So many ideas, perhaps never enough time to really ever finish them!

For my own work with digital art, I either have no set technique or perhaps no good or advisable technique. Perhaps its my left handedness but there is always mess and chaos in my work. I find it exceptionally hard to start a picture with a clean line drawing devoid of shadow or highlight at all. This is probably a fault in my own attempts to self-teach digital art. I love rougher brushes like woodcut brushes and overlay layers for washes but that is probably about as complex as i get. I have tried to learn about masks but I just do not understand how to use them, perhaps its that i have not seen enough about what they can do.

 Summer Decapitation Ritual (name inspired by Ruins of Beverast's track)

 The Daimonic Triumphant

 

Demon Drummer design - still in working 

 

So for now, i have as always a lot of concept images that are various stages of messy completion and there are a lot i am doing for other publishers but i cant really show those here

Scratchboard fun and The Nightmare Paintings

Holocaust in Utopia

Created as a Scratchboard etching

I love this medium, Scratchboard/Clayboard/Scraperboard. It can be effective in works of strong light and shadow contrast obviously and with some skill one could doe work to the level of Dore and his engravers. This was my first attempt at it, but i will be coming back to this more and more. Currently I am working on a image based on Emily Bronte's tragic and tormented story Wuthering Heights. This is the right medium for such a work, though one must prepare thoroughly as mistakes are difficult, if not impossible, to reverse in scratchboard.

On another more marvellous note, I have been invited to have works showing in an exhibition of Aleister Crowley's Nightmare Paintings. Myself, and several other artists, including Barry Hale, Nathan Hopkins and Corinne MacIain have created works based on some of the designs from the Nightmare and Heaven rooms from the Abbey of Thelema in Cefalu. The Abbey no longer exists as anything more than ruins, but Crowley had produced a beautiful and quite visionary tourist guide giving descriptions and deeper insights into the wall paintings there.

The exhibition is at Buratti Fine Art in North Fremantle, Western Australia and is running until late February 2013 if i recall correctly.

Love is the law, love under will.

October busy and much to do as ever!

So much I want to create and never enough time to do it and further learn and hone abilities. I think though it is good just put some of the things I working on for my own interests. There are several projects and commissions being done for others but for magickal purposes those cannot be viewed prematurely.

 Choronzon Witch concept

created in PS CS6 October 2012.

 The Monument to you Distress

PS CS6, and pencil sketch. October 2012

Qliphoth Ideas - Ten Hells in Seven Places

Alot of my ideas are dovetailing with some other projects and also my interest and love for the art of Gustave Dore and Wayne D Barlowe

 

Plague Christos Sketch

Created with Sakura Pigma Micron Pens and with just some adjustments in Photoshop

2012

Shaari Maveth

 Created with Sakura Pigma Micron Pens and with just some adjustments in Photoshop

 

 

Gehinnom

Also done with the Sakura pens and a little Photoshop

Cats of Gagh Shekelah, 

September 2012

Created in Photoshop CS6, using a more painterly brush which i like, these can be gotten through the Imagine FX magazine subscriptions. I had been wanting a brush like this as i like to do rough pictures like this on occasion.

Womb of Night

The Womb of Nox - in the Nightside Garden

Created from a mix of photoshop CS6 and black paper that i found which i had burnt incense and dropped wax on - in the marks I saw many things, this was just one image from that

August 2012 BUSY TIME under Retrograde

Keeper of Secrets

CS6

Just something I had in mind, based on the Greater Daemon of Slaanesh in the Games Workshop Warhammer 40K Universe.

I am still not too savy with how this whole "artists" blog is supposed to flow, and what i am to show here. Undoubtedly a better order exists but for now i will just put up some of the pictures i am doing. Sorry, i don't really refer to myself as an artist, i am more like a beginner freelance illustrator.





July Works 2012

The Cry of the 30th Aethyr

2012

created in Photoshop CS6

Based on the account by Aleister Crowley of his experience of the 30th Aethyr. Enochian Magic is an amazing and powerful branch of magic and it the 30 Aethyrs, much like qabalistic pathworking are as much an initiatory experience. For Crowley he received much in the way of understanding of the new aeon though the aethyrs and more. Reading Liber 418 is phenomenal and really takes the mind to new and alien places and i can only imagine a fragment of it.