Chivalrous Knot

This design always makes me think of some great knight of old coming to the rescue of the fair damsel. Why are they always in distress?

I love how the sword turned out for this!

Showing my Irish roots

I made this pic around St. Patty's Day 2010

This is actually my very first in-depth knot work design. I got the idea from a friends tattoo and started it with the intention of just being a small, simple doddle, that grew and changed until it became this. It took me about 3hrs to finish, but that was spanned over a few different days, drawing the same petal four times can be a little boring sometimes :P

Scroll Puzzle Designs

One of the 3D art forms that I've found I like to do is scroll saw puzzles and other things done on a scroll saw. I hope to have some pictures of finished puzzles up here sometime, but at the moment I don't have any finished puzzles (either gave them to people or they were ruined when the mice got into them, grr!!), or a working scroll saw to make new ones. But I do have a couple of designs that I made that I can post here.

These were made for a couple of friends. I was going to make them as Christmas presents a couple years ago, but when I went to start working on them a small part in the blade holding arm was broke, so I couldn't make them.

Emotion Pics

Sometimes I draw stuff when I'm feeling hurt or depressed, usually not the best times for good drawings, but they tend to come out fairly interesting.

 

 As you probably noticed, these pictures all share one thing in common, they each have hearts as part of the main idea. My emotions definitely rule me sometimes.

Butterfly Chain Axe

A chained axe similar to that of a Kusari-gama (chained scythe). The axe blade is fashioned to look like a butterflies wings, geared more likely for a woman to use do to the imagery, but doesn't have to be.

Can you guess what this is?

This is a knot work design that I did while I was bored one day, something caught my eye, and it just made me draw something like it. Brownie points to whoever can guess what it is before they see the answer. No one has yet.

Here's a hint, look at the spaces in between the knots. If you still can't guess it, highlight the space below.

Basketball

Angelic Cross

I made this cross design for a friend of mine. I plan on eventually doing a painting of it, but don't know when I will get to it.

This picture was the first time that I had ever done any sort of wings on anything. You might notice that each of the ends of the cross are trinity knots. The trinity knot is one of my favorite Celtic images/designs. I just love the way it looks and the meanings behind it.

Ryungashi

Another one of the pictures that survived from high school.

This is Ryungashi. It was my first attempt at a zanpakuto. For those of you who don't know, zanpakutos are from the anime Bleach, which is my favorite anime. I have since then changed the idea for my zanpakuto and drew that idea, but I kept this pic because I really liked it.

The Three of Swords...kind of

This image was inspired by the Tarot card Three of Swords.

In most basic interpretations of the card, the image of a heart run through by three swords will be found. When I'm feeling vulnerable or hurt in some way my art tends to reflect that, a lot of the time it will be shown with damaged hearts or hearts with locks. Ended up with both in this one. This piece is one of the oldest I still have. It actually survived from high school. Except for some of my art class projects, I don't have very many things I did in high school. This is probably one of the best random doodles I drew in high school.

What Craziness Ensues

A couple years ago me and a friend went with my mom and her boyfriend to watch them play in a pool league, my mom, her boyfriend, and my friend were all on the league at the time. That night my friend didn't end up playing so we both sat back and watched. Eventually getting bored my mind wandered and this popped out of it:

A very homicidal bear, Ms. Barbie decided she was going to cheat on him with another denizen of the stuffed world. When he found out, he confronted them about, which ended in what they thought was the bear's death. Little did they know that he had survived and now wants revenge. When I sewed him back up I could only find three of the legs and one of his eyes, he requested the new leg. I armed him a little heavily though, hehe.

My friend drew the mouth and the spiked bat leg, I drew the rest. The mouth is kind of his signature thing and I thought it just fit in that maliciously mad sort of way.

Project Runway

So I love Project Runway. I think the designers are so interesting. Clothing design would be a thought for me, but I just don't think I could do all of the sewing, lol. I was watching the rerun's of season 8 before the premiere of season 9 a couple weeks ago and this pooped out of my brain

I really love floral and vine patterns in clothing, and love drawing leaves and such. In one of the episodes, a contestant had a drape from the shoulder like the one in my picture and I absolutely loved it. I really like the toga style of clothing in a way, but making the dress part form fitting I thought that it would bring it more into the present.

Celtic Friendship Tattoo

So I thought I'd start off the blog with one of my favorite pieces. This is a design that I made for a tattoo that I hope to get sometime in the near future.

The symbols in the center are the zodiac signs of my closest friends and me; Top: Capricorn (that's mine), Left: Cancer, Right: Pisces, Bottom: Leo

And to show how much I've improved as an artist in about 2 years of drawing, here's the original rough sketch I drew:

New Blog

So I finally decided to start my own blog for my art and writing. I've seen several artists with blogs and finally decided it was time to set one up for myself. On this blog I'll be posting images of my art, generally scanned images from my sketch books, but I do have and plan on making more 3D art that will require photos. I also plan on putting up things that I have written ranging from chapters of stories I have worked on, short stories, and the random poem that might creep out of my skull. I do enjoy photography and if I can find anything that seems artistic enough or interesting enough I may post that here too. Over the next few weeks I'll slowly be uploading all of my current art and writing and editing the blog as need be to make it run smoothly and cohesively. Hope you enjoy my artwork and whatever else makes it's way on here. I look forward to hearing from you and hope that you all have a wonderful day :)

 - Draco