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Lucy Westenra from 'Dracula' by Bram Stoker. I think I called her Lucy Harker somewhere... DOH! Anyway, my take on her. An image I did last year, and just tweaked a bit recently.

Thankyou for looking.]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 07:23:17 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/620105

Another Character of the Week on Concept Art. This time to pick an historical figure and portray them as the opposite sex. I did Oscar Wilde in a traditional styled portrait. ]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:36:44 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/620106

Just a personal piece. ]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:37:23 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/620086

Done for another ChOW on Concept Art. The Miners Daughter, kind of says it all really! She's meant to be a bit Steampunky and the equipment reflects that I hope. I never finished it, and the background (inspired by Jon Foster) is pretty rough, but I kind of like it that way. ]]> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:44:36 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/525532

Yet another Character of the Week. This is a revised version of the original pic. She was meant to be a self obsessed dictator. The pure animosity she feels for the artist who did this portrait is all too apparent! I was inspired a bit by some kanji and a bit of art nouveau in this... The sword is purely ceremonial... I guess...]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:58:23 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/591635

Completed for the Character of the Week on ConceptArt. Based loosely on my partner, I was going for a bit of a Mucha feel, but not strictly so.]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:47:25 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/591638

Another pulp cover. This was done for the 'Underneath it All' challenge on ConceptArt. Not my original image, in fact I started 4 different ones in all, but due to a corrupt file this was the one I completed. I had fun doing it though!]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:52:06 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/592482

For a Character Challenge, an evil female Djinni, slightly cartoony. I protected her modesty from the original and covered her up a bit! ]]> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:49:26 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/591633

When Glen Angus died last year, ConceptArt.org organized a tribute thread as Glen used to present work there along with CGSociety. I didn't really want to use a warplane as a dominant force in my image despite this being an essential part of Glens work. Instead the Spitfires are secondary and the Angel of the North, a sculpture here in the UK seemed somehow appropriate as force not of War but of pride and industry. Anyhow this was my submission to the thread.]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:44:56 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/591632

ImagineFX commissioned me to produce a tutorial on painting leather. This was the resulting image. A tongue-in-cheek little demon, who has been bad so much that she finally gets her just deserts, and becomes the demon she always behaved as.]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:43:14 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/556234

I wanted to post this at Hallowe'en/Samhain at least, even though I still intend to make a few changes to it. Listening far too much to bands like The Misfits, The Damned and Zombina at the moment!
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Just a bit of a play really... I hope Neil Gaiman wouldn't be offended, (as it's inspired by 'Death: The High Cost of Living' from Vertigo Comics) but it's just for fun. The hair and piercings are loosely inspired by AntiSaint ( http://antisaint.horrordivas.com/ ). ]]> Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:02:41 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/526139

This was produced for a workshop in ImagineFX issue 21 as more of an exercise in aging techniques than a tutorial in painting. The main inspiration was old EC comics although I wasn't trying for a literal copy. There are elements of Pulp Novel covers in there as well. I've since discovered a couple of old movies called 'Lover Come Back', including one with Lucille Ball and another with Doris Day and Rock Hudson but Rock Hudson never looked like this!]]> Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:28:38 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/525529

Not all fairys are ethereal doe eyed little creatures with a penchant for minimalist clothing and wistful expressions. I reckon most of them are mischievous 'Chavs'! Turn your back and they'll nick your celphone!]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:53:17 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/525527

Another 'Character of the Week'. Petra is unashamedly based on Edie Sedgwick. I'm a fan of Robert McGinnis, and I hope elements of that appear here, if only in inspiration.]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:49:49 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/525526

Just a personal piece that ended up being inspired by Joe Chiodo's work.

'In the future we willl wear our underwear all day and nothing else, and travel around on space hoppers!']]> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:46:51 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/525522

This was completed for a Character of the Week challenge over on Concept Art. Completely inspired by Pulp covers! I still can't decide whether it's the girl or the alien who's the detective, but I 'spose it doesn't really matter! ]]> Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:43:38 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/512015

This was a pic I started ages ago, and never finished. I spent a bit of time on it a couple of weekends ago to make it a bit more presentable. Inspiration from Robert McGinnis and Pulp Novels. I've got a couple more in the works...]]> Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:49:08 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/454829

The title of this is CHARGE! The theme of the final round of the Last Man Standing Thunderdome on ConceptArt.org . Usual Pin-Up bumpf from me!

All in Photoshop, with plenty of inspiration from Bride of Frankenstein, and the wonderful Young Frankenstein. "Werewolf!... There wolf.... There castle...."]]> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:46:06 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/440994

The title says it all really! A real quickie completed for the most recent ImagineFX, which is the one year birthday issue. Thanks to all those people there! Cheers!]]> Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:18:50 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/440356

Another Thunderdome entry, this time for the UK versus Scandinavia. I was up against the wonderful Torstein Nordstrand, who is a fantastic artist. I opted to do this pin-up as part of an ongoing thing, and Torstein kindly agreed. The theme was The Journey, and mine is a pretty loose interpretation of that... It's kind of finished, but I might come back and tweak it some more some time.

Her name is Cheryl, and sadly her 1986 Ford Capri Laser has got a flat in the middle of no-where near Wookey Hole in Somerset. What is she going to do? The more air she pumps in, the flatter the tyre gets! Time to stick that thumb out and hope for a ride somewhere...

Referenced used for the car, the wheel and the jacket.

Detail:
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This was for the Last Man Standing Thunderdome on Concept Art. A sort of mock 1950's advertisment for 'the greatest discovery ever'... er... sliced bread! Did a lot of looking at '50's stuff and my favourite Gil Elvgren to get an idea of that healthy rosy-cheek glow everyone seemed to have back then. Maybe the beehive is a bit early, but it seemed to fit... ]]> Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:57:07 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/425616

Another of my inspirations is Gil Elvgren, the classic American pin-up artist, so this is very much in the 'style of' I hope. No reference used other than looking at some Elvgren pics, and searching for some nice looking cowboy boots! ]]> Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:33:04 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/425618

This was completed for a challenge on Concept Art, and although I did a female character, I wanted to put her in a story in a 'noir' setting which is a genre in cinema I love. She's a backstreet attorney caught up in something that's 'bigger than both of us kid!' Looks like the only way out is to pay the ferryman...

Details:


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Another angel... sigh...

This was done for a tutorial in this months ImagineFX. She's part of a story I've got floating around about two angel/demon sisters, one of whom wishes to be human. Her name is Astarre, her sister being Estella. She's meant to be a bit, er... unstable... I've fiddled a small amount with the version that is in ImagineFX but not a lot. I tried to be a bit more 'painty' with this one. Some things I wasn't sure about, but I had a hard drive crash in the middle of doing this so the version I have here is the one I had to go with.

Thanks for looking! And thanks to Rob Carney and the ImagineFX people!
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This is an older pic I tidied up a bit. It started out as something else completely different. Nothing vastly different from me, another winged girl...
This is Estella. Ringmistress of one of the lesser levels of Hell. Her family fell with Lucifer, but he's kind of forgotten about them a bit now. Estella is a bit flambuoyant, and enjoys camping it up a bit, but her heart is pure black sin, and there is no thing of goodness about her. However, she has a sister, Astarre; who is not quite right in the head. Astarre is the antithesis of Estella, who is herself is one of the fallen, she wishes for nothing more than to be settled down on Earth with a nice human male. Dead or alive, either way, she's easy... But Estella has other ideas for her sister…

I shall do Astarre next. I should have spent a bit more time on the BG really, but I wanted it very dark anyway. There are a couple of things I might change yet, but I thought I'd put it here anyway.


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It's been a bit of a while, but I thought I'd post this. Completed for a Thunderdome Challenge, where the theme was 'Industry', and which had some fantastic entries.
She's based on 'Rosie the Riveter' by Norman Rockwell, of whom I'm a huge admirer. I used reference for the drill; as whilst looking for ideas I discovered a brand called Rockwell, so couldn't resist it! To dirty things up I used a personal texture overlay on the drum and drill, otherwise all painted in Photoshop 7.
This is the first idea based on the 'Saturday Evening Post' Rockwell image, as a magazine cover, and below you can see it without text and a close-up. 'The Manchester Daily News' is not a real newspaper! Thanks for looking!

And a close-up:

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This was completed about three months ago for a head to head challenge on another graphics site, so apologies if you've seen it before, but I've updated the image and played around with the colour balance. The theme was alternate historical timelines so this was based upon a fascist Elizabethan England with a female Frances Drake setting forth to do battle with the Armada. Just for fun . Crits and comments gratefully recieved.
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A character piece (I know! another girl...), that I did with Expose in mind. I thought that because my last one had been an Angel (sort of), this one should be a Devil (sort of). All in Photoshop 6, but with a little time spent playing with texture brushes and an overlay for the BG in Photoshop 7. Reference used was my hands (!) and a pair of New Rock boots. I must thank a couple of people who really helped me with advice and suggestions for this piece. Kyena, Matt Dixon and Duddlebug!
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Now the whole thing is over I thought I'd put this up. My ‘Master and Servant entry’. It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, and I hope people realised that. I've made some subtle changes to it since the challenge, mainly on Kitty’s face, which I was never happy with, and am still not. At least I can put this pic down at last!
This was a great competition to be part of! So thankyou to all who organised it, took part in it, commented on my thread, and went along for the ride! And congrats to the winners! Here’s to the next one!
Here's a couple of close-ups so you can see how rushed it really is :


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Dunno what I was doing with this pic really. It kind of started out out as a tribute to one of my favourite artists, Tor Lundvall. It's meant to be a bit stylised and dark, but perhaps I should have just stuck bunny ears on her... If there's a story to it I haven't a clue what it is other than it involves spooky stuff.
Critiques welcome!
Oops... slight edit! I put the wrong one up...
Detail:

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She was done for another head to head challenge, the theme being 'Assassins of Heaven and Hell'. Not quite as finished as I usually try to be, but I had fun doing it!
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Just a personal veiw of Morticia Addams. I've done Gomez as well, but still haven't got round to doing all the others... ]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:53:48 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/332879

My take on Gomez Addams. Very John Astin. Hopefully he looks cheerful enough. I'll finish off the others one day! ]]> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:08:14 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/332552

Mortimer is the Devils Advocate. A character challenge piece.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:33:27 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/332556

Done for yet another character challenge, but she ended up a pulp fiction novel!]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:36:40 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/332546

A real quickie. Jennifer was for a character challenge, and took a little over four hours.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:21:46 +0000 http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/332544

No doubt the Kanji is all wrong, but I had fun doing this for a friends Vampire Magazine.]]> Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:20:05 +0000