This coming June will mark twenty years for me in the gaming industry, and this is also my twenty-sixth year as a working artist. I have made a lot of work over these years, and as I focus on larger projects with multi-year timelines, it is hard to keep this blog updated regularly. I have kept this thing going since 2009, and I would like for it to continue. To that end, I thought I would look back at works I particularly liked, enjoyed making, or seemed to fall through the cracks and went unnoticed.
Today, I have for you another miniature design that I did for the now long dead miniatures game, Dreamblade. Dreamblade will always be near and dear to me as it was the first game I ever worked on and one of the times I felt most free as an artist working in the gaming industry. This is the "Dragon Ambassador" design that was created for the fifth set of the game but was unfortunately moved to the never-produced sixth set. It would have been big and awesome. I wonder to this day if they had started any of the sculpts for these and if somewhere there had been or still is a prototype of it out there.
This was slated to be one of the 'hero' pieces of the sixth set. It was selected to be on some of the packaging for that ill-fated set. The late William O'Connor even completed his painting of the packaging art. I am still incredibly proud of this design. I feel the pose still has a lot of movement and feels like it is just about to take flight. I am still amazed I went here with the wing design and that WotC approved it. I am not sure I would do something like this arrangement today. I really had hoped that this ended up getting made. I bet it would have been a fantastic miniature.
That's all for another exciting Monday on the blog. See you back here on Wednesday! Until then...
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