Unicorn of a different color...

I went through an abnormally long "I want a pony" phase as a little girl. (It was probably exacerbated by the fact that one of my aunts actually owned several Chincoteague ponies and I was envious.) I still love horses, even if I don't draw them very much anymore. This picture was rendering practice as well as equine anatomy practice. I just added the horn at the last minute to make it slightly less boring.

Merry F'ing Xmas

I have to come clean and admit something: I hate Christmas. I'm also trying to work through an art block, and I decided the best way to deal with this is to draw what I love best: semi-nude menfolk. Now that I've used up my colon quota for the day, I give you Raziel, the Xmas demon.

Incubus King 2011

I decided to do a redesign of Sammael I, an incubus character of mine, to go along with my last post. I wanted to tie his new outfit to the succubus's, so I repeated the overlapping plate pattern as pauldrons. I think designing his new outfit was easier than drawing that sword.

Here was my process in drawing the weapon (which I have yet to name). I had no idea what kind of weapon I wanted; I just wanted it to be BIG. I finally decided I liked the idea of a big, blunt, squarish sword, like the uruk'hai use in the LotR movies. But I thought the final shape (no. 7) was pretty boring.

 

 

I thought it would look cool if the sword looked like it was made of (or perhaps covered by) an overgrowth of chitinous plates. And my sister has a large collection of fossil shark teeth, so I added a few of those in as well. In the end, I wanted to break up the symmetry of the blade a little, so I added the purple veins to suggest some sort of disease or sickness.

...I wish I knew more about 3D models. I'd so make this into a weapons mod for Skyim.

Succubus fashionwear

 The process I went through in redesigning the outfit for a succubus character, Ista. Her previous design was, uh, not so much an outfit as a random collection of weird jewelry. I wanted her new design to be more unique, and I wanted to stay away from the cliche lingerie/bondage gear you see in so much fantasy art of succubi.

1.) I started out with a pretty boring design. I think it was supposed to be a flame-inspired halter top. Then I started watching Thor.

2.) After watching Thor on DVD, I really liked the design aesthetic they had going on. I wanted to try a more geometric outfit, with gold as the primary color.

3.) I wanted the outfit to be skimpy and not completely solid. I also didn't mind if it was completely impossible to create in real life: this is a vain, shape-shifting succubus, and if she wants a show-offy outfit, she's gonna have one. (The 2nd and 3rd designs feel faintly cyberpunk to me for some reason.)

4.) I decided I liked the look of the interlapping plates. Ta-da, final succubus swimsuit!

"She Devil"

 

Original character illustration of a succubus enjoying herself entirely too much.

Hey there.

Evening. I’m Erin Morgan, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer living in Florida. This is my art blog.

 If anyone’s wondering, the “Fatal Fruit” part comes from Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost”, and refers to the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.