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2020 Art

Thank you so much to my clients for commissioning me to paint all this art <3 You're the best.I'm posting this now instead of after New Years to force myself to take a break haha. 2020 is over! Just relax the few days left of it!

Step by Step: Shiyu Rainbloom

Commissioned by Necrobone, of their blind pandaren and her seeing eye raven.Step 1: Rough sketch! This is fine.Step 2: Oh god whyStep 3: Okay getting betterStep 4: Alright it looks like a pandaren now! Nice.

In the Light, We are One: Timelapse!

Time: 26 ish Hours (I lost count)Commissioned by JD

Beyond the Horizon [C]

Finished commission for Salixa! (I am so proud of the wood texture!!)Now I am officially finished with all my commissions for 2020. That's it. But my work is not quite finished! Next up on my agenda is to create a buttload of patreon content and schedule that over the next few months.Then it's time to Celebrate Christmas and relax - by playing AC Valhalla and doing some more Skyrim concept art.

Step by Step: Starynn

Commissioned by Holly for one of their guildies - showing us what we all need. Night Elf Paladins.Step 1: Lineart! For the hammer I took a quick trip to Blender and modelled the basic shapes and traced it into the painting.Step 2: Basic colours and light!Step 3: Background and hammer render!Step 4: Draw the rest of the owl!

Wallpaper: Fire

Here you go! A 1920 x 1080 wallpaper of my most recent personal work. Enjoy your Patreon exclusive reward!

New Month, New Wallpaper

Followed by the grim dark November comes the cosiest: December! <3 I do love Christmas.This will probably be a hard month for many as COVID disrupts plans left and right. I'm right in the boat with you, as I was supposed to go to Norway for Christmas this year to celebrate with my family, but wont. Hang in there folks! I am lucky enough to have a wonderful in-laws family to celebrate with - keeping it social distance of course. As always, a n...

"IN THE LIGHT, WE ARE ONE."

Commission for JD! I got lucky. This is actually a Christmas present for their partner. And I was so excited to show it!! But I couldnt, I had to wait until after Christmas!Except they got so excited and showed it to them the day after. Yes! So you guys get to see it earlier too.As always, my Patrons will get behind scenes material posted over the next couple of weeks. <3

Last Projects of 2020

Working hard to get these finished in time for Christmas! The draenei is definitely the biggest beast of them all, already racked up a fair amount of hours on her. These are my current works in progress - and who knows, maybe I'll get time for another personal piece before the years over 💙And my patrons will of course get access to behind the scenes materials for these bad boys. So excited!!

November: New Month, New Wallpaper

The Pandaren gets some love!November is by far my least favourite month - in Norway it's all darkness, fog and the beginning of intense cold. In England it's not so bad! Probably because I don't commute anymore, hah.May the November wallpaper lighten up your month. <3 As always, a new month means new wallpapers. Today I present to you the November calendar wallpaper! Originally commissioned by Thomas back in 2019. She'savailable t...

Fire Timelapse Video

Here it is! The entire 4 hour process from blank canvas to finish.

Shiyu Rainbloom [C]

One of my latest commissions!Thank you so much to @Necro_Bone for commissioning me to paint her Pandaren. My Patrons will get access to the Step by Step and How To GIFS of this creation, I'll be posting them soon.

2012 - 2020

I haven't done one of these in ages. It's a great exercise to re-paint an old drawing, if only just to see how far you've come.Today I re-did one of the oldest paintings I ever posted online. I think there's been a bit of an improvement!I got a video of the process that I plan to upload to my youtube within the next few days. And a wallpaper and a high res to be posted exclusively to you guys!

Starynn, the Night Elf Paladin

Commission of the Night Elf Paladin Starynn for Leia commissioned by Holly!How It's Made GIF and Step by Step post will be posted for my Patrons exclusively this month. Thanks guys!

3D Art Journey - My bowl is in the game!

My studies into 3D art continues. Since my last post with the famous donut I've gone on to follow two other tutorials and create an asset for Skyrim! It was a painful endeavour.The anvil! Due to me being an idiot, while the model looks fine like this, there are some stretching and errors when I try to put proper texture on it. A valuable lesson was learned. But it still looks pretty neat and I learned tons.The chair! Now this was a challenge ...

Patreon Exclusive: Commissions OPEN!

This hasn't happened for a while! My commissions are open again. Limited slots. Patrons gets first dibs - first come first serve!If you buy it now I can guarantee the digital version will be finished by Christmas. Prints and physical items sent By Me to anywhere outside the UK will probably not arrive before Christmas. You're more than welcome to print it out yourself of course.Information and Prices HereI know it says I'm closed on t...

Concept Art: Fences and Gates

Hey guys!I'm here to share with you some of my new Skyrim concepts… you might remember my Skyharker Robes Concept art from some weeks ago! Well the adventure never ends and I've completed these concepts since then:Fences and Gates!Certainly not as exciting as an armour set, but it allowed me to be super creative and come up with a large variety of styles and patterns. Take a look! _________________ Right now I'm working on de...

Advanced Commission Notice: Sunday

Heads up!I will open my commissions for Patrons on SUNDAY the 20th of September and the Public on MONDAY the 21st of September.This is your chance to snag a spot at the front of the queue. I have limited amount of slots open (amount depending on what type of commissions will be booked). So if you want a commission and you are a Patron then I suggest sending your request as soon as you see my "Commissions OPEN for Patrons!" post on Sunday!...

Geralt's Company / The Hanza [C]

Do you remember MY BIGGEST COMMISSION that I posted about weeks ago?! Well itIS FINISHED!Thank you so much to Holly @Wayhaught_E4L for commissioning the most fantastic piece in my entire career! It was wonderful to depict the Witcher and his gang in their storming of Stygga Castle.And as per our new system I'll be uploading the cool Behind the Scenes stuff in a Patreon Exclusive post at some point this week, whoop!

Clean Wallpaper: August

For you who really enjoyed having this angry elf as your desktop wallpaper and want to keep that going.

Donut: Conquered

When I haven't been working on my Biggest Commission Ever I've been following a Beginner's tutorial to familiarise myself with blender. And I just finished it!A donut with chocolate icing and sprinkles, a cup of coffee and a plate. What I love about 3D is that it feels so much more tangible than 2D. I can almost touch it!Learning a new tool can be so much fun, but I gotta admit 3D is kind of overwhelming. With 2D art it's like &#3...

I'm hungry now.

May I interest you... In a chocolate covered donut? I'm finally learning Blender! It's been on my to-do list for years. I still need to add sprinkles but that's on part 2 of the tutorial and I need sleep in the meantime. Also, I may need a more powerful computer for this. Here's the tutorial I'm using

Working on my biggest commission ever...

6 characters, background, perspective, fighting... Yeah this commission's got it all! This definitely is my biggest commission to date. I've got the pleasure of working on Geralt and Company, portrayed in a scene that happens in the last Witcher book.. I won't tell more than that for spoilers! I'm probably halfway there with this illustration, we got the basics down and now it's all about refining and rendering. It's so th...

Patreon Prints Sent!

Good news! Pen Pal Prints for June, July and August were just sent out today. Postal services to America is REALLY slow at the moment (and will continue to be so for a while) so please be patient. But rest assured it's on its way! Nyoooom

Skyharker Robes: Concept Art

As much of a surprise to you as to myself, I've joined a modding team. It was a spontaneous decision. They reached out to me out of the blue and usually I would've said no to this kind of thing. In fact I heavily considered saying no, and I honestly don't know why I said yes? But I am so glad I did! It's a great incentive to actually do personal work. Although it's for a project that isn't mine, and I have an art Lead chec...

Magical Memorisation

Upcycled work!Giving your old work a paintover can be a fantastic exercise. I recently got a portfolio review by Kim and it was mentioned this is my best piece storytelling-wise, just not technique-wise. And so I was inspired to bring it up to date, with some tweaks to colours, value and details.It is available as a Displate.The painting was originally painted in 2018 as a commission for my wonderful Patron Alvilda <3Which one is your favourite?

How I used CtrlPaint

Warning: long post! A few weeks ago I realised I had a reprieve in my work queue and decided it was time to work on my illustration skills. I had heard about CtrlPaint from many different sources over the years and decided to create a curriculum.Matt Kohr's CtrlPaint is a massive online library with almost thousands of videos, and one could possibly spend months watching them. The best thing is that the videos are about 5 minutes long. Study ...

What I'm up to this month

For the past two-three years (who keeps count?) I've been building my portfolio of portrait commissions, with the occasional half body and full body commission sprinkled in for good measure.And while it's great and fantastic that I'm well up in the 100s of high quality portraits and 50s of sketch portrait commissions, it's really time for me to delve into actual illustrations with the characters engaging in the environment with a ...

Patreon Tier Changes - Let’s make it Simple.

The Month is May. The year is 2016. The Artist is me. The Website is Patreon. Yep, we go way back. And like all relationships, we must evolve over time.From August 1st I am switching things up. Here is a list of The Changes. Tier $3 Sunflower and $1 Mushroom is merging into The New Tier $2 Digital DragonsThe reason for this is simple - Patreon charges a shirt and a boot in fees on $1 tiers - almost as much as 50%. I absolutely adore and love your...

June - New Month, New Rewards

Wooooaaa, we're halfway there. WOOAA! 🎵Nearly anyway. Nearly halfway through 2020. My birthday is this month, I'm turning 26! I swear I'm not that old?! Time as a construct continues to confuse me. As always, with a new month comes new wallpapers. Today I present to you the June calendar wallpaper! One of my few Personal projects, I painted this painting of Teldrassil from World of Warcraft to accompany my limited edition Teldrassi...