Monsters never die

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These are my first seven contributions to this year’s Kaijune challenge. Check out https://kaijune.tumblr.com/ for inspirational illustrations of giant monsters from some great artists, including the initiator, Riley Phillips!

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The second, and probably last, of my contributions to MerMay this year. These have been super fun to do, so I might plan for a more organised and fulsome approach in the 2019 time budget.

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Here’s a scan of this latest exploration of the yeti design for my Hamley book. This is pretty close to the look I’m going for, plus I got to experiment with some new rendering techniques.   

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Nature King

This is the coloured version of day 46 of my 365-day drawing challenge. For each day of 2018, I’m drawing my character, Nature Kid, working from a prompt list. The day 46 prompt was Kaiju, and my interpretation was a giant, city-destroying rival to the great Godzilla. ☕ ko-fi.com/jordanlewerissa |  www.jordanlewerissa.com

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Hamley awoke from his nap to find his bed had become a dandelion field populated with onibi. 

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For those of you who like my work and would like to support me in my journey as an artist~ ☕ ko-fi.com/jordanlewerissa 🙇🏽🙏🏽🙇🏽🙏🏽🙇🏽

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El sueño de la razón produce cabello. 

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Forgot to post this stepped progress gif of my TMNT piece from late last year.

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This is a map of Tsukishima, the crescent moon island that my kid lit character Hamley calls home. Thought I’d include a gif showing some of the development stages as well.

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Here's a scan of this latest exploration of Hamley's cottage design and environment. Getting closer to what I'm looking for, and I got to experiment with some rendering techniques

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Getting my stuff ready for the RAW Artists MAGNIFY showcase tomorrow at The Met in Brisbane. Looking forward to a great night!

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So excited for the new GeGeGe no Kitaro series! I feel like the world should be getting more Shigeru Mizuki-related stuff now that sensei has passed. Here's my Kitaro piece from a while back—about time I did a new one!

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“Berserker”

This is the coloured version of day 36 of my 365-day drawing challenge. For each day of 2018, I'm drawing my character, Nature Kid, working from a prompt list. The day 36 prompt was 'Berserker', and my interpretation was an furious, entranced warrior slaying some kind of monstrous beast.

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Hamley and Denslow with giant witch head.

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"Bus Stop, Wet Day”

This is the coloured version of day 23 of my 365-day drawing challenge. For each day of 2018, I'm drawing my character, Nature Kid, working from a prompt list. The day 23 prompt was 'Shelter', and my interpretation was a homage to the bus stop scene in My Neighbour Totoro.

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This is a collection of my 31 ink drawings from Inktober 2017. All the prompts in my list had some connection to the picture book I'm working on, so I'm treating this as a preceding connected piece.

You can grab a copy of Prelude to an Excursion on my Gumroad.

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Ballpoint and brushpen on copy paper, digital colour. 810 mm × 288 mm.

Revisiting my late '80s / early' 90s obsession. And I mean OBSESSION. I sure loved me some turtles back then. I completed the ink drawing for this over ten lunch breaks at my day job, then scanned it and colored it digitally in Clip Studio Paint. I worked the color in such sporadic sessions that I can not even estimate how it it took.