A “swords and sorcery” fantasy battle scene created for @trollgodfather and Tunnels & Trolls.
The scene was composed so that elements could be split out as separate “snapshot” renders, if possible – “Shall We Dance” is one example derived from this scene, with additional tweaks for the close-up.
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A few days ago I had a brief Twitter conversation with @SueGrimshaw, and at one point she noted something along the lines of “we have the most fun” – we being editors and artists. This coming on the heels of a post on @JodyHedlund’s blog, “Book Covers: Are They Important in the Digital Age?” got me thinking about this aspect of my work.
I asked myself “Do I have fun doing cover art?”. The answer came back to me as a “Yes!” – although admittedly it took some thinking through to be certain. To answer the question from Jody’s blog, I believe that cover art is important, perhaps even moreso in the digital age than the old times of just physical books.
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of meeting Gini Koch during a #scifichat Twitter conversation.
It seems I’m not the only one who writes about aliens getting it on with humans – unfortunately, her visions of aliens are all handsome hunks of human looking beings, whereas I, as you all have come to know, much rather prefer to focus on the beautiful sensuality of the alien forms first designed by HR Giger. Indeed, as discussion grew during the lead-up to the release of her latest novel, “Alien Tango” (DAW, 2010), she described these kind, wonderful creatures as “fugly”!
I was taking a break from editing the manuscript for Chrysalis Emergent, and decided to create a concept rendering of one of the alien races that feature in the Legion Universe, this one also a Starwolf.
It’s not entirely how I visualize both this alien’s species, and the implants of Starwolves, in my head, but it gives you a good idea.
Alien Starwolf Concept Art
With prompting from a few people, I’ve started working on re-tweaking a Legion Universe novel, with the intent of actually risking the dreaded rejection letters again.
But, me being me, I decided to do some cover art as well given the recent release of some new meshes.
Oddly, working on the character from this cover idea helped me to get a better understanding of some of the concepts the Legion Universe explores.
So, as I doubt will come as a surprise to anyone, I present to you a cover for Chrysalis Emergent, long before the words are even close to decent.
I was hanging out in The Knight Agency‘s chat room after the Rhyannon Byrd chat with a few others and the discussion got around to aliens and predators. One of the chat regulars, DianeT, mentioned she’s prefer to go down to predators rather than aliens because she’d rather a quick death than the icky slimy death aliens result in.
Having just finished doing one of the illustration renders for Outsider: Epiphany, I was twiddling my thumbs, so I put together an image fast, and squirted it off to the farm while we were chatting.
I finally got around to finishing off this giftart for Mike Hawthorne over on Twitter – I get the feeling this is a scene that would be the end panel of his idea for a strip featuring his 4 year old.
No, seriously! Check out 4YO’s antics!
I’ll admit, this is more of an artistic impression, but I’m trying to cut down on images with more blood in a frame than the entire Nightmare on Elm Street franchise.
All yours Mike, enjoy 
I Can't take you anywhere
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I was in a silly mood this morning, trying to avoid having to think about having to venture out into the snow to restock some supplies since there are more storms on the way, and decided to render a personal assistant for Yasmine Galenorn‘s personal assistant, GeekGyrlFriGEV.
Now, I know she’s a bit young, and might need the occasional burping and stuff, but I figure it’s best to start her training early.
So congratulations, GeekGyrl – you’re a momma
GeekGyrlFriGEV's Personal Assistant
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I was in email with Yasmine Galenorn‘s wonderful administrative assistant FairyFindings this morning, and in the course of it mentioned a couple of other renders that aren’t really part of the Sisters of The Moon fanart I did. I promised her I’d dig through those rough drafts, and I came across this prototype.
Remember that old quote about interfering in the affairs of dragons? Well, this character from the Otherworld series pretty much sums that up – if you’re anyone other than Camille, that is.
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