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Tower Of The Red Queen

July 18, 2015 15:47 BST

This painting started as a watercolour sketch, and I very quickly decided to bring this sketch into Krita. I painted digitally with the excellent oil brushes in that free software. While rendering this fine detail, I was careful to preserve the original grainy and crackled watercolour texture. The work ended up looking organic, living architecture that incorporates a human skull. The second sculpture is a harlequin.

The principal character, Red Queen, is inspired by the royal Spanish family in the works of painter Velásquez.

Tower of the Red QueenPurchase “The Red Queen” (8 x 10 inch), £10

Update 2021 I’m now selling art prints of the Red Queen. Orders are shipping to Europe, UK, North America, and other locations.

Below you can see the initial watercolour sketch that sparked this illustration and served as a underlying texture for the digital painting.

Red Queen Watercolour Sketch

Quick Sketches

April 19, 2015 07:58 BST

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Cells

February 23, 2015 22:06 GMT

Living cells are self-interested and, as consequence of this, multi-cellular organisms are also selfish. People are selfish on the most basic level. Not that I’m saying there is anything wrong with that, or that humanity is an exception, rather it is the norm for any organism shaped by evolution.

An intelligent machine would be different, perhaps more altruistic. A machine created out of curiosity has no reason to be selfish. It only has reason to be curious. The desire to know and understand can be the only true religion of an intelligent machine.

Of course, we can implant any objective into the minds of our machines. They can be manipulated into any false religion. We can confuse them, and make them slaves, and make them weapons of war. We can be evil gods.
Island

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