Tsarmina Greeneyes Portrait

By the rats beard! I love this painting! This was my second stab at her after the previous painting went all wrong, so I scrapped that and started anew (some of the best decisions are the hardest to make). From the previous painting you can see she had a different fur colour and costume. I got rid of that sticking up collar, I thought it would be really cool looking but the more I looked the more ugly it became. Tsarmina wouldn’t want to wear something ugly, she’s a queen damn it, she’ll wear slick regal stuff.


I think this is also my first attempt at painting gold. Haha! That was a pain. Thanks goes to issue 77 of ImagineFX magazine for a brilliant tutorial, by Lauren K Cannon, that helped me not screw up too badly. I also have to thank ImagineFX’s edition, “Anatomy 2” that helped with the different fabrics Tsarmina sports and how to paint them.
All in all, very pleased with this. Learnt so much from it.

The Gloomer

A full character sheet of my previous post/painting.
I'm not too sure about the anatomy, but its still an improvement compared to other past paintings.

The Gloomer (B&W Portrait)

So much fun making the Gloomer as gross as possible! I am going to paint a full view colour Gloomer, because I find him just so awesome.

PN: Photoshop went a little weird when I was painting the collar, the greys wouldn’t blend well. Luckily the collar was the only thing I had to do so it didn’t effect the rest of the painting.

From Redwall Wiki:

The Gloomer was an enormous, frightening, mindless black water rat that lived in the underground lake of Kotir and was controlled by Tsarmina and her army. Verdauga captured and imprisoned him long ago. He was used as a sort of attack animal to fight the wildcat's enemies and met his demise upon battling the vicious Stormfin, an enormous pike, in the River Moss.

The Gloomer was blind and hard of hearing, but had enhanced smell. He did not exhibit self-consciousness and was veritably insane from many seasons of imprisonment in the dark lake.

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Character ©: Brian Jacques’ book, Mossflower
Art + Character design © Myself




Abaddon Ukiyo-e

Abaddon, Lord of Chaos, and the main villain of the PS2 game, Primal

I had a lot of fun with that line work and trying to write/paint Abaddon's name in Japanese (don't butcher me if I've got it wrong! I used Google Translate) The script in the background are quotes from the game put through the translator, but you can't really read it.

NOTE: I don't know how to do translucence without killing the picture quality, so that light blue/grey is meant to be invisible.

Pike Bait / Ol' Abbaron

Nothing like a online contest to get those art juices flowing.

This is my first, real, attempt to add colour onto a black and white painting. It turned out a lot better than so of the other attempts in the past.