I met a wonderful family at a comic con in Des Moines, Iowa. They had brought their dad to the convention as a birthday present. He is a veterinarian and a comic fan. Months later, his daughter contacted me about doing a drawing of her dad examining The Creature from the Black Lagoon. She said …
I was very humbled when Luke Gygax asked me to paint this image for the 10th Anniversary of the gaming convention he founded to honor the legacy of his father, Gary Gygax, the father of Dungeons & Dragons.
Of course, the classic monsters hold a special place in my youth as well as in the realm of my imagination. This drawing began as a Frankenstein sketch to pass some quiet time at a convention. Each, successive monster was drawn during slow periods at other conventions. Eventually, it became a finished drawing… sort of …
Every once in a while, it’s fun to look back at images that inspired me as a young artist. This is my recreation of one of my favorite Batman 1967 coloring books from the Bat-craze of my childhood years. I added the Joker and a Bat-a-rang and tweaked some other details. Great fun!
I love drawing creatures… and dragons are particularly fun subjects. Often, during the rare, quiet lulls at conventions, I’ll start a sketch. Sometimes, these doodles turn into something special. This is a favorite cons sketch!
After reuniting with many of my colleagues from the old, TSR Art Department at Gary Con in 2014, Luke Gygax contacted me with a great idea for the artwork for the following year’s show!
This piece began as an homage challenge among an old, artists’ email group I was part of in the early 2000s. The idea was for artists to do a tribute to a Frazetta painting that had an impact on them. The sketch and early work for this piece sat as an unfinished file for years, …
It’s been a lot of fun getting back into the world of role-playing games after so many years away. Alex Kammer was kind enough to commission this piece for his great and growing gaming convention
Such an original character and wonderful image! The Shadow is one of those characters that is always fun to draw!
It’s always great to get a chance to draw a character from your youth. I’ve always had a soft spot for this particular version of Hank Pym’s Giant Man/Goliath character from The Avengers!