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Tyrant Neuroguard (2023) -

A few years ago I worked on a premise sparked by old Tyranid lore, wherein Space Marine DNA was rumoured to have contributed to the development of Tyrant Guard. Namely, what if the Hive Mind acquired something even more dangerous, like Primaris or even Grey Knight DNA? The idea from there was to design a larger, more advanced Tyrant Guard as a response, but I didn't finish the project as I felt it wasn't distinct enough from the current Tyrant Guard models, save for the reintroduction and modification of the 3rd edition shield.

More recently with the release of the various 'Neuro'- prefixed Tyranids, I was inspired to adapt the project to fit into this wave of really cool new bioforms. I see them as psychic batteries or capacitors, similar in role to a larger Neuroloid or Neurogaunt, and no smarter than base form Tyrant Guard, but able to passively receive and store psychic energy from Synapse creatures and instinctively discharge the energy via the spines on the front of its shield, or the ends of its Lashwhips, almost like an electric eel. The face design was inspired by historical helmets like the Barbute, utilising side mandibles that have thickened and morphed into defensive cheek plates.

#digital art #illustration #fan concept #warhammer40k #games workshop #fan art #science fiction #alien #sketch #creature concept #tyranids #tyrant #warhammercommunity

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Flamingirl (2023) -

Part flamingo, part girl.

#digital art #character design #creature design #illustration #uncanny #pink #costume design #flamingo #why #concept

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Material Studies (2023) -

Material study isometric cubes, a fun exercise that focuses on the effects of lighting and colour theory applied to various textures. The block of fries was surprisingly difficult!

#digital art #illustration #conceptart #gamedev #texture #isometric #2d art #noai

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Revenant (2023) -

'Despite his pleas for a warrior's death, the pretender Chief Adalbert, forces routed and family apprehended, received the ignominy of a pauper's execution. The King's men regarded the townfolk of Ketterwall as backwater simpletons and did not heed their superstitious yawpings, yet it was they who awoke on the seventh day to a bloodbath - while not a single living solider remained.'

Character design interpreting a Revenant, based on the premise of improper executions or burial practices leaving the dead open to possession from forces beyond the veil, seeking retribution from those responsible as an unkillable nemesis.

#character design #digital art #illustration #concept #revenant #horror #undead #execution #monster #noai #zuboros

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Laundry - 2020 - 2023

A random isometric scene I started a few years ago but touched up recently. Isometric landscapes are a fun exercise and I can see myself trying some new scenes in this format in the future. There's a variety of influences that went into this piece, which depicts a soft fantasy setting in a society without electricity, but advanced steam and plumbing knowledge.

#landscape #Architecture #illustration #isometric #enviroment art #concept #fantasy #digital art #worldbuilding

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Really cool 3D sculpt of my Barrowlord concept by Ryan Drew!

www.artstation.com/artwork/Yev4mX

#concept art #fantasy #horror #3d

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Quick servitor study I painted for the fun of it, based on some of the designs from my recent admech pre-vis uploads. Hope you enjoy, more stuff soon

#Warhammer #40k #imperium #servitor #admech #mechanicus #digitalart #fan art #illustration #games workshop

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Adeptus Mechanicus Vis-Dev (2021) -

A selection of Admech explorations for a short project in October 2021, first time I’d ever drawn them, but they were fun to develop. 

12 pages total, you can check out the rest here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/o2EKBw

#Warhammer #warhammer 40k #admech #adeptus mechanicus #imperium #fan art #fan concept #sci-fi #concept #sketch #game art #gw

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I posted 11 times in 2021

10 posts created (91%)

1 posts reblogged (9%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.1 posts.

I added 39 tags in 2021

#character design - 8 posts

#concept art - 7 posts

#science fiction - 4 posts

#relic space - 3 posts

#rpg - 3 posts

#roguelike - 3 posts

#game art - 3 posts

#portrait - 3 posts

#vizdev - 3 posts

#illustration - 2 posts

Longest Tag: 19 characters

#chaos space marines

My Top Posts in 2021

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New business cards came today! 😊

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Datapainter (2021) -

I needed a new business card design for expos now that things are starting to get back to normal, and attempted to design a character that could work with my logo, and also ideally incorporated various sci-fi and fantasy themes cohesively. Looking forward to printing these soon!

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Blastmaster (2021) - A noise marine painted for fun in between commissions, taken in a cult movie body horror direction with films such as Hellraiser, From Beyond and The Cell etc. providing inspiration. More stuff soon!

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#my 2021 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review

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How to help your local tumblr author

Hello all. The duopoly of Christmas and New Year fast approaches, and for writers that also means the end of the six month sales period that runs from July 1st to December 31st. Basically, we’ll get the figures - and any royalty payments - for those six months around February or March 2022. 

With both Christmas and that end-of-period time approaching I thought it’d be a good opportunity to say “hey, these are the books I’m currently trying to sell the hardest,” basically the books that are closest to starting to make me money or recent releases that ideally need to impress my publisher by selling an okayish amount. So if you fancy supporting me with a purchase or two this festive season, these novels in particular would be the biggest help. Also, no sweat if you don’t buy, just liking and reblogging would be a massive help. Also-also, if you’re outside the US or UK lemme know and I can see if my publisher have done translations yet (they definitely have for a few);

1) The Gates of Thelgrim [bonus points for this one because the general global crisis has meant the UK release has been hugely delayed. Right now it’s available in the US, and up for preorder in the UK]

[Amazon US] [Barnes and Noble] [Amazon UK] [Waterstones] 

2) The Doom of Fallowhearth [bonus points for preordering the audiobook, out on December 28th]

[Amazon US] [Barnes and Noble] [Amazon UK] [Waterstones] [Audiobook version]

3) First Team

[Amazon US] [Barnes and Noble] [Amazon UK] [Waterstones]

4) Zachareth [only up for preorder, out in Spring 2022]

[Amazon US] [Barnes and Noble] [Amazon UK] [Waterstones]

Thank you!

Also, since Zachareth doesn’t have its new cover up on any of those sites yet, and because everyone loves an eye-catching image;

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Relic Space - ‘The Circle’ character assets -

A selection of some of the potential characters in Relic Space, a scifi roguelike by Fourfold Games that launches on Steam Early Access Q3 2021. I'm proud to have been a part of its ongoing development!

All of the assets such as the head, body, hair, accessories etc. were rendered separately to allow the game to generate a wide array of characters, you can see more about the games here - https://www.fourfoldgames.com/relicspace

#science fiction #portrait #Character Design #roguelike #concept art #Relic Space #vizdev #Game Art #rpg

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Greater Possessed Death Guard Concepts (2021) -

A development of my 2018 Possessed project ( www.artstation.com/artwork/4w4Zk ) in which I designed larger, more powerful 'greater possessed' that were controlled either by exceptionally powerful daemons or old possessed that had remained bonded to their host for a long time, gaining power.

Recently GW released their Greater Possessed models and this inspired me to further develop the one's I'd drawn, choosing a Nurgle theme after one of my favourite sketches from that series.

#chaos #Character Design #concept art #fan concept #Fanart #nurgle #Death Guard #warhammer #warhammer 40k #Chaos Space Marines #possessed #daemon #digital aritst

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Alien Desperado (2021) -

One of those happy occasions when you do one sketch and it works well enough to take straight to final design :)

Slippery Harris is a sluglike alien outlaw of the New West, on the run with a bag of Zollars. His whole body is in the ‘head’ of a scavenged robot chassis, his arms poke out of the ‘eyes’ and he sees through a hole cut into his cowboy hat.

#illustration #digital art #scifi #science fiction #western #cowboy #alien #mauser #character art #character design #sketch #bandit

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Datapainter (2021) -

I needed a new business card design for expos now that things are starting to get back to normal, and attempted to design a character that could work with my logo, and also ideally incorporated various sci-fi and fantasy themes cohesively. Looking forward to printing these soon!

#elf #scififantasy #fantasy #logo #businesscard #card #scifi #character concept #character design

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Inheritor Acolyte II (2021) -

Rework of this old design: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L6zBP

The Inheritors are a tech cult from my Baptisma boardgame project, 10 to 12 hours painting time (quite quick for me :) ).

#baptisma #inheritor #acolyte #Cultist #cult #speedpaint #Character Concept #Character Design #concept art #game dev #boardgame #look dev #scifiart #cyberpunk #digital painting

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Watchtower Sketches (2021) -

Watchtower sketches in a variety of styles and levels of realism/fantasy.

#architecture #concept art #building #tower #sketch #game design #fantasy #sci-fi #watchtower

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Relic Space - ‘The Union’ character assets -

A selection of some of the potential characters in Relic Space, a scifi roguelike by Fourfold Games that launches on Steam Early Access Q3 2021. I'm proud to have been a part of its ongoing development!

All of the assets such as the head, body, hair, accessories etc. were rendered separately to allow the game to generate a wide array of characters, you can see more about the games here - https://www.fourfoldgames.com/relicspace

#portrait #Character Design #relic space #concept art #roguelike #science fiction #rpg #game art #vizdev