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July 23, 2014

Work from a galaxy far, far away...

Another mass upload of recent and a little less recent work. This time it is a mix of client and personal work and all Star Wars related! The client work is a mix of work from the Fantasy Flight Games RPG and Card Game and is all digital painted. The personal work is all traditional painted. Hope you enjoy it!

Arcona Rumor Monger

Exploring Froz

Salacious B. Crumb

The Droid's Task

Hidden Cache

Enraged Ronto

Passk the Trandoshan

Quarren Agitator

"Barada"

5 x 7

acrylic on board

"Cad Bane"

5 x 7

acrylic on board

"Ree-Yees"

5 x 7

acrylic and pencil on board

"Chief Chirpa"

4 x 4

acrylic, pencil, and gouache on board

"Jawa"

4 x 4

acrylic, pencil, and gouache on board

"Gamorrean Guard"

8 x 8

acrylic, pencil, and gouache on board

RAWR!

April 12, 2013

More recent work - monsters, Monsters, and more MONSTERS

A lot of my monsters have come out recently and I thought I would share them all in one post. I will start things off with my contributions to the March issues of Dungeon and Dragon magazines. I got to do a portrait of the deadly Ogre mercenary Lubash as well as redesign and illustrate an entire army of Mephits...

Lubash the Ogre - The Village of Hommlet

Air, Dust, and Earth Mephits

Mist, Steam, and Water Mephits

Fire, Ice, and Magma Mephits

Heading now to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The mighty Icetromper joins the ranks of the ever growing Star Wars card game by Fantasy Flight Games...

Icetromper

Lastly, I have for you a set of four Marvel Comic aliens that I redesigned for the very awesome The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition (OHOTMU Reduxe) blog. The blog's goal is to redesign and celebrate 1000 plus entries in the Handbook to the Marvel Universe. I started off my contribution to the project with these four aliens. You can see a side by side comparison here, Alien Races - Horusians to Judans...

RAWR!

February 5, 2013

Wookiee Navigator

Here is the first of my Star Wars work for Fantasy Flight Games new line of Star Wars gaming products. This piece is from their new Star Wars card game core set that came out in January. It is a might Wookiee and the card is aptly named... Wookiee Navigator.

Yes, the Wookiee is at a gunner station - You don't sit in one place the entire time you are in a star ship, remember that time when Han was in a gunner station?

No, this is NOT Chewbacca - From the very beginning the card had to be very much the "NOT Chewbacca" card, hence the vastly different fur color and pattern.

Now that the two things I keep hearing OVER AND OVER again are out of the way, here is the Wookiee Navigator...

Wookiee Navigator

I think in fact he is saying, "RAWR!" in the illustration. Here is the drawing that I did for this piece...

Wookiee Navigator - Drawing

It was very important that this piece read, "NOT Chewbacca" so after I submitted the original version of the final there was some concern that the piece still looked too much like Chewbacca. If you are at all familiar with how Chewbacca looks it would be immediately clear that this was not everybody's favorite Wookiee. The call to change it still came down and my art director was there to save me from myself and made sure they got the changes they wanted to see. Here is the original version...

ORIGINAL Wookiee Navigator

Here is a progression of the painting in 8 easy steps.... it is just that easy and that hard...

Wookiee Navigator - Process progression

And now a handy dandy side by side comparison of the two final stages of the Wookiee Navigator. I was really resistant to the final production Wookiee for a long time, but I think it is finally growing on me. It is hard to have such a major change made to the first piece done for a product that has been a love of mine since I was three years old. But I got over it... maybe...

Wookiee Navigator - final and original comparison

Last but not least, here is the how the actual card turned out. I think it is funny that even though it says 'Wookiee Navigator' and nowhere does it say Chewbacca people are still complaining that Chewbacca is the wrong color... oh well...

Wookiee Navigator Card

RAWR!