Tea Set Monster Spiders Fantasy - WIP stages

Tea Set Monster Spiders Fantasy - WIP stages

WIP digital painting stages -Tea Set Monster Spiders Fantasy

This digital illustration was completed during July 2018. It features an unusual design of tea set which happens to be in the form of monstrous spiders. The first panel shows the drawing as done on an android tablet using 'Auto Sketchbook Pro' software. Once one gets an idea from just scribbling around it does not take too long to start to produce an actual working drawing. The second panel shows a rough painting, still done on the same android tablet in which the colours and values are experimented with. The final panel shows the completed illustration, which is achieved by exporting the file in to a W10 computer, on which the file size is greatly enlarged and the scene is painted 'properly', but using a desktop version of the same program. Finishing touches and final grading are done in Photoshop.
The finished fantasy horror illustration can be seen here.

Goth girl fairy with spider widow

Goth girl fairy with spider widow

Digital illustration of a Gothic fairy with a black widow friend in a graveyard. The goth fairy girl is dressed in Victorian attire with jewellery glistening in the moonlight, and has black wings. Beside her, on its web, is a friendly black widow spider, with distinctive red markings. Behind them on the horizon is a old haunted castle where they used to live but now the small hut provides accommodation for them and their friends. 
Painted in Photoshop to A4 size during late February 2014. 

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Goth girl fairy with spider widow

spider with fly having a picnic on web

SPIDER WEB PICNIC

This was painted in 2007 and is loaded with 'dark humour'. The fly is quite happy eating his sandwich and is offering some to the spider. It is difficult to say if the spider will have some sandwiches for lunch, or have the fly for lunch. I experimented in this image of painting the background out of focus, like a photograph of a real spider on a web.

from the website...
This is perhaps a slightly frightening image to youngsters and is quite dark in its tone. The fly is having a little, sweet picnic on a spiders web. The large spider has appeared on the web and it is up to the imagination of the viewer what happens next. Does the fly get eaten or does the spider join in the picnic? I have gone for a very flat on, unrealistic perspective here, basically for styling and clarity in the image. I particularily enjoyed painting the food! The background was painted out of focus as if seen through a camera. The painting is created in photoshop to a size of 10" x 8".