Dragon+ 24 - The Return of Oso

It recently came to my attention that I was credit in Dragon+ 24. I was a little confused since I did not remember working on an assignment for Dragon+, so it had to be a reuse of my work. I went to investigate and ended up going down a rabbit hole that led to ten years ago.

Well, my name is in the credits of Dragon+, so my work has to be in here.

I have searched the issue three times, and nothing is jumping out at me. This section on familiars seems like a good fit for my art, but I am just not seeing it.

Oh, look, it is Oso, the bear. Oh, wait... oh no! Not that... anything but that...

Yup, a ten-year-old color pencil doodle of Oso that I did for ArtOrder has turned up on an official Dungeons & Dragons product. Great... At least I have a long list of D&D credits to my name and a stack of art to show that this is not my typical work, even with it being ten years old. Goes to show you that you never know where and when something you worked on will show up in print.

You can read more about Oso the bear and what this was initially created for over on a ten-year-old blog post. This was the last thing I ever expected to see pop up on a D&D product, and I am a little embarrassed, but what can you do about it now. I guess it is legit and official now. 

That is all for another exciting Thursday on the blog, see you back here on Friday! Until then...

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ArtOrder - Oso de la Fez

A quick update, if you were wondering why there was no post on Monday, I was on a much needed mini vacation and was completely away from my computer for four whole days. Now I have a stack of emails to deal with and work to catch up on. I plan to add a post tomorrow to make up for missing Monday.

Now down to business... Oso de la Fez! There was a special challenge announced last Friday over at ArtOrder and I had a little down time over the last four days to whip something up:


You can read the specifics of the challenge here, but the overview was to design the bear familiar, Oso de la Fez, created by Shelly Mazzanoble for her D&D game which she has been writing about for Dragon magazine. Yes, he is a circus bear. I had thought this piece was due today but while I was away from the Internet the due date moved to Sunday... better to be done early rather then late. You maybe wondering if I was away from my computer, how ever did I make this?!? I used analog techniques! Copic marker, colored pencil and gouache helped me through this. Let me know if you would like to see more analog work!

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