John Swartwout

Tartarean Machines
Our 7th monthly Discord challenge.
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August topic is: Childhood Nightmares !

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A large mushroom-warped woman stands holding the hand of her sword. Skeletons sit below her, and a broken moon bleeds onto them.

Character Design - various monsters based on mushrooms

fullbody color commission. A character with white hair wears a cloak secured by a bird pin, blue tunic, and strapped boots. They hold a spear dripping blood into the rainwater at their feet. they appear contemplative as a red droplet falls into their hand.

Character lineup - a squad of odd masked mercenaries

Chris here, a freelance illustrator and character designer that loves dark fantasy, monsters, and folklore 🍄🌙

Publishing, games, TTRPGs - for any project that needs a funky organic touch, I'm available for work 👁️

🕸️ sutexii.art
✉️ chrisutexii@gmail.com

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Hello #portfolioday! ✨

I am Ana, character concept artist working for games. Clients include Blizzard Entertainment, Critical Role, Gunfire Games, Sharkmob and Bioware.

Currently living as a freelancer, but my dream is to join a big game studio making RPG/action games one day 😄

✨ linktr.ee/anafi

Hey #PortfolioDay

I'm John. I'm a 3D artist that specializes in dark characters and creatures.

A massive, hissing pale snake adorned in gaudy golden jewelry on its tail and head. Red feathers decorate its neck

Reimagined concepts of the Wizard of Oz characters. Five characters are shown. In the middle is a young girl wearing a white button-up and a blue suspender skirt, holding a gun in one hand and a basket of ammo in the other. Next to her is a Cane Corso dog with a collar that says "Toto." To the left is a tall, knife-wielding man dressed in a ragged, bullet-worn suit and fedora, a crow with a knife in its beak sitting on his shoulder. To the right is a man dressed smartly in a vest and mask, with prosthetic arms and one prosthetic leg, an axe on his belt and a can of gasoline beside him. In the back is a huge male brute in a vest with a bearded face and top-knot, wearing knuckle rings on his fists.

A fantastical creature that appears to be a mix of a walrus and parakeet. Three are depicted: one large male, one female and one infant. The male and female have blue and white feathered, walrus-like bodies. Other sketches showing details of the creature are also depicted.

A boy with a purple mohawk and punk clothes holds a small bat decorated with thumbtacks. He sits on top of a big pig, who also has a mohawk, a spiked collar and a painted skull brand on its leg. On the collar is a stick on which an apple hangs in front of the pig's nose.

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I'm Aromie, a concept artist who specializes in creature and characters. I love experimenting in style and genre.

I'm open for work opportunities any time!

📧: aromie.kim@gmail.com
🎨: aromiekim.artstation.com
Comms: aromiekimart.carrd.co
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/arom...

Drawing of a girl whose eyes are covered with fire. Graphite mixed media

Cover art for Joe Hill’s The Black Phone. A ghostly silhouette of a boy carried to the sky by the black balloons. Graphite mixed media.

Cover art for Brian Evenson’s Good Night, Sleep Tight. A robot covered by vines that morphs into organic branches and vines. Graphite mixed media.

Drawing of a figure being held by a pair of hands by her neck, three pairs of hands are shown in front of her, all in different gestures. Graphite mixed media.

Hi #portfolioday!

I do books covers and comic covers!

hey #portfolioday
I'm Lillo, 3d/concept artist in progress focused on dark/horror/grimdark topics

my main goal is to grow as an artist, to share ideas and to keep on creating weird creatures

hope you enjoy my work and thanks for your support!

artstation: www.artstation.com/art_lillo

At A Glance

Digital

Work in progress pen drawing of a large mechanical headed humanoid that flows into technoorganic structures

Some detailing to take care of tomorrow and that'll finalize this one
11x17 pen and paper
#surreal #macabre #wip #PenAndPaper #TraditionalArt #DarkSurrealism #DarkArt #Art #InkSky #B&Wart #GrimDark

😭🥲

This is why I go to the gym all the time 😭

I just ate an entire packet of cookies. Wtf is wrong with me lol.

Another color variation of my Zombie sculpt
#darkart
#zbrush

Watch your step [3/3]

Current mood

abstract animal or ghost

Some Thing

Zombie Apocalypse Rapture
Our 6th monthly Discord challenge.
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⚠️Open Path⚠️
1/72 Lord and King Bael
Shapeshifter and first King of Hell
Governs 66 legions of spirits

A digital painting of a male figure with long black hair, shirtless but wearing a black sort of cloak and high waisted, grey pants, standing in the middle of a sort of iron archway with his right hand outstretched to the viewer. With his left hand, he is peeling away a hole in the center of his chest to reveal an inky spirit creature coming out from it and it floats above his head.

A dark art digital painting of portrait of a headless figure in a suit and tie with two glowing halos of different sizes floating where the head would be.

A dark art, digital painting of a haloed, skull headed figure floating in a void with arms stretched to its sides, palms facing forward, and with rose quartz protruding from its shattered, decaying body.

A digital painting of a giant, multi-armed, skull-headed figure in a large thunder cloud with several bolts of lighting generating from it.

🎉 Congrats and nice to meet you! Thank you for hosting. 🖤

I'm Ren and I'm a freelance artist that specializes in dark, slightly surrealist fantasy illustrations, and character and creature designs! Here's a few of my favorite spooky works.

Thank you! That one was a bit of a struggle for me tbh haha.

Thank you so much :)

Thank you! Yeah the prompt for that one was megalaphobia.

These are so great. I love the mysterious mood, especially the top right.

A painting of a person’s face unraveling, wisped away into the void. One eye socket is empty, coming apart. The other eye, a bright pop of blue against a purple palette, stares pleadingly at the viewer, perhaps asking for help or merely sad to be departing this world.

A black and white illustration of a young boy, positioned at the bottom of the composition, wearing a simple white night gown. His breath is visible as if it is very cold. At the top of the composition, looming above the boy, is the face of an older man, heavily creased and full of pocked marks. He stares ahead, the irises of his eyes aglow with an eerie light.

A strange skull shaped form hovers above the footboard of a child’s bed. It looks to be smiling. Beneath the skull mask is the shape of a spider, long limbs stretching up and off of the composition.

A mermaid or siren can be seen on the other side of dingy porthole. She looks in, hand pressed lightly against the glass. Her body and hair are covered in scales, seaweed, and barnacles.

Spooky you say!?

That means a lot! Thank you!

Hi I'm John! Congrats on this milestone! Here's my spooky 3D art.

In a dim elevator, a man stands near the buttons. The elevator floor/level light reads "LL." At the open elevator doors stands a grotesque tall woman (?) with unnaturally-hued skin, wearing a blood-stained white dress and red shoes. Hidden in the rightside corner is a small rodent, who is staring at the being.

Black and white drawing of a Regenerador, an enemy monster from the Resident Evil 4 video game. A bulky, pale humanoid with a ghastly grinning face and long arms with tendrils coming out from the ends.

A black and white sketch of the Varcolac, a werewolf-like creature from the Resident Evil game series. A hairy, crouched humanoid with a face like a wolf's skull stares at the viewer

An illustration of a scuba diver within dark underwater depths, shining a dim light upon a monstrous aquatic creature with a vaguely humanoid face, a maw full of sharp teeth and hands.

Congrats frayed!!!
And spooky / horror art? My fave??? Say no more 💪

Thank you so much 🙏.

Thank you once again for the tag! I don't have anything new to share 😅