Sketch: Cecil

Cecil
Digital painting
2013

I play quite a lot of pen and paper RPG games, as befits a good nerd. I often sketch whilst I'm playing, when I'm feeling productive. In the future, I will post these sketches here, if they are any good. Here we have a character from my current (rather off-kilter) Cthulhu by Gaslight game, Cecil the Monkey, the safari-hunting medium Contessa Boccioni's tiny alcoholic sex-maniac sidekick.

The Golden Dawn

Golden Dawn
Digital painting
2013

More play with shadow, colour and rays.

X-Machine

X-Machine
Digital painting
2013

Redshift

Redshift
Digital painting
2013

The Dwarf Fortress Sketchbook

The first major project I undertook as DS Blake (though I didn't exactly know it at the time), was a collection of work inspired by the computer game Dwarf Fortress. I had just completed the first phase of my MA, and wanted to cleanse my artistic palate by doing something very different to the work I was doing at the time, that was more in keeping with the kind of work that lead me in to the world of art. I decided to give myself a fantasy illustration brief, to try and visualise a setting from scratch, using traditional media. When casting round for a subject, I wanted to choose something that did not already have a dominant visualistion; Dwarf Fortress, my favourite game, seemed a natural choice.

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My name is DS Blake. This blog is to post the fantasy and science-fiction art that I make when the mood takes me.