犬夜叉

Inuyasha
Medium: digital painting

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

殺生丸

Sesshomaru
Media: digital painting

Inuyasha is copyright Rumiko Takahashi.

Draw This Again

Aerus
Medium: digital painting

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! 😂

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.

Snowy Cougar

Snowy Cougar
Medium: acrylic on canvas

Charcoal Portrait

Window
Medium: charcoal

Self Portrait

Self Portrait

Medium: digital drawing

Voyager

Captain Janeway
Medium: graphite pencil

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Watch Eyes

Medium: colored pencil

Won first place in the Drawing category at Bob Jones University's 2013 High School Festival.

Dartmoor Pony and foal sketch

Dreadlocks
Medium: Charcoal



Frolic Foal
Medium: graphite pencil

 

Wolverine

Wolverine
Medium: Photoshop paint

My original plan was to take the character from the films and draw him in the comic-book Marvel style, but with my unsteady hands and no pen tool there was no way to make a decent outline on the claws. Even as it is their edges aren't even. But that's life!

Snowy Wolf

Snowy Wolf
Medium: colored pencil

As with most traditional pieces, this did not scan very well.

Pencil Drawings

Medium: Graphite and pencil



Extemporaneous drawing for an art contest. Contestants are given a limited amount of time to draw a random object, hence the rushed look. Unfortunately one of the criteria was to draw the entire object, although I only heard "make a nice composition." Oh well. That's life.
Medium: Graphite pencil

 

It's a Lion. Enough said.

Lion Portrait
Pen and ink

Toffee

Title: Toffee

Media: Photoshop paint

This is another portrait of one of my friend's horses.



Merry Christmas!

Title: Christmas Matilda

Media: Photoshop Paint

This was drawn from a photo I took of a horse named Maltilda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Christmas Pony

Media: Colored Pencil



Spirit

Here is a portrait of one of my friends' horses, Spirit...

Title: Spirit

Media: Photoshop Paint

Illustrative Portraits

Hey, y'all! I just finished two character portraits.

Title: Aerus Ayatomukoshio

Media: Photoshop paint

 

Aerus is one of my own characters. He's a Romulan from Star Trek. The gist of his story is that he defected from the Empire and joined the Federation, hence the melding of the two symbols in the background. If you're a true nerd, you know what I'm talking about. ;)
I'm well aware of the anotomical errors but seeing as I have more important things to work on, I may or may not get around to fixing this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Rhys

Media: Photoshop paint

 

This is my idea of Rhys from Gail Carson Levine's The Two Princesses of Bamarre. I always find it a little sad that he isn't on the cover, considering that he played such a large role in the story (and he's just awesome), so I decided to give him a little recognition.

Do you still wanna marry him, Allie?

Traditional Drawings

Here's more stuff! These are traditional pieces that I scanned in.  :)

Title: Little Furry Dragon

Media: graphite pencil

 

Title: Winged Panther

Media: pen and ink

This was an art request from one of my friends!