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.
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.
One of the many downsides of summoning an evil elder god is that he’s going to eat all of your best dating prospects. This rather suggestive illustration is for the short story ‘Astarsoth Prince of Dusk’ by Hermanubis O’Rourke, published in Aegeon issue 8.
‘Vjarn and the Sword of Ghebli’ is a fantasy story reminiscent of the first epics and legends of antiquity. The demi-god character Vjarn is given the task to steal a mythical sword guarded by an immensely powerful frog-like water elemental, who rules over his own artificial ocean the size of a solar system. No single-sentence description will do this story justice, you’ll just have to read it in Aegeon 5.