Minotaur character

Forgot to update my blog with this new D&D character. A minotaur runepriest that I was playing in a campaign that failed after the first session. The character was fun to play while it lasted though. I would've done the ground sigils myself but sometimes I can be a bit lazy when I feel like I found the perfect element. I styled him as a buddhist auspicion who was on a quest to claim the eight symbols of auspiciousness.

Goblin and some doodles

Another little D&D character sketch for a goblin witch, Thiess Uun. She is also a nanny to one of the other members, being usefully immortal. Who can ask for more than the comforting presence of an ageless caretaker?

Plus some bonus doodle-y-noodles, I rarely post these but I was in hangout with some creatives and some of it rubbed off on me. You can also see hints of another possible character I may be playing in a Starwars tabletop.

Baldur's Gate Enhanced Portrait

So, Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition just came out on Steam which I immediately grabbed for nostalgia's sake. Its still rather buggy and the networking isn't ideal currently (they plan on making it more netplay friendly). But nostalgia tends to be a powerful force when it comes to geekdom.

In any case, one of the things I loved about Baldur's Gate was that the resources in the game were fairly open, meaning I could drop in some files and I'd have some shnazzy custom portraits and voicesets to use. So of course, years later and a few professional gigs into my career I'm all about making my own portraits.

I probably could have used some stray model to do a portrait of but I was feeling egocentric at that moment and dug up a picture of myself instead; Which always causes its own problems as you have some sacred cows about your own appearance, at least I do anyway.

And of course I'm a mage.

Painting layout post

Maybe you'll recognize the face from the sketches I posted earlier. I was rather taken by the idea and I'm hoping to get a painting out of it in time for a gallery showing in a couple weeks. I'm nervous since its my first gallery show, even if its group. So many things that could change and struggling with what do change about it. But I like it so I'm putting it up for public perusal before I start on the physical piece.

It also doubles as a fun character portrait for my World of Darkness game, making a changeling... maybe a muse. 

Holiday MTG Cards

Hi All,
For Christmas I made some of my magic buddies some Magic the Gathering cards as gifts, each one representing them as magic players or their D&D characters (which are them dressed as their characters). Been keeping these under wraps until after the holidays so they don't get a chance to peek but now I can reveal the set. I had to rush a couple to get them (not in time D:) for Christmas, so that's why some of them have uneven areas of finish. Also, facebook is at the same time a great place for reference and a terrible one. Its odd that some of my friends would have hundreds of unusable photos and others would just have the one perfect photo in their profile image. (just a note, I doubt blogspot will open the image at a decent size so just drag the image to a new tab or copy>paste image url)

Campaign Map

Hey all, just finished a map for my D&D map and sharing it here. It feels rather Elder Scroll-ish with the icons and naming conventions but I think its a provocative one; each name is a story in its own.

Dragon Talon Peninsula

New D&D Stuff 2

Its been awhile since I've continued work on my tileset so this is my getting onto the bandwagon post. Tried to make a thicker forest type tile with a few "special terrain" extra bits at the bottom. Some blood crystals, some runes, and a rune circle of some sort which I have in mind to make into a god circle. The print is slightly off color from the other tiles as I'm still evolving the palette and trying to figure out a saturation and gamma thats appropriate to use with minis.