Gothic Batmobile

So a new Batman game was released recently and I was watching some videos of it. It has a lot of driving around in another new batmobile. Since the Christian Bale Batman films, the Batmobile looks really weird to me. Dumb even. It suffers from lazy CG concept design-itis, like the Michael Bay Transformers did. You look right at it, a still photograph even, and you can't see anything. I made a simulation of what I see when I look at the new Batmobiles to demonstrate. (1st image)
I took it upon myself to design something truly Gothic for Batman. (Neo-gothic Revival to be exact) A Gothic Batmobile. (2nd image)

The Artiſan

This is designed to look a bit like an old etching. This is a kitsch reference of something you see fleetingly in a Studio Ghibli film. Can you guess which one?

East of the Girl West of the Bear

  I've decided to pick up the East of the Moon West of the Sun again, or was it West of the Moon East of the Sun, or something else. I've changed all the birds and kept it to strictly a 13th century Scandinavia theme. Each bird represents the four winds (East, West, South & North) which the girl has to go and talk to to find the troll castle. I've also surrounded each bird with seasonal dietary things that with which I'd think a 13th century Scandinavian might be familiar. These images are going to be compiled together to be used in a book. The title of this post is sort of a working-title, maybe it'll be changed into something different or the traditional title.

Sketchy Sketch 11

This is a sketch I did recently. It's a very fancy computer. I call it "baroquen computer" because it's a pun and I'm a terrible person. I have done more. I did a full painting, but forgot to take a photo of it before giving it to the recipient. Fool of a took. Enjoy!

Sketchy Sketch 10

More sketches. I bought a calligraphy felt-tip pen.

Kriemhild Sketch

So I'm drawing things pertaining to the Nibelungenlied. This is supposed to be Kriemhild of Burgundy seeing her dead Kestrel in a dream. I hope it doesn't look like she's squatting for a poo. I tried to have her dressed in 12th-century-ish clothes with German cloth patterns. I don't know if the Franks used them at that time, who knows!? Also, I decided not to cover her hair. I never really liked all that. I'm also going to change the story a lot. You'll probably see it in coming months.

This is a pre-drawing for a painting. I'll probably have this happen in her bedroom or something. Since it's a dream. Maybe have two eagles flying away. Or have cloudy smoke in the room, because dreams have clouds in them right? Hmm.. Maybe have the moon in there signifying a temporary madness. I'm not sure.

Sketchy Sketch 9

Small sketchbook sketches.

Portrait

I'm not that keen on doing portraits of people that I know. But someone else did promise this for me without my consent, and I felt like I couldn't worm out of it. I don't know how to paint someone to look like themselves without trying to copy the photograph exactly. Other people have the talent of painting a portrait that both looks like the person and eases any self-consciousness they might have. Not me. Can't do it.

Sketchy Sketches 8

More

Sketchy Sketches 7

Less borders this time. Just a second line. I did some Japanese writing there in the bottom image because I'd just bought a new brush pen and it was a starkly bare sky. The first image has a not-very cleverly hidden sin (y) line in there. It's hard to draw interesting busy castles that are believable. Real ones are often much more boring. What I've done is more or less a collection of buildings clumped together. It's a little silly.