Hello, everyone. I have been hard at work on lots of art recently, and so I’m going to present it here. First I’d like to say that I have been working on commissions, some I’m not at liberty to disclose just yet. So that’s some of my art time dedicated to those. As for other projects, they are as follows.
Gothic Architecture
For those of you who have been keeping up with my work for a while, especially my live streams, y’all know that I’ve been working on a VERY large battle illustration. It’s an ongoing project of about 6 years so far, and I don’t really see it getting done anytime soon. My plan was to make it match a previous piece of mine, but illustrated digitally instead of traditionally. To replicate that I needed to have a border done in a gothic architectural style. My original approach was a very loose graphical interpretation (you can see the pieces here: Obsequies Of the Prophet ) but with the shift to digital I decided to go the vector route, which gives me the opportunity to be much more realistic, or representative in my approach. To that end I’d started making samples of gothic architectural vector brushes and brick patterns that I could use. I’ve practiced on this a lot, and have a lot of really good work. To continue to practice, and also add breadth to the series (or to go a different route with the same technique), I’ve begun several other pieces.
These practice works are giving me a lot of really good ideas about how to scale, alternate, and make genuinely engaging architectural decoration. Most of the brushes are easily reproducible too. Not sure if people would be interested in them, but I could probably sell them, or post them for patrons. Be sure to let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in, and I’ll look into making it happen! The works are also good practice for making coloring books. Again, scale, line weight, and other such concerns. It’s been a lot of fun, I’m not going to lie to you. I really think there’s some definite potential, even for new pieces. I won’t get into that right now, because it’s a little bit abstract still in my head, and I have a lot of thinking to do on it. But I’ll update on that eventually.
Anyway, here’s a sample of what I think a coloring book page could look like. This is a Work in Progress so it’s not even remotely complete (obviously), but it’s felt good to get back into illustrator prepping a vector like this. Makes me feel like I know what I’m doing haha. I think there’s also potential for postcards, zines, activity books, and just general art, not even mass-producible stuff.
Battle Scene
Now, I know that lead in mentioned the battle scene, but I haven’t really posted an update for it in a while. So here’s a quick glimpse of the process. It is taking a very long time as I said before. I could see it taking me 10 years total, even if I spent most of my time on it. Of course there’s no funding for that, so I won’t. The long and short of it is that I have no idea how long this will take me. But judging by my roughly 10% completion estimate, it might take me 60. You can’t see me but I’m shrugging and also crying while I say that. If you’d like to watch me work on it you can toon into my live streams on twitch! Be sure to check into social media and also my discord if you’re interested in receiving updates, that’s the quickest way to get them! I’m trying to get back up to 2 to 3 streams a week. But it’s tough to find the time. Speaking of discord I also sometimes stream in a chat room there if you’re interested more with interacting with me.
Horror Shorts
I’m sure some of you have seen my horror shorts on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. I’m still making those, and having an absolute blast doing it. I’m not uploading them to the website at this point, however, you’ll have to check in on social media to see it. The process goes from painting a creepy image, recording some sort of creepy dubbing track. Then I drop it all into after effects, put some…well effects on them, and then render it out! It’s a really rewarding process, and since I’m not animating a lot of motion it’s been a pretty accessible process. Like I said, I haven’t begun uploading them here, or really thought about the world building aspects, but I’m sure I’ll think of something at some point. Stay tuned for that!
Conclusion
That’s it! Well that’s all I’m sharing at this point. I’ll be back next month with another blog update. Next Friday will be a HFTS mega update! Make sure to check back here then and you’ll get to read all about my world-building project. In the meantime, there’s a new chapter up for AWSS as well. Go read it, it’s really good if I do say so myself (and I do) Look at that, me being confident, how nice. Alright, folks. I hope y’all have a good weekend and don’t forget to check back in next week! Bye!