Revamp of the ugliest fan art I ever painted, Necron Lord

Recently I picked this idea of repainting my old art. It helps to spot some problems and estimate my current progress. After making few revamps I decided to pick I guess one of my biggest fails. Every time I see the initial art I had made, it reminds me horrors of the warp. I still don’t know how it happened, after all I wasn’t that bad at that time but with this fan art something went really wrong. Perhaps I was too much taken away with details or Necrons and the idea itself that I ditched out nearly everything that’s important to make a drawing looking good. This new version is not perfect either but it makes difference and sure thing a progress which adds motivation to keep pushing my progress. I want this work not to be a show off but rather an example of motivation for me and everyone who learn and struggle with results. So this concludes two things: patience and efforts one way or another will give results, the more you systematic the sooner and the better they will be; fails are important and not a big drama as against them the progress and results are visible. I hope you progress at what you are keen and enthusiastic! ...

January 23, 2024 · Dmitry Brushray

November 23 Dmitry Brushray Art mix

Mix of my artworks November 2023. I keep painting chaos space marines. This guy has pretty unusual and bright colour scheme. He’s a chaos champion for a warband called the Reproached Hollows, He’s only known as “The Cyclopes” Special thanks to Littlerevy and her miniature reference: https://instagram.com/littlerevy?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Roman warrior, short personal work, a painting study ...

November 23, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray

The Daemonastrolabium of the Iron Maw

Hey everyone! Today is a special artwork on Warhammer40k here. We keep expanding lore of the Iron Butchers warband: Make sure to check their instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enter.the.butcher/ If you may remember I painted a star ship for this warband, the Iron Maw, on which they crusade the Galaxy: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g00LWe This artwork shows a pretty special part of this ship called The Daemonastrolabium. Basically it’s a huge compass which navigates the warp. A shared effort by the Iron Butchers Warpsmith and Dark Mechanicum Hereteks, the Daemonastrolabium is a huge, daemonic device located in the highest spire of the observatory dome of the Iron Maw. The device, commonly known as daemon-compass, is a creation whose goal was to allow the Iron Butchers to perform warp-travel without the need of a Navigator, since the latter are rare individuals, often prone to madness or death, due to the nature of the Chaos, or unwilling to help traitor Warbands. ...

October 31, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray

October 23 Dmitry Brushray Art mix

Mix of my artworks October 2023. Decided to paint some skeletons One part Sepulchral Guard, one part Son of Velmorn. This time I was inspired by the miniature (Venomcrawler) of this monster and painted the fan art of the creature in its den in Nurgle style. Also a few figure studies I turned into magicians. ...

October 20, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray

September Dmitry Brushray 23 Art mix

Mix of my recent artworks. A tomb has awakened releasing it’s dormant horrors… Necrons is a special art subject for me. I did my first tries on them about 3-4 years. And what is special ever since my artistic vision of them has been changing several times. Of course the first attempts were pretty clumsy and some next art then became more mature. Nevertheless Necrons though humanoid yet distinctly different from humans at their primal form before the transfer. And the main challenge I think is to grasp this difference and be able to express it along with mean consequences of the transfer. This challenging aspect and a strong undead vibe keep inspiring me. ...

September 9, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray

Female torso quick paintings

I use dry media a lot. Charcoal, pencil, pastel,sepia in all variations. I learned to control them and comparing to paints they seemed more friendly and simple to me. I don’t need to think about drying layers, mixing colours, distorting paper, fading tones etc. The result with dry media strict and straight, mostly pure form reflected in monotone. One the other hand my aspiration always has been oil painting. When water colours and gouache I simply didn’t liked, oils I was afraid of! Dry media was a sort of preparation to use oils and I considered to use them later when my academic skill will be more solid. Adding to this all complications with oil painting techniques such as mediums, priming, colour mixing etc., I kept postponing my meeting with oils and worked with dry media only. Last winter was difficult and full of anxious thoughts. It caused me a sort of burn out and depression. I kept clinging to working and art for nothing much of other options left to keep me afloat. Spring came and brought some relief and along with this a trivial thought that waiting for a perfect moment is a waist of time and futile expectation. I think I was exalting and idealising oil paints too much. May be for some time I was in need of such ideal of a noble stage of the art journey which requires a lot of preparations, as another motivation kind. After these stressing times I had thought that idealising oils is childish, I don’t need any particular cause or moment or level to step in. I started from videos at least to sort out technical aspects and it was not too difficult. It’s difficult for a perfect results on some heavy art work. But to start bare minimum is like a bunch of brushes, dark warm and dark cold paints plus white (3 tubes in total if to work in monochrome) and a medium to dilute the paint oil or varnish. As a canvas can work anything thick enough and primed in acrylic paint. Actually, I skipped the last point with priming and just used usual office paper for printer with water proof lining to prevent oil from soaking thru paper and spreading around. You can see the result. ...

June 14, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray

Culsu, a World Eater Chaos Lord second-in-command of the Iron Butchers Warband

Hey everyone! This is another revamp of one of my work. The first art of this character was painted something about a year ago for the Iron Butchers warband: https://www.instagram.com/enter.the.butcher/ Here is the link to the post with the first version of Culsu: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6bXRxV Then there had been some progress in my vision and work process and we decided to make another art ot the character. So this post is the result: a character with helmet and without, plus some stages. Here is also some story to make the image more vivid: ...

May 23, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray

Blacksmiths art by brushray

Character drawing practice. This time I picked two images of blacksmith and draw them with charcoal. #brushray #artbrushray #artist #art #painting #artcommissions #buyart #blacksmith #charcoalart #drawing #art #artist #sketch #sketching #creative #illustration #design #handmade #craftsmanship #metalworking #forging #anvil #fire #workshop #traditionalart #monochrome #instaart Like my work? Feel free to contact me ✉ for your personalized piece of art anytime!

April 23, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray

Plague Marine, Foul Fighter fan art

Hey everyone! Check out my latest Warhammer fan art featuring a Nurgle Plague Marine. Corrupted by the foul blessings of Nurgle, this warrior is a testament to the power of the Lord of Decay. His rusted armor and diseased body spread twisted corruption that runs rampant in the 41st millennium. #brushray #artbrushray #artist #art #painting #artcommissions #buyart #Warhammer40k #Nurgle #PlagueMarine #FanArt #Chaos #ArtOfTheDay #Hobby #TabletopGaming #Wargaming #warhammer #warhammercommunity #grimadark #40k #SpaceMarines #DeathGuard #SciFi #monster #horror #NurgleRot #horusheresy #warhammerart ...

March 31, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray

Robot-gunslinger

Attempt to paint something both looking like wild west and samurai vibe in loose traditional manner using digital media. I hope you like the art and have fun! #brushray #artbrushray #artist #art #painting #artcommissions #buyart #robot #cowboy #gunslinger #samurai #fantasyart #sciencefiction #characterdesign #illustration #digitalart #conceptart #sword #revolver #futuretech #cyborg #western #samuraisword #mecha #robotart #robotcharacter #scifiart #robotcowboy #robotsamurai #characterart #digitalillustration #sketchbook #artlife #artshare #cyberpunk #robotics #mech #futurewarrior #artcollector #animeart #mechdesign #robotwarrior #weaponart #robotgunslinger ...

March 29, 2023 · Dmitry Brushray