I hope everyone has had a great holiday and a Happy New Year celebration! I’m really hoping that everyone has a successful year in whatever you do!
Plans for Grotesque Moi! are as follows:
Illustrations – The goal is to produce 6 to 12 new portraits this year. some may be in the form of scene illustrations combining multiple creatures.
Illustration Canvas Print Frames – I plan to continue creating customized frames for each of my illustrations.
Red Bubble Catch Up – Setting a deadline for updating each newly finished and released portrait or illustration.
Expansion – Develop illustrations on a splinter line that are quicker to create and potentially making a separate set of pricing tiers that fits with these quicker illustrations.
Plan for phase II and III of Grotesque Moi! – More on these after the above has been integrated.
Grotesque Moi!’s Patreon Page – Add more sketches and line drawings to Grortesque Moi!’s Patreon page..
Plans for Terrene and Ba’anta
Now that Terrene and Ba’anta have been hinted at in the lore of the Grotesque Moi! creatures, it’s time to start the story debuting this world on Patreon!
It’s time to share the first posted sketches that was in my early blog posts here to Patreon.
All future sketches will debut on Patreon first.
Publish the updated labeled geographical map of Ba’anta on Patreon.
Create a large (maybe 48”x36”) illustration of the lands of Terrene.
There’s a lot of things planned out here! I will have to create a calendar to keep things on track!
Indicates Grotesque Moi! Exclusives And White Tier Merchandise!
I’ve been anxiously waiting for the moment when I could bring to you this magnificent creature! He is the latest addition to my Grotesque Moi! Collection. Perhaps you would like to know more about the Centaurians or Le Roi Chevalier. You can find all that is known of them here on the Grotesque Moi! Home Page. If you would like to own a print or canvas print of him please check out my shop here on my website. He will soon also be available on my RedBubble shop at http://www.redbubble.com/people/xtillos if you would like to collect him on other merchandise.
I’ve kept this quiet for as long as I can! I’ve begun working on some side projects for Grotesque Moi!. As I get image(s) and info for the new stuff I’m creating. I will post updates as I have something worth posting.
This is a rough sketch for a possible comic I’ll be creating. It will be part of one f the character’s back story.
This has been a long time in the making! May I finally Introduce to you Akrep the The Scorpion Warrior! Originally scheduled to be completed in October last year, there have been many trials to bring her forth. True to her nature, every step of the way has been a battle! Every bit of it has been well worth it. She is tough, powerful and deadly! I’m very happy to give you this chance to see her!
I hope everyone’s New Year is off to a great start! If you’ve made resolutions, I hope you have a great plan and succeed by the end of the year!
XT Illos has some new things coming this year, too! Before we get to that, I wanted to remind everyone that Grotesque Moi! has exclusive content on the creatures being created over on our Patreon account! There’s also a couple of reference videos that are free to download over there, too!
Speaking of Grotesque Moi!, there’s a couple of new things on the horizon! I’m looking into possibly doing stickers and coloring books. This means there will be a new set of flat color pieces done for these projects.
For XT Illos there will be some new tutorials and processing for some of the projects I’m working on there. The instructional videos will be made available to purchase by download. There’s quite a few projects that I have to choose from!
As for everyone who has been with me from the beginning I have a surprise for you coming up soon over on Patreon! Also, for any who is fairly recent, there will be something for you in the works too on Patreon!
I hope everyone will have a great and prosperous 2020!🎊🎉🍾🥳😁
Welcome to Grotesque Moi! An Illustration project with you the fan and collector in mind. Inside you will find yourself transformed into your favorite fantasy creature! As your guide and illustrator, I will help you find the best hybridized image of yourself as your fantasy creature. When completed you will receive your illustration digitally printed on a 16″ x 20″ canvas ready for you to frame. Each completed purchase of a tier will set aside a block of my time to create your fantasy creature illustration. Below is a breakdown of each tier.
Please Note!
Before purchasing a tier, please contact me by email to go over the contract. Once it is complete you will be able to purchase the tier and begin the illustration process. Richard.Thaxton@xtillos.com
Tier 1
First level commission for the Grotesque Moi! project. The business contract will be negotiated before any work starts. This work will be produced through a digital media painting method. This canvas will be illustrated vertically. Character is in a full body illustration. The background is subdued in a slightly out of focus vignette style. Completed purchase will include one 16″x20″ canvas print of the illustration, one 8″x10″ glossy stock print of the illustration, one glossy stock XT Illos/Grotesque Moi! postcard and one glossy stock XT Illos/Grotesque Moi! business card.
Tier 2
Second level commission for Grotesque Moi! project. The business
contract will be negotiated before any work starts. This work will be
produced through a digital media painting method. This canvas will be
illustrated vertically. Character is in a full body illustration. It
has minimally illustrated foreground and background. Completed purchase
will include one 16″x20″ canvas print of the illustration, one 8″x10″
glossy stock print of the illustration, one glossy stock XT
Illos/Grotesque Moi! postcard and one glossy stock XT Illos/Grotesque
Moi! business card.
Tier 3
Third level commission for Grotesque Moi! project. The business contract
will be negotiated before any work starts. This work will be produced
through a digital media painting method. This canvas will be illustrated
vertically. Character is in a full body illustration. It has a fully
illustrated foreground and background. Completed purchase will include
one 16″x20″ canvas print of the illustration, one 8″x10″ glossy stock
print of the illustration, one glossy stock XT Illos/Grotesque Moi!
postcard and one glossy stock XT Illos/Grotesque Moi! business card.
Tier 4
Forth level commission for Grotesque Moi! project. The business contract
will be negotiated before any work starts. This work will be produced
through a digital media painting method. This canvas will be illustrated
horizontally. Multiple characters up to 5 are in full body
illustrations. It has a fully illustrated foreground and background.
Completed purchase will include one 16″x20″ canvas print of the
illustration, one 8″x10″ glossy stock print of the illustration, one
glossy stock XT Illos/Grotesque Moi! postcard and one glossy stock XT
Illos/Grotesque Moi! business card.
Glossy Print
This is a quality art print of one of Grotesque Moi!’s illustrations.
The image is corrected to 8″ x 10″ and is suitable for framing. Please
allow up to two weeks for order processing. Thank you!
I look forward to creating your fantasy creature illustrations! Thank you for stopping by!
I have finally finished my latest commissioned tattoo design and got the green light to share from the owner. This was interesting in many ways. The owner wanted the pocket watch to represent the the date including year, night time indicator and the time of course. Per their request the name is not posted here. The image would be turned horizontally for an outer forearm tattoo on the right arm with pocket watch being at the wrist and the name running from the sunflower to the pocket watch at the bottom.
The blending of nature and mechanical was a small challenge. I decided to let the links of the chain be the transition point. Because I wanted there to be a level of realism, each link had to be created individually so the shading would come out right. I wound up using the IPad Pro for part and Manga Studio for the rest.
I thought I would ask you what’s happening in your world. Aside from the recent holidays, what events are influencing you? Is there great positive things going on? Maybe it’s not so positive. It’s ok, you’re welcome to share that, too.
Many of my friends are gearing up for this year’s convention circuit. Either submitting work, getting notifications of their submissions or preparing for an upcoming convention.
Some of my friends are dealing with tough life events. Physical or emotional pain has entered their lives. Stress in dealing with these situations, trying to erode their peace of mind.
For myself, it’s a mixed bag. For the negative side, problems from a old injury have come back on me. Sometimes there’s pain for days, even weeks. My real world paying job is affected because of this. I’m stressing over where my future is going. What about my family? How will I continue to be able to support them? Will I return to having constant pain? How much this is triggering my blood pressure and depression. A lot of heavy things.
On the positive side I’ve celebrated 20 years of happily married life with my wife! Both her and our daughter are my whole world! I’ll be turning 54 soon. I’m reworking a piece of fantasy art that was started as a pencil sketch in ’96. I’ve posted progress photos of it before here, “Relative Perspective”. I’ll post updates of it later.
Here are some photos from before:
I hope all is well with you and your world is great! If it’s not, I hope you find a way to get peace and balance. May the right side always win.
Happy New Year to everyone! I hope you’re enjoying your holidays! Hopefully you have plans for something great this year!
I’ve got a new project that will need your help! More about how that will work in the upcoming posts! I hope to roll parts of it out in stages this year. I’ve been sneaking out images of the plan, recently. It’s focused around the fantasy self-portraits I posted before and some creature drawings. Like this Lupine-Naga:
For now, here’s to many great things for you in this New Year!
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