Lost and the Damned 1 of 3: GIONA (ink on paper, 2022, converted miniature in the next image)
Many years ago, when I was a kid, my brother and I came across the world of warhammer 40k (at that time it was under the Citadel Miniatures brand). I didnʼt have patience for painting, I couldnʼt read english very well and I didnʼt know where to start with miniature conversion too: after endless really really bad experiments I threw in the towel.
Few years ago my brother gave me a space marine box as a birthday present. I didnʼt want to mess them up so I plunged myself again in the 40k universe: tutorials, lore, galleries, models, etc. These illustrations, and their miniature counterparts, are small divertissements after my return to the big family of warhammer: I tried to convert some minis and then I made an artwork for each one of them. My miniature painting skill isnʼt nearly comparable to the work of many others (my favorite heavyweights here on instagram: @marco_paroli and @thunderwulfen), but take this stuff as a tribute to the community for all their years of love for w40k when I was looking elsewhere.
About Giona (home made lore): a crossbreed between the Yeti, the Mothman and an urban legend thrown in the Imperium superstition. People see him for brief moments on ghost spaceships, in abandoned stations on asteroids or deep inside forgotten drifted vessels in the cold space. A blink of an eye, and he is gone. Then usually something bad happens there. Seeing him is considered a bad omen. Inquisition disapproves of any mention of him. Nevertheless in the quiet confidences of the imperial army lower ranks the tale of a primaris half eaten in body and mind by a warp storm spreads as a disease. They call him Giona.
