More strangeness from a strange world

Some mock ups I did for a pitch last year

Asherah and the Tree of Life

Character designs and some strange worlds

Introducing Leonard Fugwargen from the Band of the Frightened Swine

I'm teaching a concept art for video games class to undergraduate students enrolled in the video game program at the University of Utah...  The class will be based upon creating concept art about a group of orcs call the Band of the Frightened Swine....

Regnerev Heavy

Space ship in color and some polys

The space ship was begging for a paint job and I decided to bring it to life in 3-d!  The model is still work in progress

A picture for a "Friend"

Space Ship times two

Quetzalcoatl

wow what a noggin

Mrs. Frankenstein

cute Zombie!

A sword

Zombie!

Apropos for Halloween

Ratchet and Clank weapon mash-up

Gabriel asked for a weapon mash-up from a popular video game... Ratchet and Clank was the obvious choice.

Snoopy Vehicles

My good friend Art Roche needed help with a project he was working on with the Snoopy people.  I'll post some more sketches soon

Mr Will O' The Wisp

Jesus lived by the sea

A sketch of where Jesus lived in Capernaum.  I wonder how many people stop to consider that Jesus lived in a home in an actual town.  You can find this mentioned in the Bible, see Matt 4:13
"and leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtali"  ASV Bible

If you look closely you can find a few places where I put the seal of Melchizedek

Something for Summer

My art on Tumblr

Hi Everybody!

I've just started posting my work on tumblr....  http://markjarman.tumblr.com/

another assignment from class

A Plate

I'm participating in a class taught by the artists' rep Lilla Rogers....

This is for the lesson on home decor, we all did a plate design...

Abrasax

so I came across this article discussing early Coptic Christian prayer circles, and in the dialog of the prayer was this reference to Abrasax...  here is an exerpt:

Line 1. (The Tau-Rho sign).² Hail El! Fathouriel,³ who giveth
2. strength (comfort?), who gives replies [antiphonei] to the angels! ⁴
3. Hail Adonai (My Lord), Hail Eloi (My God), Hail
4. Abrasax! Hail Iothael!⁵ Hail
5. Mistrael (for Mizrael) who has looked upon the face of the Father ⁶
6. in the power of Iao! ⁷ KHOK.⁸

so I was curious about who or what this Abrasax character was, and I found this article on wikipedia...

Abrasax (Gk. ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “Great Archon” (Gk., megas archōn), the princeps of the 365 spheres (Gk., ouranoi).^[1] The 7 letters spelling its name represent each of the 7 classic planets—Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.^[2]
The word is found in Gnostic texts such as the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and also appears in the Greek Magical Papyri. It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms. As the initial spelling on stones was 'Abrasax' (Αβρασαξ), the spelling of 'Abraxas' seen today probably originates in the confusion made between the Greek letters Sigma and Xi in the Latin transliteration. The word may be related to Abracadabra, although other explanations exist.
There are similarities and differences between such figures in reports about Basilides' teaching, ancient Gnostic texts, the larger Greco-Roman magical traditions, and modern magical and esoteric writings. Opinions abound on Abraxas, who in recent centuries has been claimed to be both an Egyptian god and a demon.^[3] The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being

And this reference to Carl Jung is interesting, here is what he says about Abrasax....

God and devil are distinguished by the qualities fullness and emptiness, generation and destruction. EFFECTIVENESS is common to both. Effectiveness joineth them. Effectiveness, therefore, standeth above both; is a god above god, since in its effect it uniteth fullness and emptiness.

This is a god whom ye know not, for mankind forgot it. We name it by its name ABRAXAS. It is more indefinite still than god and devil.

either way kind of intriguing stuff, but I think the way this character was drawn was pretty weird and cool, so I wanted to do a drawing of Abraxas, I mean who can resist a character with the torso and arms of a male human, a chicken head, and snakes for legs, CRAZY!

Its a bit sketchy but I kinda like where its headed, if I have time I'll embellish it a bit more.

New Destiny

Destiny

Debbie D

Debbie D

Manu and the Great Flood

Many cultures have a deluge or flood myth, including India.  In this version of the story Vishnu appears in avatar form to a kind and wise man named Manu and warns him of the impending flood.