Illustrations for Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book by Paul Jouve (1878-1973)

"I stopped to look at it. It was a cock's head; needles of some dark metal had been run through its eyes and it held a strip of cast snakeskin in its bill." The Sword of the Lictor, Chapter XX, "The Circle of the Sorcerers".

I don't have any new Christmas art to share, so here's one I did a few years ago, haha.

Some quick thoughts on character design from when I was considering teaching the subject. Would still love to at some point if possible. Not necessarily a tutorial, but things I try to keep in mind. Everyone has a different method, usually dictated by career choice.

The archetypal rogues themselves, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. W.I.P.