Demon's Friend

Is it so strange that a sentient creature (presume with me for now that demons would indeed be sentient, for I find it hard to believe they would function otherwise) would choose to deviate from a bloodthirsty nature in order to gain emotional rewards? I thoroughly enjoy thought experiments such as this. There exist species on our planet that coexist in equally "strange" symbioses, for example the Egyptian Crocodile and a small bird called a Plover. Mind you there is a probable lack of affection, more just a beneficial cease fire for the crocodile.

All the same such a relationship between the demon and the mouse mimics the human habit of keeping pets for our own pleasure and their ease of living. Wolves were smart enough to realize some large moderately intelligent apes would take care of them and feed them in exchange for certain affections and labors. What is to say a mouse (or perhaps a rat as they are omnivorous) would not see such a benefit from a kindly demon. After all he only wants and needs to flay humans!

I did not track the time to completion on this one as I was experimenting with a more open and fluid way of working and did not want to pressure myself to finish overly quick.

Process Animation for fun (click the second image to view it).

Market Volatility

I decided I should create an illustration outside of the realm of fantasy and science fiction, hence comes this illustration. I was always amused by the imagery conjured by market terminology for trends. 

I was also attempting to add some form of spot illustration example to my portfolio, aka no background, which is definitely not the most comfortable territory for me.

Created in Photoshop CS5: 12 hours from sketch to finish.

Reciprocity

At the moment I am sick and cannot think of anything to say to go with this, I will edit this in a few days with some form of explanation.  Sorry in the meantime.

Light Touch (complete illustration)

I am not entirely sure this won't get some more time for tweaks, but I am pleased with it right now.  It took about 25 hours for this one.  I definitely learned a good deal about how I want to work images going forward from this one.

Light Touch (line art)

I decided to make a line drawing, which will later be fleshed out into an illustration.  I usually skip the fine tuning step that making finished line art tends to be.  I am using this drawing as a test of concept for another image I would like to create down the line.  It took about 8 hours from the start of the sketch until I called this "finished".  I have a really hard time saying a line drawing is a finished product...I am relatively sure that makes me a minority. 

In other news I like patterns O_O. 

Lion's Last Roar

Finally finished this illustration...in theory.  I keep thinking I missed something.  Oh well.  At any rate this one took a bit over 50 hours.  I spent a lot of time early on waffling on the colors for the orc (his armor).

Sigmar's Blessing

This image is part of a set I will be sending off to Games Workshop to see if I can get some work.  I needed a portfolio piece showing how my images evolve to finish and finally got around to doing the necessary iterative saves.  I also tracked the time it took me to finish this- 42 hours give or take a margin of error (I would occasionally sit down at my computer convinced I was going to relax and ended up working instead without really noticing).  So yea...I am not the fastest illustrator out there, but I hope it can be said I at least craft a well rendered image.  

Ambush On The Merchant Road

I feel like I should be accompanying these images with some sort of text, perhaps I will get around to that eventually.

Deterioration

Nothing, Go Away

The Traveller

In The Future This Is How We Hunt Yaks

Arcane Rebuke

Wired

Inspection

Catching A Ride

Tea Total Dwarf

Muncha Lucha

Bubble Piper

Rest Stop