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I'm pretty excited about Stefan Poag's Etsy shop for his original artwork. I'm going to peruse his shop and pick up a couple of pieces. As an artist myself, I LOVE having original art by other artists. I have a couple of RPG pieces by Kent Burles and a few others. I find myself wondering if others would be interested in purchasing some of my originals that were used in RPG products? If so, does it matter if they are matted or just the original on the paper? I do have an Etsy account but nothing uploaded (since I tend to be more of a buyer than a seller). I'd be interested in hearing if 1) You like to purchase original RPG art 2) How you like the presentation 3) If I should bother tyring to sell some of my originals. My inent is not to make tons of cash, rather, I'd like to see some of these pieces go to folks who would appreciate them rather than have them sitting in my archives. Let me know what you think!

Here's the latest I just finished for Small Niche Games. Daisey is colorizing some work for another commission and it looks fantastic! She has an amazing sense of color and I'm excited to get those out. Soon, soon!!!

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been pretty busy with art commissions lately and it hasn't left me much time for blogging. However, I just wanted to give a sample of what I've been working on. Here's two pictures I've just finnished for Small Niche Games. A marine ombie and a Mutant demonic Mage. Happy gaming!

Slow blogging week for me, but that doesn't mean I'm not actively enaged in OSR goodness! I've been doing several illustrations for Joe Browning at Expeditious Retreat Press and Peter Spahn of Small Niche Games. I'm putting the finishing touches on a couple of cover pieces. Daisey has once again outdone herself on the coloring. I'm trilled with how they came out. The Small Niche Games pics are turning out nicely as well. After that? Well, I've got a couple of pictures I need to get on for ckutalik at the Hill Cantons blog and a GENCON tournament module for XRP. Yeah, so I'm staying busy. I can't wait to share some of the color work. Man, it has been a busy year on the art front. You'd almost think I was a full time artist ;). As to my other projects? Well, they are delayed due to the extreme amount of artwork I've been doing but not forgotten. I've been reading up on Higher Spatial dimensions in Clifford A. Pickover's book ...

I just received my hardcopy of Stars Without Number the other day. I’ve been spending a lot of time reading through that and OpenQuest. I have to say, these two games go a long way to scratching an itch I’ve had for a while. Stars Without Number is a great looking game. I can’t really say enough about it. I’m not much of a Sci-Fi gamer. I’m not sure why because I like Sfi-Fi pretty well but I’ll admit that it isn’t my goto genre. Overall though, it does a GREAT job of reframing the early D&D rules and reworking them for a Sci-Fi genre. Upon a cursory read through, I could think of so many things that could be done with this system. Right of the bat, I found myself wanting to recreate Asimov’s Foundation. I think it would also be interesting to do up a space horror setting with this system. I’m thinking of Alien or Event Horizon. Yeah, or something like Cthulhu weirdness in space. At any rate, it is a top notch game so go check it out. There is absolutely NO reason i...

Mythmere has announced a great idea for Japan relief . He's released the Last Priest of Sobek as a free adventure as long as you donate at least a dollar to disaster relief in Japan. The module is an Egyptian themed affair written by Alphonso Warden and art by me and maps by Matt Mythmere Finch. I'm happy to be involved with this worthy effort even on a small scale. So, why not drop by and read Matt's post, donate what you can, and pick up a great adventure to use in your old school games!

As an artist, I'm fascinated with the creation process. The actual process of creating art is much more important and fulfilling to me than the end result. Not that the end result is unimportant, but once I've created a piece of work, it is usually no longer "mine" as most of the time I'm working on something for someone else. But the process of creating is an incredibly intimate, seductive process for me. I tend to get very engrossed in what I'm doing to the point that the outside world doesn't exist, just me and the process. At any rate, I thought that it might be cool to share with you all a bit of that process. I don't think I can define much of the experience as it is more mental than just the physical act of creation, but I'll do my best. I don't have a studio, I'm very much a dining room table creator. It's a good space and I figure that even if I had a studio, I'd probably be using this space a lot for my work. ...