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a traditional painting of herons in flight among trees, green, pink and white hues

I painted herons in flight. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

My highest of recommends for this game -- and a little drawing inspired by it! ❤️‍🔥
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Jan's art for KROMLECH is incredibly cool and inspiring, and this team could use some eyes on the game during its early access 🙏

A page from my sketchbook, 3 drawings of flower chafer beetle and 1 grub.

Sketchbook page.

Photo of a goose begging for snacks

Photo of a goose guarding his wife

the two faces of goose:
"give me snacks"
and
"get the fuck away from my wife"

same and really it's why I was a terrible concept artist. Turning up to meetings and unhelpfully saying "but it doesn't mean anything" 🫤

Cover art for City of Beasts, part of the Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar Series by Isabel Allende, the image features a python and a jaguar angrily tangled around each other

Here's the full art without the text! Prints available here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/ashm...

perfect solution to any problem

ah that's guaranteed! a historical visual novel with gardening mechanics is basically my ideal game

Save 20% on The Abbess Garden on Steam Cozy third-person gardening in 1643 France. As Agnès, restore a forbidden abbey garden, grow and identify real plants through the seasons, uncover a spy plot, help the community, and find romance.

I'm going to play @edwigelel.bsky.social's The Abbess Garden instead 😌 store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...

Oh no, I did the landscape equivalent of just drawing one very detailed eye

wip digital painting of a dank corner in the forest

When you intend to work on your painting from yesterday but you look at it and don't know what to do because today you're a different person

maybe... if I ever convince a wren to step into a sunbeam in front of my camera

digital painting of a barn owl

digital painting of a buzzard

digital painting of a kestrel

Last year I decided to put my health first and take an extended break from paid illustration. I found I had an inexplicable compulsion to document all the birds I can see from my house in the most time consuming way possible.

Some predators:

only 5 years to wear a lab coat (??) to work and participate in history like that? seems like a bargain!

I wasn't sure about including the barn owl because while I definitely saw a large white bird flying past a few times at 16:45 on a winter evening it's hard to say with certainty what it was! But there's one living in the woods nearby that's often seen hunting by day - maybe you'll see another weirdo

I do, usually something like 7000 px or more on the longest side. I like to zoom in to 100% so I feel like I'm working really big and can be loose with brush strokes. Then on my second monitor I have the same file zoomed to print size so I can check I'm not going completely insane with detail

Thank you!

I'm honoured!

It really depends, not including shooting the reference could be anywhere between 7 and 40 hours of painting

oh maybe! I don't get many sales on there and shipping makes it too expensive to order test prints so I don't update frequently. If you requested something I'd probably upload it (but also like.. no pressure to actually order haha)

screenshot of an unticked list of birds: great tit, grey heron, pink footed goose, herring gull, carrion crow, lapwing, peregrine, sparrowhawk, blackcap, gold crest, wren, redwing, sparrow, goldfinch, pheasant

Still got a couple left to paint tho...

digital painting of a blue tit

digital painting of a long tailed tit

Some tiny guys

I did get an a3 test print of that egret done but I wasn't all that into how it looked - something about the glowing white that looks great on a screen but I wasn't feeling it on paper. I was thinking of testing an A4 print in my next round of proofs

digital painting of a song thrush

Digital painting of a dunnock

Digital painting of a juvenile starling

Digital painting of a collared dove

Some slightly smaller guys

digital painting of a little egret

digital painting of a cormorant

digital painting of a little egret in water

Some guys who belong at the beach but I see either flying past or joining the herring gulls looking for worms in the fields

ah thank you, I was also that sort of child so I have always hoped to bring that energy to my work!

digital painting of a jackdaw

digital painting study of a Eurasian jay

Digital painting of a magpie

Digital painting of a magpie

Here are some corvids

digital painting of a barn owl

digital painting of a buzzard

digital painting of a kestrel

Last year I decided to put my health first and take an extended break from paid illustration. I found I had an inexplicable compulsion to document all the birds I can see from my house in the most time consuming way possible.

Some predators:

ah I'm sad to learn about your dog! Seemed like such a sweetie from your photos.

Once winter ends and the days get longer it might be easier to get a selt motivated outdoor routine going

Working on my worldbuilding !

'The Priory of Cilanti was built on the highest promontory of the Azurin-Talon, offering a unique panorama of the Crab-Claw Bay. It is a major pilgrimage site for the Mage-priests of the region and a nesting area for turquoise parakeets before their winter migration.'