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Some more cover work for Black Library.

These Icons are for the Carcharodon Special Editions:

// Red Tithe // Outer Dark // Void Exile

by Robbie Macnivern AD: Joe Higgins

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Jodeeeee! Can you share your process with pencils, and/or what grades you use? 🥺 I wanna get back into my sketch studies but they’re so ass right now!

Hey!

Thank you for the ask! Honestly - let them be ass for a little while! I have only just picked pencils back up after not having done anything with them for ages and I felt extremely rusty.

I took my time with that recent Gob drawing, I put in maybe 6 or so hours spread out over a few days. By the end of it, I felt a little more at ease. Having said that, it was a sporadic start. I just felt an impatient URGE to draw something so he wasn't heavily laboured in the mapping stage. I used reference from an existing piece of my own work for the character costuming and some pose ref. Pencil was a 2B Caran D'ache Techograph (sharpen that thing regularly!) and the paper is one of those delightful soft cover moleskins.

Here he is in WIP -

It wasn't taken for instructional purposes but I think it sort of illustrates how I went through the piece. Unlike a painting, where everything gets worked over at the same kind of rate, I try and start at the top and work down as softer pencils can get a bit smudgey if my hand passes over the piece too much. As I mentioned, the line scaffolding is pretty minimal here, it is probably not the BEST way to go about things but I had a pretty solid idea of what I was going for.

This was a slightly more involved effort time wise, but they really don't have to be like that if you want to get those muscles going again. Some regular, gestural quick studies will really help you find your flow again. Try starting with really low time limits, like 2 minutes and work your way up! You'll be amazed how much looser and confident you feel.

Anyway, I hope that answered your question a little bit!

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Repaint of a digital piece in oil

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Rings of Power studies - oil

Adar and Glug

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Couple of Aragorn studies in oil

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Sorting through some of my studies today and found a couple I don't think I have shared on here.

Top dollar and Myca The Crow 1994

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I'm trying to carve out a few hours here and there for some personal work at the moment. I have an urge to push into this guy and explore the world he's rooted in.

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This latest piece is exquisite!!!! Thank you for sharing it with us, the balance of colors and forms is to die for (and by the looks of things, maybe someone did)

Hey!

Thank you very much for saying so! Really glad you like the piece, it's so nice to have some personal work moving along again!

<3

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personal work // 2025

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Delighted to share these two pieces created for the new Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual.

Succubus and Incubus AD : Fury Galluzzi

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Some more Magic: The Gathering goodies!

Some standalone Packaging character assets for the Aetherdrift set.

Chandra - Play Booster Saheeli - Commander Deck Temmet - Commander Deck (Colour varies from marketing final)

AD : Anthony Garzzona

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Cover Icon design for Black Library // Warhammer 40k

The Dark Coil: Damnation - Peter Fehervari AD: Darius Hinks

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Little Oil study from yesterday!

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Hiya, just wanted to say I absolutely love your art, you're honestly my favourite artist! I do have your artwork tattood on my leg but I have been too shy to reach out and share it with yourself🫣

Hello!

That’s awesome! Thank you very much for your kind words! Please don’t worry about it! You don’t have to share anything with me at all - no pressure. I am honoured you would consider my art for something like that!

Thanks again for sharing <3

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Do you have a shading tutorial? (It’s okay if you don’t, but I’m curious to how you render)

Hello Nonny! I don’t have any shading specific tutorials I’m afraid. There are a few bits and bobs littered across this blog regarding process (I think most are tagged as ‘asks’ or ‘replies’). I have contributed some written step by step process pieces to a few 3d total publications over the years but they are kind of more focused around creative decision making and choices over granular, technical stuff. I’ll link them below in case you’re interested in checking them out. They’re filled with good stuff from all kinds of different artists!

Frank Frazetta : An Artists Tribute

Beginners Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop 2nd Ed

The Field Guide to Witches

Thanks for the ask!

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Hi Jodie! I wanted to ask you something about your way of work: what kind of device you use to draw? It's a pen tablet with a screen or without? What kind of device would you suggest?

And another curiosity: do you use some tablet or iPad to draw, or you work only on Photoshop on PC?

Hello!

Thanks for the ask! Predominately, I use a Wacom intuos tablet on PC. I paint in PS but I am looking to phase Adobe out of my workflow. I’ve been trying to get into painting on the iPad more and more but I can’t lie, it’s still a pretty clunky experience for me. I used to use a cintiq, I wanted one for a very long time but when I finally got my grubby mitts on one, I was actually really disappointed by it. Whilst I quite enjoyed drawing directly onto a screen, after less than 18 months, the screen began suffering with dead pixels in areas that saw heavy use. I ended going back to the screen-less kind and haven’t looked back. That was a few years ago now so that’s worth keeping in mind. As to which is better, I think that’s probably down to personal preference and budget. Each has pros and cons but you don’t need an insanely expensive one to make good art. I don’t have any experience with tablet brands outside of Wacom either so if any lovely folks reading this have recommendations or guidance for @dracaenaarborea then stick em under the post!

Good journey!

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See you gonna stay active here?

Hey Nonnerz!

Of course! I am still very much active on here I just haven't posted anything in a while. I am swamped at the moment.

Also, I'll probably be here to the bitter end with Tumblr.