The ART of ENIGMA

The weird and wonderful world of the artist Enigma. I have been drawing since 1995 and have no intention of ever stopping! My primary focus is fantasy and creature illustrations but I'm capable of other things...ask me and I will draw it, basically. If...

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*The sound of dial-up tone, white noise, busy phone beeps and dead phone line all playing at once*

Hadn't drawn Enigma for a while so here he is! What a, errrr....treat?

Art and idiot are mine.

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Took on some traditional marker-coloured badge commissions and very happy with how they all turned out.

Commissions are now CLOSED for a long time so I can rest and finish my personal projects.

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"It's just a dainty lil' smooch honey, that's all...~" Ryuu makes a new friend with Art and well, old habits die hard... Art the raccoon belongs to Mystopia, artwork and Ryuu is mine

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Way overdue ref sheet for one of my oldest characters, crazy to think I’ve had this dragon gal since 2006. Updated her quite a bit, she’s a character I hold very dear so I spent a while tweaking her design - I hope you like her too! Lots of new art of her in the works, keep an eye out. Larger file of this is here: https://i.imgur.com/OSSZhPv.png Art and character are mine.

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thenewdawn2018 asked: I know Ryuu can wrap himself around his prey. Can he hypnotize them (e.g., with his eyes or voice)?

Now you know! Ryuu is such a humble dragon ~ I mean, he’s not wrong…

I suppose technically his beautifully sultry womanly voice counts as hypnosis but that’s more like seduction. I may refine this sketch some day!

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Ryuu hasn’t really ever seen a Western dragon in person due to living so far up in the harsh wintery North, and having the busy (and pampered..) lifestyle of an elemental god - so to say the sassy noodle is beyond ecstatic to meet Rar is an understatement. That winged derg is gonna get the hugging and kissing of a lifetime!

Belated birtday art for a friend who just happens to be a giant Ryuu fanboy. Feels good to do traditional art as usual.

Rarenth belongs to Rar/Mystopia Ryuu and art is mine.

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Surprise! Luco is the "dinner date"...what did he expect when meeting a gator like this?

Gift art for my good pal and fellow hyena, AkuDrache. I said I'd eventually get him back for drawing me all those surprise gifts! Oh, and it's also for being a good friend for 10+ years HOW DARE HE. Had this drawn last year but obviously the whole wrist injury KIIIIIINNND of slowed that right down.

Luco and The Fab Gator Gal belong to Aku. Art is mine.

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.Hey @ezzynigma ! Look who your dragon caught~

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Fanart of one of my favourite MegaMan characters, I love this mecha-wolf badboy. I used Letraset ProMarkers for this.

Art is mine, Treble belongs to Capcom.

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You’d think that when Ryuu has make-up attendants who are far smaller than he is he’d be more cautious, especially when they’re doing the delicate task of painting his claws. Unfortunately he is quite the ditzy dragon and suddenly pranced off to check out a potential lipstick sale a short flight away, totally oblivious than his little bird friend Ian was directly in the path of the bottom of his paw… Cel-shaded commission for Ian_Corvid(FA). Ryuu honestly does mean well but he is far too excitable and blissfully ignorant for his own good - please forgive him! Art and Ryuu are mine. Ian da birb is Ian_Corvid

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"First I find an unbelievably dim hyena to swallow and now an equally oblivious horse? This is just far too easy, I'm not even trying!!" Fully shaded commission for frozenfire60. One of my female zebragons hunting with zero effort, if the terrible job hiding behind the tree wasn't enough of a sign - she caught Enigma earlier and is using her extendable tongue (ability of the zebragon species) to snag Frozen's Pony OC. Zebragon species, Enigma and Art are mine. The hoss belongs to FrozenFire60                    

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Abyss had caught herself a delightful horse to toy with, wrapped up tight in her thick coils leaving him vulnerable to a teasing kiss! Aspen could've sworn the snake wasn't as large when she first appeared...and was she still growing?! Oh dear... Cel-shaded digital commission for Solidness on FA which I totally LOVED working on! Anyone should know I'm a sucker for serpentine coily bodies. Art is mine Abyss and Aspen belong to Solidness

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Character expression sheet commission I drew for Unica on FurAffinity.

Snow leopard, yeeeaaah!

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Ily is lucky enough to attract the undivided attention of Ryuu who seems to be quite infatuated with his new lizard friend and has even glammed himself up a little to woo him! Many smooches ensue...

Flat colour commission for ilynine on FA who was a pleasure to work with, this was so fun to work on! Please note commissions are completely filled and won't be taking anymore for the forseeable future.

Ryuu and art belong to me. Ily belongs to ilynine

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Gift I drew for my good friend Poriina which I gave to her when I visited her in Finland last week - there's something special about handing over an original piece to the recipient which is part of the reason I love traditional so much.

There were some hiccups along the way while working on this but I'm generally happy with the outcome.

Art is mine. Poriina belongs to http://poriina.deviantart.com/

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Gebbu being a jerk and Enigma being an easy target - some things never change. Perhaps the big ol' water-dragon hates people in his lair but he does enjoy putting intruders in their place when they get underfoot...HEH.

Finally managed to finish this thing, I'm sick of looking at it! I told myself to keep the background simple when I started this but just couldn't help going overboard. Now to rest my poor wrist -n-

Larger file here: http://i.imgur.com/T5yC3k7.png

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Ryuu striking poses and hogging the limelight - what’s new? I wanted to draw my eastern dragon being his sassy flamboyant self - so I did! I actually mailed this to Wesker along with the last comic, hence the cameo from Ryuu’s favourite skunk. I’m working on turning some of these into stickers with some tweaks, keep an eye out if you’re interested! As usual, coloured with markers and pencils