Hmm I never post here too often, much goes up with my facebook page and also at deviantart. mitchellnolte.deviantart.com
I have also an interest in the napoleonic era and also wanted to just try sketching a soldier of the period. I had done a sketch a few years ago which i found ago recently. I am not sure what i was basing the initial sketch on, and so i apologise if the pose of the figure looks familiar with some other picture. I searched around but couldnt find it. In any case i have put together the colours and background myself. Looking also at some resources on Hussar uniforms. I added also a images of the stages of the work.

Fantasies of Hubris and Bestial Schadenfreude

 A mix of pen and digital drawing - beasts and beast men- always a pleasure to draw - they do well to represent some horrific and fantastic flood of chaos stampeding over human some damnable civilisation. fantasies of hubris and schadenfreude

A month of much work and just the condensed chaos of usual. But good commissions and some new things learnt albeit small and well as far as art techniques go I am always playing catchup, trying to piece together something worthwhile. Guides only help so far - books like Digital Painting Techniques series are great for pointers here and there but then there are articles where the artist just skips over whole stages or just gives a picture and no explanation. I am still also wondering what is generally good res to work at? 300DPI? 450 DPI 600? This is something that no book seems to detail.

Perhaps I could ask on a forum somewhere but such things feel one with anxiety and despair, seeing so many great artists doing their stuff - I wish there was some industrry here for digital in Melbourne, Australia but it all seems to be overseas. I want to just do art all day every day, so much as I say always to learn, to further finish, to conceptualise etc etc etc.

 Death and The Devil

2013 

Created through Photoshop CS6

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