This is relevant pieces from Shinobi Clans, my first published card game that I illustrated in full. From this project, I was hired to work on Legend of the Five Rings. My comic work came after that. I did 50 paintings in a span of roughly 3 months, with a one month burnout in the middle. So about 4 months in total. These are roughly in the order in which I did them.
2013 /
2013 was a lot of character art commissions, a lot of comic cons, and the end of 2013 saw my first art rep trying to take advantage of me. He worked for the CGC so he drilled me for sketch covers, pushed the amount of work i did instead of the quality of work I did. I dropped him in the beginning of 2014 when I found him flipping my sketch covers on ebay for double the amount lol. So there's a lot of sketch covers in this work, which didn't work so well for the actual quality of my work and I had a hard time dealing with the actual quality of my work and came to hate that i couldn't push myself to my full potential because of the paper i was forced to work on for the sketch cover collectors. I think this is where general dissatisfaction with my work began and when I started chasing a certain idea of what my work could be. Before then, it'd always developed organically instead of me striving toward a greater end. The beginning of 2013 was finishing paintings I'd started before Shinobi Clans and being awed by how different I was technically, finding myself in a completely different mental and physical space finishing the paintings than when I'd started.
LAMB (the same character I was working on at the workshop, with the green lighting lol) watercolor, ink, gouache
LEGENDARY watercolor, ink, gouache, gold leaf
TRICKS OF THE TRADE watercolor, ink, gouache
WISP watercolor, ink, gouache
ECHO OF LIGHT watercolor, ink, gouache
MY OLD MAN IS A BAD MAN watercolor, ink, gouache
He casts another shadow || watercolor, ink, gouache
5HT watercolor, ink, gouache
From Blood || watercolor, ink, gouache
Villain || watercolor, ink, gouache
& the light fainted || watercolor, ink, gouache
Honey || watercolor, ink, gouache
Our Beautiful Mess || watercolor, ink, gouache
This is a gift, it comes with a price || watercolor, ink, gouache
2014 /
2014 was more of the same, although I was free from sketch covers and began my first large paintings in late 2014, going from a typical size of 10x14 to my biggest painting to date at 22x30 (The White Crow. That took the last 3 months of 2014 LOL). It was also the first painting that I didn't ink the outlines on, which I would start pursuing through 2015. 2014 was also when my first comic covers were commissioned-- the same large painting for Aspen Comics, immediately followed by a query from DC comics for Justice League America. I also began working my first cards for L5R in late 2014.
Take me Over \\ watercolor, ink, gouache
Vaporous \\ watercolor, ink, gouache
The Song you Sing \\ watercolor, ink, gouache
Dimmest Hour of Day \\ watercolor, ink, gouache
she built a house in the darkness \\ watercolor, ink, gouache
i'll send a storm \\ watercolor, ink, gouache
protectorate \\ watercolor, ink, gouache
summoner \\ watercolor, ink, gouache
the white crow \\ watercolor, gouache, acrylic
wonder woman character test \\ watercolor, ink, gouache