Personal Work: Fenrir

In anticipation for tomorrow's partial solar eclipse I have drawn Fenrir, the fen-dweller. In Norse mythology it is recounted that Fernrir would eat the sun heralding in Ragnarok, the Norse end of times. So whenever a solar eclipse came about the vikings would be convinced that Ragnarok had begun only to be left startled and bemused when nothing actually happened.

Bumbling and incompetent, this sun-sized Fenrir drifts through space attempting to eat stars completely oblivious to the fact that his mouth is too small. 

Inspired by the Norse legend as well as the actuality of the solar eclipse I drew a very spherical Fenrir. Look upon his splendor and weep.

How on Earth the Norse peoples of old could mistake what was clearly a very round object blocking the sun for a large wolf-god is beyond me but it inspired this picture of the Fen-Dweller.

Personal Work: Horned guy-thing

Just thought that I would share a little non-homework piece of work. I just started doodling some head designs of some kind of horned creature liked one and thought that I would try and do something more substantial with it.

Not a happy looking chap is he...

Everything but the face is relatively under worked but the idea was to draw the eye to the centre where, lo and behold, the face is.

I also added an overlay layer to the picture and threw in some purple-ish (maybe?) tones just to be able to better envision the colour of the creature's skin.

I could have done more with the horns and hair, but I am happy the contrast that they bring to the better rendered face.

   That's all really, just a quick painted piece that I was quite happy with (sometime I just try to paint something and it all goes downhill from there so I think I got quite lucky with this one).