Between 2022 and 2024 the digital practice entered its final chapter. AI had begun flooding the space, which made genuine digital artistry feel both more urgent and more thankless. The brushes eventually won. Each entry below links to the original post.
Eye of the Tigress
She’s a huntress, an exotic creature in an exotic if dingy land. She navigates the patriarchy with the ease of an apex predator, bending wills, rending hearts. Read more →
What’s In the Book?!
I don’t have a title, so I’m channelling Brad Pitt in the movie ‘Seven.’ A scene that wasn’t supposed to be — it started as a chiaroscuro exercise and quickly went somewhere darker. Read more →
Nature Finds a Way
She’ll survive us all. She’s the strongest woman we know. Climate change? She’s survived it. High CO2? Easy. Humans, not so much. A post-human photoshoot. Read more →
The Watchers
In a post-dystopian cyberpunk future, a denizen navigates the deserted streets. She feels eyes on her — but is it the CCTV or some other threat? Four angles of a Blade Runner-esque shoot. Read more →
The Secret Lives of Monsters
Ogres, goblins, orcs — all thought to exist solely for the hero to butcher. Dungeon masters should design other activities for them. Here is a glimpse at what those might look like. Read more →
Basking in the Light of God
Simple elements — playing with light and camera angles. She speaks for herself, evoking themes of religion played out in Renaissance art but with a digital and more realistic bend. Read more →
Ukrainian Girl in Field
The war in Ukraine was omnipresent. Although always a supporter of the Russian people, their culture, and language, this piece sides with Ukraine in the pointless conflict. Read more →
Sweet
About spring, bees, and their interaction with glasses containing sweet drinks. A baby step back into production after an artist’s block of a month. Read more →
Ophelia
Partially inspired by Zella Day’s ‘Sweet Ophelia’ and also Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The image has current social issues woven through it, as is the wont. Read more →
Galadriel
My take on the Tolkien character. She didn’t match the portrait in my mind’s eye, but whatevs. Read more →
What Happens Among Fey
June is almost done. Nothing compares to Halloween season for those of us who count ourselves among the Q’s — but this Fey piece celebrates what makes us human. Read more →
From the Deep
Life in the ocean does not want land creatures invading their space. A school of jellyfish encounter an out-of-place person and attempt, not knowing surface dwellers cannot survive long, to return her. Read more →
Fierce
Because of the horrible work put out the previous day, a return to roots was called for. The fierce fantasy warrior, as reliable as gravity. Read more →
Pythia — Apollo Calling
It’s another boring Tuesday. Pythia, High Priestess of the Oracle of Delphi, is going about her daily rituals to a god she’s never actually heard. Suddenly, a beam of light and booming voice take her by surprise. Read more →
A Celebration of Máni
The moon is out. The autumn winds whisper through the trees. In the wilds, a celebration of Máni — the moon personified in Germanic mythology — is underway around a small fire. Read more →
She’s Got the Look
Some rando poses in a graveyard because, Goth chicks. I couldn’t get her to look at the camera like those spooky paintings that follow you everywhere — then I finally did. Read more →
The Price of Freedom
Eventually we all have to decide what is worth fighting for. This started as a sun-kissed model on a beach scene and quickly went dark, heavy, and introspective. Read more →
Clever Girl
“But what does it all mean, Basil?” as Austin Powers says. A continuation of the warrior theme — if I’ve used the title before, then this is Clever Girl, the Series. Read more →
Unexpected Guests
While quietly enjoying a drink, the pirate Captain is disturbed when an old foe walks into the tavern. Rum-drinking, bacon-eating, ship-sailing pirates are always more interesting than antiseptic salad-eating models. Read more →
The Ghost of Rachel
She grew tired of the questions, her childhood, the overturned turtle. Who did this cop think he was? She was human, 100 percent. An homage to the Blade Runner interview scene. Read more →
The Gilded Cage
Sometimes one can be surrounded by the trappings of wealth and power and be utterly shattered. It’s not a defence of the rich — it’s more about how any situation can become a prison. Read more →
On Her Milk-White Neck…
Totally inspired by the lyrics of Black No. 1 by Type O Negative. There’s a graveyard in the background, it’s autumn, and I rather like how the light makes it look as though she has snake eyes. Read more →
Crossroads
I’ll let this doodle speak for itself. It may be a repetition of an earlier theme — a painting on this subject was made back in 2015. It’s definitely original art though. Read more →
Morticia
Turning a useless day into something better, with art. There will always be differing opinions on who plays the best Morticia. My thought is, all of them. Since she was in Zorro, Catherine Zeta-Jones gets her shot here. Read more →
Most Lichen to Succeed
“Send Lichen Wildbone,” someone in the crowd yelled, and all the other Faery folk quickly agreed. “Cowards,” she mumbled, rising from her seat in the dark corner. Read more →
New Plan — Run
Silene had known this wasn’t going to be easy. Their kingdom had been plagued by a fire-spewing dragon. To prevent it affecting the city itself, the people had offered it two sheep daily, then a man and a sheep, and finally their children. Read more →
Death on Demeter
The Demeter was a very unlucky ship. Decades before it would become famous as the transport of a more famous vampire, it was found adrift in the Black Sea, its crew ripped asunder. Read more →
Almost
Clambouring through the woods, terrified, the turkey hunter spies lights in the distance — safety! Little did she think going into the woods that Thanksgiving morning that the birds would have hired muscle. Read more →
2023
The Wrong Side of Heaven
What if angels don’t give a damn about us? What if we’re condemned by our imperfect nature? What if this is god’s greatest irony — a creation followed by casting off, like an artist abandoning a canvas? Read more →
The Sensible Thing
Is it Pride or is it prejudice on my part? Alternate title was ‘An Escape from Regency.’ I’m not sure I like this one — too much bloom making her look cartoony. You decide. Read more →
Morticia
The 2023 revisitation. AI has its uses, but it’s not digital art — a computer spitting out an image in five seconds doesn’t capture the beauty of the human condition. This took rather longer. Read more →
Galadriel
If Gal Gadot were to play Galadriel — it’s in her name. The fun part was trying to get as realistic as possible with her look. Never AI. The time spent was entirely the point. Read more →
The Shipwreck
The sole survivor of some gale-battered ship, discovered washed ashore by a passing good Samaritan. Artistically it’s about light — the subtle colours extant in every vignette permeating our lives. Read more →
On Her Milk-White Neck…
A second visit to the Type O Negative piece. Graveyard, autumn, snake eyes in the light. Some subjects merit more than one attempt. Read more →
Boss Fight
When the game is up and you’ve been discovered sneaking around the evil temple. Hundreds of hooded monks fly into the room. You draw your sword, toss the sheath, and give the oncoming antagonists a look of pure confidence. Read more →
Mermaid Mashup
“Why do mermaids have fish bodies?” This question led here. One of the most beautiful ocean creatures is the jellyfish. So, when thinking of which to combine with the upper half of a woman — here we are. Read more →
Spring Selfie
You see a woman taking a selfie at an old Roman fort in the Balkans. She calls you over to check the photo. At first blush, nothing is amiss. Look closer. Something sinister is afoot. Read more →
Thunderous Silence
The battle is over, dead littering the landscape. Now the feeding begins, human problems dissolving into sustenance for nature’s favoured creatures. This was nothing to crow about, but it is my computer background. Read more →
Medley’s Model
Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s story ‘Pickman’s Model’ — the artist has his model sitting in a manor on a dark and stormy night, candles alight, the peculiar rasping of multiple tentacles moving to a melodic flute played far, far away. Read more →
Decay
Magic requires energy. Use more of it than the universe is willing to give, it upends the balance, and weird things begin to happen. Never AI. Read more →
What Sorcery?
What do you do when your opponent summons a dragon, but not the dragon you expect and have spells prepared for? Art grew out of a failed deeper dive into settings. I think that’s a win in itself. Read more →
Origin Story
It’s 1815, in the waning hours of the moon, and the concept for a story wherein a scientist brings the dead back to life sprouts from the fertile mind of a young Mary Shelley. Read more →
Aftermath
Most cinematic post-battle shots depict winners celebrating. Here is what it would actually look like — swinging a weapon is exhausting, and by the end the victorious are merely breathing hard and recovering. Read more →
Synergy
Another title to replace ‘Untitled.’ Today’s work is unexplainable — it’s more to be felt, assuming it was done right. What is emotion? This is what was attempted. No AI. Read more →