Vertebral Art

Hello! I'm Sheri Groleau, I am a concept artist currently located in Edmonton, Alberta. My passion is creature and character design; my work up until this point has been focused on honing my draftsmanship and technical understanding of anatomy and biomechanics for original and client-based work ranging from casual to professional study, portraiture, and design. I'm currently looking for work that allows me to be a part of a creative team to apply my skills to the development of memorable characters and designs in the realm of tabletop and video gaming.

For more informal & personal pieces and presentation, please visit the pages listed under "Personal Works".

Illustration

DESIGN & VIS-DEV

UI work - icon design

“I.O.”, a personal design project, is an exercise in visualising vastness and variety. Hell stretches for light years in every direction, and every mile is populated by creatures and cultures shaped by a desire to survive and serve a landscape that chews and grinds everything that walks upon it.

Fandom

As a long-time gamer, reader of comics, and consumer of Saturday-morning cartoons, many IPs have had a lasting impression on me as an artist. Revisiting and reinterpreting an IP and its characters through a different artistic lens, or just indulging in it as a whole, is a recurring pastime between client projects and other works. These mini-projects are generally approached with an interest in application of general real-world science to fantastical concepts, ideas of species and cultural variation, and the exploration of theoretical in-setting biology and ecology.

As an industrial Pokemon, Magmar are a "manufactured" genus, engineered and guided by eugenics to fulfill a specific purpose within a working pipeline. Magmar are common in smelting and manufacturing operations, where they work in high-heat and pote… — As an industrial Pokemon, Magmar are a "manufactured" genus, engineered and guided by eugenics to fulfill a specific purpose within a working pipeline. Magmar are common in smelting and manufacturing operations, where they work in high-heat and potentially toxic conditions in tandem with machinery. Like their industrial cousins, Electabuzz and Conkeldurr, they are believed to possess human-like intelligence. Magmar populations are carefully controlled by Silph Co. and are as a genus barred from casual ownership by trainers and collectors. The species is notorious for its propensity to drastically alter its environment to suit itself if able, setting fire to vegetation and buildings to raise the ambient temperature to better align with its comforts.

Adult Exeggutor are producers, with some species also falling within the consumer population. Other consumer Pokemon species feed upon and rely on them to maintain and sustain their ecosystems. Exeggutor provide shelter, nutrients, as well as food a… — Adult Exeggutor are producers, with some species also falling within the consumer population. Other consumer Pokemon species feed upon and rely on them to maintain and sustain their ecosystems. Exeggutor provide shelter, nutrients, as well as food and access to prey to other species. The presence of Exeggutor often denotes and / or produces a very healthy, diverse, and stable ecosystem. In some cases, the Pokemon itself is an ecosystem. Areas populated by the species are often untouched by human hands due in part by the Pokemon's special ability, "Hypnosis", which permits the Pokemon to ward away invaders. Intruders who venture into their ranges are quickly hypnotised and sent back to whence they came or, in cases of encounters with carnivorous Exeggutor, eaten.