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Swampy

Admin — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 05:00:36 +0000

At the beginning of the year I started work at Kabam, a social game developer. For now, I'm working as a senior 2D artist on the very successful Dragons of Atlantis game. It's a blast! And best of all we are releasing new stuff all the time, so I get to share it with the public pretty soon after I finish drawing it.

These are my contributions to the swamp outpost. I got to design the Mephitic Serpent and work on many of the assets that it appeared in. However, due to an engagement I had scheduled prior to my startdate, I had to leave for the last 3 weeks of development. So, Karla Ortiz and Sean O'Daniels pick up the slack for me and finish up the work I started.

Here's some of what I was able to do before I ducked out.

This is the concept piece we went with to kick off the design:

Here's the keep illo that I started for him:

I also got to design the baby! The idea was that these guys start out super short and grow longer and longer as they get older.

Finally, I worked out a quick concept for the egg. Which was an evolution of the Egg Chest design that Marnie Brumder had worked out earlier.

Innistrad

Admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:15:25 +0000

These are the last 4 images I did for Innistrad.

Gavony Township

Admin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:50:44 +0000

At the time I finished this card I was so sick of looking at it I was convinced that it was the worst looking card I'd done for Magic. I was pretty suprised when people started emailing me about prints for it soon after it was released. I guess it doesn't hurt that it has super good stats!

Ghost Quarter

Admin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:36:43 +0000

I haven't been using this blog much, so I should dig into the backlog some. Here's a recently released magic card. You can check out some of the process behind it HERE

Return to form

Admin — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:53:05 +0000

I didn't mean to stop updating my blog here. But I had to quit doing WiPtv and it was the crutch that was propping up my personal work habits every week. Basically, what happened was that I got a steady stream of magic cards to work on between October and now. So any weekend that I've had time to paint, has been dedicated to making money instead of building my personal stuff.

Since I won't get to show the cards I did for another 6 months, it might look like I've been slacking. But in truth, the practice that I've recieved doing these cards has upped my game quite a lot. You can see it in this updated WiP of "Hardbako". Which is taking on a diffinitively eastern vibe.

WiPtv Oct 3, 2010

Admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:08:28 +0000

Some sort of mystical giant or something. This will be awesome when it's done.

WiPTV, Aug 28, '10

Admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:10:08 +0000

I keep stalling out on this one. But the pile of little tweeks that keep happening are keeping it moving along. Maybe it will look like something soon~

U-stream, August 01

Admin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:40:10 +0000

I didn't know what I wanted out of this piece. So I spent a lot of the time wandering around. Overall, I had fun, but I think I left this one feeling unsatisfied.

Ustream July 24, 2010

Admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:10:52 +0000

I have no idea where I am going with this. Just a fun doodle :) I'm gonna sit on this until I feel the need to work on something half finished. I'm getting ready for Gencon this week and I need to spend some time doing a little business housekeeping before I leave.

Erec Rex: The Three Furies

Admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:01:58 +0000

Almost a year ago I did some work on this book cover. It was my very first one and I was very nervous about doing a good job. Performance anxiety is a sure fire touch of death on my art, but I got a lot of help from my wife and I managed to push through it. I'm really proud of this piece and I'm happy to start to show it off now that the book is almost in stores.

Rough:

Delivered Image:

Final Cover: