Guan Yu

A quick sketch of a historic and literary character: Guan Yu, the wise general of Liu Bei; only a poor excuse to improve new technics...

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The Ringwraith known as the Witch-King of Angmar

Just an improvisation, followed by a little ornamental work (I spent more time on it than the rest of the work)...

Black Númenórean Ranger

About the tragic fate of the Kingdom of Númenor, also called Atalantë and Akallabêth, that Tolkien narrated in the fourth part of his Quenta Silmarillion; it says that the númenóreans (known by the elves as "high men", because they descend from the Edain, the firsts men that appeared in Middle Earth) was tricked by Sauron to abandon the (true) faith of Eru Ilúvatar and the Valar, and reject the Ilúvatar "Gift of Men" (that is, short lifes and mortality); thus, his last kings (influenced by Sauron lie) started a selfdestructive race to reach immortality that finally ends with the downfall of Númenor island by Ilúvatar himself, then removed Aman and the Hall of Mandos forever from the world, and, at last, He spherized the earth, that previously was flat...

From the survivors númenoreans families that stay loyal to the Valar and Elves, starts the lineage of the Dúnedain, the founders of Gondor; and from the few infidels númenoreans that survive, a festering resentment of Elves and Valar drives them to serve Sauron in the distant Mordor. For example, the infamous herald called "Mouth of Sauron" belonged to the númenoreans.

In the illustration, a re-imagined character who I like to think that he was not fall because of hate of Ilúvatar or Sauron lies, rather, he fall because of his strong sense of loyalty and honor; and now, he roams the Ithilien forest like a brown and silver living-shadow, not serving Sauron, not serving the Free Peoples of Middle Earth, and without any possibility of redemption...

Strange Crew

A sample of the space pirate crew...

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By the way, the second character from the left is the same of this entry ...

The Orc Shaman and his Merry Altar Boys

... spreading his chaotic creed everywhere they go!

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Space Pirate Crew (I)

This drawings are thematically related to this entry...

The rogue and scoundrel captain of the pirate crew... 

A member of the crew... betwen the space pirate don´t exist such things like genre or species differences...

Another member of the crew... One of the particularities of this crew is the capacity to attract the most marginal people of the Seven Constellations and the External Galaxies...

To be continued...

Ming the Merciless

His Supreme Intelligence, Ming the Merciless, Emperor of Mongo

A relatively quick sketch of a personal interpretation of the character created in 1934 by Alex Raymond, for his comic strip Flash Gordon... By the way, the inspiration for the pose and composition come from a certain frame of the 1944 Eisenstein´s film, Ivan the Terrible.

The Perils of the Space Pirate

The fearsome space pirate "Spike-Beard", terror of the Seven Constellations!

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The Tentacled Criature Lurks

Not exactly an illithid, but it could pass for an inhabitant of the Plateau of Leng...

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Ambush (and others)

We continue with the historic and baroque themes, and also, we tread tenebrism paths...

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