Guest artist series

Airship 05 Arrival is a vehicle sketch created especially for Inktober 2016 and the Guest Artist Series by esteemed industrial concept designer, author and educator, Scott Robertson. Its design is inspired by the airships Robertson originally contributed to Concept Design, the inaugural book published under his Design Studio Press imprint.

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Deep within the hidden desert canyons of The Reach, dark forces at work slowly pollute, poison and corrupt the land.

The Afterlife is inspired by a love and appreciation for animal bones and ecology. Typically, images of death and decay are depicted in a mournful way. Here, the sorrow of death is re-imagined into a sentiment of rebirth. Little black sprites have emerged to cleanse the bones of the dead, imparting a sense of beauty into the melancholy.

The Legend of Jingwei captures a moment of defiance in the face of impossible odds. A young girl drowns but re-emerges as Jingwei, a bird who's determined to fill the Eastern Sea with twigs and pebbles. Despite ridicule from the sea, Jingwei stands boldly to complete her quest so others will not suffer her fate.

Brothers Blue is a concept of two inseparable warriors determined to hold their ground against unknown intruders threatening their peaceful village.

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Mother Gum is a dreamy fanart of everyone's favorite Adventure Time ship, Bubbeline, along with their little vampire gum baby Travis. ("ship" is a term for imagining relationships between two fictional characters)

Clear is a 30 minute speed paint of a grassy landscape.

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Malum Veritas is a visual development exercise to bring a Dungeons and Dragons character to life. The subject is a Ranger fleeing from his past position in a corrupted military outfit.

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158/365 Summertime is of one many of many sketches the artist is currently painting as part of a daily sketch challenge. The artwork attempts to capture a moment in time of a few friends meeting up after school talking about what to do next.

Rhino Bot demonstrate an exercise in creating an elegant sci-fi mech design.

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