"We all have Whisperers in our head. One whispers to the living and the other to the dead."
My new Every Day Original up now available for purchase. Visit www.everydayoriginal.com

This piece is about that enigmatic feeling we all have, that balance between feeling like we will live forever, but understanding our own mortality.

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Angel of Death Study

This is the end product of the study for the Angel of Death for a Del Toro themed gallery show I have been asked to be submit a piece. I think I will place the WIP up or videos for you to see the progress.

This blog, my blog has been quiet for a really long time, a year. I am going to be reactivating it and trying to stay on top of things.  I have had lots of project, pieces and personal things happen in the last year so not only will I be posting but Victoria will too. She keeps things straight around here and will get some information up here from time to time.  So, welcome back everyone!  

Meridian: May EDO 2015

Wow! It's August already. San Diego Comic Con has come and gone, Illuxcon is coming in September and a gallery show in October for Krab Jab in Seattle, WA. Along with a workshop for TLC in Oct. I know it has been a while since I posted on my blog here, but I will be more regular in the future.
In the meantime if you would like to follow me on other venues (that I do post more frequently to) here is a list of my social media sites and my web site:


https://www.facebook.com/AllenWilliamsArt

http://instagram.com/i_justdraw

https://twitter.com/ijustdraw

www.ijustdraw.com

and a glimpse of a recent piece if you haven't been following me on FB or another site.  Cheers!  A~

Serpantine

9" x 12" graphite

on Stillman and Birn Zeta Series

You know...For prints...

I now have an Etsy shop for prints ( you can also get prints off my website) since people like to shop Etsy and its easy to update...

click here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ijustdraw

A new painting started at the Illustrators Master Class in Amherst...

a detail of the work in progress...

An acrylic bit....

Trying acrylic for a while to see how it feels...

My new sketchbook is up for pre-orders...if you order before March 25th a 5"x7" signed print is included for free. Here's the link and thanks for looking!
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Foregone Kings

Here's the piece "Foregone Kings"graphite on arches hot press 300lb watercolor paper 14"x18"

"What rough beast..."

...have you ever had a dream that lingered through that twilight waking stage so that when you open your eyes in the dark of early morning you see it briefly as it fades to black? This was mine, yesterday morning at 5 am.

"What rough beast, its hour come 'round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"

I've been waking up a 6 am am to work out. I usually run and then go to my little local gym. Its been fun and meditational, though chilly. One thing that I've noticed, and this happens consistantly, when running I'm constantly composing in my head(whether writing or images) and if I dont instantly write down my ideas I seem to forget them. Like you forget dreams when you wake up. But even if I forget them its only till the next time that I run. They pick up where they left off and continue. I've started using the voice recorder on my phone to take notes to myself. It seems to be working. I wonder if there's a study about endorphin levels and creativity...

...or maybe my mind is so delirious from exertion that my "self" is quiet enough to hear whats being whispered in my ear...

Here's a recently done piece called "The Enochian"...

Nemette(Nightlands series)

Here's the initial piece for an ongoing project. The working title is:Nightlands

The Gift

Third time's a charm...check out my pencil piece on IFA...if you do feel like voting for it I'd be honored but even if not there's some cool images going on over there...

Vote Here!

Sort of my own Dante's Inferno developing...work in progress...

Perhaps a Gaunt of some kind...

...and here's one of my variations of an Old One from In the Mountains of Madness (tho this one isn't from the movie concepts).

Here's a version of Keziah Mason, an astral witch from HPL's  Dreams in the Witch house...

The Cradle of Leng

Their society had begun to decay. The diversity of genetic evolution was failing them. In their desperation they assumed stewardship of their own biological destiny. They became their own makers not out of natural adaptation but as a result of their own terrible will. They were wretched and immortal. They were dire and full of fury, at creation, which had abandoned them and at nature, which despised their existence.

They worshipped gods that didn't exist so in their madness they created them.

The Cradle of Leng was the city of their birth. Leng was grown from the genetic remnants of a billion years of experimentation. It was alive, this city, and tortured. It was written on the walls of Leng that torture and pain give depth and strength to its foundation.

When the city was old and near it's own death they made way to give it rebirth through itself. They inseminated the city with the seeds of malformed gods of their own creation, filled with eons of existence and the seething chaos of the thoughts of long dead divinities. The city was tortured yet again with miscarriage and abortion time and time again until one day the seed held fast and began to grow.

...and here's the finished piece. It's 9"x12",graphite, acrylic and oil on Stillman & Birn 180lb Zeta Series multimedia paper...

R'yleh

I was actually working on something else but last night I dreamt of R'lyeh....