Warrior vs. the Dragon Worm

Time for my yearly art blog post. Does anyone remember when blogging was a thing? I miss those days.

 

Throwback Thursday: Storm Wraith

 Art I did for the Warlord CCG many years ago. Later I inked the original sketch, changed the background, and used that art for the Beasties book of monsters.

The original acrylic painting was 11"x17" I think. I traded it to another artist, one of my heroes Christopher Moeller, for one of his amazing acrylic paintings.

Here is a detail shot:

I inked the sketch later and made some improvements to the background:

Lurking Goblin

Dragon Down

I was trying out some inking brushes in Photoshop and ended up drawing this scene. No particular story to this other than what you see.

Geiravor the Spear-Bearer

Geiravor the Spear-Bearer for the Valkyria Norse Mythology project.

Detail

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Dragon Home

Dragon Home. 8.5"x11" Pentel brush pen on smooth bristol.

Inked in 2014, but based on an older drawing.

Giant Spider

Throwback to an old pen & ink from 2006.

The Watch Rides Forth

Throwback Thursday. The Watch Rides Forth, illustration for the Game of Thrones card game.

Seeress

5"x7" watercolor on paper.

Throwback Thursday - Painsaber

This was a digital illustration from quite some time ago, probably more than 15 years old. When I found this recently while organizing some old files it seemed to need just a few tweaks and a bit of atmosphere, probably less than a half hour of touch ups.

Rework of an Old Painting. War Angel --> Rota: Valkyrie of Sleet

Recently I've been going through my old Hard Drives and organizing old art files. While I've lost many files to various crashes over the years, I'm occasionally surprised by something I find. However a lot of that old art makes me cringe! I keep wanting to fix things, of course that would get crazy time consuming. Some artists rework old art to great success, and some lose the charm of their old work, I don't know where any attempts to revise, improve, or rework any of my old art falls, but the temptation at times is too strong.

Especially when it comes to work I did for my card game Dungeoneer I made almost 20 years ago. The reason is some of that had such a tight deadline I was doing 2 or 3 cards a day, when I should have been spending at least 2-3 days per card or more.

This was a character called War Angel during production, the card ended up being called Frost Bound Celestial. I reworked it, gave her some appropriate clothes for the weather, and tweaked some other things. She also fits in nicely with the Norse Mythology themed project I've been working on. She could be Rota: Valkyrie of Sleet.

Comparison New and Old

The Last Unicorn

Seeing The Last Unicorn in the theater as a kid I really liked the art style and story. It was a real alternative to the stuff Disney was putting out. Rankin and Bass had such great style to their animations. Someone recently told me some of those who worked on it went on to start Studio Ghibli. Is that true?
I've been reading the book with my daughters, and made some fan art for them. This was done in Procreate on a tablet.

Valkyria: Shieldmaiden

Kára - Valkyrie of Storms

Midnight RPG Cover

Detail

This cover won a silver Ennies award at GenCon 2003,

and was in Spectrum #10 The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.

Oni & Samurai

Dragon Perch

Dragon Kings

A repugnant worm masquerading as a dragon, confronted by unconvinced warriors.

Know Nothing

Quake