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My stupid blog which you shouldn't read, but has a blurry photo of my Wheel of Time Calendar Competition piece, which is due Wednesday and almost ready for photographing.
I take it the Sep 19th piece with the black tentacle and the well is from The Fungi from Yuggoth? I've played and DMed that one, and found it a hoot.
My stupid blog which you shouldn't read, but has a blurry photo of my Wheel of Time Calendar Competition piece, which is due Wednesday and almost ready for photographing.I take it the Sep 19th piece with the black tentacle and the well is from The Fungi from Yuggoth? I've played and DMed that one, and found it a hoot.
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Actually, it was a sketch for Daigle's OerthJournal article (which I take hasn't seen "print" yet on the internet). It was an article about the working stiffs that head into the dungeon after the adventurers are done in order to grab everything that was missed on the first attempt. I've only done a few Cthulu pieces, but I want to do more.
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This is where I apologise for expanding the WIki article...
It was sort of an experiment on their notability standards. See, articles on musicians are frequently edited, and have high notablity standards. I've found that articles on art-related subjects have much lower notability standards; second only to TV shows and films.
Sorry for making a guinea pig of you.
That's okay, I suppose. I'm still pretty low on the notoriety totem pole, so misconceptions and urban myths about me can only enhance my "dark horse" mystique.
I've been to most of the above posters' sites. It's all terrific work. With more time, I hope to check all of the rest of the sites.
It's not art that is in any way safe to view at work.I should say not! Josef Stalin on the front page, indeed. INDEED!
*is mortally offended*
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Thanks, Mike.
*Hands over some sake*
My website, which I should update sometime this week with new drawings and a painting.
My stupid blog which you shouldn't read, but has a blurry photo of my Wheel of Time Calendar Competition piece, which is due Wednesday and almost ready for photographing.
Not a lot of fantasy stuff yet, but I'm working on a few things in the hopes of getting into the game.
I'm particularly drawn to "Harvest" and "Malaria."
I've added a new pic. Check it out,here
I can't speak for Fatespinner, but this talk has been threadjacked in a really nice way- it's great to see how many talented people hang out on these boards!
And since I'm not one to overlook a chance for a bit of media whoring, I just want to let you all know my US comic debut- Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Andorians, is out this month from IDW, so fight the good fight and buy early and often.
My latest color can also be seen in Star Trek: TNG- The Space Between Graphic Novel, Scarface- Scarred for Life Graphic Novels, as well as Star Trek season Four, all again from IDW. Coming soon I get to color the great John Byrne's take on the Romulans and Steve Niles Borg for the Alien Spotlight series.Here endeth the shameless plug- back to the thread (sorry Mike).
Okay Paizons,
My Star Trek Alien Spotlight: Andorians came out last week- all shameless plugging aside, don't hesitate to throw a few of the GP you have left over from the Paizo Sale at your local comic vendor for this fine comic.It's a stellar read and the best fun you can have with a pair of blue antennae, cuz Andorians ain't Smurfs.
For my home D&D campaign, I plan on setting my PCs against a community of degenerate freaks that are either generation-after-generation turning into aberrations or descended from aberrations. So here is one of the tanks of the little gathering, a human or dwarf that is devolving into a chuul; likely going to have barbarian levels. And here is one of their leaders, a priest or sorcerer with eyestalks and a big central eye like a beholder. I don't think there's enough contrast to get that eyestalk to pop, but I'm gonna go back into it. I plan on adding to the sketches before I run the session for my players, likely doing at least one picture of The Incredible Octopus Girl and the diabolical freakshow ringmaster that directs the pathetic creatures. Barrel of laffs!
Awesome pencils James!
Great work as always James. I especially like the leader thing.
LOL!
Thanks, guys.
Help an unemployed artist out- SQFT Gallery has the online store set up from the Deck the Walls: The Affordable Art Show. My work is completely different from everything else they sell and probably the most consistently expensive stuff in the store. Hooray?
This is for Eyebite. The Incredible Octopus Girl Sketch. I should probably start putting these on my actual website and actually coloring/finishing them.
I'm sorry for making this the James Keegan Self-promotion/Freak Drawing Power Hour.
Bless (and/or curse) you for linking the store. Trying to navigate to where someone might buy something is like attempting to get your virginity back.
Bless (and/or curse) you for linking the store. Trying to navigate to where someone might buy something is like attempting to get your virginity back.
Yeah, I think they run it on paypal or something.
Yeah, I think they run it on paypal or something.
I'm looking with a very serious eye at the work with the two convicts waltzing. The only thing that has kept me from already making it a part of the house is we eliminated all our debt with our savings last month, and it will take a month of two for everything to stabilize financially. Damn you fickle reality! Still...I quibble...
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This is for Eyebite. The Incredible Octopus Girl Sketch.
For some reason, my first thoughts were:
MAKE A MAN OUT OF A MOUSE!
FRUITY OATY BARS!
MAKE YOU BUST OUT OF YOUR BLOUSE!
EAT 'EM ALL THE TIME,
LET 'EM BLOW YOUR MIND! *YAY!*
FRUITY OATY BARS!
FRUITY OATY BARS!
This is for Eyebite. The Incredible Octopus Girl Sketch.For some reason, my first thoughts were:
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These never fail to astound me:
I'm just about finished (barring any particularly constructive criticisms and suggestions) with my first paying gig, a commission from friend and fellow Paizonian Jody McAdoo of his buddy's Shackled City character. The concept is that he's a monk that fights with his fists and a knotted length of rope that he swings around his head. He's also a devout Wee Jas worshipper and wears a long red robe (can't really tell, because it's pencil) and has the goddess' holy symbol tattooed on his face. So I looked at these cool Maori face tattoos for inspiration.
Here he is, punching Drakthar's goblins like it's his job. Because he's a monk, and therefore, it is his job.
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Also, here's something that I did over the summer with one of my droogs from camp. We were bored.
My DeviantArt DeviantID. If you look closely, you can see the scar from when I shut my arm in an oven back in November.
Wow man. James. That's awesome.
Nice James! I really like the pencil sketches you do.
An oven?! OW! I like the fighter/binder sketch a lot.
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I'm just about finished (barring any particularly constructive criticisms and suggestions) with my first paying gig, a commission from friend and fellow Paizonian Jody McAdoo of his buddy's Shackled City character. The concept is that he's a monk that fights with his fists and a knotted length of rope that he swings around his head. He's also a devout Wee Jas worshipper and wears a long red robe (can't really tell, because it's pencil) and has the goddess' holy symbol tattooed on his face. So I looked at these cool Maori face tattoos for inspiration.
Here he is, punching Drakthar's goblins like it's his job. Because he's a monk, and therefore, it is his job.
Killer, man. Truly killer.
My friend Dan just showed me some awesome work by Wesley Burt, who is an artist active on conceptart.org.
Here are some awesome drawings that make me feel like a pile of talentless crap.
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My friend Dan just showed me some awesome work by Wesley Burt, who is an artist active on conceptart.org.
Here are some awesome drawings that make me feel like a pile of talentless crap.
Those are f%~@in' amazing.
And no, you're not a pile of talentless crap. I'm a pile of talentless crap. You went to college.
And no, you're not a pile of talentless crap. I'm a pile of talentless crap. You went to college.
Art school, I went to art school. A degree from a typical college actually MEANS something. ;)
I've said it before, I'll say it again: you don't need a degree in anything to be an artist. It helps to have (good, qualified, knowledgable) instructors, but practice and observation are what really make the difference. Jason Engle for instance is self taught. I'll say one or two good things for art school, though: it taught me to have a critical eye and to accept and learn from constructive criticism.
Dan Dos Santos told me a few months ago that making good art is a combination of time invested, looking at other artists to see how they solved problems and a little bit of talent.
You aren't a pile of talentless crap! Your art f!!*ing rocks! I wish that I could do art like that.
You aren't a pile of talentless crap! Your art f&%%ing rocks! I wish that I could do art like that.
Thanks, dude. I was just joking, not fishing for compliments. Doesn't hurt, though.
Bromance!
Suck up to the GM-Go up a level.
I think we killed Wesley's website. :( Your laptop is the kiss of death, James.
I think we killed Wesley's website. :( Your laptop is the kiss of death, James.
Tell me about it. The internet is haunted by the ghost of my dead G3-P0.
Serious ouch. Too bad it's at least a 10 hour drive to your place (which, trust me, before my son I was crazy enough to just jump in the car and do); $5 says those guys are hacks (no offense, but *cough* hacks).
Yeah, pretty much. At least I got my $200 back from the RAM installation and they didn't charge me for the visit when they told me he was dead. That isn't counting the $60 and six hours total to go there and back twice, but whatever. My older sister is getting a new mac (hopefully) this week, so I'll be getting her old one until I can swing a new one for myself. I'd rather have that than spending $350 and sending the old one to Apple, just to replace it soon, anyways.
I am filled with amazement at everyone's art. I lack any such talent. I do sketch characters, but they look just one step better than stick figures (and not as good as Order of the Stick figures).
I love you all posted these. Thanks!
Half-orc druidic avengers are required to be heavily tattooed and to have punk rock haircuts. You didn't know that?
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Half-orc druidic avengers are required to be heavily tattooed and to have punk rock haircuts. You didn't know that?
I think it's actually a law somewhere...
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Half-orc druidic avengers are required to be heavily tattooed and to have punk rock haircuts. You didn't know that?I think it's actually a law somewhere...
Seattle. I looked it up on Wikipedia.
Hey, guess what.
Wings of Twilight, the art of Michael Kaluta is on sale for $9.99 from Bud Plant. I payed full price for this book a year or two ago and I would have payed double. Chock full of excellent drawings and watercolor paintings, great reproductions and very little text. If you liked the art in Masque of Dreams in Dungeon 143(?), this is the guy that did it. You need this book. Seriously.
And no, they're not paying me to say this. This is a public service I am performing free of charge. $9.99 plus shipping and you can have an awesome art book.
Few new sketches on my silly blog. Planescape characters, random stuff, Tammeraut's Fate thumbnail. And a few little things I'm doing for some guy named Adam Daigle. I need to get started on actually finishing something (in color!) so I can convince people that I'm serious.
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Actually, it was a sketch for Daigle's OerthJournal article (which I take hasn't seen "print" yet on the internet). It was an article about the working stiffs that head into the dungeon after the adventurers are done in order to grab everything that was missed on the first attempt. I've only done a few Cthulu pieces, but I want to do more.
I had an NPC like that; he drove the PCs around the country in his cart, and acted as an occasional torchbearer or watchman for them. He'd lift anything that wasn't nailed down, which was a lot of stuff, since PCs tend to ignore a lot of mundane or even masterwork gear once they've got a level or two under their belt.
It was like an episode of the Wombles..."..Making good use of the things that we find;
Things that the fighters and rogues leave behind
...tum ti tum ti tum ti tum, tum ti tum ti tum..."
I think he ended up richer than one or two of the PCs, by the end, partly since he discovered one of my villains rummaging through his cart (a gnoll chief who had killed one of the party), snuck up to him and decapitated him, then claimed the dead PCs gear (this was carried out in a solo session by a guest player, by the way, so he wasn't DM's pet).