Lokrum Story Concepts: Ravenous Red Cap Details

A sort of final design for the Red Caps, and unlike my imps who haven't gotten a revamped painting yet, I will give details on its backstory. Tradiationally they are a vague "faerie" mythical creature resembling a brutish old man with red eyes and a red cap soaked with blood from the many they kill on sight to preserve their immortality. That illustrates the challenge I had in toning that down and fitting it into my omnibus of creatures native to my fictional island. The imps and other species emulate their specific appearances by utilizing the surrounding flora as part of their bodies, so I tried putting that into the red caps too, who are more consumption based than symbiotic with the plants. As walking fireplaces, they need to eat organic material constantly to stay alive, but over-consumption literally lights them on fire, destroying everything around them and often times reduces them to ash as well. Its an existence based on control and relatively uneasy relationships with the other (very flammable) natives who fear the red caps.

 Based on charred wood, chimneys, and devils on its appearance. Not finalized.

 The Red Caps tradiitonally were found in abandoned castles, but I may need something more suiting for my ashen giants, so far from finalized. ...It was still fun to paint more thickly in my moleskine though.
Alright next concepts will be more final looks for my imps.

Lokrum Story Concepts: Sketch Batch1

Small dump of a flying imp and concepts for the usually murderous creatures Red Caps as more tame versions.

also loving this more symcopated drawing method used in this third page.

Lokrum Story Concepts 3: watercolor color studies1

The acrylic landscapes weren't working out so well stylistically so I'm going a slower route starting with rather tame environment watercolors based on the lokrum flora before doing larger fantastic landscapes, so expect more along the way.

Lokrum Story concepts 2 update at last

The first batch of both an environment and rough character concepts from over the week, the environment still being in a WIP stage. 

                                                      Rocky shore based on Lokrum Isle

                                                   Imp/ nymph concepts, one of two main characters

Young strapping sailor concept, second of main characters...kind of

Drawing in ink on watercolor paper, sketches in graphite, character paintings in acrylic over ink and watercolor on moleskine. Designs overall prone to change over time.

Lokrum Story concepts 1

This is amongst best the fruit of the last 4 days sketching and writing in the early stages of planning, and its only been this first scene out of many that I have sketched out so far!

(Imp makes it seem too small in my opinion)

 One of two main character called the "Imp" found in the above drawing, more characters will be revealed as scenes are sketched first initially.
More to come.

Lokrum Isle Story Roughs

A bunch of water color pencil sketches from Lokrum Island, Croatia done back in May for both technical studies and roughs for a picture book concept inspired by the idyllic look of the island itself. More should come from this in the coming weeks.

Something Hairy

My version of the cover for an interesting book about a sideshow thin man, completely redone from my initial failing last winter at trying to create a styling while still making a hoard of lady facial hair look good.

Will continue to play with lighting and texture, but otherwise is done.

Croatian Sketch Portraits

Touched up some sketches from my lovely spring in Dubrovnik. Mix of pencil, ink, and watercolor.

Line Art Dump, Everyone's Favorite

A freshly re-cleaned line art for a book cover assignment originally done back in the winter, reskinned for a second attempt. Guess the novel.

...annnnnd tossing in the black and white line art of Charlie from the flats concept a week ago.