Pre-Xmas Clean Up Sale!
I’m offering 15% Off Everything in my Etsy Shop as part of my “Pre-Xmas Clean Up Sale!” – MyBeautifulMonsters Etsy Shop
New Prints, Original Artwork, and Plush Toys are being added daily!
Sale Ends Dec 1st
Tarzan
Tarzan – strong and wary. He is at one with the jungle.
An ink and watercolor piece I did earlier this year as a birthday present for my very dear and very talented artist friend. Find him on instagram – https://www.instagram.com/loopydavestuff/ and shower him with compliments and money
I wanted to capture the feel of old 3 color printed bookcovers using only yellow, green and black to build the image. I completely redrew the line work 4 times before I was happy with it.
Valkyrie
“She has come for me,
Moonlight is her face
Ravens, her cloak
Through the cold mist
On the now silent battlefield.
VALKYRIE”
I had this idea and sketched out a tiny scribbley thumbnail about a year ago. I started collecting reference images and refined the sketch. I would work on it when I got a chance but it wouldn’t look right. So I would leave it. I would restart again with the thumbnail. More reference. Restarting it again. And again. And again.
And then something clicked and I restarted and finished the painting in about a week. What clicked? Her wings couldn’t be majestically outspread, to be descending they would be pulled back and smaller. And the composition fell into place.
Art Nouveau Phoenix Print
A new print to add to my series of favourite women of X-men. These characters got me interested in comics and as a kid I always wished there were beautiful posters of them I could hang up in my room. Depicted as heroes to look up to not just sexy pin ups. So I am making them now.
Next in the series is Storm!
“Endure”
“Endure”
I started this piece as a Valentine. To all of the beautiful creative hearts, you are unstoppable, irrepressible, multifaceted and loved.
Ink & watercolor A3 cold pressed
Twisted: A Steampunk Skirmish Game – Counters & Tokens
I am very proud of these counter designs for the Twisted Game, especially the Art Nouveau style elemental tokens and the fire blast! The top down terrain tokens where something completely unlike anything else I have had to illustrate and were a really fun challenge.
A few of the counters are blanks for numbers, character states, etc… to be added once the rules had been finalised. I have seen the final counters printed and die-cut with the completed game and I think they turned out pretty cool.
New Ripley/Alien Prints
New Ripley/Alien Print!
This piece is for my dear friend Ellen- keep going, keep fighting.
I wanted try to create a tribute to the 1979 Alien film but I felt that the soft romantic Art Nouveau style that I love wouldn’t be appropriate. But the style of Aubrey Beardsley and H.R. Giger’s Xenomorphs had a certain harmony.
Knowing that both artist studied architecture I found inspiration for the composition in the depictions of St George in church windows.
I will have a limited number of A3 posters of this piece at Oz Comic-con Melbourne on July 1-2. Find me at Table 66 near the “Comic District”.
Team Arrow Commission
Something a bit different from my usual style – this is a commission I finished recently for a Green Arrow fan combining his favourite versions of Team Arrow.
In the future he plans to get a version of this illustration as a tattoo so it was very important to get all of the details right!
It is always fun to draw superheros. It reminds me of how much I loved comics growing up and the hours I pored over them and the hours and hours I spent drawing the characters from them.
The characters depicted belong to their respective copyright holders.
Original “Princess Leia” Painting Auction
There are only a few days left to place a bid on my original painting “Princess Leia” for The Force Kick Brain Cancer charity auction.
My piece can be found here>
This is for the original ink and watercolor artwork not a print. The pieces comes framed and the artwork measures 340 x 480 mm.
Follow this Ebay Link to see all of the great artwork donated to support awareness and funding to cure brain cancer.
Kiki’s Delivery Service Prints
Kiki’s Delivery Service is one of my favourite movies. She is so hopeful and brave, dreaming and finding her way. The conversation between her and her friend about magic and art needing inspiration struck a cord.
“Stop trying. Take long walks. Look at scenery. Doze off at noon. Don’t even think about flying. And then, pretty soon, you’ll be flying again.” – Ursula
I will be selling prints of this painting at Supanova to go with my Princess Mononoke tribute painting I did last year.
Find me and both prints at Table 74 in the Grand Pavilion!
