Starry Furies

Starry Dragons
Medium: digital painting

Toothless and the Light Fury from How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

Traditional Pet Portraits

Ink
Medium: oil on canvas panel

Sherlock and Watson
Medium: oil on canvas

Traditional Art

Red and Green
Medium: oil on canvas

The Last Unicorn
Medium: watercolor on paper

犬夜叉

Inuyasha
Medium: digital painting

Inuyasha from Rumiko Takahashi's manga and anime series...Inuyasha.

Draw This Again

Aerus
Medium: digital painting

Grayscale oil painting

Grayscale Still Life
Medium: oil on canvas

This is an oil study I did with only titanium white and lamp black. I turned the entire photo black and white to reduce the distractions from around the canvas, but it may have looked better beforehand.

Does all anthro looks like Disney?

The Old King
Medium: digital painting

Experimenting with brushes in Photoshop. :)

I recently posted this on DeviantArt, and the first comment said it reminds them of Simba from The Lion King. I don't understand, though, because I based this off of real life lion reference photos. I didn't give him eyebrows, eye rings, or even remotely human-like eyes. The eyes are lion eyes. The proportions and structure are real life lion anatomy, not based off of Disney. He's not even colored like Simba. It's only mildly anthropomorphized with a furrowed brow and downturned mouth. I'm curious what reminds people of Simba. I wonder if it's just because he's a lion with a facial expression. My friend on DeviantArt doesn't know why it reminds him of Simba, either, lol! 😂

Non-Verbal Learning Disorder

NLD
Medium: oil on canvas

An oil painting depicting non-verbal learning disorder. NLD people are very literal, so much so that others often misunderstand them by reading unintended meaning into their words. To an NLD person, understanding normal human speech is like constantly trying to crack a code. Interacting is exhausting, and while many NLD people truly love others, they usually need significant amounts of time alone to “recharge.” NLD people often hold views which many people consider to be contradictory because of the associations normal people make with those views. However, NLD people look at the views themselves rather than what people generally associate with them, and thus their views are not contradictory at all, but rather complimentary, like the colors in the painting.

Traditional Artwork

'Tis a Head
Medium: charcoal on paper

For Karissa
Medium: gouache on unprimed canvas

Goldfish
Medium: oil on canvas

Wolf

Dirty Paws
Medium: digital painting

Her dirty paws and furry coat,
She ran down the forest slope.
The forest of talking trees,
They used to sing about the birds and the bees.
The bees had declared a war,
The sky wasn't big enough for them all.
The birds, they got help from below,
From dirty paws and the creatures of snow.

So for a while things were cold,
They were scared down in their holes.
The forest that once was green
Was colored black by those killing machines.
But she and her furry friends
Took down the queen bee and her men.
And that's how the story goes,
The story of the beast with those four dirty paws!

-"Dirty Paws" by Of Monsters And Men

Castiel

Castiel
Medium: digital painting

"I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition." - Castiel, Angel of the LORD

For those who don't know, Castiel is a fictional angel from the television show Supernatural, and arguably the fanbase's favorite character. There's speculation about whether he's based off of the angel Cassiel (Quafsiel, Mocoton, etc.) in extra-Biblical lore, but the show's writers haven't revealed that yet, so it’s most likely that the Castiel character was inspired by Cassiel and other angels, but is not meant to be any particular angel in lore. I made his wings white with rainbow iridescence, because I don’t think of his wings as black, dark gray, or blue (that was just their shadow in season 4). I didn't want to make them just plain white, however, because Revelation and other books of the Bible describe rainbows in Heaven. It's not clear where the rainbows are coming from, but I figured iridescent wings would look fabulous either way! I also took inspiration from Mrs. Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time. I suspect she was representative of an angel.

“Now, don’t be frightened, loves,” Mrs Whatsit said. Her plump little body began to shimmer, to quiver, to shift. The wild colors of her clothes became muted, whitened. The pudding-bag shape stretched, lengthened, merged. And suddenly before the children was a creature more beautiful than any Meg had even imagined, and the beauty lay in far more than the outward description. Outwardly Mrs Whatsit was surely no longer a Mrs Whatsit. She was a marble white body with powerful flanks, something like a horse but at the same time completely unlike a horse, for from the magnificently modeled back sprang a nobly formed torso, arms, and a head resembling a man’s, but a man with a perfection of dignity and virtue, an exaltation of joy such as Meg had never before seen. No, she thought, it’s not like a Greek centaur. Not in the least.

From the shoulders slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry.

Calvin fell to his knees.

“No,” Mrs Whatsit said, though her voice was not Mrs Whatsit’s voice. “Not to me, Calvin. Never to me. Stand up.”

- A Wrinkle in Time, chapter 5


I wouldn't recommend Supernatural for everyone, certainly not underage people or those trying to figure out what they believe, but it is a fun show when taken as what it's meant to be: fiction. The characters are very interesting and well-written. None of them are 100% good or 100% bad, except maybe some of the monsters, of course. The show definitely has a sense of humor! It knows how to laugh at itself.

I haven't decided what I think of the show's portrayal of angels. Its portrayal of God is, well, how about NO, but with angels, it got some things right and some things wrong. One thing I definitely appreciated is how angels are portrayed as fearsome warriors rather than the fluffy fairies that pop culture depicts them as. 2 Kings 19:35 pretty much lays it out nicely. Angels are beast.



As with all my artwork, I don't mind this being shared on Pintrest, fansites, or other like websites, but if you see this picture anywhere without my signature and website URL in the bottom right-hand corner, then it has been stolen.

Leaping Leopard

Leopard Outside the Box

Medium: digital painting

Welsh Dragon

Great Red Dragon
Medium: digital painting

Native to Wales, Great Red Dragons are your classic, scaly, fire-breathing beasts. They always come in shades of red, from fire engine red to deep brick red. They are very large. Their dense scales and the heavy plating on their necks, underbellies, and legs give them incredible protection. They are very capable fliers.

Great Red Dragons are voracious eaters and prey mostly on large animals such as cattle, but have been known to prey on humans occasionally. They seem to enjoy playing with their food, similar to cats, so every now and then a person goes missing, usually a young woman, and it's assumed the local dragon has kidnapped her to "play with." Great Red Dragons also enjoy collecting shiny objects. They live in mountain caves and like to decorate their caves with all of their shiny trophies.

Great Red Dragons mate only once every hundred years or so, laying between one to three eggs.

Finding Dory

Just Keep Swimming
Medium: acrylic on primed cloth

Who's ready for Finding Dory? I don't know about you, but I can't wait! I hope us fans won't be let down. I'm so glad they kept as many voices the same as possible. I mean, come on, if they made Dory anyone other than Ellen Degeneres, it would be like "who's this person pretending to be Dory?"

Traditional Artwork

Stripes
Medium: watercolor paint
Second place winner at Bob Jones University Festival 

Hast Thou Given the  Horse Strength?
Medium: ink calligraphy on tea-soaked paper
Third place winner at Bob Jones University Festival

Lazy Leopard
Medium: acrylic paint

Black Stallion
Medium: watercolor paint

Watercolor Macaws

Snuggly Parrots
Medium: watercolor paint

Lioness

Huntress
Medium: Photoshop paint

Watercolor Paintings

These are not as gray and mono-valued as my scanner would like you to believe.



Swirls
Medium: watercolor paint and pen

Mommy
Medium: watercolor paint and pen

A Little Bit Fishy

Title: Comet Goldfish
Media: Acrylic paint on black

BJU Art Festival 2012

These are my three entries into the Bob Jones University Art Festival in 2012.

Title: The Doctor
Media: charcoal and graphite

 

 

 

Title: Dragon
Media: watercolor paint
Won third place in its catagory

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Genesis
Media: pen and tea
Won first place in its catagory

This is the first contest I have ever placed in in my entire life.  :O