Things came together faster than I had expected, and what was to be a Gen Con surprise is now also an Infinity Con surprise. I am
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I am pleased to share one of the surprises I have in store for
Each pack has a potential value of up to $200, and you can obtain one at the convention for only $50! I have a great selection of prints available, and they run the gamut of my work over the years. Included are many fan favorites, high-profile projects, and hidden gems. There will be some of the same prints
• STAR WARS (LOTS!!!)
• DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (LOTS!!!)
• A GAME OF THRONES
• PATHFINDER
• LEGEND OF THE FIVE RINGS
• CALL OF CTHULHU
• KAIJUDO
• Various MONSTERS
• The GRAND BAZAAR of ETHRA VANDALIA
Each bundle comes sealed, so there is no peeking. As before, I have drawn on the lower corners of many of the prints. To be honest, I did my math wrong and ended up drawing on WAY more prints than I should have, meaning that your chances of getting an
In addition to the drawings on the prints,
Here is a look at just a few of the many drawings on prints that you might find in the bundles!
While it is possible, I am confident that I will not sell out at Infinity Con. If we did, that would be amazing, but we planned to have plenty left for Gen Con. It is at Gen Con that I expect to sell out, so if you want to get your hands on these, I will see you at Infinity Con or Gen Con this summer.
That's all
Infinity Con this coming weekend, July 12th and 13th, in Tallahassee, FL. I will be there with all my monsters as a guest creator. Infinity Con is a fantastic event, and it is always a joy to share my work with those in Tallahassee. I will bring the Grand Bazaar with me again, so you can expect books, art, enamel pins, and a lot of new art! I will have some surprises for the show as well, which will be made clear this coming Wednesday! Mark your calendars, and I will see you at the Donald Tucker Civic Center
Only a few more days before I share with you one of the main surprises that I have in store for the summer convention schedule. I would very much like to get something else completed, but time is running out,
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My artist proofs created for the Magic: The Gathering in Miniature II Show have returned to me, and they are now available on my store and will be touring with me at my summer conventions. It has been an honor to be part of both shows. For the second show, I created a series of pieces focused on the more monstrous Plainswalkers. They were super fun. You can find these and all my other artist proofs on my store.
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I am pleased to make available some of the NUMBER ONE from my edition of signed and numbered Magic the Gathering prints. The editions of 50 have sold out except for these remaining number one prints in the edition. These prints also feature an original drawing along the right border. Marker, ink, and acrylic paint were used to create the drawings. Each print is 12" x 18" and will ship rolled in a tube. In addition to the number ones, for the Portent, numbers two, three, and four are also available. If these are well received, I will make the rest of the number one prints available soon.
These are the LAST of my original print edition for these cards. And this will be the final opportunity to likely ever get these images in print form from me. Open editions of unsigned prints can still be available from OMA.
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With my convention season jumping into high gear in July, I thought I would put a little sneak peek of things to come here on the blog today. That's it. No other details or info - for now. Stay tuned,
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On Monday, I shared with you that I have been working with Wizards of the Coast for twenty years as of this past Sunday. Today, I wanted to look back at the very first work that I did for them. As mentioned, I was first hired to design miniatures for WotC's new game, Dreamblade. It was the perfect job for me and one I still greatly miss. While I was initially hired to design three pieces for the game, by the time the game was cancelled, I had designed over seventy-five miniatures, with the majority seeing production.
Of the three original pieces, one
But I want to be clear, I was in WAY over my head and doing my best to fake it until I made it. I can draw monsters all day long. But drawing them all day long for a client, giving me a lot of freedom while putting a lot of guardrails up, was an interesting situation to find myself in. I learned so much in an extremely short period when I started working on Dreamblade, and my artistic skill set, especially drawing, made vast leaps. I could talk at great length about the mistakes I made at this time, the things I learned, and the nature of the business, communication, etc., but I think I will now show off some art. It all began with the Blight Rat.
You might look at this and think, yes, that is totally one of your monsters. It has many of my go-to elements: asymmetrical, deformed or mutated, spikes and points, and a natural sense of "RAWR". But I had to get here kicking and screaming and freaking out. What is so obvious now had to come from a massive amount of work and rejection. I was under the false assumption that I could be fired at any moment if I submitted a 'bad' drawing. So it wasn't until that first approval that I was actually able to breathe and start making monsters and having fun.
There were multiple phases of approval on these. You were given the art order and had to design a front or 3/4 front view. Once that was approved, you then made the side and back view, or more if the design required it. So when I said this one was the first approved, it was the first front view approved, and then I had to get the front views for the other two I was working on approved before moving onto the rest of the views. Speaking of the other two, I shared the Pick-Pick and the Genteel Husk nine years ago. The Pick-Pick was a fun challenge, and I think the end result is very cool and unexpected, while the Genteel Husk was a pain from start to finish.
Looking at these early concepts for the Blight Rat (or Pigsticker as it was originally named), you might be confused by its final form. These concepts faithfully follow what I was asked to create. There is some of me in there, but these are in line with what production wanted to see. I had some really good chats with my AD while working on these, and she really pushed me to go nuts and 'have fun and do something cool,' which have been the words I mostly worked by on all future WotC projects. So I went back to the drawing table and took up where I had stopped with the third concept and made the leap to the approved Blight Rat design. There were no middle steps and no other versions. I had three rejected concepts and then hit a home run. I learned so much in that leap.
And at the very end of the project, I would get a little figure of my monster to hold in my hand. It has never gotten better than this. I wish every assignment ended with a little toy of your work. That would be really amazing. If you want to see more of my Dreamblade work, you can see everything I have shared here on the blog.
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