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Pirate sketch
An upcoming project has me sketching pirates. I did this during a local sketch group meetup.
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Holy Water
While waiting on the wife to get her hair done I walked around downtown looking for a place to sketch. I totally forgot about Holy Trinity. It’s located across the street from the Hancock Building. The courtyard was quite and had this beautiful fountain in it. There was the occasional tourist stopping in while I ...
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Gen Con
Gen Con this year was a blast. Catching up with friends and colleagues is usually the first order of business. Making new acquaintances and meeting new art directors for possible projects is just as important. And new for me this year are the fans. I’m not yet a destination for many a trading card holder ...
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Kobold Quarterly Sketches
A fresh batch of sketches released. This time in color.
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Warmachine sketching
My buddy Jim Pavelec needed to visit the Russell Military Museum for some concept sketching on a project he’s working on. He invited me to join him to do some sketching. It was fun romping around the museum grounds, which was more like a military junk yard. I was able to get a two sketches ...
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Trying to tap my inner demons
Over the weekend I helped jury the art going into the demon book I will be designing for Jim Pavelec; “Hymns and Wretched Offerings to the Golden Ones”. It was a lot of fun and inspiring to see some of the awesome work sent in. Being surrounded by awesome and twisted stuff was sure to ...
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Kobold Quarterly newsletter sketch
If you get the Kobold Quarterly newsletter then you’ve seen a few of my sketches. Here’s the latest one.
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Character sketches for Kobold Quarterly
A few of my sketches have been released into the wild. Fans of the fantasy magazine Kobold Quarterly can find my work on the site, in recent and upcoming issues. Here are a group of three character sketches I’m happy to post. These are pencil on paper with some digital tones. They were quite fun ...
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A Day at the Museum
Yesterday, Friday, I meet up with some recent alumni of the American Academy of Art at the Field Museum of Natural History. Kat Guevara organized the event and asked if I’d be interested in joining. I had just recently been there to sketch myself and remembered a wall plaque around two beautiful watercolor paintings. It mentioned the ...
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Harem Assassin half pager for Kobold Quarterly – sketch
Next up is a half page interior for Kobold Quarterly. A dangerous harem assassin! This is going to be all about lighting and shadows that I was playing with in my Raven Queen painting. From what was called for this seemed the perfect assignment to keep playing with that theme. I’m only allowed to post ...
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Gen Con sketch
sketch I did for Jeremy McHugh.
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Laurie Reading at the Rookery
after a total fail at a landscape pencil/watercolor i decided to just do a little sketch of Laurie. The Rookery at Lincoln Park Zoo is a Chicago Geode. On of those place that 99% of the people just walk past and don’t even know it’s there. It’s a lilly pond attached to the zoo. ...