News, business, and artwork!

Well, first of all, I am what you might call - non photogenic.

However, Li and I went to a wedding over last weekend and this picture was taken and it turned out reasonably well. So, I thought I might share it with everybody. If you can't figure out who is who, you should definitly have your head checked...heh.


Now, as to business - huge news! I've joined up as part owner of Empty Room Studios with Rick Hershey. Empty Room Studios is essentially an artist studio. When all is said and done, we should be able to handle just about any of your art needs, interior illustrations (both black and white, greyscale, and colour), cover work, web design, and logo design. Hell, if you have any kind of work needing done, we'd be happy to take it on. We're in the middle of moving and reworking the old ERS website as we speak, but we have moved the ERS forums over into the Baeg Tobar forums, so please drop by and drop us a line! Expect quite a few changes happening over the next several months and at the beginning of the new year. Great things are around the corner for Baeg Tobar and Empty Room Studios.

As to my own artwork, I just completed a cover for Goodman Games next Etherscope book, which turned out to probably be one of the best covers I've completed to date. At least one of the most sophisticated in terms of colour. I'll do my best to get that posted up when I get the go ahead. In the meantime, here's the initial thumbnail for the cover -

The piece actually turned out pretty different than this, but this is what got the ball rolling for the final. Tell me, do people like seeing sketches or just the finishes?

Here's a piece I did for Paragon Games (apparently they crashed right after I did this, so I've yet to be paid and I think it's probably safe to assume I never will - I'll be sincerely surprised if I do get paid for this work) from sketch to finished inks.


Well, aside from all that, I will be hopefully colouring seven pages for a book from Layne Morgan Media, Inc. in the next several weeks. It should be quite a bit of fun as I have never coloured anybody elses work, let alone sequential work. I had some good responses from the artist I will be colouring over, however. So, it should be interesting to see how all that goes.

I've also got several covers to start working on, a web site to finish up, and that previously posted Genghis Con piece.

I better get to work!

Later!