King Arcen the Bold

At the Battle of Rainbow Bridge, he hewed the heads of fifteen giants, and drank their blood from a silver-plated skull. Of all the Fairy Kings, he is the first to arms and the last to leave the battlefield. It is said that his hooves on the green earth to sprout with white lilies, that turn bright red before they wither and die. His sword is thunderbolt iron, his mane is holy fire, and his horn is solid gold.

He is Arcen the Bold, Arcen-Cel,  Fairy King and Father of Unicorns.


I finally had a good excuse to draw this character. He's been hanging around the back of my head for at least a year in various forms, and with multiple backstories. I've been super busy since CTN, and I still have a whole bunch of stuff I'm going through. We'll see what happens.

The Post-CTN Glow

So, yeah, CTN was a great show this year. I met a lot of cool people and learned a few important lessons about life and art and the importance of umbrellas. Yadda yadda.

I've opened up a Twitter account, where I can post some of my less-than-stellar doodles and occasional ramblings. You can check me out @ScBingham, I guess? I'm still not entirely sure how the thing works, but I'll figure it out soon enough.

I've still got fifty-bajillion business cards to organize and a couple emails to look at, so things may be happening over here in the next couple days. I'll try to have everything locked in by Sunday, but with all this Thanksgiving happening, it might be tricky.

Let's just see what happens!

Die Fledermaus

I'm still messing around with this little guy. I'm still working on that little animated sequence for him. This particular graphic is going to be floating around with me at CTN next weekend. I'm really looking forward to the show, and I'm hoping to meet some more cool industry people. Fun times!

Glyos Paintdoodle

So, Onell Design puts out this fantastic little toyline called Glyos. It's basically mini retro space men who you can pull apart and put back together in all kinds of crazy ways. They are tons of fun and I'm getting excited because the next run is going to have some delicious purple. You can find out more about them here.

This painting was me continuing to muck around with my Cintiq. I pulled up my chair, loaded up some podcasts, and it just sort of happened. Maybe 45 minutes altogether.

Drabblecast Episode Art!

A few weeks after graduation I reached out to the Drabblecast, and audio fiction podcast specializing in the Weird and the Strange. I got the opportunity to do the cover art for this week's episode, number 256: "Roanoke, Nevada," by Edward J. Knight. You can check the story out by subscribing on iTunes, or just heading over to Drabblecast.org. They run a great show over there.

Here's a higher resolution version of the cover. Go check out the podcast to get the context!

The Bat Returns

Here's the finished pencil test of my little Bat vs. Golf Ball animation!

I've had this sitting around for about a week, actually. I plan on taking this to full color. This is probably the last WIP I'll post until it's done, but I may put up some color stills as I work on it...? We'll see.

"Pterosaur" is an order, "Pterodactyl" and "Pteranodon" are genera.

And these are Dimorphodon. Well, with plenty of artistic license.

The painting is the result of me messing around with my new setup this weekend. Same with the sketches, really. Of all the various prehistoric monsters, the pterosaurs and the dromaeosaurs are the ones that really appeal to me. I think it has to do with how bird-like they are, although I'll spare everyone the amateur paleontology lecture.

Anyway, here are some sketches of a particularly cartoony D. macronyx, mostly with absurd headgear concepts. The general consensus is that pterosaurs had hair instead of feathers, but pterosaurs are famous for ridiculous headcrests, so I went a little birdish with these.

Check them out after the break!