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Dominator Beast

...and his willing submissive.

Coastal Altar

A shrine on the coast, frequented most often by sailors and merchants praying for calm seas and good weather.

In some cases, wandering witches, magicians, and mendicants set up here to siphon some of the offerings and energies of the visitors and devotees for their own practices and spellcraft.

Mural Tower

A tower that appeared to be carved from solid stone, but collapsed away, revealing intricate murals within.

Wayward mendicants make their way here, keeping the candles lit, spending a night, or making a home here. There are even rumors of those who have sealed themselves into secret chambers for their meditations.

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache. 9x12in

I've been using Fabriano Multi...

Bonesigil Halo

A bear goma with a halo made of a divine material like bone, and carved into strange shapes.

Ink, Watercolor. 9x12in

Shrinepriest Snake

A snake goma and a lion gohma.

Ink & Watercolor, 9x12in

Fly Dragon

A mythical insect from an unseen mythology of insects.

Page From an Alchemist's Notebook

Here's a previously unpublished 20 page comic. An alchemist summons the gohma in the pursuit of insight.

I forget precisely when I started this comic, but it was around 2015, and you can see certain aspects of my style change as I moved away from using a brush pen, and also started using straighter lines for my panel borders. Differences in rendering too.

I have a number of unpublis...

Fox by an Alcove

I gave another crack at painting. Still doesn't quite have the "feel" I want which I get out of my line illustrations, but it feels a step forward from my last painting.

I've got Richard Schmid's book Alla Prima, and it had the advice in it that whenever something feels "wrong" in a painting, to fix it, because all of the elements in a painting are related to one another, so one element b...

Hilltop

Two fox goma, conversing, walking through the dry country made green by springtime rains.

Triple Aspect Minotaur

The Minotaur Goma has three aspects; Fire, Rain & Storm, and Light & Shadow. The Triple Aspect Minotaur Goma embodies all three. But instead of each aspect manifesting neatly from each head, the aspects merge within this being, and their expression is inconsistent.

Some Triple Aspect Minotaurs have a peaceful expression of heat, moisture, and light, nourishing sacred groves from t...

Rainbow Cave

An ogre/troll goma and a fox goma wake up in a cave on the coast. The walls of the cave have a subtle rainbow color, like the sheen oil. Inside a collection of colorful birds roost, with the equally colorful odds and ends that the birds pick up from the beach and the tidepools.

There are many caves and tunnels along the cliffs of the coast. Some of them lead to places like this, others ex...

Magic Hand Spider

The nights in these deserts are magic. The sun sets and all manner of strange beings appear. 

Twilight creatures, neither gods nor monsters.

Like dreams pushed down in the day by waking, they rise and manifest in the dark.

The Magic Hand Spider weaves a web of gold, her jeweled body glitters in the torchlight. Upon her fingers are rings of the third eye.

She is a go...

Tower Ruin

This piece was an experiment in technique, checking out the reliability of lined half-tones for the sky. Which I like the way they turned out. Also fading areas of solid black into hatching.

And finally, I also used a sponge to make some of the initial foliage patterns on the trees. You can see it particularly in the top section of the clump of trees on the right. I like the way my lines ...

Magic Heart

The symbols and ideas of a ruined  space can persist beyond their destruction. In their abandonment they can take on new meanings. Like fragments, they invite imagination to fill in what they once were. 

The mundane can be transformed into the sacred, though so too can the sacred be profaned and altered.

These spaces and layers of meaning and alteration of symbols can exis...

Cosmic Shore

Lion Gohma.

The shoreline and ocean being a place simultaneously very far away and embedded deep within the self. All the insight to be gained was done so in the waters, and among the stars, and the places where the stars and the waters became the same thing.

By the time one washes up on this shore one is like a dead thing. One's voyage is finished. Here the only way to continue is ...

Sea Wizard

A maritime mage and what is either his double, his familiar, or possibly a deific patron. He wields a powerful seafoam staff, which can be summoned directly from the ocean, or if need be, from his own blood.

Columns of ocean water rise and crystallize just offshore, attracting many lifeforms and spirits in the waters in and around them, and nourishing tidepools and kelp forests.

His...

Stump

Bear.

Rain Bug

A magic bug playing violin meets a fox goma singing and drumming.

With the goma, similar to being able to smell magic and have a tail that can be used for dowsing and other powers, that they can transform their hands, feet, and mouths. In the case of their feet, it allows them to walk delicately through natural areas without crushing the plants and other things. And with their mouths, it ...

Lion and Boar in an Alcove

Painting practice. This is about as far as I can reach with my current skills, so I'm leaving it as this, technically unfinished.

Anything else I add to the picture starts coming out as mush/overworking, so it's time for me to move on. I really want to get better at painting, but oh man, it's a struggle.

Golden Sword

Skeleton.

I tried to do this image as a painting, but it didn't turn out well, so I put the pencils back over the colors.

Moss Covered Tower

A minotaur goma plays a mysterious instrument for a mysterious audience.

Watercolor.

Pebble Shrine

A coastal shrine this goma has brought pebbles and stones too. The pebbles are brought to life through spells, prayers, and rituals imbued into the wax. From their heads bloom new shapes from the wax, which are echoed in the shapes of the clouds.

I really love beach stones, I particularly love the dark kind with white nodes of quartz in them. I love the way that beach stones, agates, etc ...

Pleasant Light

Decided to try digitally painting over a watercolor I did and... the results were a lot better than I anticipated. So I might give this a try with other other pieces that are in partial states of completion.

Second image is the scan of the original watercolor. The following images are of the multiply and overlay layers as I tried to adjust the values and colors cloer to what I wanted, and...

Rainbow Bug

Watercolor, with gouache for the rain.

A magic bug bursting with colors and light in the dark undergrowth of the rainy forest. I've been steadily thinking more about the role of insects in my art, and I want for them to take a more prominent role, both for how important they are to the health of the planet, and their relationships within ecosystems, and for their existence as a sort of ma...

Fox Goma and Rhododendron

Forest scene. Watercolor.

Two

Statues and Fabric

I'm really happy with the color scheme on this one.

Jewelskin

Pencil drawing was from 2015 or 2016, now finally with some proper colors on it.

Lovely Hands of the Navigator

A fox goma traveling across an ocean via means of a magic book. The book itself is capable of handling all major spells, so long as the fox is well versed enough to make corrections in case the navigator starts behaving oddly. The sword and the trident are sort of like the keys in the ignition.

Winged Lion Gohma

Holding a Scorpionflower.

I did the initial sketch for this piece back in 2011 (I think), and made several attempts at finishing it until doing so with this piece. I'll try and find the original sketch, unfortunately it's not in the place I thought it would be, and I've altered the initial composition so much that sketch left under the digital lines is unreadable.

One of the fun thi...