BLACK FRIDAY NOW LIVE! & new items up!

Now, from Friday, November 28th, and running thought Friday, December 5th ALL ITEMS are on  sale on my store! Just in time for the holidays. Get Grandma something she will really enjoy, a monster!

Get 15% off all sales and the first 10 transactions of $50 or more will receive free gifts! Just use the discount code: RAWR! (all caps with the exclamation point) to receive your discount.

Black Friday sale - 15% off all sales

Discount Code: RAWR!

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I mentioned new items! I now have limited quantities of two different Holiday Cards available! They come in packs of 12 and are monster themed. Supplies are limited and once they are gone they are gone. AND the current Black Friday sale does apply to these new items! Head to the store to get yours today!

 Krampus Holiday Cards

Belled Kreep Holiday Cards

Again, use the discount code: RAWR! on my web store to receive your discount. Loads of original art, prints, shirts, and books to choose from. Don't let this opportunity get away!


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

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Corrupted Knight - The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia

I have for you today the second piece of a much larger personal project. On Monday, I shared with you the first piece, the Gray Wanderer, and it was received very well. Like the Gray Wanderer, I finished this up a while back and am just now sharing it. This piece was finished just before Illuxcon and went home with another artist (seeing a trend). I present you with the Corrupted Knight...

Corrupted Knight

9 x 12

Pencil on paper
© 2014 Christopher Burdett

Original - SOLD

Currently Available Grand Bazaar Originals 

Here are all the other completed monsters for The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia: Aberrant Stilter, Belled Kreep, Corrupted Knight, Dight-Kin, Eau-de-nil Elder, Ethra VanDalia, Footman, Gray Wanderer, Gullet, Humgruffin Mother, Irritated Girasol, Judicator, Kiplorbic Animal Dealer, Lammergeier Transport, Myopic Riflemen, Nimsbane Curse Victim, Ophiomornous Bureaucrat, Petrous Blacksmith, Quincaillerie, Saint Marque, Smokestack, Thrice, Uncanny Scribe, Virulent Artificer, Xandrell Tree, Yote Arms Dealer, and Zombic Spore.

Further details on this piece, like all of these personal monsters on toned paper, will have to wait for another day and, hopefully, a different type of information interface. Fear naught, for all will be revealed in the fullness of time. As an added bonus, here are some images of the piece as I worked on it.

All images © 2014 Christopher Burdett

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

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

BLACK FRIDAY SALE!

Starting this Friday, November 28th, and running thought Friday, December 5th I will be running a sale on my store! Just in time for the holidays. Get Grandma something she will really enjoy, a monster!

I will be offering a 15% discount off all sales and the first 10 transactions of $50 or more will receive a free gift! Just use the discount code: RAWR! (all caps with the exclamation point) to receive your discount.

Black Friday sale - 15% off all sales

Discount Code: RAWR!

christopher-burdett.myshopify.com

Again, use the discount code: RAWR! on my web store to receive your discount. Loads of original art, prints, shirts, and books to choose from. Don't let this opportunity get away!

That is all for today, see you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Gray Wanderer - The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia

I am a little behind in sharing some of my personal work here on the blog. With all the client work and related content, I have to wait to post my personal work, and sometimes it takes a back seat. Let's see if I can remedy that!

Here is the first piece of a larger personal project I am currently working on. You may remember seeing process images of this a few months back. This piece was done before Gen Con and went home with a fellow artist at Gen Con. I present you with the Gray Wanderer...

Gray Wanderer

9 x 12

Pencil on paper
© 2014 Christopher Burdett

Original - SOLD

Currently Available Grand Bazaar Originals 

Here are all the other completed monsters for The Grand Bazaar of Ethra VanDalia: Aberrant Stilter, Belled Kreep, Corrupted Knight, Dight-Kin, Eau-de-nil Elder, Ethra VanDalia, Footman, Gray Wanderer, Gullet, Humgruffin Mother, Irritated Girasol, Judicator, Kiplorbic Animal Dealer, Lammergeier Transport, Myopic Riflemen, Nimsbane Curse Victim, Ophiomornous Bureaucrat, Petrous Blacksmith, Quincaillerie, Saint Marque, Smokestack, Thrice, Uncanny Scribe, Virulent Artificer, Xandrell Tree, Yote Arms Dealer, and Zombic Spore.

I have spoken a little about this piece, but to be to the point, it started as a mixing of Cthulhu and Norse mythos, but it is really a lot more. In the fullness of time, I hope to share where I am going with these drawings. I will leave it at that for now. There will be plenty of time and better places to go into detail. As an added bonus, here are some images of the piece as I worked on it...

All images © 2014 Christopher Burdett

 That is all for another exciting Monday on that blog. See you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability, head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Pusbubble - Blood Bowl: Fowl Play - PROCESS

Finishing off a week of traditional painting posts on the blog today with the process that went into Pusbubble! You might remember Pusbubble from back in June when I first shared him with you. Pusbubble is from the Foul Play expansion for Blood Bowl and was my first traditionally painted piece for Fantasy Flight Games. Here is a look at the final before we get into the process...

Pusbubble

8 x 10

Acrylic and pencil on board
© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

Original - SOLD

Pusbubble was described as a very small, very excited Nurgling that wore homemade gear and armor and just wanted to be part of the game. Oh, and he needed to be dripping with goo and filth, killing everything around it. I started things off with some thumbnails as I got my head around this cute little guy...

Pusbubble - Thumbnails

© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

Option 'C' was the winner. Looking back now, it seems like a no brainer, but at the time, I was really up in the air on which was my preferred thumbnail. There may have been some mention in the assignment about the ball being a little too big to carry, or Pusbubble was having trouble lifting it I think 'C' better conveys that. Now that I had a thumbnail, it was time to work up the final drawing...

Pusbubble

12 x9

Pencil on paper
© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

Original - SOLD

The drawing was approved without comment. You might notice that the aspect ratio changed from the thumbnail to the drawing. I wanted to paint on a standard sized board, so I extended the background horizontally to allow me to work on an 8 x 10 surface. With that squared away, it was time to paint. Here some images of the piece coming together...

Pusbubble - Process

© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

I was (am) still figuring out this traditional painting stuff. In Pusbubble, especially, there was a lot of experimentation and just trying things out to see if it would work. I was also trying some new media and different types of combinations of media. Some of the experiments have led to processes I continue today while others have been abandoned. Still very much learning and figuring this all out on this piece. Here is a little animated process progression thing that better shows the piece coming together...

Pusbubble - Animated process thing

© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

Pusbubble was the first of what has lead to many more, but more on that later. Here again, is the final painting and the corresponding card that this piece was created for...

Pusbubble

8 x 10

Acrylic and pencil on board
© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

Pusbubble in handy card form.

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

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Self Portrait 1: Pucker Up

On Monday I shared with you a traditional painting from back in January, the Uber Grotesque, today I have for you something a little more recent. This piece was completed early October and should better show what my current traditional work looks like and how much it has changed since January. Here is the first of a series of self portraits I am working on...

Self Portrait 1: Pucker Up

5 x 7

  Acrylic, pencil, and gouache on board

© 2014 Christopher Burdett

Original for sale over on my web store!

There is a corresponding drawing to this painting, of course. As with some of my other smaller paintings the drawing is bigger then the painting. Here is the drawing for the self portrait...

Self Portrait 1: Pucker Up

9 x 12

  Pencil onpaper

© 2014 Christopher Burdett

Original for sale over on my web store!

As I am want to do I documented this painting coming together so that I could share it here on the blog. Here are a series of photos of the this painting taking shape. You can see what has changed and long the way. If you keep going till the end you will also see an little animated gif of the painting process to get a better feel for the steps...

Self Portrait 1: Pucker Up - Process

 All images © 2014 Christopher Burdett

Self Portrait 1: Pucker Up - Animated process thing

 © 2014 Christopher Burdett

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

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Uber Grotesque - Warhammer 40K Conquest: The Howl of Blackmane

At the end of last week I noticed a new piece of my work has popped up on the internet. This means I can now share it with you! This is a piece done for the first expansion for Warhammer 40K - Conquest, The Howl of Blackmane. I created this back in January and it is the second piece that I created traditionally for Fantasy Flight Games. Before I go too much into this piece, here is now the final turned out...

Uber Grotesque

12 x 9

  Acrylic and pencil on board

© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

Original for sale over on my web store!

A lot has happened and changed with my traditional work since January. So it is a little weird to be showing this off now while I know what the future holds. Enough about that for now!

I will go into more detail about this piece when I share the process in the near future when the expansion is officially released. For now though I will show how the piece ultimately turned out. While I did this piece traditionally there was sizable modification requested for this piece once I had completed the painting that required a digital fix. Here is how the final modified piece turned out that was used in the game...

Uber Grotesque

 Digital alter of final painting

© 2014 Fantasy Flight Games

As I said, I will be going into more detail about this piece and the process that went into creating it here on the blog once the card is officially released. In the meantime, here is a small watermarked look at what the final card will look like...

Uber Grotesque in handy dandy card form (RAWR)

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

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com