Philip Byers - Artist & Illustratorさんのイラストまとめ

Just as the portal is flexible enough to accommodate disparate incarnations, the idea of the hidden garden permitted me to indulge my love for misty, autumnal landscapes. While I've enjoyed my sojourn to the forests of elfinesse, I'm itching again to head for stranger territory!

John Atkinson Grimshaw, Casper David Friedrich, Ferdinand Knab, and many other artists of the era often depicted wrought iron gates and fences encircling hidden gardens.

While my work often depicts literal portals leading to other worlds, a much more grounded version of this idea is the notion of a gate to a secret or inaccessible garden. This is articulated especially poignantly in the works of many artists of the Romantic era.

The Faerie Grove, 2021
An enchantment lies heavy on the land. Towers rise pale and graceful before me, dancing in the golden afternoon light like a dream. The way before me is as impassable as though it were a fortress; for it is not a path meant for mortals to trod.

Not sure if this is still a thing but here's the #sketchvsfinal:

@Brucedraws @SFinniganArt Not to clog up this thread with my art, but it's this one:

Darkspire was inspired by the works of Zdzislaw Beksinski and the architecture of Gothic cathedrals. Beksinski himself painted cathedrals, though made of unsettling materials: bone and flesh, pockmarked and riddled with decay.

Coming back from a long, but much-needed, social media break with some detail WIP shots from a piece nearing completion. Life has been very busy, and time to paint has been precious, but this piece should be done in the next few days! Lots of rewarding challenges in this one!

I'm very fond of #Blueart! Here's some now, tastefully seasoned with some other colors!

Cold Cosmic Towers. A baleful red moon glares down at a ghostly tower. The yellow eye of dawn peers across the horizon of an enormous planet that fills the sky. The doorway stands empty. The conjunction is nigh. Or so I tell myself. What do you see?