TyrannoNinja's Art Tumblr

Finally, my official website is brandonpilchersart.com.

A warrior from medieval Mapungubwe in what is now South Africa, which I modeled in Blender. I don't think we have much in the way of sources for how the people of Mapungubwe would have dressed (although we know that their trade connections would have made both silk and cotton cloth available for fabric), so I figured I had some room for creative license here. Later on I will model a spear and shield for him and then rig him for posing.

I wanted to try my hand at artistic surrealism with this one.

Marker drawing of an African warrior heroine yelling her victory cry over a Spartan she has slain. Dude should've known better than to venture deep into Africa in search of new "helots" to bully around.

This is my concept art for a future 3D diorama that I plan to assemble in the Unreal 5 engine after modeling the characters and base in Blender. The two warriors you see fighting here are both from medieval times, with one hailing from the early Shona kingdom of Mapungubwe in South Africa and the other being one of the infamous Knights Templar. The latter might have the protection of chain mail, but I'm personally rooting for the Mapungubwean here.

Would be nice if there was someone out there I could reach who knew how to make world music on affordable commission.

A marker drawing of an Egyptian lady wringing out the water in her dreadlocks after giving them a wash in the Nile. I have no idea whether or not shampoo would have been available to the Egyptians back then, although they would have had bathing soaps made of fat or oils mixed with a substance called trona.

Marker portrait of a woman with a type of braided hairstyle known as cornrows. Cornrows are a hairstyle with an ancient history in Africa, and it would have been African-Americans that popularized them in modern American culture. However, there are numerous ancient Greek and Roman sculptures depicting subjects with similar hairstyles (a notable example being the various kouros sculptures from the Greek Archaic period), which I interpret as showing the spread of African culture influences across the Mediterranean back then.

I wanted to try my hand out at a drawing with a theme of duality, and so I went with the theme of people from different endpoints of human history gazing up at a starry sky. Although it started off as another marker drawing, I did the color of the sky and the stars digitally after scanning the marker art in.

This doodle was originally going to be a generic Middle Eastern woman, but over the course of drawing here, I decided to make her Palestinian, as represented by the color palette of her dress. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

Marker doodle of a cool modern-day urban beauty with a hip-hop aesthetic. I don't usually draw modern-day characters like this, but when I do, they can be fun to design.

Marker doodle of a Native American warrior flexing with a war club in his hands. I didn't have a specific Native nation in mind for his background, but the club was referenced from an Ojibwe one if I recall correctly.

A diorama I made in Unreal 5 that displays my original character, the warrior princess Nadjela of Batela, with her leopard companion Ishaga. I modeled all the elements in the diorama, from the characters to the base and the plant life and even the helmet of a vanquished Roman legionary at Nadjela's feet.