Illusionary Constructs

Freelance digital & traditional media artist. See links for Patreon, Portfolio and Prints. (member: Scottish Artist Union)

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"Only the broken can heal"

"The common thread that binds, The truth it does reveal, only the broken can heal." - This line from the fantastic Comrades song "This Ends With Me" struck a chord deep within me when I first heard it a few years ago, and slowly this piece came together, figures, united through a shared brokenness and a shared healing process.

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"Observers of Souls Demise"

inspired by a song from Silent Planet powerful Iridescent album, this time the fantastic "Panopticon" and especially these lyrics from it which sparked much of the imagery of this piece: "Safe in your silicon shell. A cell in a server: Silent observer" "The culture is charged, amplified, then polarized. But our nerves are dulled and our souls lobotomized" "We sleep with pixels in a dream machine but we lose ourselves and retreat to screens" "Unto us a program is born: Holy Virus, Taker of the Earth."

For me I was trying to encapsulate, like the previous piece "Static", the struggles many of us face with mental health, but in this one I wanted rather an existential or abstract struggle, to link it to the dangers of our always online, always connected, social media, fame, consumerist, etc obsessed world (and I appreciate the logic is selling prints of such a piece). How the every present screen can erode us into a shell of our true self, bound to its glow for our identity and worth.

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"Mystic Space Stag"

"It silently stands, watching, waiting, protecting those under its care. None know its name, but all speak it when in deepest need of knowledge, wisdom, or guidance."

Created in Procreate and Photoshop, this was born from a sketch of the sacred protector of my art booth at conventions, and I just loved the idea so went with it

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"Corrupted Illthid"

The concept for this version of an Illithid, or Mind Flayer, was as a end of plot villain for a DnD campaign I ran, it had been in essence corrupted by crystallised time that housed a corrupted time god… it was a bit if a weird plot so trying to condense it doesn't quite work :).

Anyway, I love Illithids in DnD, so that was excuse enough to actually try and paint one, and this was done solely in procreate, this took a long time compared to my normal work as I kept fusing and tweaking, according to Procreate it tracked 16 hours or so of painting.

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"The Unknown Meaning of the Journey"

"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveller." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Been a while Tumblr (like 3 years)... anyway a new artwork, "Static"

This was mainly inspired by the lines from Silent Planet's newest track "Trilogy"... "I fade to static. Harvesting synapses in my dreams. I breathe, choke, let it go - but the fear never left when I slept alone so I’m fading to static in the disconnect " and of course, "It’s always red the static in my head" (video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=928l9OH9DW4) I intended this piece to mainly be a reflection of the struggle with mental health issues, but also the anxieties created by a relentless onslaught of information with no filter in place, something that has become increasingly potent in the current crisis we face. Its vital, especially right now, we care for ourselves both physical, but also emotionally and mentally. We need to look after each other and ourselves to get through, which we will, together. You can see the WIPs on my Patreon if you are backer: https://www.patreon.com/AdamHowie Links to prints etc: RedBubble: https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/46031744 InPrnt: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/kimded/static/ Society6: https://society6.com/product/static2704908_print DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/kimded/art/Static-834729971 I have posted links on the various socials (https://linktr.ee/AdamHowie) so if you follow me on there please do like, share, etc etc etc, it is greatly appreciated.

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A digital charcoal sketch (in Photoshop) of “Lyta Alexander” from Babylon 5 played by Patrica Tallman.

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Electronaut by kimded

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Mercy of the Thorns by kimded

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Black Eyed Angel (2017)

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While watching through a recording of Radiohead’s Glastonbury performance, which I enjoyed utterly, Pyramid Song came on and this old artwork (my word, 2008) of mine came back to me, which was inspired by the line, “Black eyed angel swam with me”.

One day I plan on revisiting this piece and its inspiration to hopefully capture even more haunting beauty of that powerful track.

Black Eyed Angel by kimded

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Unspoken Truth by kimded

Commissioned piece for Presence Project - https://www.presenceproject.com/

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Been to see Alien: Covenant this weekend and thought, why not, repost some of my Giger and Alien inspired artwork from recently :)

“Xenomorph”

“A Consumption of Memory and Identity”

“Rest No More Weary Traveller”

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"A Consumption of Memory and Identity" by Adam "Kimded" Howie

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“Drained” by Adam "Kimded" Howie

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“Qavah" by Adam "Kimded" Howie

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“It's a Sloth" by Adam "Kimded" Howie