The good shepherd and his sheep

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The good shepherd and his sheep, inspired by John 10:1-28. 

Original Chinese version drawn in 2008 (I think). 

Tools: Black marker and Photoshop

The kettle

A doodle from long time ago (May 2013) which has been recently rediscovered in my art folder. 

Tool: Corel Painter 

Summer sketch dump

Of procrastinative doodles produced whilst writing my dissertation, containing representations of self, friends, miscellaneous people, imagined people, characters, and a random castle in a lake. I still don't understand why the picture gets automatically dimmed. 

Tools: A mighty pencil; Corel painter.

Christian

Meet Christian, a pilgrim who journeys to the Celestial Country. 

Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep? 
Or wouldst thou in a moment laugh and weep? 
Wouldest thou lose thyself, and catch no harm, 
And find thyself again without a charm? 
Wouldst read thyself, and read thou knowst not what, 
And yet know whether thou art blest or not, 
By reading the same lines? O then come hither, 
And lay my book, thy head, and heart together. 

Tool: Corel Painter
Time: 1.5 hr
Christian based on the character by John Bunyan

人民不會忘記

昭雪六四

Pose sketch dump

I don't understand how/why when I upload pictures they are somehow automatically dimmed. This is slightly irritating. 

Tool: Pencil
References used, from various places on the internet i.e. Google.

Interlace

Inspired by Anglo-Saxon Style II art.

Tool: Corel Painter

Time: 2 hours (+cropped bits not presently shown)

New character...

... which came into existence accidentally.

I wanted to draw Wysg originally, and then realised I was in fact drawing someone new.

For the informed, you've probably noticed the (penannular, in fact) brooch which fastens the coat was clearly an Irish-Sea type common throughout Viking-Age Scotland. And although it isn't very clear, the sword was inspired by Viking swords as well. The Viking exhibition at the British Museum was really cool.

Hence, I think I'll name him Rhys or something, which sounds vaguely like Rus.

Tool: Corel Painter plus texture added with Photoshop
Time: more than I should spend. 2.5 hours?

Remember

Tool: Corel Painter
Time: 30 min

Llyr and Gwan (c) me

Untitled Afallon

More Afallon. He changes his outfit again.

Tool: Corel Painter
Time: 2 hours

Afallon (c) me

Another sketch

Right, should stop procrastinating and do something useful.

Time: 2 hours

Tool: Corel Painter

Characters (c) me

Sketch of Afallon

I wish I had more time to draw. 

I miss writing and illustrating stories.

Time: 1.5 hr
Tool: Corel Painter

Afallon (c) me

A girl with scarves

Unfinished painting from a few months ago. Left unfinished and unlikely to ever be finished. 

Tool: Corel Painter

The flute player

I am terribly sorry for the lack of updates lately. Life has been too wonderfully busy. However, I have dug up some old work that for some reason I have never published. I shall slowly upload them. Here is one. Originally painted in 2012 for a friend who eventually didn't use it as originally intended. 

Tool: Acrylics on canvas
Size: A4