New Drawing: The Pilot

Here's a new-ish drawing I did a little while ago for a painting demo I did at my old high school. I hope to finish the painting some time soon.

11"x14" Charcoal

Titanic Interiors Part 3: An Unsinkable Ship

Today I'm getting back to some of the interiors from the "Return to Titanic" books I illustrated last year. Here's a selection from book 3: "An Unsinkable Ship"

Time travel can be a painful business.

Almost lost the bag

We told you so!

Chaos on deck

All Images ©2012 Stone Arch Books.

Goliath Vs. Ghoul

Here's a new painting that was just released in the recent Dungeon magazine issue #200. This has to be one of my favorite paintings that I've done recently. It was one of those instances where everything just worked seamlessly from the start, and the final turned out very close to what I had in my head (which is not always the case). 

10"x22" Oil on illustration board

New Art! "Lyssa"

So if you recall a few weeks back (or was it months now?!) I posted the drawing for this painting. I spent a bit longer on this painting than I normally get to between other commissions and life obligations, but it's finally finished and I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. 

14"x22" Oil on Illustration board.

News Time!

Hey everyone! So it's news time here at the ol' blog.

First up, I've been on the list for quite some time so most of you may know, but I will have a booth at the upcoming Spectrum Live! convention in just two short months. *Yikes!*
If you're planning to attend, please come stop by my booth #802 and say hello. I'll have original paintings up and plenty of prints for sale.

Next on the list, i've revamped my website a bit and added a new gallery for my young adult work. Go have a look!

And last, but not least, I've started my own shop over on Etsy. I'll be selling a continuously updated list of prints and eventually even some original art. So head on over and take a gander.

New, old art: Female Death Knight

Today, I'm excited to finally get to share something with you I did quite a while ago. November 2010, to be exact. The unfortunate nature of Non-disclosure agreement contracts is that you can't share artwork until the product has been released or the image is spoiled on the company's website. So sometimes that product may not ever get published due to unforeseen reasons, and therefore you're art that you were really excited about having created gets lost in the dark recesses of a company's unused image bin, aka "slush pile," potentially never being seen ever. It's certainly not fun if it happens to you. Luckily, sometimes art does get used in a different way and if you're fortunate enough to find it in it's new incarnation then the image can once again see the light of day. So here's the image back from the land of lost images as I found it being used as section header not too long ago on the Wizard's of the Coast website. 

10"x14" Oil on masonite

Titanic: Stowaways, The Interiors

Time for round two of my posts on the interiors from the Return to Titanic series! In book two our main characters are zapped back to the Titanic so they can try to persuade the captain to change course and further try to convince the Kearney's that something bad is about to happen. Here's a selection of my favorites from book two:

"Bye Mom!"

....A hammer

Zapping back in time.

Causing scandals

Crash!

"Dude...you're going to hit an iceberg!"

All images Copyright ©2012 Stone Arch Books

New Art: Dragon 408 "Stormraider"

At long last I have some new fantasy art available to share. This here is from the current issue of Dragon magazine #408. We have a female elf Stormraider who bravely rides her magical skiff through a sea of elements...which kind hurts the brain logistically when it comes to painting such things, but I think it turned out alright. I had a great time working on this one and the AD, Kate Irwin, was a joy to collaborate with.

10"x22" Oil on illustration board

Titanic: Time Voyage, the Interiors

Today I will share with you some of the pencil interiors I did for book 1 of the Titanic series. 
These were fun getting to put the characters back on the docks of 1912. It's also not very often that I get to do finished pencil drawings so have a look:

"Welcome to the storeroom."

One of the magical objects that zaps our characters back in time. I actually drew this one as the violin alone, but later it was decided  to add the case for it. So I drew it separately and combined them digitally.

The Kearney's (The one's we don't want to get on that ship)

"That's a big ship!" 

Lyssa Drawing

Today I thought I'd break up my Titanic posts with a drawing I did recently. I had started on this in hopes to enter it into the " Art Evolution Challenge" over at The Art Order, but as usual lately, I ran into a few things that had to take presidence over it. So instead of rushing to get it done by the short deadline I decided to take my time on it and make it into a nice personal piece. I'll be working on it over the next few weeks in between my other projects so stay tuned for updates.

14"x20" charcoal and digital