ALL AGAINST ALL

Various Inks and color pencils on 16" by 20" acid free olive / tan Canson mat board .



Detail.

WHERE I REST, NO STRESS

Original is 16" by 20" on olive tan board.
Ink and Pencil

May post on my bigcartel art store in a week or so.

DESTROYER

STAGE THREE



STAGE TWO



STAGE ONE

MOMOA as CONAN

Interesting! ;)

WIP

Fourth Pass... more refinements on the lower left, some shifting of scale etc.
Not cropped on the original file.



Third pass.. uh oh..differences... :)



Second Pass ... more to come...



First Pass - CS5 panel painting - still needs polishing....

UPHILL

Marker, pencil and ink.

MORU

Moru was drawn up when CONAN THE ADVENTURER writer Roy Thomas wanted a supporting character to represent a "pict" in our story arc. He really wasn't a fully representational pict as history described them, but more of an amalgam of a savage Filipino tribesman and European picts.

When the Conquistadors first arrived in the Visayan islands of the Pacific they encountered fearsome warriors that were fully tattooed. They called them "Pintados" for the "painted ones".

That's where the idea of Moru came from, a pict that wasn't historically accurate (and some Robert E. Howard fans would probably debate whether his picts were as well) but embodied the same mentality. The one interesting detail was that the picts were also fully tattooed.

Historical Pict




I have been scanning some old originals and will post more of Moru and how he slowly evolved visually throughout the series.

SKETCH

Brushpen and Copic Markers.

BLOOD TRAILS

SAVAGE SWORD

Blast from the past. A panel from the RED NAILS sequel in Savage Sword of Conan circa 1993.

MOMOA as CONAN?

He has the height, a better voice for Conan than Arnold and many seem to forget that he is also half German-Irish as well as Hawaiian (which gives him the bronze skin).

Many have criticized his build the most.

Hmmm... things just got interesting.

ULTIMA THULE

Found this on lulu.com, it was a cover I did for a magazine that is a "collection of Robert E. Howard ephemera, including a couple of Howard's letters to a publisher, rejection letters, the first attempt at listing the Howard books that were donated to Howard Payne University after his death, and more, this facsimile reprint of Glenn Lord's Ultima Thule was originally published by Joe Marek in 2000. This volume collects all of Glenn Lord's submissions to The Hyperborian League, an amatuer press association dedicated to weird fiction. 52 pages."

Available at ULTIMA THULE

COMMISSION

This was done using traditional pen, ink and grey toned copic markers.

Note: I reposted a better scan. There was subtle payne's grey and sepia tones on the original that disappeared on the previous image. I had to duplicate the high rez layer twice - colorize it with the grey and sepia respectively then adjust the opacity filters to better represent the original artwork.

NO SANCTUARY ARCHIVAL PRINTS

My NO SANCTUARY prints are available at $120 postpaid (US). It is a signed limited edition print of 1000.
These are printed on thick 17x26 art paper with long lasting archival inks (100 plus years).