This is a Griffon Vulture (Gyps fulvus). I used this handy site to help with the skeleton: http://www.skullsite.com/skeletons/Gypsfulvus.htm
I've been using a relatively new method for me. I draw out the anatomy with a mechanical pencil on tracing paper, then I scan it in and use 'solid color fill' layers with masks in Photoshop to give it a light wash of colour. I'm quite enjoying it!
Hello! It has been such a long time since I posted! There is a story behind it. In August 2015 I was offered a job as a Lecturer in Concept Art at Teesside University. So, I relocated from Mokpo, South Korea to Middlesbrough, UK. It's coming up to a year since I started the job and to cut a long story short, it's the best job I've ever had!
Over this month I've had the luxury of being able to devote myself full-time to drawing again! There are a couple of creatures in the works, but for now, my first post in over a year is some anatomy studies of - my favourite - the doberman pinscher.
Another environment for "Beyond Seven Forests". Painting mountains was a first for me and by no means a last. It was heavily inspired by the Pieniny Mountains in Poland.
This is the first in a series of forests I am going to paint for a personal project. The project is called "Beyond Seven Forests" and it will be an exploration of Slavic environments and folklore. It will be more than just forests, but what better way to start.
Okay, so this piece was a challenge!
I entered The Art Order - F(r)iction Cover Challenge. The brief was to create something inspired by blue and the ocean depths. It had to be surreal in nature and fit and flow around the text on the cover. I was trying to depict a jellyfish that appeared to have a nebula inside its phosphorescent cap. Very hard to get the balance right!
What do you think?
I entered the Dino Art Contest hosted by Stan Winston School of Character Arts.
In this illustration I wanted to show sunlight shining through the skin across a Chasmosaurus' frill. I imagined it being similar to a frill-necked lizard. It's fascinating to imagine all the possible patterns and colours the frill could have displayed.
I entered the Dino Art Contest hosted by Stan Winston School of Character Arts.
I was inspired by the new findings of paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim that the Spinosaurus was an aquatic dinosaur. You can read about it in this National Geographic article: Mister Big.
