Nickillus's Portfolio

Taz Growth - from Templar's Compendium of Dragonology

Nickillus — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:45:46 GMT

Taz Growth - from Templar's Compendium of Dragonology

An illustration done for the Templar book - Drake's Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology (A J Wood) - ISBN 978 1 84011 644 1 (http://www.templarco.co.uk/ologies/dragonology.html).

Templar control all copyright of course.

Illustrated with tons of excellent work by Douglas Carrel and Tomislav Tomic, I had to adapt my style to fit in with their established look. Great fun to be a part of.

Totally Sketchbook Pro 2010

Middle Age Spread

Nickillus — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:10:52 GMT

Middle Age Spread

An illustration done for the Templar book - Drake's Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology (A J Wood) - ISBN 978 1 84011 644 1 (http://www.templarco.co.uk/ologies/dragonology.html).

Templar control all copyright of course.

Illustrated with tons of excellent work by Douglas Carrel and Tomislav Tomic, I had to adapt my style to fit in with their established look. Great fun to be a part of.

Totally Sketchbook Pro 2010

Dragon Web

Nickillus — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:38:19 GMT

Dragon Web

An illustration done for the Templar book - Drake's Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology (A J Wood) - ISBN 978 1 84011 644 1 (http://www.templarco.co.uk/ologies/dragonology.html).

Templar control all copyright of course.

Illustrated with tons of excellent work by Douglas Carrel and Tomislav Tomic, I had to adapt my style to fit in with their established look. Great fun to be a part of.

Totally Sketchbook Pro 2010

Bin Lookin'

Nickillus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:40:49 GMT

Bin Lookin'

An illustration done for the Templar book - Drake's Comprehensive Compendium of Dragonology (A J Wood) - ISBN 978 1 84011 644 1 (http://www.templarco.co.uk/ologies/dragonology.html).

Templar control all copyright of course.

Illustrated with tons of excellent work by Douglas Carrel and Tomislav Tomic, I had to adapt my style to fit in with their established look. Great fun to be a part of.

Totally Sketchbook Pro 2010

Up, Up and Away

Nickillus — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:03:56 GMT

Up, Up and Away

My effort for the 50th cover challenge held here. Well, OK that's not strictly true. I didn't get quite as far as this for the deadline, but carried on tweaking for a few hours after submitting a slightly less worked on version. This has fewer unifinished bits in it. Still needs work really, but . . . .

All ArtRage with a tiny bit of drawing at the end done in Sketchbook Pro 2010.

Real Magic

Nickillus — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:14:09 GMT

Real Magic

This is a Sketchbook Pro 2010 image I was working on for the 'Newborn' challenge over at Coneptart.org aolng with several other ideas - and this fell by the wayside as time and interest ran out. It got revived to support a review of the software in the mag, and so I took it to a sort of finish anyhow.

A New Hope?

Nickillus — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:43:34 GMT

A New Hope?

Submitted for the Conceptart.org 'Newborn' challenge. Not a hope in hell of winning (there are some truly stunning images on display - truly inspirational) but a great event to take part in, just like the challenges here.

Mostly painted in ArtRage without reference, and tweaked a bit in Sketchbook Pro during the final stages.

Claire's New Pet

Nickillus — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:28:50 GMT

Claire's New Pet

Needed an image quickly for the Q&A bit of the mag, as I was honoured to be asked to participate this month. A query about making dragons more 'child friendly' for publishing. Knocked this out on Sketchbook Pro. Far from perfect, but I had fun doing it. The gap in the composition to the right was originally going to have type on it but there was a rethink in the layout after it was done.

The Viking Spirit

Nickillus — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:14:27 GMT

The Viking Spirit

Did this piece to push a beta of Sketchbook Pro 2010 I was testing and to have an image for a Q&A article in the mag. The idea started when I was considering doing a piece for a friendly competition called Nordic Challenge.

Anyone for a Snowball Fight?

Nickillus — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:07:40 GMT

Anyone for a Snowball Fight?

Needed a pickie to support a small entry in the mag, so put this one together. All Sketchbook Pro. Could stand a deal more work, but time wouldn't allow.

Do You Have to Do That There, Tinker?

Nickillus — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:37:50 GMT

Do You Have to Do That There, Tinker?

Another piece done in ArtRage, mostly for my own amusement. Yep, I'm a saddo!

A fuller caption would be - 'With a whole new planet to choose from, do you have to do that there, Tinker?'

Revolting Ingredients

Nickillus — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:13:20 GMT

Revolting Ingredients

This is what became of the piece I failed to finish in time for the 'witchy' challenge here. Family stuff got in the way and I had to switch it to the similarly themed challenge over at Pixelbrush. My intention had been to do two separate pieces. Ah well. Life goes like that most of the time.

Totally ArtRage apart from a few tiny tweaks executed late on in Painter to speed up some layer management.

Elf Sketch

Nickillus — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:55:58 GMT

Elf Sketch

A quick sketch done in Sketchbook Pro. The background is just some texture photos I took overlaid and worked into.

Fire Faeries

Nickillus — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:22:57 GMT

Fire Faeries

A section opener from the now published Fairy Bible put out by Godsfield Press.
The various characters had to be reused in other parts of the book - hence the contrived composition.

ISBN-10 1841813133
ISBN-13 978-1841813134

Copyright Nick Harris and Hamlyn 2007

Giant

Nickillus — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:14:39 GMT

Giant