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petit dieu de fumethe little god of smoke and smoking. He takes your smoke as offerings feeds off that drunken cigarette you didnt mean to smoke, or that pack you promised yourself you wouldnt buy.not malevolent per say he also feeds off ritual and pipe smokethe celebratory cigar at a birth or celebration the quiet pipe by the lake your father smokes
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petit dieu de fume
the little god of smoke and smoking.
He takes your smoke as offerings feeds off that drunken cigarette you didnt mean to smoke, or that pack you promised yourself you wouldnt buy.
not malevolent per say he also feeds off ritual and pipe smoke
the celebratory cigar at a birth or celebration the quiet pipe by the lake your father smokes

sketch and digital 

more digital coloring practice, sketch from a few days ago
oranges and tropical ocean colorssummer summer summer. 

more digital coloring practice, 
sketch from a few days ago

oranges and tropical ocean colors
summer summer summer.
 

an air spirit?based on a sketch i did while i was in australiaa warm wind spirit maybe, like that hot summer wind you get sometimes in tropical countries maybe the one right before a storm
anyways, working on a new digital illustration style, sorta watercolor-esque
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an air spirit?
based on a sketch i did while i was in australia
a warm wind spirit maybe, like that hot summer wind you get sometimes in tropical countries maybe the one right before a storm

anyways, working on a new digital illustration style, sorta watercolor-esque

inks n digital

greenseerafter the last game of thrones book i’ve become so intrigued by the idea of greenseers, able to see through the eyes of trees, animals and even other people! I’m exited to see where they’re going to go with bran’s storyline next book
heres one of the children of the forest, or perhaps, with her long face, one of the first men an old greenseer from way back, centuries and centuries before brans time, one of his first ancestors maybe.man, game of thrones when i should be working.classic.
col-erase, digital colors  View high resolution

greenseer
after the last game of thrones book i’ve become so intrigued by the idea of greenseers, able to see through the eyes of trees, animals and even other people! I’m exited to see where they’re going to go with bran’s storyline next book

heres one of the children of the forest, or perhaps, with her long face, one of the first men an old greenseer from way back, centuries and centuries before brans time, one of his first ancestors maybe.
man, game of thrones when i should be working.
classic.

col-erase, digital colors 

well!its been ages since i’ve uploaded eh? tsk tsk.here’s one from drink and draw tonight, a sort of sci-fi crystal environment study for my graphic novel projectvery secret stuff (not really)anyways, animation pencils, brushpen and white highlights View high resolution

well!
its been ages since i’ve uploaded eh? tsk tsk.
here’s one from drink and draw tonight,
a sort of sci-fi crystal environment study for my graphic novel project
very secret stuff (not really)
anyways, animation pencils, brushpen and white highlights

Gouache! beloved the world over by illustrators and designers, I haven’t used this stuff since art school. I’m thinking of using it for covers and splash illustrations in my comic so i’ve been doing some quick illustrations to practice using it (its a bit of a finicky medium)Over the next couple days i’ll be uploading some of them! 
She’s a dooooornish dancer..dancer for moneyim on the last of the written books in the game of thrones seriesand tyrion kinda wont shut up about where the whores are goingsoooohere’s one! doornish, cause the women from that place are badass, i  figure she’s a sand snake and a dancer in a troupe of travelling  dornish players and that she uses her sex-wiles to get revenge for her  fathers death! (seems to be pretty much the agenda of every sand snake  ever)Goache and pencil and ink View high resolution

Gouache! 
beloved the world over by illustrators and designers, I haven’t used this stuff since art school. I’m thinking of using it for covers and splash illustrations in my comic so i’ve been doing some quick illustrations to practice using it (its a bit of a finicky medium)
Over the next couple days i’ll be uploading some of them! 

She’s a dooooornish dancer..dancer for money
im on the last of the written books in the game of thrones series
and tyrion kinda wont shut up about where the whores are going
soooo
here’s one!
doornish, cause the women from that place are badass,
i figure she’s a sand snake and a dancer in a troupe of travelling dornish players and that she uses her sex-wiles to get revenge for her fathers death! (seems to be pretty much the agenda of every sand snake ever)
Goache and pencil and ink

Gouache! beloved the world over by illustrators and designers, I haven’t used this stuff since art school. I’m thinking of using it for covers and splash illustrations in my comic so i’ve been doing some quick illustrations to practice using it (its a bit of a finicky medium)over the next couple days i’ll be uploading some of them!   View high resolution

Gouache! 
beloved the world over by illustrators and designers, I haven’t used this stuff since art school. I’m thinking of using it for covers and splash illustrations in my comic so i’ve been doing some quick illustrations to practice using it (its a bit of a finicky medium)
over the next couple days i’ll be uploading some of them! 
 


The Road goes ever on and onDown from the door where it began.Now far ahead the Road has gone,And I must follow, if I canoh tolkeinsuch a myth weaver that one(link to full poem by jrr tolkein here: [link])i think im about ready to reread lotr againim all caught up with game of thrones and well, i guess im in the mood for some proper high fantasyThis is another one from my show, the largest.i’ve  been doing a lot of research and putting some thought into myth and  story lately, and though i’m not the first to come to this conclusion,  it bears mentioning as it is a neat thought,almost all stories,  myths and adventures share a common theme and that the journey.  internal, external, physical metaphysical all stories are journeys. so  for the biggest piece in my show (this one is about 40x40”) i thought  the road ahead was a pretty apt metaphor.

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The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can

oh tolkein
such a myth weaver that one
(link to full poem by jrr tolkein here: [link])
i think im about ready to reread lotr again
im all caught up with game of thrones and well, i guess im in the mood for some proper high fantasy
This is another one from my show, the largest.
i’ve been doing a lot of research and putting some thought into myth and story lately, and though i’m not the first to come to this conclusion, it bears mentioning as it is a neat thought,
almost all stories, myths and adventures share a common theme and that the journey. internal, external, physical metaphysical all stories are journeys. so for the biggest piece in my show (this one is about 40x40”) i thought the road ahead was a pretty apt metaphor.


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