No pleasin'

David

I'll say one thing for the two train wrecks that are Prometheus and Alien Covenant... they did give us the very beautiful and deeply disturbing prototype synthetic, David.
An android so spectacularly hard to please that he eliminated the population of an entire planet simply because they disappointed him.

'I tell you that it's sad but true... there's just no pleasin' you'
(Boom! Bap! Pow! - No Pleasin')

What makes a girl?

Miss Morgan

When I told my friend who is a huge Merlin fan that I was going to be painting only ladies for a month she looked mightily unimpressed for a few moments and then replied 'You'll just have to do Colin Morgan as a girl then. And somehow I just couldn't the image out of my head. So here is Miss Morgan. Face number two for the 29 faces. And yes, I know it probably looks like a young boy... I'm trying, ok.

Lay lady lay...

Milk

Hey, it's February! And that means it's once again time for the '29 Faces'. My challenge to myself this time to paint... ladies. It has been remarked upon on several occasions that I don't really do that... at all. There's no particular reason for this, I just like painting guys. So, ladies it is this time. With one little loop hole. I have compiled a list of a few special fellas of whom I might throw in a few as the month progresses.
Anyways... here' my first face. I went for a slightly androgynous Tilda Swinton-esque look, just to easy myself into it ;-)

Golden blondie

Golden Blond

It has been weeks without achieving much painting. I'm just too tired. I can't actually remember how it feels to not be tired. I feel like I'm on constant autopilot, carrying out tasks that have already been pre-programmed into my brain... but anything that requires actual creative thinking is beyond me at the moment. So instead, here's a little study I made for a character painting session a few weeks back. We didn't have a lot of time, so for now I've left his shirt unfinished. The Christmas break can't come soon enough.

Watched 'Aliens'...

... fell in love.

Artificial person in progress

'Know what?' my brother said. 'You should paint Bishop from Aliens' he said. 'It'll be fun' he said.
Yeah... thanks a ton bro'... Here we blinkin' go again... Obsession is go, go GO!

Wip of my favourite android... I mean, artificial person ;-)

Blowing a gale...

Aichel - wip

Sooo... I'm still not done with this one. I'm slowly getting into the skin detailing... I've got a bit stuck on the hair though. It's becoming somewhat windswept... which is ok... I'm just not sure if i like the overall look of it. And I'm experimenting with a stubbly beard thing. It's a bit all over the place.
I blame Merlin... It's got me distracted.

Labour of love...

Aichel - wip

Aichel is one of those funny characters who plays such a huge role in the story although he isn't actually in it. But everything that happens was set in motion by him, and all because of those he loved and those who loved him. He was the man with the plan, and even though he knew the plan would have to involve him dying he never strayed from it, much to the annoyance of those he left behind. Partially because they deeply mourned his loss and partially because he wasn't really one for leaving clear instructions.
I've only attempted painting him once before and he just didn't look right. Mainly because I couldn't quite see him. But then James McAvoy popped up on Tumblr the other day and the fog seems to have started to lift.
But I'm tired now and must go sleep.
Work in progress... just add it to the pile ;-)

Mr Magic

Raynfalg y Rhinwyr

Finished it. So there. Yes. Enjoy:-)

Dynamite with a laser beam...

Raynfalg y Rhinwyr

Yes, so the post title isn't really related to the image, except I was listening to 'Killer Queen' while I was painting.
This is another one of Mr Magic - Raynfalg the visually impaired sorcerer. My first painting for 2014, finished on my last evening on hols in Denmark... The little bamboo gone done well.
Enjoy :-D

The answer is up there... Just keep looking!

Freyn - still wip

Man, I wish it was. Progress is slow at the moment. Work is just mad... I just come home and collapse every night... when I don't have to go singing of course. I've attempted several evenings of painting. I actually fell asleep in front of the computer. Now there's a first! And my earache has returned... in both ears this time... yay:-( Not a happy bunny right now. But here is what little progress there is. I'm getting seriously fed up with this one, so I might just leave it for a while.
And why does it look so mentally, acidly green on-line?

At your fingertips...

Fingertips

Finally finished my little handventure. Enjoy:-)

Moerk Daag - Necromancer with a sunny disposition

Moerk Daag - wip

So here's a wip of Moerk Dag, necromancer with a sunny disposition... and he'll need it too since he's been imprisoned inside a dragon for over a decade and still haven't figured out a way to get out. Moerk is the baddie in a little story I made up involving dragons, wizards, sorcerers, elfs, dwarfs, nasty monsters and generally lots of middle earthy kinda things. And to make me feel a bit better about Thorin and nephews croaking it in the Hobbit, in my story no dwarfs die - at least not permanently... and one of them even gets the girl in the end... Yes I know that the moral of the Hobbit and the journey of the characters rather require the the ending that it has... I get it... But I'm a sucker for happy endings... In my story the dwarfs live... Look at all the majestic f***s I give.

The return of Mr Jones

Brian Jones in progress

I may have been preoccupied with the Hobbit recently and fancying the pants off the King in waiting under the Mountain... but there's still room for Brian Jones. There will always be room for Brain Jones, dagnammit!
Work in progress. Enjoy:-)

Well-bred Brian...

Brian Jones

So I got fed up with the knitwear... Let's hope the weather doesn't change for the worse;-) Haven't quite decided if I'm done with this one yet. We shall see.

Sympathy for Mr Jones

Mr Jones

I it seems a bit impolite to complain about the weather when summer weather like this is so rare... but I'm just not made for the heat. For days now it's been racing past 30 degrees Celsius... I believe that's around 86 Fahrenheit. And it makes me muggy in the head and dizzy. Though some would say I always seem muggy in the head;-)
I've been trying paint for days... and I just couldn't manage. Yeah, call me a wuss, I'm a Scandi... made for the cold.
Anyhoo... here's the first draft of Brian. Still a long way to go... but it's the first I've managed for days, so there.

Don't come around here no more...

Thomas Earl

So... as mentioned earlier, there was a reason I chose to backtrack a bit and paint the Earl in his late teens. The Earl's father was a really nasty piece of work, particularly when he'd been drinking. He never did like his oldest son much. Thought he was a girlie looking push-over, and so had a habit of regularly pushing him over... with his fists. Luckily he stepped out onto rail tracks in in a drunken stupor, right in front of a train. Nothing left but his shoes. 'All is well that ends well' as the Earl likes to point out.

I've wanted to practice bruises and such for a while so the Earl's troubled childhood seemed like a good place to start.
Here he is below, sans injuries. See, it's all just done with a Wacom pen;-)

Thomas Earl

Finger paint

Still not done with this one... but there is some progress. So here's another wip. Enjoy:-)

A suitable suit...

Got a bit s stuck with the outfit... but I thought I'd post another, newer wip of this seeing as there has been some changes to the face. Also, I'm currently not sure about the background and the hair either... I need some sleep, I think:-)

Hybrid Holmes

Sherlock

Sherlock - close-up

Well, it's been quite the Holmes bonanza recently watching my box-set with Jeremy Brett, the films with Downey Jr. and of course the newest addition with Cumberbatch... and because it's hard to pick a favourite... I shan't! Instead I doodled a sketch which incorporated some of my favourite Holmes features from his various incarnations and painted it in PS.
I hope you like him:-)

A battle of hands

I realised recently that I love drawing hands... but I don't love painting them quite so much. So I dug out an old sketch with hands to do battle. ... and true to form I've been approaching the hands in much the same way that you poke suspiciously with your fork at a piece of food on your plate that you're not quite sure if you want to eat or not. Very much work in progress still, but seeing as I've posted nuttin' atoll for the past 10 days due to a splendid visit from my parents I thought I'd post this one for the time being.