Post GenCon

What a great weekend. I didn’t get to game as much as I would have liked, but I did manage to run into almost everybody I wanted to run into, plus I had the pleasure of talking to people I had not planned on talking to.

I won’t be able to recall everybody’s name so I’ll just say that it was great talking to everybody if I forget your name please forgive me it was a whirlwind of faces and names. There was a lot of positive comments about my work and kickstarter. I’m looking forward to building better relationships with all the people who want to work with me.  Matt Morton, Nick, and all the guys from D20Pro, John and the other guy (sorry) at Epic Table, Doug and the JPG the younger at Fantasy Grounds, Mike Muldoon and the team at Infrno, Riley Dutton and his partner for Roll 20, The Guy at the Profantasy booth who I didn’t have enough time to talk to properly (sorry), The guys at RPG with Me, and all the guys running booths who were cool. Also Larry from WEGS, I’ve been helping him on some things here and there and in return I got a shiny new t-shirt. Thanks.

I also got to meet and talk to a few fellow cartographer/illustrators. Jared Blendo and Mike Schley who are both formidable workers with amazing skills. Equally nice to talk to. I also talked to Dave White (a fellow CCAD graduate)  who draws amazing mechs, thanks for the poster and I’ll grab one of your books online this week.

I finally met Matt Jackson one of the original Ugly Monsters and Bryan who I have played Inspectres with online.
Ed Healey and I couldn’t seem to find the right timing to actually talk which is a bummer.

I also want to thank the guys who ran games for us. One guy from The Red Shirts who ran a DnD Battle Royale game, the guy who ran our Super Dungeon Explore game, and all the people who just let me hover over them as they played.

Also to Kit, thanks for hanging out, dinner at the Ram, (thank all those guys when you get together to play next include Daphne)  all the tweeting and posting and introductions I had a blast hanging out with you. To the guys at the tweet up thanks for all the work that made that possible.

Steven Russel from Rite Publishing it was good seeing you over lunch. Ryan from EnPublishing I wish I could have seen the game played on the map you printed out.

A big  thanks to my friend Shane who went out there with me. Though he did pick a hotel that we are pretty sure is slated to be demolished as soon as the weekend was over.

I hope I covered everything, if I left you out let me know.

Last I’d like to thank my wife for letting me go and being so supportive. Not only that but spending the weekend cleaning and moving the girls playroom downstairs so I could move my playroom upstairs. You are awesome.

Coming soon… More tokens! I have 30 custom character tokens to make before the end of the month.. if possible. A couple other custom tokens too.

Thanks for stopping by.

-D

 

Vehicles and Ships

A while back in May or June Jonathan Roberts an amazing cartographer and great guy asked if I could help him finish a set of vehicles and other assorted things for a job he had taken on for Profantasy. I accepted and ended up making quite a few vehicles, some textures and some objects. I hadn’t had a chance to post them til now.
This week I’m finishing up a series of ship maps for EnWorld Publishing. This set contains 13 ships used in their Admiral o’ the High Seas – Naval Adventures project. The ships come in an at a glance view, battle map sized maps and as tokens for moving around a game board. This was a large project that has put me about a week behind in my other projects, so if you have been waiting for a custom token I should be getting to those soon.

Lastly I’m in the process of finalizing my kickstarter which will launch on the first. It still has a few tweaks to be made. Thanks for looking.

 

 

A couple tokens

I am currently working on a token request of 20 tokens. It includes some good ones like Gnolls and the ones I have below. It’s to all over the place to be a set, but the parts will make a good start for several themed sets.

I’m also close to wrapping up the WHM illustration which I’ll post if I have permission to do so.

I’m also throwing in some maps that I am doing for EN Publishing for the their Zeitgeist adventure line.

 

 

April Art

Here are a bunch of tokens I made that I’m calling Hybrid tokens. The are part animal part humanoid. They could work in futuristic or even fantasy settings. The idea of taking a lot of character tokens and adding animal heads could lead to a new and large token pack.

I also finished up a map project for Dan, you saw some early iso graphic sketches in a previous post. Here in these shots I have them colored and in place on the map. I enjoyed making these and will probably do more structural work in Cararra (3d app) before finalizing them. Unfortuanately I have so much on my plate that I was forced to work through this really quickly.

Thanks for coming by, I hope to have some more to show you guys soon, just waiting on some permissions.

 

 

 

Map places: the sketches

I’m starting a map soon for a small fantasy realm, I’ve sketched up some of the major settlements. I usually don’t post my sketches, but I thought it might be nice to post these and then follow up with some finished ones, then what they look like when on the map.

 

A new map

Here is a map I finished for Headless Hydra Games I will probably end up doing quite a bit more from them. This isn’t the final, but close.

I counted up the number of jobs I have lined up right now, it’s somewhere over 10. 3-4 map jobs, 3-4 token jobs and a few illustration and layout jobs. Needless to say I’m going to be busy for at least a month. At the end of this set of jobs though I should have a few more sets of tokens to release on my store. Some Sci-Fi and some fantasy.

 

Thanks for stopping by and for the comments, I appreciate them even if I don’t get around to responding to all of them.

 

Mid-February

Well February is half over already. It’s been pretty good so far. I have a couple new jobs lined up. The usual new custom tokens and out of the blue got a book cover gig for a small press book. This job came from the reference of a great guy up in Canada. David S. tried to help me keep Four Ugly Monsters going for a while, he was a huge part of the last couple FUMcons. So big thanks to him.

I’ll also get to flex the brain matter a bit by helping Gamewick Games in cleaning up their logos. I’m also working on a map project for a guy in Europe, I will have more info as I get further into that project and take the time to collect the links and names to do the job justice.

Good things recently include watching “The Walking Dead” and a great night out with my wife and girls at Logan’s Steakhouse.Also a new record in visits to the blog… 200+ yeah It’s not way up there but it’s the highest so far so I am happy. I also met with fellow Cartographer MMMMMMMPig for cheesecake.. the delicious kind at the Cheesecake Factory to talk about maps and other things.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope to have some new images to show off next time.

 

Map Set

Here is a set of maps I finished up a couple weeks ago. The guy who commissioned these may want to eventually release them as a set. They were made to be printed 36″x24″.

I’ll be starting another set of maps in the near future for another project. I’ll have more info on that project later.

 

January Wrap Up

I have for the most part finished a set of 11 maps for Patrick who is currently running his gaming group through the adventure. I’ll post one now and more later. I think Patrick wanted to make the maps available in a pack with his book which describes his game and thoughts behind being a DM.

I’m also wrapping up a series of images that will be used as part of Rite Publishings “Fold-n-Go” line of paper minis. It’s been a lot of fun to work on.

If I get some free time in early Feb I’ll work on putting together the “Frozen North” token pack.

 

Happy New Year.

2011 was a busy and great year. I accomplished a lot, started more stuff than I could finish, and still had time for the best friends and family a guy could ask for.

I just finished a set of Tarek tokens, (Dark Sun Orcs) for Dale. I also set the 12th cover for Pathways magazine for Rite Publishing. I don’t have tiny versions of all the covers handy by maybe I’ll put together a little pic of all 12. One of them even features one of my illustrations.

I have the maps to work on now, and the client is ok with me posting some teaser images of them, which I will do once I have them cleaned up just a bit more.

To everyone who purchased tokens in 2011-2012 and those that have signed up to follow my blog: I am working on finishing up the “Giants” tokem pack, I will send those out to everyone after they are done. Next on the list for tokens is to complete the “Frozen North” token pack, if there is something you need that fits that pack let me know.

Thanks to everyone who stops by to read, and for everyone who supports my token work. Thanks.