2020 was the most prolific year of the digital practice. Lockdown turned the studio into a daily habit. January through June spans the early pandemic pieces, social commentary, mythology, and the quietly absurd. Each entry links to the original post.
Alien Druid
The first digital art of the new year — an alien druid inspired by a weird mind and the film ‘From Dusk Til Dawn.’ Morphed from sci-fi while listening to ‘After Dark’ on repeat. Read more →
The Grounds
A woman exploring her castle grounds, including ancient columns of a past civilisation. More traditional fantasy than usual. Read more →
Checkmate
Chalmecacihuilt had spent days hunting the beast. She decided to build a fire and camp for the night by a giant dead tree — but the beast was not finished with her. Read more →
Negotiate?
Of all the rulers of Aetheriealus, none were foolish enough to negotiate with the Emperor. Here, the newly crowned Imperial regent discusses a trade deal. The Raven Sisters prepare. Read more →
Rivers End
An environmental piece about the damage humanity has done to nature — Sasquatch at the end of the road, his once beautiful landscape turned to ash and sewage. Read more →
Taxi!
Demons don’t have phones, so I couldn’t name this Uber. A dabbler in the black arts instantly regrets buying that used book — because this was the real deal. Read more →
A Brother Lies Dying
War is all fun and games until someone gets run through. Warriors know this all too well. The original was put through a filter since some don’t think digital qualifies as art. Read more →
Sex as an Art Selling Tool
A scene featuring a woman with red hair reclining on a red couch, partially covered by a red sheet. A black cat struts on a glass table in front of her, and a second cat’s head peeks from the lower foreground. The background showcases abstract tree artwork, subtly reflecting sex as an art selling tool.
On the Inside…
An allegory to the era where bullying and cancel culture rule politics and social media. The message? Find what is inside you that makes you great. Read more →
The Look
A dystopian doodle combining coronavirus, climate change, and a warrior woman. Every woman has given the Look at some point — you know what it means without explanation. Read more →
Resolve
Today’s digital doodle isn’t too intense. It’s about resolve — which is also the title. Asian girls, swords, and silk. Read more →
White Wedding
A re-worked earlier piece. The title came from thinking of the song and Henry VIII simultaneously. Artistically, a focus on the interplay of formal fashion and informal setting. Read more →
Smell the Roses
Inspired by the Ferris Bueller quote — ‘life moves pretty fast.’ Just beware of dragons. It’s not a mountain behind the woman. Read more →
Remember the Departed
Drawing from the Northern Renaissance art movement, the power of the scene is rooted in mourning and remembrance. Read more →
Boop
Inspired by that thing mothers do with babies to make them smile — and by the pioneering women of the Victorian era like Marie Curie, only recently getting recognition. Read more →
Small Problems
Somewhere in a dungeon our brave adventurers run across a potential new member. There’s just one small problem — the orc is terrified of mice. Read more →
Eve
It was all tavern crawls and bar fights until she offered an apple — then the adventure really began. Read more →
Ghouls Night Out
Some say Ellie was scared of exactly nothing until that night she mistook the All Ghouls Club as a cheeky play on the Halloween season. As the synth-pop beats surrounded her, she knew she’d have to adapt. Read more →
Sunday Murder
A Sunday doodle, something religious that involves a murder — of crows — and some background scenery. No particular theme, just bored. Read more →
Love
I ended up composing a love story — the focus being those little magical moments between all the big issues, the ones that make a relationship worth having. Read more →
Sunkist
There was an angle of sun in the previous piece that was poetic on the girl. I went back, ripped apart the scene, took out the trash, and rebuilt it around that light. Read more →
Where My Girls At
Derived from the 702 song of the same name, this landed in the dark arts with a light study. Most of my artwork shows up better on a monitor than a phone. Read more →
Raiders of the Lost Roll
A commentary on America in the early pandemic days. She knew the last roll of TP was somewhere in the ruins of the city. Read more →
Skellig
Inspired by the Clannad song and Caspar David Friedrich — a Romantic period landscape with a female figure in a cloak, cold and philosophical. Read more →
Social Distancing
A commentary on the social distancing we were supposed to be practising. The hardest part was getting the newspaper text to look natural. Read more →
Lost Sunrise
A forlorn soul lost in the woods. Only the ravens accompany them as the sunrise peels back the veil of night. Read more →
Pandemic
Paint what you see. There are allegories in the artwork which I could explain, but you’re smart. Read more →
Queen of Heaven
Highlighting Ishtar of the Sumerian mythos, also possibly Lilith — arguably the first empowered female of the Bible — sitting on a rock, obeying social distancing protocols. Read more →
The Huntress
A pandemic doodle. The scene takes place right after the huntress has released a shot. For god’s sake, if you have less than 12 cores, limit your trees. Read more →
Rapunzel
She waits in her tower, as all heroes of any worth practise social distancing. The idea started as her escaping to find a roll of TP, but the assets were unavailable. Read more →
Economy Bride
“Economy Bride” – Today’s #digital #doodle is again #coronavirus #pandemic related. With the news that the #economy is more important than #people I thought I’d visualize what happens on a small scale when one ignores professional advice and prioritizes money.
The Struggle
Vlad knew the trip into the Chernobyl exclusion zone was dangerous, but it was a risk he was willing to take to find the last roll of TP. He didn’t realise not everyone had been evacuated in 1986. Read more →
Clerical Error
If you’ve played D&D you’ll get it — for those who haven’t, a Cleric is a healer, and a Clerical Error is what happens when the healer doesn’t show up. Read more →
Fey Lights
I decided not to be grim today. Inspired by Will-o-the-Wisps — there’s a legend they have a corporeal form of a fey, so I took licence. Read more →
Wings of a Butterfly
Combining the pandemic with Ed Lorenz and the butterfly effect — the small movements of a butterfly can influence typhoons half a world away. The same is true with a small virus. Read more →
Live Forever
‘All the gods, they cannot sever us. If I were dead, and you still fighting for life, I’d come back from the darkness to fight at your side.’ — Valeria. Fan art based on Conan the Barbarian. Read more →
Anime’s End
One simply does not walk away from a relationship with anime. I really wanted to create artwork that one would have to draw their own conclusions from. Read more →
The Mirror
A woman walks by a mirror and sees another world within — a world where she is entirely free of every constraint. Technically not a nude; she’s fully obstructed. Read more →
Flight 2020
If you like crows, ravens, and non-standard beauty, this is your painting. My inspiration? It was 75 degrees in March. Read more →
Venus Reborn
Updating Botticelli’s Birth of Venus — 500 years later, Venus is attempting the same setup, except someone called the cops for her being nude. Read more →
Hope
Wars never end. Soldiers live for those quiet moments between the chaos, when they can partake of that which keeps us human. It’s hope, and it’s everywhere battle gives way to silence. Read more →
Defiance
That moment when we see through the order of things and act on fundamental values of right and wrong, regardless of the consequences. Read more →
Ophelia
Ophelia from Hamlet by Shakespeare. Drunk art, and under normal circumstances I would have fixed that lily among a host of other things — but I was tired and tomorrow was a carbon of today. Read more →
Ophelia : Angel
Ophelia: Angel. This is part 2 to last night’s image. Here is a view from a nearby bridge. It’s #ophelia from #hamlet by #shakespeare again, just a different angle. Ophelia in this one can be seen moving towards her postmortem form, with her cloak spread in the water like angels wings. #art #new #digitalart #digitalartist
Elemental
I sat down to create another piece of yawn art and I think I did a little better than that. The story? Your mind can fill it in. I just wanted a happy scene of a sorceress hitching a ride. Read more →
The Sword of Ashtoreth
Created as D&D folklore for my world — Ashtoreth traces back through Astarte of Phoenicia, Ishtar of Babylon, and Inanna of Sumeria. All women. History has a way of masculinising the feminine divine. Read more →
Telekinetic
The first idea in my head when I sat down to create: a woman on a stool with fabric whipping around her, like she has telekinesis. Don’t ask me where the ideas come from. My mind is unusual. Read more →
Telekinesis Too
elekinesis Too – the second of my #artwork from yesterday. If you didn’t see the first one, it’s a different angle of a #woman on a stool with #fabric whipping about like she has #telekinesis- it’s nonsensical really, an attempt at visualizing the first thing that pops in my head when #arting – #art #digitalart #portrait ? Some other hashtags to feed the algorithmic gods of Internet exposure.
Don’t Let Your Enemies Become Friends
The idea started as the death of the demon queen, but quickly focused on the aftermath of any fight — especially when the former adversary turns out to be worth knowing. Read more →
Blossom
No one knows her real name — those that do are long dead. Her reputation as the saviour of the Western Domiciles was cemented during the Plague of Dammeri, when she stopped 500 monsters from breaching the quarantine. Read more →
Stimulus
Stimulus – it’s pretty self explanatory I think.#artwork #digitalart #digitalpainting #currentevents #stimuluscheck #caresact #coronavirus #economy
Quarantine
More light study than anything else — seeing if I could pull off the use of filtered light through curtains, a-la Vermeer, with contemporary subject matter. Read more →
The Beach
I can’t go to the beach right now due to the pandemic, but I can dream. I embellished it to avoid it being a painting of the sky, gulls, and sunglasses. Read more →
Fast Times at Gothic High
Looks like slack-jawed dudes in awe of the hot girl walking by, but the scene needs a deeper look. If you noticed that this mistress of the dark is heading towards the rising sun — then you’ll do your part well. Read more →
The Sphinx
Started by watching ‘Space Age Love Song’ by Flock of Seagulls with footage of Jennifer Connelly in Career Opportunities. I decided to try and recreate the scene. Read more →
American Field Mouse Gothic
A 2020 twist on Grant Wood’s 1930 American Gothic, updated for the only class of home dwellers doing well in the great American pandemic. Read more →
Love is a Battlefield
A candid shot of Roksana Amiri, taken shortly after landing at Minot AFB on June 10, 2037. She had just shot down her 100th fighter in a third-rate, obsolete Warthog. Read more →
Don’t stop. Social distancing
Reluctant Victor
Tihana of Sabatia, General of the Western Marches, watches her brother’s last stronghold burn at the Battle of Auricoma. The civil war had boiled over when differing political factions began looking at the other as subhuman. Read more →
New Friends
Long before a certain cable-giant show dominated the dragon scene, the trope of wyrms and women had been floating around high fantasy. This doesn’t have the budget of the big boys, so the dragon is a bit first edition. Read more →
New Friends Too
Another view from the #artwork I #created earlier today. I played with some things in order to make this angle better. It still suffers from some of the issues of the other #painting – Anywho, this scene doesn’t have a bad ending, the #dragon is showing off his latest dental work to his new #lrincess friend, they’ll go to the park in a few. #art #digitalartist #fantasyart
A Whole New World
Started as a doodle to see if I could import a photo into my rendering program. The background is the Horsehead Nebula photographed by ESA/Hubble. The environment is an alien world closer to the nebula. Read more →
Sky Goddess
Building on the discovered method of importing ESA/Hubble galaxy photographs, I went with a goddess-like figure reminiscent of Ishtar, Astrea, Aditi, and the many other sky goddesses of the ancient world. Read more →
Anne Boleyn
On 2 May 1536 Anne was condemned by her husband King Henry VIII. This scene is the moment Anne finds out she is to be executed, loosely based on the 19th-century painting by Edouard Cibot. Read more →
The ‘Dead’ Planet
#firstcontact is not going to be as exciting as we fantasize it to be, likely it will be a microbe, or something small. How wonderful would it be if something like a #dandelion which is often met with disgust and #weed killer here on earth is the first #xenomorph we encounter off-world? It would certainly change our point of view. #scifi #art #digitalartist #new #alien
Arrival
I wanted to see if I could get a universe to reflect in someone’s eyes. The answer is a partial yes. She is looking into space at a planet to which the ship has just arrived. Read more →
Origin Story
Deep in the wetlands, she has lost her quarry and her way. Suddenly, she spies a glint of metal amidst the old ruins — the whispers of ages crescendo as she moves closer to the sword in the stone. Read more →
The Future
Beware of demons offering a look into the future and all that rot. The new thing here: getting a rainbow to appear exactly where I wanted it, using a clear glass primitive with a multicolour effect injector inside. Read more →
Sunday Dragon
It’s a ‘what if’ scenario for dragons surviving to modern times. It started as a Mother’s Day creation but children are so pedestrian, so I went off script. Read more →
There Be Ticks
No creative inspiration today, so instead of me laying in the grass with all the ticks, I had this elven princess do it. Sunset, wildflowers, pointy ears if you look closely. Read more →
Crone’s Day Off
I figured — what do evil witches do on their day off? Taking inspiration from the end sequence of ‘The VVitch,’ they’re flying around, but this time during the day because it’s more festive. Read more →
La Conquistadora
Men have often tried to conquer her, through the centuries risking war and treasure to find her El Dorado — but Sierra Madre rarely gives her riches to these conquistadores. One wonders who is really in control. Read more →
The Beholder
A twist on the saying ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ — the beholder being nanobots. Also, because one of the coolest monsters in D&D is the Beholder. Read more →
Untitled Egypt-like Theme
An Egyptian-influenced outer state, rather than Ancient Egypt itself. Maybe a candid shot of Nefertiti if one forgets all the fashion, culture, and standard icons of the period. Read more →
Mother of Civilization
Around 12,000 years ago, while the men were out hunting dwindling big game, a woman noticed that seeds from wild gatherings dumped on a trash pile began to grow. Agriculture was born. Read more →
Attila’s End
In 453 AD, Attila was celebrating his latest marriage when he had a nosebleed and choked to death on his own blood. Here, the Gothic princess Ildiko appears decidedly unimpressed. Read more →
Callisto’s Secrets
The second largest moon of Jupiter, tidally locked to her Jovian parent, may contain at least two oceans under her surface — one of the best chances for ancient life in our solar system. Read more →
The Scream 1983
Taking Edvard Munch’s The Scream and updating it to 1983 — the height of the Cold War and the closest the world came to nuclear war with Russia, but for the heroic actions of one man, Stanislav Petrov. Read more →
Fresh Meat
They had days to go in their 15-month tour of duty on planet K. They were there helping the natives fight the Slugs — a derisive name for an invasive, space-faring species from beyond the rim. Read more →
Live Deliciously?
A reoccurring theme in my #artwork is temptation. This is a combination of a pose I saw in passing and one of my favorite movies, the #witch so I #created a take on the #temptation by #blackphillip – post rendering it was pixelated due to the the #lowlight and it was #dark so I had to boost it using the phone. Hopefully it doesn’t take anything away, Phil was supposed to be barely visible. Anywho, #art #digital #portrait #good v #evil
Silent Agony
There is a silent group of men who are survivors of not necessarily physical, but mentally and emotionally abusive relationships. This artwork is a representation of what that looks like. Read more →
Justice Unleashed
An encapsulation of the current events — Justice jumping down from her perch and diving into the fray, kicking ass in the name of equality and social reform. The monsters represent racism and prejudice. Read more →
Woman with Pearls
Vermeer is my favourite artist and Girl with a Pearl Earring is my favourite of his works, so I decided to update it for 21st-century America. The rig took four hours to render it. Read more →
Untitled
An untitled doodle — a monster hunter after a hard day at the office. I was focused more on light than anything else. Practice makes perfect. Read more →
Watching the Sunset
Adding another digital painting to the great Internet garbage patch, where the work of all artists who can’t get exposure goes. A woman with her dragon — but not that woman or that dragon. Read more →
Idle Hands
Started as a scene from a show about the Blackout Ripper in London during WWII, but quickly morphed. The rooms are darkened, she could hear the beating of his heart, she knew exactly where he was hiding. Read more →
Idle Hands (Part 2)
Idle Hands – Part 2. This was the figure in the background from part 1 yesterday. As I was zooming around the science fixing this and that, I was particularly intrigued and satisfied with this #portrait of #madness #evil and #possession by unholy forces. These forces were called up after a bored girl goes rooting around in the basement and finds an old book of #magic in a trunk. Part 1 gives the ultimate result in this case. Stay in school, don’t mis-pronounce things, kids. #art #artwork #horror #digitalart
Royalty
My contribution to the celebration — in the vein of royal portraits of old, except she has a baby dragon. Read more →
Homecoming
This digital creation is for those that have lost loved ones in war. There’s a poppy, death, and sunset connection. Read more →
The Resurrection of Self-Doubt
The body lay buried for many years, sunk in a swamp of tears and anxiety. She didn’t know why she left the warmth of her present to find the remains of the buried past — yet here she was. Read more →