Don's Illustration Blog

Have been talking about writing a story for comics for a long time… so what am I waiting for? Having the opportunity to rest at home today, I spent a couple of hours writing and sketching. Here’s a glimpse to what I have been up to.

I would very much like to update this blog with new stuff not concerning my work but I guess I am pretty much too occupied with finishing up my comic pages for an anthology. Hopefully I can finish it in time for more editing by the end of the year which is roughly in about [...]

It seems that my blog is back online. Thanks to all the hours put in yesterday to resolve the issue of being listed as an attack site. It is a good thing it is not lasting for too long because there will be people reviewing my portfolio and I do not want to disappoint them. [...]

Came up with this concept for a creature that half looks like a crazy hyena and a raving donkey. Software: Photoshop CS3.

Sheriff and Photographer — between realism and exaggeration.

A color sketch!

I don’t know how I came up with this, but having a creature with such punk rock hairstyle tickles me. And how did I come up with such a strange hairstyle on a baboon creature looking half like a human? Well I have my source.

Found a nice reference from the Internet of a old tank designed and built most probably during the first World War. I cannot help it but drew the whole damn thing in my style mimicking a little what Miyazaki would do too in his drawings and sketches or war machines. I bought 2 of such [...]

Playing with scratchboard style of coloring an illustration. I drew with a ball point pen, scanned and painted in Photoshop with a simple brush with no opacity and so on. An illustration I did for a German game mod website while I was making the sub-machine gun (MP40) in Maya (3D) for them. I kinda [...]