D&D 3

Here's another D&D card. This depicts a paladin offering to protect a wealthy merchant. 

More D&D

Another dwarf, another shady deal, another D&D card.

Lords of Waterdeep Art

I did a couple pieces for a new D&D game. This one shows a shady deal going down with a female dwarf and a noble dude. The art was used for cards in the game.

Train Sketches

My car died. Indefinitely. This means I spend a lot of time on public transportation. The p.t. system in Los Angeles is an experience. I see some crrrrrazy things on the buses and trains of this city and I always feel like I need to take a shower when I get home.

I am so busy working that I never have time to sketch or figure draw anymore. For this reason I have come to love riding the bus. I draw my fellow commuters.

Most of the time I like to draw the hero in them, bring our their noblest traits.

But not always....

Winged Victory

I found this in my sketch book. I drew it when I was in Paris a couple years ago. I'm not sure I could ever do the original justice. It's soooooooooo cool. One of the most magnificent things I've ever seen.

In college my emphasis was sculpture. Seeing Winged Victory made me want to start sculpting again.

I just realized that in my last post I uploaded an unfinished version of the piece. It's been updated now.

D&D Cards

Last fall I did some art for Wizards of the Coast making some cards for a Dungeons and Dragons card set.  I got two boxes of cards in the mail today. I've opened one box so far looking for my art. No luck. I feel like I'm in Willy Wonka looking for the Golden Ticket.

Hopefully I'll find it eventually. Anyway, here's the art I did for this set. The character is Belgos.

And here's a preliminary sketch.

Gotta go open some more card sets now...

Book of Creation

Have you heard of Book of Creation? It's a new publication that showcases artists worldwide. They just released their 2nd issue and included my work in it.

YOW!!

Here's a link to see more about it. The book is cool - full of many wonderful artists.

Here's a quote from the book that supposedly came from me. It's about trends. I'm not really sure what it says since I don't speak French. I barely speak English.

I think it says this:

I like to apply rich color to complex compositions inspired by art nouveau and other styles. I love to inject the illusion of reality into fantasy. I also love to add a strong narration to my work and I'm interested in other artists who do the same. 

Hero's Guide

This is what I've been working on (in my spare time) the last six months. I'm illustrating this novel for tweeners. It's a cool story written by Christopher Healy. It's been a blast. It will be released next May. I can't wait to let you all experience the story and illustrations. The characters are all so well written and there's a lot of humor, making it very fun for me, as the artist, to work on.

In addition to the four characters and dragon on the front cover, the back cover has four different characters, a castle, a giant and a witch. I started looking around at other book covers recently. Even the most popular books have pretty simple covers. This is quite possibly the most figures EVER assembled on the cover of one book. Lucky for me I love drawing these guys! 

Here's the Good Reads link.

Also, the author writes a cool blog about grown ups who like childish things. Chekkit here.

Oh, and one of my favorite things about this book is that the princesses are just as, if not more, heroic than the princes. I love a good, strong female character!

Jabberwocky Cinematic

Jabberwocky - Game Cinematic (unreleased)

This is a cinematic for a video game that I pitched at the studio I used to work for. It was fun coming up with the characters and story. Unfortunately the game has been shelved. I have been hesitant to post this, but it's all over the web now so I may as well, right? Perhaps some day it will see the light of day again. I hope it will. I loved working on it.

League of Legends Champions

This is just a work in progress. I may get to the color. Someday. After the other 70 billion things are off my plate.

Nevermind. I won't.