighting there too.