#hashtalent
Then like a sinner before the gates of Heaven
I’ll come crawling on back to you…
~ Jim Steinman
Micheal Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, one of the stand out performers of his generation.
Meat Loaf put rock opera firmly on the map with performances only rivalled by Queen.
This is my tribute, which fittingly lend itself to my Red Series of portraits.
#Meatloaf #meatloafmusic #RobertPaulson #BatOutOfHell #portraits #sketch_daily #sketchbook #Staedtler #Strathmore #hashtalent #portraitstudy #portrait_perfection #academic_artworks (at Donaghadee)
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Freezin’
Rests his head on a pillow made of concrete again
Oh, feelin’
Maybe he’ll see a little betters, any days…
~ Pearl Jam “Even Flow”
An almost finished idea I’ve been toying with for almost a year of musicians in traditional stained glass windows.
My first attempt features Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder.
This is my second piece using Clip Studio Paint.
#EddieVedder #PearlJam #StainedGlass #Grunge #Music #Musician #hash_talent (at Donaghadee)
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Cover me with kisses, baby
Cover me with love
Roll me in designer sheets
I’ll never get enough
Emotions come, I don’t know why
Cover up love’s alibi…
~ Blondie “Call Me”
After installing Clip Studio Paint yesterday I thought I’d give it a bash. This is my attempt at Debbie Harry, lead singer of 70s, 80s and 90s New Wave sensation Blondie.
#DebbieHarry #Blondie #Punk #NewWave #portrait #ClipStudio #ClipStudioPaint #portrait_perfection #Illustration #illustrateyourworld #illustrationartists #hash_talent (at Donaghadee)
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“No Centaurs here, or Gorgons look to find,
My subject is of man, and human kind.”
~ Robert Burton "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
Just a little sketchbook piece.
#Centaur #Sketch #sketchbook
#sketch_daily #fantasy #fantasyart #artshare #hash_talent #illustration #illustrateyourworld #inktober #pendrawing (at Donaghadee)
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You’re in hell, and you’re gonna die in hell, just like the rest of ‘em!
~ Travis Bickle
Portrait of Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 gritty classic “Taxi Driver”.
Drawn on Strathmore Toned Tan paper using Pentel Graphgear mechanical pencil and Staedtler Mars Micro Color red lead.
#DeNiro #Scorsese #TaxiDriver #TravisBickle #portrait #artshare #sketch_daily #pro_artey #hash_talent #Pentel #Staedtler #Strathmore #artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld (at Donaghadee)
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I’m worth a million in prizes
With my torture film
Drive a G.T.O.
Wear a uniform
All on a government loan…
~ Iggy Pop “Lust For Life”
This was a fun, spare of the moment, sketch of the incredible James Newell Osterberg Jr., best known as Iggy Pop who launched onto the music scene with The Stooges back in the late 1960s.
Drawn on Strathmore Toned Tan paper using Pentel Graphgear mechanical pencil and Staedtler Mars Micro Color red lead.
#IggyPop #TheStooges #LustForLife #portrait #sketch #Strathmorepaper #Staedtler #hash_talent (at Donaghadee)
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May the Force be with you… always
~ Obi-Wan Kenobi
Finished piece, ready for some restyling.
#StarWars #ObiWanKenobi #fanart #fantasyart #hash_talent #AlecGuinness #jedi #jedimaster #anewhope (at Donaghadee)
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“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
~ Obi-Wan Kenobi
Work In Progress
Around halfway through this latest piece of Sir Alec Guinness in his iconic role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: A New Hope 1977.
#StarWars #original #ObiWanKenobi #fanart #scifi #scifiart #AlecGuinness #artshare #portraits #portrait_perfection #hash_talent #arts_help #artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld (at Donaghadee)
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Say you stayed home
Alone with the flu
Find out from friends
That wasn’t true
Go out at night
With your headphones on again
And walk through
The Manhattan valleys of the dead
Didn’t want to be your ghost
Didn’t want to be anyone’s ghost…
~ The National
Staying with the Irish Faerie theme, this is my interpretation of the Banshee.
A banshee is a female spirit in Irish folklore who heralds the death of a family member, usually by wailing, shrieking, or keening. Her name is connected to the mythologically important tumuli or “mounds” that dot the Irish countryside, which are known as síde in Old Irish.
Drawn using Krita.
#Banshee #Irish #Folklore
#Faerie #Fairy #mythology #Celtic #celticfolklore #Ireland #Scotland #Ulster #illustrationartists #illustrateyourworld #ExploreNI #DiscoverNI #irishpassion #wanderireland #loves_ireland #hash_talent #krita #huion #fantasy #horror #gothic (at Donaghadee)
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Saturday
Afternoon, the sunshine
Pours like wine
Through your window
And I know
Golden June can turn
An empty gray
Against your window
And I feel like
I’m on the outside
Of the circle…
~ Ocean Colour Scene
A little variation on my previous post which, I feel, sets it off rather well.
#Pooka #púca #IrishMythology
#Folklore #Celtic #artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld #hash_talent #igart #share_sketches #7artgallery #digitalart #krita #huion #fantasy #illustration #digitalpainting #Harvey #Fairy #Faerie #Goblin #dungeonsanddragonsart #arts_help #irishpassion #wanderireland #loves_ireland #DiscoverNI #ExploreNI
(at Donaghadee)
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“Always”
Prints of Professor Snape now available in my newly reactivated Etsy shop.
#HarryPotter #ProfessorSnape #ArtPrints #ArtPrintsForSale #universalstudios #Wizard #Always #FanArt #AlanRickman #Hogwarts #Etsy #etsyukseller #caricature #hash_talent #artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld #illustration #illustrationartists (at Donaghadee)
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Some detail of a my latest commission and 23rd April is an apt day to post a little progress picture.
The story of St.George is a muddle of fact and legend. The actual person arrived in ancient Britain some 1800 years ago, with the invading Roman Empire, he was of Cappadocian decent and died in 303 AD in Nicomedia.
The knights returning from the first Crusade spoke of St.George, St.Theodore and St.Demetrius joining them in battle and these tales introduced the story of the dragon slaying.
This was the imagery I have settled for, hopefully it will turn out well.
#WIP #digitalart #krita #huion #fantasy #illustration #dragon #Dragonart #D&D #StGeorge #Military #SaintGeorgesDay #Knight #Assassin #hash_talent #igart #share_sketches
(at Donaghadee)
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We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy… able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.
~Morrie Schwartz
Added a little bit more colour to my portrait drawing of Willie Nelson, I think it helps bring it to life.
#WillieNelson #Country #Cowboy #HighwayMan #artistsoninstagram #arts_help #hash_talent #igart #portrait_perfection #pencilsketch #freehand #digitalart #krita #huion (at Donaghadee)
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
~ John Steinbeck
This is just some of the stages when creating my latest painting.
#Krita #huion #fantasy #illustration #hash_talent #artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld #illustrationartists #jackalope #criptid #wyoming #dakota #mythology #kritaartist #arts_help #conceptdesign #art_spotlight
Music: Torchlight
Musician: Winter Foe
URL:https://icons8.com/music/ (at Donaghadee)
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“There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.”
~ Richard Adams, Watership Down
Snowy Jackalope
My latest painting and a further test of skill using this new medium. Quite a few hours in this piece and the most detailed painting I have done using Krita with over 20 layers to help create a realistic fur effect.
#jackalope #criptid #wyoming #dakota #krita #huion #fantasy #artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld #illustrationartists #art_daily #pro_artey #hash_talent #creaturedesign #creatuanary #digitalart #digitalpainting #freehand (at Donaghadee)
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Yet, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live…swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes. He is eloquent and persuasive, and once his words had even power over my heart; but trust him not. His soul is as hellish as his form, full of treachery and fiend-like malice.
~ Mary Shelley
Boris Karloff as probably one of the most iconic movie monsters of all time in Frankenstein, 1931.
This painting started off as a quick practice but I enjoyed it so much I spent an extra hour or so to finish it.
Drawn using Krita.
#TheMonster #Frankenstein #Horror #creaturedesign #artshare #digitalartwork #illustration #hash_talent #igart #share_sketches #artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld #moviegeek #iconic #monsteramonday #monsterart #Krita #Huion #kritaart (at Donaghadee)
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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.
~ Herman Melville
A little bit more time and care with this latest painting.
This is Donaghadee’s iconic lighthouse, built in the early 1800s and earning the town the it’s reputation as “The beacon of the coast ”.
Drawn exclusively using Krita from a photograph taken two years ago from the North Pier at low tide.
#artistsoninstagram #sketch_daily #share_sketches #hash_talent #igart #illustrateyourworld #illustrationartists #art_daily #art_spotlight #digitalart #krita #huion #digitalpainting #lighthouse #DiscoverNI #ExploreNI #irishpassion (at Donaghadee)
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And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you
That I’m tired of Castles in the Air
I’ve got a dream I want the world to share an’ castle walls
Just leave me to despair
Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky
A dream come true, I’ll live there ‘til I die
I’m asking you, to say my last goodbye
The love we knew, ain’t worth another try…
~ Don McLean
The Moat, Donaghadee.
Built in 1818 to house dynamite being used to blast out a new seabed for the newly planned harbour, this miniature castle was built on the site of a Norman motte & bailey.
It has formed a part of the Donaghadee skyline ever since.
Drawn from a photo I had taken last summer and coloured using Krita.
#artistsoninstagram #illustrateyourworld #hash_talent #igart #share_sketches #Irish #Ulster #DiscoverNI #purenorthernireland #loves_ireland #ExploreNI #digitalart #krita #huion #illustrationartists (at Donaghadee)
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On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We’re the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning our way
And our way
Is on the road again
I just can’t wait to get on the road again
The life I love is makin’ music with my friends
And I can’t wait to get on the road again…
~ Willie Nelson
#WillieNelson #Strathmore #strathmorepaper #Pentel #Graphgear #hash_talent #pencilsketch #pencilart #freehand #sketch #sketchbook #sketch_daily #share_sketches #portrait_perfection #magic_of_graphite #art_daily #art_spotlight #artistsoninstagram #arts_help #arts_gate #freehand #willdraworg (at Donaghadee)
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When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark…
At the end of a storm
There’s a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark…
~ Rodgers & Hammerstein
Finished sketch of Liverpool FC No.4 Virgil van Dijk. I am enjoying this new experimentation with light and shade and seeing the dramatic effects that can be created.
Drawn on Strathmore Toned Tan paper using Staedtler Mars Lumograph graphite pencils and General’s Charcoal White pencil.
#Virgil #VirgilVanDijk #LFC #LiverpoolFC #pencilsketch #pencilart #freehand #sketch #lightandshade #hash_talent #igart #artacademy #artistsoninstagram #art_daily #pro_artey #pencilsacademy #share_sketches #7artgallery #companyofarts #pencilshading #globesartists #arts_help #arts_gate #football #portrait_perfection #magic_of_graphite
(at Donaghadee)
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“A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.”
~ Bill Shankly
Another quick sketch, to be detailed and highlighted tomorrow, on Strathmore Toned Tan paper.
This is Virgil van Dijk, the saddly missing CB stalwart of Liverpool FCs back line.
#Virgil #VirgilVanDijk #4 #LFC #YNWA #pencilsketch #pencilart #freehand #sketch #sketchbook #sketch_daily #share_sketches #7artgallery #hash_talent #igart #artacademy #artistsoninstagram #arts_help #arts_gate #art_daily #pro_artey #portrait_perfection #magic_of_graphite #drawings_academy #fanart (at Donaghadee)
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