Sea of Chaos

Ever since I was a little kid I had a fascination with sailing ships, in particular the mighty Galleons and Carracks from the 15th and 16th centuries. One of my earliest drawings was of a Galleon model kit from a toy catalogue and I still vividly remember working on it.
This fascination has never left me and I make sure to re-visiting the subject from time to time.

Such a time came just recently while I was searching for a fitting subject for my entry to the ArtOrder Inspiration Challenge. After thinking about the topic for quite some time, and going off into all kinds of unfruitful directions, I suddenly remembered. In fact, the memory was triggered while visiting the Auckland Tall Ships Festival... that and playing a wonderful little game called Dreadfleet*.

*I don't care what all the haters say, I think it's awesome fun to play and am already tinkering with my own expansion ideas.

So anyway, inspired by all of the above I got to work... with Pirates of the Caribbean and other such movies playing in the background. And here's what came out...

Judging for the challenge is currently in progress, so I can't tell you how I've done just yet.

Traitor Marine

I thought I'd try my hand at drawing a Space Marine... but then I thought, nah, let's go for a Traitor Marine instead.

Even after much deliberation, I was unable to decide exactly which legion (or chapter) he should be from. As the drawing evolved further I started to go with a slight Word Bearers theme, but nothing too obvious. There are one or two hints at it about the picture.
What I wanted to capture most about the character was that he'd been around (and exposed to the ruinous powers of the Warp) for a bloody long time.

From deep under the mountains...

... rise the dark and twisted Nuem.

As some of you may already know, I've been doing a lot of work for Tor Gaming's Relics over the past year, mainly miniature concepts.
Check out their website for more info about the game and the awesome range of miniatures that goes with it.

One of my recent assignments was to create a series of 4 paintings to go with the Nuem pre-order campaign on IndieGoGo.com.
These paintings will be sent out as a set of postcards to everyone who purchased models through the campaign. In the future they may also be available as postcards or prints from the Tor Gaming online shop. So keep your eyes peeled if you want to get your hands on those.

And here they are in all their un-cropped glory... enjoy :)

Hobbits, Beasts & Demonswords

After having realised just how long I had neglected my poor blog for, I now present you with some new-ish artwork from a number of Imagine FX challenges.

Hope you'll enjoy them :)

MyFX #274: Elric of Melniboné

MyFX Monthly Challenge March 2012: Tarra's Scary Friend Beast

MyFX #267: Kill Billbo

Eowyn and the Nazgul

It's been way too long since the last update, so here's a little something just before the holidays...

This was my entry for the Eowyn and the Nazgul Challenge on ArtOrder.

I was pretty happy with the feedback I've received and I even managed to snag a prize: John Jude Palencar's wonderful art book Origins.

Project Warcry: Hyperion vs P.O.M.

Promotional piece for Elseware Entertainment's Project Warcry: Lords of War.

Check out the Project Warcry website, forum and ModDB pages.

And here's some concept art for the game.