The Wind's Champion

This piece was done for AEG's Legend of the 5 RIngs card game.

Strength Remains

This piece was done for AEG's Legend of the 5 RIngs card game.

Offering Reverence

This piece was done for AEG's Legend of the 5 RIngs card game.

Warrior Atop the Snow Covered Peak

This piece was a personal work that I did for a gallery show dedicated to one of my favorite artists Frank Frazetta. 

Firecat

I felt it was time to start updating my work. Here is a piece I did for FFG's Talisman game.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!!! and 2013 Review

Hello everyone, long time no see. For any of you that normally follow my blog most likely noticed the lack of posts in 2013... and by lack I mean none. For me 2013 was frankly a very bad year. Between being stuck in a very bad financial position I also had to deal with some other personal issues that absolutely killed my art drive. Fortunately though things have turned around. I have moved out of Central NY and am now living in Ohio. I am with good friends and am doing much better in the money department. I do have new works that have been published and will soon get to posting those here.

For now though I am currently planning for Free Comic Book Day. I will have a table at Epic Loot Games and Comics in Dayton, Ohio. I will have prints, cards and original sketches all for sale. So if you are in the area please come by and say hi.

That is all for now. Here is to a good Free Comic Book Day and to a much better 2014.

Cheers.

Back with more Magic (Magic #5)

Hello Everyone! After and unfortunate very long absence I am back. After a few months of conventions, financial issues, and computer death I finally had time to get back to updating. And ohh the updating I shall have.

First up are some pages for Magic the Gathering: The Spell Thief #1 (or Magic issue 5). This issue in particular had some really interesting settings which really allowed me to go crazy with my coloring. It was quite fun. If you have not already looked into this comic series I highly recommend.


That is all for now I hope you enjoyed it.

Worm IN PROGRESS

Recently I had the opportunity to work on personal projects. So I decided to go back on an old drawing of mine and work on finishing it as a painting. Here is an early in progress shot that I thought might be interesting to share. So far I am trying to play with some colors that I have not normally. Hopefully the finish will turn out well. Hope you liked it.

Massive Art Update Part 9: L5R The Lesson of Earth

Welcome to the final installment of the Massive Update. As I said in my last post I saved the best for last. This is my piece The Lesson of Earth for the L5R expansion The Shadow's Embrace. This might seem familiar as I posted the studies for this piece when I first announced my massive update. This piece is by far one of my favorites that I had done for L5R. I really feel like I hit a stride with my painting on this one. The way I composed the piece, the gestures, and the little details like the cobble stone floor. It was definitely a breakthrough piece for me. And I was so excited that I had the opportunity to paint some Naga (snake people) in this piece. Unfortunately as you can tell by the finished card a lot of the parts I liked ended up getting cropped off. I have a feeling that this was do to the fact that when the whole piece shrunk down the important storytelling elements of the stone skin protecting the main figure got lost. And if it had to get cropped for the sake of story then so be it, the narrative must come first. But at least now I can show off the piece and what I love about it.

Sadly that will be the last major art update for a little while as everything else is still under NDA. But fear not in the next few days I will have some exciting news. About a new personal non art related project I am starting which will consist of a brand new blog. I hope your excited cause I know I am.

Massive Art Update Part 8: FFG Talisman

This illustration called Wolfsbane was my first card done for a different FFG product called Talisman. It was illustrated for their expansion The Blood Moon. 

This unlike my normal high fantasy work takes place in a Gothic horror setting which gave me a nice opportunity to play with the mood of the setting. All in all I was quite pleased with this piece and really excited to work on Talisman.

Since this first piece I had done some more work for Talisman which has been some of my best work as of late. I do really like working on this product as well as with the great AD's at FFG. 

The next post will be the last in the Massive Update series and will feature more card work. And do not worry I have been saving the best for last. Get ready to see my personal absolute favorite L5R card that I illustrated.