Cave Sentinel.

Started as a sketch in Alchemy.

The result.

Forest Gust.

First thumbnail sketch.

Initial sketch.

The final.

The Cave.

Wonder what is in there.

The first sketch.

The final.

Dragon Tree 2

A remake of an old painting.


The old one.

The sketch.

The final.

And more tombstones.

Grief.

I noticed there are many tombstones in my paintings. Wonder what it means.

Started as an abstract sketch without any idea behind it.

The final.

Lost in the Woods.

This is the first painting I did after years of not painting, that I'm actually happy with.
Did it for practice and as a starting point to build a portfolio of illustrations.

Not much thought went into the concept - just some warrior dude stuck in the middle of a dark forest alone with only his dog-tag  talisman to guard him from the evil and guide him through the darkness. Not that it helped his companions, whose dog-tags he is holding.

Painted digitally in Photoshop while trying to do it in the most traditional way possible i.e. using as few layers as possible, not using "undo" feature and playing with canvas textured brushes.

Started with small thumbnail sketch of a composition.

Then comes a rough drawing of the idea.

After collecting some reference material made a more detailed and clean drawing. Drew it using pencil and paper and finished in Photoshop. Used myself as a model for this one.

An underpainting, just to define the values.

And then comes the madness of painting itself.

Hope you like it.