Deadlands'd...

My first project for Pinnacle is out today...well in PDF form anyway. I did the layout and some cartography for this particular book (I did a map and it's more of an artifact that an actual map).

The book has some fantastic art on the inside as well as the cover. And the format gave me a chance to do some cool stuff that I don't get to normally do (although if you have the SAS version of Falling Scales 2 I did manage to slip some of that in there as well). Let's just say after this book, I really love the gradient feather effect in Indesign.

So, if you have the time and a couple of bucks to spare, why not go and treat  yourself. Hopefully, I'll be doing a lot more of these in the future.

Halloweeeeen'd

I have had no time over the last month to work on a special piece for Halloween...which kinda sucks as I had something cool in mind. To date, I have never been able to get a personal project with a seasonal theme done in time. I am going to try and do a macabre Thanksgiving piece though.

So for now, I'm posting some images that I haven't posted before. To the left is the Fleshbound Vampire from the Bonegarden d20 adventure. I ended up having to illustrate most of the monsters in the appendix for that book. Why? Probably something to do with making the book a higher page count, so the monsters had to get a full splat rather than a stat block.

To the right is the Blood Golem thing I did for Hollowfaust. It wasn't fill in work....but it did happen at the same time I had to do some fill in for another d20 book...so instead of one book with really awesome art I did two with acceptable art. But still...I think the piece is kinda neat.

Well, that is all the time I have today. I have a secret art project I've got to get back to.

Check back by and see if I manage to get the macabre turkey day piece done.

Mike C.

Shameless Self Promotion...

Soon, my first published art in about 5-6 years will hit the streets. If you have followed the blog, you will have seen the evolution of the Bobby Hill vs Evil piece (that's what I called it anyway) from a sketch to a fully inked and colored piece. If you click on the preview link on Green Ronin's site, you can actually see the piece in the preview.

Haven't been this excited for a book I did art in to come out since Book of Madness in 94.

http://greenronin.com/2012/10/supernatural_handbook_pre-order.php

Woobedow! pt 1

Bobby Hill vs Evil the Redo is done and approved!

The main difference this time is just a lttle extra detailing in the color and some of the rendering. For so long, I have over rendered pieces for so long, I played it safe (or so I thought) and kept the rendering to a minimum. 

Oddly enough, this is pretty much the style I did for Midnight Circus back in the day. I've always wanted to revisit the style, and now I have gotten that opportunity. Granted the Midnight Circus stuff wasn't colored...but I think the similarity is there.

Also happening this week is the release of the first of the Savage Mojo products I did the interior layout and design for. Yay! The Millennium Knights Primer is a free download at here. If you like Mission Impossible, Blade, the Matrix and all the other great action films of that kind from the 90s, then this is for you.

Might be shifting into miniature painting mode over the next day or so...been working on a commission for quite a while now and I need to get it done. However, I have a couple of personal illustration products I'm working on as well as three or four more titles coming out the next month or so from various publishers which I'll be posting cover shots and links to (try and talk them into doing an interior sampler done in flash).

But first, I need to take a nap.

Fun Fact: I probably drink so much soda my blood is carbonated.

Another Fun Fact: Kroger Diet Red Drop is more delicious than Diet Mtn Dew Code Red. Yes, that borders on blasphemy...but at 89 cents a bottle why wouldn't you commit blasphemy? No escaping, that's for me, blasphemy, blasphemy.