Not having any money left to buy a pen tab, I borrowed one from the office. I really should get one.

I figured more muscle and better armor would do him a bit of good.

Neo-cymeks were formerly humans but were given cybernetic bodies. The only human part that remains of them are their brains, protected in electrafluid. These brains are not necessarily situated in the head of the cymek body, but embedded way inside the mecha structure for protection.
As former humans, I imagine them to be arrogant and wishing [...]

Another try at facial color blending. Still have ways to go - but I’m happy with the way the color turned out. Just perfect for a desert nomad boy. Selim was the first to be able to ride the giant desert worms of Arrakis.

Another color study. I had hoped to stay on the gray / old rose color but somehow ended up with this. Thankfully, now I know how purple, pink and white combines.
I’ve been reading a lot of Dune novels recently - finishing the Butlerian Jihad trilogy - so most of my drawings are what I imagine [...]

Done on pastels. Trying to figure out some color combinations for blending.

This one is rough and uncleaned, and I really plan on cleaning this up (or redoing it entirely - I’m not happy with the smirk) before doing the others in this series. But I was giddy to post it since the shield is a dead giveaway to what the series is about.

I managed to dig through my old blogs and get some of the sketches I posted before. This is the first of three.