The Keeper's Warrior
Keeper and Warrior discuss the practicalities of a wooden amulet they have made. It maybe small, but where Warrior is going, it might mean the difference between wining and loosing.
Woot - and now the cover's done for "the Keeper's Warrior". Just need to do a last bit of proofing, and get the cover and interior layout finalized and off to the presses it goes.
Prints: Available on DA COMING SOON ~ Available on Zazzle
Original: COMING SOON
To Kill a Dragon
Well, after some technical hiccups, I'm happy to announce that To Kill a Dragon is live up on Crunchyroll's Artist Alley.
Second issue should be available in two months, if all goes well.
To Kill a Dragon Issue #1 (of 4)13 pages, Full color, bi-monthly (roughly)
Heading Out
When life gives you lemons make lemonade. Back in the 1990s I did several illustration jobs for a game magazine called Shadis. One of the assignments was coming up with illustrations showing weird, surreal, and goofy objects and artifacts that players might encounter in game scenario. The editor asked that I come up with some rather wacky almost Monty Python-like objects that could littered a landscape in a variety of game universes.
I brainstormed a whole bunch of ideas and shot them off to the editor for his approval. One of my ideas was to have some Easter Island Moai blasting off like a bunch of neolithic ICBMs. The editor thought that idea was just to wacky but he liked the idea of the Egyptian Sphinx with a propeller beanie.....Oh well they were paying for the art so it was their call.
However I had become rather smitten with my flying Moais and decided to recycle the concept for a piece of my own. This the final result. I was rather happy with how the lighting and the smoke came out in this piece, and it helped accent the big cheesy grins that the foreground Moai is wearing.
This done with my usual colored pencil, marker, technical pen and gouache on cold-press illustration board. Image size is about 14" x 19".
Prints: Available on DA ~ Available on Zazzle
Original: SOLD
I just put the finishing touches on illo #8 of 9. Woot! One more to go, then the cover. After that a final proofing and off to the printer it goes. So close... so close....
Still looking for ideas for grass roots marketing/advertizing for the book. If you have any ideas, drop them in the comments. ^.^
Approaching Storm
This is the final completed of a piece I have posted related development for in the past. It is commission for a patient client since it is horribly late in delivery.
I titled the piece "Approaching storm" for two reasons. First there is a weather system approaching which promises to bring rainy weather to the area in a few hours. Second the sky is crisscrossed with the contrails of a recent bomber raid and the fighters that went up to intercept them. This is the storm that will eventually engulf all of the Third Reich. This piece is set roughly in early May of 1944 in Nazi Germany. The Luftwaffe has not yet been forced to abandon its airfields for the forests of Germany, but already the airfield is starting to show the signs of recent visits from USAAF fighters returning from their escort missions.
In the background can be seen the smoke burning fires denoting where aircraft, either Axis and Allied, have met their final demise, and yet in spite of all this carnage we still find two individuals able to spend sometime together and forget about the war even if for just a moment.
When I took this commission I had rather mixed feeling about it. I did not want create a piece that could be viewed as being supportive or sympathetic to the Nazi ideology, and yet I did not want to have the piece full of one-dimensional cardboard villains. In the end what I wanted to show was two individuals trying to maintain their sanity in the midst of the greatest conflict in recorded history.
The piece is done in my usual colored pencil, marker, technical pen and gouache on vellum finish Bristol Board. The image size is roughly 16"x 24". I will post more about this piece in the future.
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Prints: Available on DA ~ Available on Zazzle
Original: SOLD