Been Busy

Its been awhile since I posted here, but the delay was certainly not the result of a lack of art or things to say. In truth, since Avalon’s birth I have been very productive in every creative department and suspect I’ve had the busiest year in a long time. I’ve even had plenty of time to write entries for this blog, but only in a note book while sitting at Starbucks, and simply haven’t had the chance to type them up and load them.

How things change in a matter of months. The economic slow down and credit crunch might explain the slowed pace of new assignments across my desk. Normally I’d look at this more relaxed pace as a chance to get some rest, clean the studio and update my web sites, but I am somewhat concerned about this recession, it just feels different than others. Better start storing up tins of food, spare boxes of ‘F’ lead pencils and lots of sketchbooks.

In spite of the slow down, I have a couple of really nice fantasy illustration gigs on the go, one for a collectible card game designed by Mark Lambert, which I’ll post about when the art is done and his company have their site up, and the other job is for Goodman Games. Joseph Goodman has been one of my longest running and best role playing game clients. A month ago I produced some interesting gray scale orc images which I’ll try and get posted here shortly as well.

Of course, as lead artist, co-creator and art director for Outland Arts, I’ve always got hundreds of ink, graphite and full color digital images on the go. Below are a few of the tiny inks placed throughout the main book called The Mutant Epoch: Hub Rules book. I swear, this book has over 580 illustrations! The most heavily illustrated RPG in the world, hands down. Besides the Hub Rules, we’ve already got the cover art for the monthly magazines and a couple of the adventures already finished, as well as dozens of maps and interior ink and graphite images.

For the following images, keep in mind that these are tiny, some only an inch by an inch in size. I'll be posting more art shortly and adding the other posts once I get them typed. Enjoy.

WM