University work for a ‘Tell me a Story’ workshop.

We had to create a 5 panel narrative from one of three paintings. I choose ‘The Hunters in the Snow’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. I focused on various aspects of the painting to complete this work, such as placing a wood texture over the top of the painting digitally.

‘I was having such beautiful dreams. I dreamed I was walking in a forest rather like this one, only lit with torches on the trees and lamps swinging from the branches and fires burning on the ground; and there was a great feast going on, going on for ever. A woodland king was there with a crown of leaves, and there was merry singing, and I could not count or describe the things there were to eat and drink.’

Spiders and Flies, The Hobbit

Bombur’s Dream

Bombur dreams of a woodland feast after falling into the enchanted stream in Mirkwood, as Bilbo, Bifur, Bofur and Thorin look on. 

This is a piece I did last year. I posted the sketch, but even though I practical finished it, I never even up posting it. I haven’t talked about it much here but I love love love The Hobbit! This was supposed to be for a zine I wanted to make. I still would love to make a book full of Hobbit illustrations in the future.

HAPPY (Late) BIRTHDAY @raccrew !!!!

Hello! 

In a few weeks I’ll be moving to a new place to begin University! This is a really exciting time for me and I’m looking forward to it (though I’m a little nervous about living away from my family and friends).

As you know, university isn’t cheap, so I thought it wouldn’t hurt to open a Ko-fi account to allow anyone who wishes to support me to do so. If you do give a donation (anonymously or not) and comment with a character you like me to draw, I’ll do a quick doodle of them! 

I also considering open commissions sometime at the end of September (when I’ve settled in). So keep an eye out for that.

 Some rough Irish mythology doodles

The Three Races of Ireland - Fomorians, Tuatha De Danann and Humans           - I doodled these designs for the three main races that inhabited Ireland after reading about them in my Irish mythology book. Technically there are more than just one group of humans that inhabited Ireland but I’m planning to do a more elaborate exploration of them. They’re not all to scale - Fomorians are usually giants and my designs for the Tuatha De Danann range from tall and slender to unusually short. The Fomorian on the right is a rough design for Elatha, the person in the middle is Bres (his son) and the the one on the right is some random human (I was going to draw Sreng but oh well).

Cu Chulainn                                                                                                                 - I was trying to draw his hair based on an account in The Tain (instead of black like I usually draw it). I don’t think I’ll always draw it like this but this was fun to draw!

Quick messy doodle before bed while listening to ‘Mount The Air’.

I drew some OC’s I haven’t drawn in a while. I was going to do more elaborate sketches but the room where my computer lives was soo warm last night.

Irvyn in his wedding outfit