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Digital illustration of a lion

Digital illustration of a baboon

The Green hairstreak. Couldnt decided between backgrounds, after a bunch of fun with a hair extension and paint... and getting paint on the walls, floor, desk, tv screen, laptop, bed, Joey the lot

Digital painting inspired by one of nature's most beautiful and colourful creatures, the hummingbird.

Quick portrait of Laura Marling in Procreate

Here's an ink illustration from my sketchbook. The only thing more terrifying than dying of the plague might be encountering a plague doctor. The type at the bottom says "A Black Sun Revolves Around You." It's been distorted and abstracted, but it's derived from letterforms.

This is part of a book cover för dentist nurses. Painted in Procreate on my ipad.

Robots war, a chalkboard doodle done with my son (8yr old), creative cooperation

My first doodle @ doodle addicts. Found 5 - 15 minutes several times each day of 4 days...that's life for now. I'm far from complaining.

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.” -John Cleese

A digital painting done in procreate on my ipad pro.

Mini Spawn illustration, created with Dick Blick Studio markers and Derwent colored pencils.

I had an idea to create illustrations of fruit set in autumn 2017, and have been working on the realization of this idea throughout February/March 2018. In all, I have created 11 illustrations: apple, apricot, banana, cherry, grape, lemon, orange, pear, plum, tomato, watermelon. Using rapidograph to form the shape, I am coloring my works digitally in Adobe Photoshop. Here is an apricot!

I had an idea to create illustrations of fruit set in autumn 2017, and have been working on the realization of this idea throughout February/March 2018. In all, I have created 11 illustrations: apple, apricot, banana, cherry, grape, lemon, orange, pear, plum, tomato, watermelon. Using rapidograph to form the shape, I am coloring my works digitally in Adobe Photoshop. Here is an apple!

Pen and ink doodle drawing Koi fish

A colorful doodle study of my urban backyard. Homage to a 20+ year old delicious apple tree that is no longer part of the view. Artwork done in Procreate.

The beginning of pokemon galore

Acrylic on Canvas.

There was a royal lineage in Europe that was so inbred that their jaws started getting really distended and weird. Like Jay Leno, but inbred. (I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.) Feel free to look up the Hapsburgs. I'll wait. The second picture is a Fiji mermaid and a merman. I think I want a merman tattoo. SMOLDER.

Some times you get that feeling of a SCREAM, you feel of a deep anger or a boiling volcano that needs to explode from inside in a rage and vigorous manner

All the elements were drawn by hand, with Prismacolor markers used to create what would be vastly contrasting tones after b/w conversion. The composition and b/w conversion were done in Adobe Photoshop. © 2016 Joe Blend. All rights reserved

Drawing printed on paper. Handpulled screenprint.

Want to show off your art work on your own portable art gallery? You can with this erasable backpack.

This is an envelope that I created inspired by How to train Your Dragon series

© 2017 Joe Blend. All rights reserved. — Artwork made by redacting words in a newspaper article to create a haiku. A contour drawing was added using white ink, to convey the meaning behind the haiku (note: the word "the" was added by using semi-opaque tape to remove the word from a different newspaper article). The piece was scanned into Adobe Photoshop for small adjustments, to prepare for printing.

Daily Painting Challenge 2 - basketweave Following the daily painting challenge with Lisa Congdon over at CreativeBug though I haven't quite managed to keep up daily. Still, it's wonderful picking the brush up again and splashing around with paint!

Daily Painting Challenge 1 - gingham Following the daily painting challenge with Lisa Congdon over at CreativeBug though I haven't quite managed to keep up daily. Still, it's wonderful picking the brush up again and splashing around with paint!

Sketched during a live stream of one of my favorite people, this artwork is symbolic of how we creatives communicate and interact using social media.