Ian Hinley

I recently read the wonderful story "Seventy-Two Letters" by Ted Chiang and decided to imagine I'd been asked to paint a cover for the Novella. Here's what I came up with.

In that forest there is one law, this guy.

More personal painting, I feel like I’m starting to unravel some mysteries when it comes to colour - finally. Flavour: When Owain’s sister emerged from the Temple of Smoke she was changed, a being utterly unlike that which had entered. The beast’s beloved, familiar shape was Owain’s painful undoing.

Another one just for me. Storm Raiders. A sort of merfolk bandit kinda feel. Flavour: “Soon we learned to fear the storms just as the islanders did.”

Flavour text: “Once the Elven court at Arn-Gwel was the envy of the known world. Now it stands in ruins. Its ancient magic twisted by an ill-advised pact the proud King Tewdryn is said to have struck with a spirit of decay. In his hubris, he believed he could control the demon - that through its power his reign might span through eternity. Now he must sit forever at the centre of his sunken keep - a husk. A vassal for the demon, a totem of decay. King only of the creeping slime.”

Flavour text: “For 350 years the Great Head of Manannan had lain silent. Tales of its speaking to the ancient kings and their soothsayers had all but been forgotten. But for those who remembered, and who knew the mystical rites, there was always hope that it might once again wake.”

Christmas/Solstice cake for this year. It’s the Holly King! All homemade of course - apart from the holly leaf cutter but let’s keep that between us.

The executioner. Detail from a larger work (which is still in progress).

I chose to vent my enthusiasm by making a bust of Ford for my desk.

Happy Halloween guys. Remember, spooky doesn’t have to mean scary.

30 minutes from life. It’s nice to prove to yourself that you can still draw after months of film - based work.

Look how gorgeous all that work is though, seriously. 

So I’ve been playing Sunless Sea in the evenings for a couple of days now. I think it’s starting to affect my work... This is what I painted to warm down today.

I love doing character silhouettes. Love it love it love it.

I had a jaunt to the Royal Cornwall Show today. These are a few 30 second gestures I drew while I was there. Horses, riders and dogs.

Which one is your favourite?