Beyond Menzoberranzan

Beyond Menzoberranzan

Original Artwork for sale: $2500

Acrylic on Illustration board,

Approx 23" x 21"

Copyright WotC

Wizards have been leaking art previews from their forthcoming Menzoberranzan: City of Intrigue supplement, and they have just got to the chapter start I worked on.

This piece was great fun to paint as it has lots of elements I really enjoy, namely multiple figures, epic scale, and a sinister atmosphere.

Here are a couple of close-ups showing the details.

Wildborn Greetings Cards

Further GenCon preparations include having some greetings cards printed up of my Wildborn series of images, these arrived in the post today. I am excited about them, think they look great, and hope they will offer vistors to my booth the chance to pick up a piece of my work very inexpensively.

Meanwhile for those of you too impatient to wait, or else uanble to make the show, you can purchase them via my web shop

These were my original Wildborn posts, which include larger images of the individual designs:
Arise, Statuesque, Glimpse, Glimmer & Sentinel.

Roll 'Em

My preparations towards flying across the Atlantic to GenCon in a couple of weeks are slowly beginning to happen, and a part of that has been to complete my contributiom towards the charity art auction.

Every year Matthew Teets rallies the artists by providing them with dice bags upon which they can make a sketch, these are then auctioned off. Usually I find myself trying to make something half decent whilst manning my stall, but this year I invoked some planning, and had Matthew mail me a bag so that I could create it in advance.

Here is the finished piece:

A Photo

A Scan

The scan is truer to the colours and finish, but the photo adds a bit of scale. The sketch was made with a biro and acrylics. The cloth material provided an interesting surface to work on, very absorbent and roughly textured.

I hope he attracts a few bids and manages to raise some money for a good cause.

Into the Unknown & Spectrum

The self selection process wherein I decide which paintings to submit to Spectrum is always incredibly hard, and this year I clearly didn't get it quite right, as the piece that was selected was actually submitted by one of my clients; Wizards of the Coast. So, thanks Wizards, and here it is - an Ilithid Dungeon Master weaving his wicked magic.

The Dungeon Master

Acrylic on board, approx 19.5" x 25"

Original artwork for sale; $2000

Copyright Wizards of the Coast.

The original line sketch.

This piece was commisisoned as part of a set for 'Into The Unknown: The Dungeon Survival Handbook'. Here are it's companion pieces.

Blood Painting

Acrylic on board, approx 14" x 9"

Original artwork for sale; $150

Copyright Wizards of the Coast.

Umber Hulk Companion

Acrylic on board, approx 19.5" x 25"

Original artwork for sale; $2000

Copyright Wizards of the Coast.

This batch of paintings all seemed to be about lighting, though three different glowing colours in The Dungeon Master might be considered excessive.

Warcraft: Fire & Ice

We all love receiving parcels and it's great when the content is something you've worked on. I recently got another bundle of Warcraft cards, which means I get to share them with you - red and blue, Fire and Ice, seems to be the theme this time.

Bloodfang Berserker

Acrylic on board, approx 15" x 11.5"

Original artwork for sale.

Copyright Blizzard

Line Sketch

Frost Arc

Acrylic on board, approx 15" x 11.5"

Original artwork SOLD.

Copyright Blizzard

Line Sketch

Zazzo Dizzleflame

Acrylic on board, approx 15" x 11.5"

Original artwork for sale.

Copyright Blizzard

Line Sketch

Scarlet Champion

Acrylic on board, approx 15" x 11.5"

Original artwork for sale.

Copyright Blizzard

Line Sketch

Talisman: Blood Moon

Talisman: Blood Moon

Approx 13" x 17"

Acrylic on board.

Original artwork for sale.

Cpoyright Fantasy Flight Games.

I especially enjoy working on an ongoing title, and Talisman has given me a great deal of satisfaction over the years. With the latest expansion I got to revisit the composition for previous expansions and give it another tweak.

I particularly liked this triumvirate of dodgy characters.

Details of the game can be found here.

No Response From Deepmar

No Response From Deepmar 

Acrylic, approx 21" x 26"

Original artwork for sale.

 Copyright Paizo

I always enjoy depicting dramatic, perilous, situations, and its better still when the frozen moment is a cliffhanger from which you feel the Hero has no chance of escape; though of course we always suspect that they have some trick hidden up their sleeve, that is, after all, why they are a hero.

In this cover painting for Paizo's Pathfinder supplement 'No Response From Deepmar' Harsk is the poor unfortunate, and he hasn't even got inside the mineworkings yet.

During the painting process I took a lot of photographs, and they are shown below as a very comprehensive walkthrough.