Vintage space probe encountering flying alien creatures - digital illustration

Large flying prehistoric creatures attacking the probe art.

Strange winged monsters are seen on an alien planet destroying an ancient space probe. They are quite 'dinosaur' like and treat the old probe as a plaything before destroying it completely. Possibly the probe is one of the old 'voyager' probes, launched from earth a long time ago and from a great distance. The sci-fi illustration is created in Auto Sketchbook pro during February 2021.

It can be seen in greater detail on this link to an external site.

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A small snippet of a steampunk machine illustration...

 Anime girl with roses - WIP stages

Stages of the girl's head anime styled artwork

A simple drawing of a girls head created in the 'anime' style. She is pictured in front of rose flowers.

The picture shows four stages of its creation, drawn in 'Auto sketchbook Pro'. In the first can be seen the initial drawing, drawn in quite a small file size dimensions. The second panel indicates basic colours added for all the main elements. Moving on to the third panel, the dimensions of the file have been enlarged so that the final result will be very sharp and suitable for printing. More details are painted in and the drawing is becoming more refined. Finally the finished illustration can be seen where all the elements are completed, being finely drawn and painted.

The illustration can be seen in detail on this link.

 Plein air painting 14

This plein air oil sketch shows a mundane view of a couple of lifebuoy rings, one much larger than the other, on a mooring post. The location is a boat yard on the banks of the River Itchen, in Southampton, Hampshire. When the painting was started the weather was sunny but later started to rain so it had to be abandoned. I made a note of the time it was done and the sunny weather and came back a week or two later when the weather was the same, and at the same time so as to complete the sketch. It is painted on a piece of primed mounting board during September 2020.

The setting on the River Itchen

 

 

 Anime girl with roses - digital illustration

Created in January 2021 this simple illustration shows a head of an 'anime' styled pretty girl posed in front of some red roses. It was done in 'Auto Sketchbook Pro'. The illustration can be seen in clear and larger detail via this link.

 Monster alien experimentation with human specimen - WIP stages

Stages of artwork progression.

This sci-fi horror illustration features a giant monster about to experiment on a human subject.

It was painted digitally in 'Auto Sketchbook Pro' during January 2021. The first panel features a rough sketch with a digital pencil, while the second one shows colour now roughly painted into the illustration to give an indication of colour placement. It can be seen that the position of the human figure has been changed too. In the third panel can be seen the completed illustration. The painting and details are finer and it should be noted that between the 2^nd and 3^rd stages that the image is enlarged to about four times its original size and worked on at this larger scale to produce a fine resolution image. The hexagonal background was taken from a beehive image and altered in photoshop.

The illustration can be seen in greater detail on this link.

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 A small snippet of a prehistoric like creature illustration...

Monster alien experimentation with human specimen - digital illustration

Digitally created in SketchBook Pro during January 2021 this retro Sci-fi illustration features a giant insect like creature about to experiment on a human prisoner. He is kept in a glass jar on a platform that cannot be escaped from, sited within a mysterious 'hive' like laboratory.

This horror illustration artwork can be seen in finer detail by following the link to an external site.

 

 Plein air painting 13

This plien air landscape art shows the entrance to Southampton City's Art Gallery during a sunny September morning. It is painted in oils on a piece of primed mounting board sized at 12" x 10. The gallery is a grade II listed building and opened in 1939 and situated within the city in the county of Hampshire, UK.