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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!

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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 why

Step 3: Okay getting better

Step 4: Alright it looks like a pandaren now! Nice. 

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In the Light, We are One: Timelapse!

Time: 26 ish Hours (I lost count) 

Commissioned by JD

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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 agend...

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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! ...

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Wallpaper: Fire

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

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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...

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"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....

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Fire Timelapse Video

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

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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. 

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 commiss...

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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 t...

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Clean Wallpaper: August

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

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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 m...

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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.

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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 spoi...

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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

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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 s...

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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 wa...

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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.

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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...

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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 Sunfl...

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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 ...

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