Count And Countess Dracula During Halloween Evening - digital illustration

Count And Countess Dracula During Halloween Evening - digital illustration

digital illustration - Count And Countess Dracula During Halloween Evening

This horror character based illustration features Count Dracula and his wife out for an Halloween evening stroll. Their castle can be seen in the background. The characters are designed to be 'cute and friendly'. Inspiration was taken from Christopher Lee, partly with his look and also for the costume. The wife was loosely based on Lily Munster, from 'The Munsters'.

A loose sketch was initially done on 'Sketchbook pro' during September 2018, using an android tablet. The file was later exported on to a more powerful desktop computer running the same software, where the painting was enlarged, repainted and refined.
The final digital illustration can be seen here.

closeup working progress 05

 closeup working progress 05

A small snippet of a cute, vampire based illustration for Halloween...

working on closeup 22

working on closeup 22

 A small snippet of a painting featuring the beach at Bournemouth, Dorset.... 

Romantic Cartoon cats on Valentine Heart

Romantic Cartoon cats on Valentine Heart 

This design of a card for St Valentines day features two cartoon romantic cats in love set against a heart design. The cats were painted in photoshop from an illustration created several years ago and the heart background form an illustrator vector illustration created in 2013. They were simply composited in photoshop.

Romantic Cartoon cats on Valentine Heart

Romantic Valentine Skeletons in Graveyard

Romantic Valentine Skeletons in Graveyard

 

This illustration was painted in photoshop in Jan 2014. It shows two skeletons in love on st Valentines day night in a graveyard. The male skeleton is presenting his beloved with a bouquet of flowers, for which the female is extremely happy. The design of the skeletons are slightly cartoony to make them more appealing and easier to draw. The colours of the scene are quite muted, but the flowers less so. The diagonal of the males arm with the flowers thrusting in to the scene, is balanced out in the composition with the diagonal of the landscape with church in the opposite direction.

Romantic Valentine Skeletons in Graveyard

Romantic Dinosaurs in Love

Romantic Dinosaurs in Love

This digital illustration, of two happy and romantic dinosaurs in love, was created in June 2013. It is drawn in a vector based programme, and output at A3 size. The two cartoon dinosaurs, not based on any particular type, are shown against a large pink heart, surrounded by smaller ones. The colours of the lovers are designed to be gender specific, and appealing, and the cuddling pose shows their passion for one another.

Romantic Dinosaurs in Love

 

ghosts and spirits

ghosts and spirits

mummy awakes
dungeon ghost chasing princess
haunted house couple

The oldest image in this collection is 'The mummy awakes' and was painted in march 2009.'Haunted house couple' was done in june 2010, followed closely by 'dungeon ghost chasing princess' in july 2010. Each one is of course very cheesy. The mummy one was actually a redone version of one done back in the mid1990s. It was then done again in acrylic paint in the late 1990s, so this is the third version,so far. The perspective in the 'house' one is completely cheated!

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mummy awakes
This 'tongue in cheek' horror illustration shows two archaeologists studying an egyptian tomb. One of them has been reading an ancient scroll which was a curse. A mummy has now appeared in the shadows at the back of the tomb.
Most of the ilumination is generated from the lamp that is held in the center of the painting. The light is just starting to fall on to the ancient Egyptian mummy. The design of the characters are slightly stylized. Painted in 2009.