This page features a couple of style examples from my commission sheet. They’re inspired by traditional pencils, etching and scratchboard art, OSR RPG styles, blackwork, or ink.
Most of them are digital, although I may use traditional as a base or for the initial roughs.
“For life be, after all, only a waiting for something else than what we’re doing, and death be all that we can rightly depend on.“
A grayscale digital sketch drawing of a vampire kissing a woman. Some elements are painted a bright, flat-toned red. The lines resemble ink, and the background has faded, low-opacity close-up of their kiss. Their full-bodies are depicted. The vampire man, to the left of the image, holds his dark cape up with his right hand. His cloak waves in the air and forms an angular bat or draconic wing shape. He has thick, curly and long black hair, angular eyebrows, and a goatee. He wears an intricately-drawn white vest with a red sash wrapped around his wait. He wears knee-high laced-up boots and his white trousers have a stripe with roses embroidered in them. His outfit is reminiscent of a toreador costume. The woman leans towards him. She wears a red blazer and skirt with pantyhose and tall high-heels. One of the shoes is about to fall from her toes, as she bent her leg up. Her left hand rests on the vampire’s vest, at the height of his ribs. The nails are painted red. Her hair is in a loosely-secured bun and is light-colored. The vampire’s left hand cradles the woman’s nape, with fingers touching her hair and ear.
The spell backfired.
“A close-up grayscale sketch of a female-presenting mermaid (Cara), with long wavy hair and a top covering her breasts. A giant man (Jacob) looms above her. Only his face and right hand are visible; his head seems to be as large as the mermaid’s entire torso. His fingers touch the woman’s arm, as her left-hand rests on the man’s right cheekbone. They seem relaxed, with neutral expressions and facing each other.
We wanted the lich character to feel extra odd and menacing, hence the cape oddly “leaking” from the door’s borders.
Final image
This is one of my favorite works from the batch.
