(2B pencil on 100mm x 80mm paper) |
A decent little drawing based around H P Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. It depicts what a modern inhabitant of Innesmouth would probably look like.
Welcome to the online gallery of Skav Art. Feel free to browse some of the artworks and learn more about it. There's a good chance you might find something you like.
(Fineliner on 115mm x 87mm paper) |
A grumpy dwarf wizard, travelling with his feathery familiar.
This piece was done to try out some cheap gel fineliner pens I'd just bought, and they seem to work quite well, giving a good line and a decent opaque finish to the black areas. Not bad considering they're 3 for £1!
(2B pencil on 120mm x 105mm paper) |
This one turned out to be a good example of a Skav Art piece. It started out as a simple doodle which was worked on to a more finished level. And, like other Skav Art works I've done, it holds out that possibility of being something more. That I could use it as a base to create a more processed and pristine piece. The danger there, though, is that it would lose that raw creative energy that it has. Putting an initial idea through that design process, chopping and changing along the way, tends to do that. You end up with something which is muted, hammered away by further process.
This is what Skav Art rejects as it focuses more on that first raw idea.
TECHFERNUM is a word which describes a hellish reality of out of control technology which torments and degrades humanity more than it does aid it. The image above depicts an insane techfernum sorcerer, harnessing "magic" he clearly doesn't understand.
(HB Pencil on 120mm x 90mm paper) |
For the artwork and story for this year's Christmas card, I've focused on a hapless stand-up comedian, and how not believing in fairies can be very bad for your health!
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(0.18 technical pen on card) |
Cleaning out an old technical pen, I decided to use the diluted ink that remained to do a couple of small bookmarks on off-cut pieces of card I had. Each measures roughly 11 cm in height and, even they're basic images, they took a while to do with diluted ink in a 0.18 technical pen!
Fighting Fantasy Spoof: Page VII |
(2B pencil on 150mm x 126mm paper) |
Still continuing with my little celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, I created this little character: "Milton Keen" (who's from Milton-Keynes) and bumps into the player whilst playing the same "solo adventure" gamebook!
What he lacks in friends, he more than makes up for in body odour.
Fighting Fantasy Spoof Page VI |
(2B pencil on 158mm x 128mm paper) |