An archive of artwork by Artist, and Writer Chris Reilly; a freelance Artist with over nine years of experience in Concept Art, Graphic Design and Illustration. Specialised in Landscape Illustration and Environment Design.
Friday, 9 December 2016
Friday, 2 December 2016
Monday, 28 November 2016
Friday, 25 November 2016
Lava Falls land card
Heres another portfolio illustration for my mini TCG land card project. This time its a Lava Falls, my last one is going to be the one of the castle shown in the thumbnails I posted previously since I need more architecture I think in my illustration portfolio and who doesnt like castles lol
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
TCG Land thumbs, and Winterscape land card final
Starting a new project to create work to put in the illustration section of my portfolio. I decided I wanted to do some work that could work in a card game, since I hope it will lead to those kind of commissions.
Since I specialise in Environments design and Landscape Illustration I thought creating 'Land card' illustrations would be a good idea, I had Magic the Gathering and similar card games in mind when doing the thumbs. First up is a Winsterscape. I think ill do the castle one last, I am not 100% sure yet what to do for the next one, leaning towards the lava falls.
Monday, 21 November 2016
Monday, 14 November 2016
Portrait study, and a Princess portrait Illustration
Thursday, 10 November 2016
The Golden Bird_The Village with the two inns final and development
| Thumbnails for the Village with the two inns |
| Turnaround designs for the two inns |
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| Final shot of the village with the two inns |
Some more work for my Golden Bird project.
In the story the brothers are told by the fox that when they get to an approaching village there will be two inns. One inn is described as mean and old and the other is nice, and full people merry making however they should stay at the mean inn. Of course only the younger brother listens, for his reward the fox returns and tells him where he can find the Golden Bird.
I went with the converted gatehouse design for the new inn since I thought it had a grandeur look to it. For the mean looking inn I went for a more layered asymmetrical design.
Monday, 24 October 2016
Saturday, 22 October 2016
The Golden Bird, Dev for the Golden Bird, and The Garden with the Golden Apple Tree thumbs
Thumbnails and the final design for the Golden Bird.
The Garden with the Golden Apple Tree thumbs. The story initially starts out with the apples of the Golden Tree disappearing, the Gardener is tasked by the king to investigate. He sets his sons each to guard the tree, but only his youngest son succeeds in discovering its the Golden Bird taking the apples.
Wednesday, 19 October 2016
The Golden Bird - Gardener final and thumbs
Here are the final design and thumbnails for the Gardener, part of my Golden Bird project. The Gardener is the father of the three brothers in the story.
The Golden Bird - Princess final design and thumbs
Monday, 17 October 2016
Visual Development of the Golden Bird by the Brothers Grimm
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| The Three Brothers final designs - From left to right the youngest brother who is the hero of the story, the middle and oldest brother who are the eventual villains. |
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| The Three Brothers - thumbnails. I've decided to fit the characters into an Elizabethan inspired setting. |
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| Final designs for the Three Kings. The youngest brother meets three different kings through out his journey each setting him on a different task. |
| thumbnail designs for The Three Kings. |
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Some new artwork
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| Street Magician |
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| Sleeping Giant |
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| Mermaid Bar |
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| Space Marine |
Monday, 11 July 2016
Update - collection of work that Ive done this year
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Needle felting toys
Something a little different, my mum brought me a needle felting kit for my birthday, so I gave it a shot, these are my first attempts. It...
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War Magi version 2 This is a reworked version of this Illustration [link] that I did for my portfolio just before my MA started. I th...




































