Monster, Moving and Illuxcon 6

Moving is always a big undertaking. It presents lots of unforeseen snags and sometimes great opportunities. In August, my wife was offered a job just outside Indianapolis and we decided to relocate. That meant I had to leave a really good job and was unprepared for my next step. That step being freelancing full-time as an illustrator and designer. I have relaunched my graphic design site, www.jw-dsgn.com. The big lessen from all this was to always be prepared for an opportunity.

Image above is my rendition of Nyarlathotep, the Lovecraftian horror, done for Cthuhlu Vault card game by Richard Launius. Kickstarter campaign will be up soon and game release will be summer 2014. Love this stuff! More images in next post.

Unfortunately Con season is over but that means it is time to apply what I learned and push out some new work. Last month attended Illuxcon for the first time. I was happy to meet Pat and Jeannie Wilshire who put on the most amazing show! The quality and quantity of art was overwhelming. I am already looking forward to next year. After the show I was refueled and painting happily.

Back from another great year at Origins. This year I was able to stay for three days and spent a good deal of time in the Jolly Roger booth meeting with game designers, other publishers and gamers. Lots of stuff coming down the pipes from JRG and Im doing a good deal of it. Parsec is at the printers right now and the next TWO supliments are about ready for me to start doing art and layout. Im also ruffly 1/4 of the way into Philip duBarry's Family vacation board game. It will be going on Kickstarter in the coming months. If it does well, I'll be adding a second board on the back of the first... it it goes really well then we will be adding another two sided board.

And the image above was something I did at the hotel room and fiddled with on lunch today. Nasty grub wurm!

The Space Race

Rough sketch for Parsec has been approved. Plan on getting it on the board this weekend along with another piece. Lots of stuff in the works and Im getting excited about Origins and Gen-Con.

Lots of fun new sci-fi stuff. The ship is for a book by Jolly Roger Games and the others are for Rogue Game. Lots more to go on the JRG book... lots. Im still wanting to start on a redesign of the ol' website, I guess this post will have to do until the 1s and 0s align with my schedule. New Years resolution... less facebook/netflix/youtube/internets and more art time.

Swashbucklers is complete and sailing off to the printers. At long last! Look for some personal projects that are purely for fun to be posted soon. Origins Game Fair in Columbus Ohio is quickly approaching and I am eager to attend.

Surfs Up ~ Nearly Complete!

Im at long last wrapping up Alan R. Moon/Aaron Weissblum's "Surfs Up Dude" game for Jolly Roger Games. I wasnt to crazy about how this project was going but have really turned it around in the 13th hour. I switched from watercolor to acrylic mid project. This is really my first stab at usuing acrylic and I have lots to learn. Im looking forward to some free time (hahaha) to play with the medium a little more. And as always, Photoshop was there to clean up my mistakes and help that learning curve with the acrylics. Photoshop saves the day... make that night... or maybe early morning, thats it!

...off to Gen Con!