Dragons & Corporate Superheroes

So here are the final inks for the dragon image I finished up this week along with some superhero illustrations I have been doing for Solarwinds, a network management software company. Just some random stuff that pays the bills.

Dragon sketchin'

So now for something completely different (I see this a lot it seems).
Dragons and fantasy shit are what got me into this whole art thing in the first place and it's refreshing to actually get a gig where I get to draw actual DRAGONS.

This is the second round of pencil roughs for the "dragon" card for a card game now in development for Slugfest Games.

Fun stuff.

Card art characters

Here are three card-art character illustrations I completed recently for Slugfest Games. These are my three favorites. Bard, warrior, & merchant respectably.

WEGS : PIRATES!

The linework for the cover to WEGS: Pirates.

The Sea Hags of Penzantium

One of a group of illustrations I'm currently working on for the WEGS Pirate RPG. I really like the way they came out. I may have to color them up and put them on my business cards or something.

Waffles, sweet, sweet, waffles.

It seems our* Atland guest strip is up for the week over at www.realmofatland.com. Check it out.

*Written by John Kipling, drawn by me.

Dwarf sketch

Tower sketch

A quick sketch I did in Bull McCabes last Saturday while waiting on some friends to show up.

BFS#2

BFS

Late night sketch

Satyr Girl

A break from work stuff. I've still got a satyr girl in my head that I can't get out...

Dragon sketch

I remember doing this sketch on a post-it about ten years ago while I was on the phone at my grandmother's house. Around 2002 I scanned the rough, blew it up, worked over it and tightened it up. The big version was done on Letraset marker paper with a brown col-erase (my favorite pencil of all time) and a lead holder with 3H lead. I like harder leads because they don't smear nearly as much and I like the fact that the light lead gives a lot of freedom with your pressure versus light/dark lines. I press pretty hard anyway and harder lead doesn't break nearly as often and keeps a sharper point.
So this sketch has sat in my portfolio since 2002. He has gotten so much positive feedback that I have toyed with the idea on finishing him up, full color. I'm usually hesitant on going back and working on older stuff but I think he deserves some more love.

Another sword girl

I had to take a break from the cartoony stuff and draw another violent chick. Maybe I'll start doing one of these everyday as I've given up on the fish thing for awhile...

Sword girl sketch

More break-time stuff. I plugged in my headphones, entered the word "sword" in my itunes in which I got a mix between the band The Sword and the Conan soundtrack, turned it up real loud and started drawing. This girl came out. 10 minute sketch.

Troll

A painting I started while playing with Photoshop a few months back.

Tower staircase

Colored up some old linework.

Laurel & Hardy as "evil town guards"

My career has officially run the gamut.

Running...

My weekly post to the ASS blog. Topic: Running.

Sketch to Ink

Here's an example of my pencil roughs to black & white. If I were pencilling for someone else to ink my pencils would be much tighter. Keeping the pencils loose when I ink speeds the process up because I can fill a lot of the details in with ink. This is another guy from the WEGS game stuff coming out this summer. (You don't want to know what he's carrying.)