The swamp where the Gamayun guards Koschei’s soul. Another environment revision, and my favorite of the bunch.
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The Isle of Buyan
Digital, Illustration, Vis-Dev
Yet another environment revision. This one is the Isle of Buyan and Koschei’s palace, which is pretty heavily inspired by the Kolomenskoye estate and the chalk cliffs of Rügen.
Baba Yaga’s Hut
Digital, Illustration, Vis-Dev
The chicken-legged hut of the cannibal witch Baba Yaga, ringed by glowing skulls.
River Valley
Digital, Illustration, Vis-Dev
Another revision from my thesis. I decided to take a whole new approach to environments, inspired by storybook illustrators and comic artists. This is the deceptively modest home of the dragon Zmey Gorinich. Click to see it bigger!
Koschei the Deathless
Digital, Vis-Dev
This is a character revision of my version of the recurring Russian fairytale villain, Koschei the Deathless.
The door behind the stove
Digital, Illustration, Vis-Dev
A layout and value study for Marya’s kitchen, and the mysterious, tiny door hidden behind the stove.
Firebird
Digital, Vis-Dev
Firebird design for my thesis.
Leshy designs
Traditional media, Vis-Dev
Design concepts for a leshy, a Slavic woodland spirit. Click for bigger!
Baba Yaga
Digital, Vis-Dev
I haven’t talked much about my thesis work, mostly because it’s hard to ever feel like any given piece is done. Here is one of my character designs, for the witch Baba Yaga, a staple of Slavic folklore and one of the key characters in Deathless, the novel on which I’m basing my thesis.