Empire of the Tropics is one of my favourite ongoing series from Aegeon, second only to The Dream God. Despite giving it my best effort, I feel like my illustration doesn’t do justice to the fantastical weirdness of the stories.
It’s non-stop action in ‘Beyond the Pale’, the lead story in Aegeon #9 by Brendan Heard. In this image, I tried to convey the sense of high-speed motion using ProCreate’s perspective drawing aid.
It seems that Max Ryan has gotten himself into quite a pickle! Will he escape his jailors, or rot in the conqueror’s dungeon? The only way to find out is to read Aegeon #9, either as paperback, or now also as a Kindle version.
As the era of manned military aviation is slowly drawing to a close, it was nice to reminisce about its beginnings, thanks to a story by C.P.Webster I had the privilege of illustrating. And since Aegeon stories usually involve an aspect of the fantastical, you know it’s not just about WW1 and biplanes.
Long time no see, my esteemed visitors (both of you).
Aegeon #9 spent a lot more time in the oven than it was supposed to! Now it’s finally here, as you can see above (miniature bust of Homer provided for size reference). Not only that, it’s number-fucking-one in new short story releases on Amazon!
In the following days, I shall post some of the images I contributed to this issue, even though I’m busy working on a super-secret project.
This is possibly the weirdest illustration I made for Dullahan – Samhradh, and the last one I’m going to post here. To see the others, you’ll have to buy the book! It shows the three monstrous ‘Gods of Art’ who came out of the underworld to reclaim magical instruments that were stolen from them. Charming fellows.
Here’s Devlin, one of the main characters from Dullahan – Samhradh, demonstrating a concept by spilling perfectly good wine. Pig, the living severed head, is probably thinking ‘What a terrible waste. I wish I still had a stomach, I could really use a drink right now.’
‘You saved me,’ says Niamh to Dullahan, her fatherly protector, as they rest by the cozy fire. ‘Pig’, the magically animated severed head, looks on.
This is one of the 13 interior illustrations for the recently published book Dullahan – Samhradh, which I illustrated.
I can finally reveal the reason I haven’t been updating the site in a while: I was working on a book! Cover plus 13 internal illustrations. It’s a historical fantasy novel called Dullahan – Samhradh by @whitepillmedia, based on Irish mythology. It’s well written, sometimes weird (in a good way) and really quite unique. You can read the first chapter for free here. I’ll be posting a couple of the internal illustrations here in the following days.
