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.

Pirates (of the non-Somali kind)

Two more little ink drawings. Swash is nearly complete. Next post will be the Swashbuckler cover. Its finished!

Lunch Pails and Pencils

Ancestral Recall

Living Lands

Goblin Caves

Its been awhile since last post, so here are three MTG related sketches I've done this week on lunch breaks. Might be nice to tighten some of these up and paint in the future and then possibly make a few proxy cards. Right now Im finishing up the Swashbucklers cover and book layout. Should post that soon.

Back on board with Swash!

Now that Rope is done Im back to finishing up the last few images for Swashbuckler. Here is the cover sketch. I'll be painting after I tighten it up a bit.

ROPE

I've been tied up with this project for awhile (go puns!) but now have the files uploaded. Should be printed soon. Now its back to the Swashbuckler book and more. Swashbucklers was nearly complete before the Rope project. I'll be working on the cover and finishing up a handful of illustrations for the inside. Origins this year should have two or three new games featuring my work. Back to the kids, teething, pink-eye and not sharing toys....

"My work here is done…"

I found this old sketch and thought it was a good time to post… Shoot first, questions later I guess.

A new year and a new start...

Last year was full of distractions both good and bad. Illustration took the back burner to everything. Starting off this year Im going to try and make myself get back to drawing and posting again even if its just a sketch from lunch break. I also have a few projects for Jolly Roger Games nearing completion too. I'll post those soon as well.

Now in Color...

Again, this time with color and no mustache. This is a promo piece for Jolly Roger's Swashbuckler RPG.

OK, one more...

Ok, one more post of a project in progress. This is an intro piece for a few comic pages that I have in an anthology. I hope to redo this piece a little and add color. It would make a nice cover for the completed book, if and when I get that far. Sometimes finding time for personal projects can be like pulling teeth.

Getting back to the Blog!

Quite a lot has happened since the last post... but not much in the way of illustrations. Here is a promo piece that Im working on for Swashbucklers. Its ready to be colored.

Lunch Time Looters!

Here is an image that I drew out on lunch break a couple weeks ago and finally inked today. More people with swords, I need to diversify a little dont I. I have plenty of other things I could/should be drawing but it always seems to fall back to this. Oh well, it was a good couple of lunch breaks. At least I didn't spill anything on it!

Addition to the Family

Check out this little critter! Our second son, Leo on his second day with the family. Happy to say it went well and everyone is doing great. All I can say is that Im very lucky and very happy.

I've been in survival mode for the past month but am trying to get on top of my work load again. I have completed the surf game (being printed right now) as well as a few other small projects. I have a comic in the works, just started a couple days ago actually. It will be showing up as installments in an anthology. More info/images as they become available. It looks to be a tank-girl meets aeon flux in a post apocalyptic neo-mayan setting but we shall see what comes out. Also starting to work on Swashbuckler images again. The project was put on hold but its still a good excuse to draw some pirates right. Oh, Im also doing more work, mainly web, for Gore Galore as they are about to begin their 10th year. Look for a completely new site in January.

Any slacker writers out there? I have several ideas for stories and it would be great to find a writing partner with similar taste to bounce ideas off of and develop something.

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!

Surfs UP Dude!

Ok, here is a sneak peek at my until now secret project. Its a surfing board game for Jolly Roger Games created by Alan Moon & Aaron Weissblum. I had the pleasure of working on another game for Alan and Aaron a few years back, called Clocktowters. This is one of several card images. I should have the project completed in another week and will post more then.

Dungeon Delver Dude

Here is a sketch that is almost ready for my new Acrylic-Gouache set. I've been a big time fan of Mark Tedin's art for years and finally found a web-page by the man himself. Most of the images in his portfolio are listed as, you guested it, acrylic gouache. It sounds like the perfect combination. I was fortunate enough to find these paints in Columbus Ohio over the weekend while attending Origins. Now if I can only find time to paint this sucker.

Origins was great, though a little slow this year. A lot of the people (companies) that I usually look for only had a showing of product and not their usual smiling faces... oh well, I guess. I did get to see my new friends at Paradigm Concepts along with the debut of Psionics Unbound (featuring yours truly, in hard back even) and two other books. Their Witch hunter is incredible looking. Also I got to check in with Jolly Roger Games, as I have two projects under way for them. More on that later...