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If John Watkiss read the book (see yesterday's post), Ken Kelly read the title.

The cover depicts Dark Agnes de Chastillon.

The Sunset Warrior was one of my favorite books as a teenager, but I thought its sequels had diminishing returns. Anyone read this one?

Hi everyone! I wanted to share this scene featuring 4 characters in a personal homage to Frazetta's Death Dealer.

Here is the quick lore behind the piece:

• Death Dealer: Seeking to settle pending scores with Captain Migueles.
• The Herald of the Dawn: Acting as a mediator between them.
• The Great White Stag: A symbol of the gods' purity and justice on Earth.
• Captain Migueles: An unfortunate soldier of the Spanish Tercios, fleeing from his fate.

Commission Info: I am currently open for commissions! If you are looking to bring your characters, book covers, or fantasy scenes to life, feel free to reach out.

One of the incredible things about society being broken is you get incredible artists doing commercial work. I always felt like Ian Miller was too good to be doing backgrounds for Ralph Bakshi movies, scenes for the Tolkien Bestiary, illustrations for Games Workshop or Magic, the Gathering cards. Yet, there he was… I suppose that begs the question of what else should he have done? I always felt like he & John Blanche would have liked to be gallery artists - but the world of fantasy art, specifically the British one was open to their vision in a way that the gallery world wasn’t. Of course, this is all supposition on my part… but i think I’m right.

Burroughs described Thoris as "destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked..." Which is not going to work for a pose like this. Enric also took liberties with her skin color, described in the books as "light reddish copper color." But I still think the painting works. Enric was like a sleek, theatrical cousin of Sanjulián.

This was done in 2o2o for @necroticgnome for OSE. Such a fun scene of gnomes fighting goblins in a cave. Strange how many projects I’ve worked on over the years somehow get lost in my mind until I go looking thru old piles of works. Do you see your own works sometimes and have to look twice to see if you actually drew it? Do you look at them and see how far ahead you were than you are now? Join the club! That’s art!

One of my favorite works this year.

The client wanted to immortalize the final moments of their D&D party. Defeat was inevitable, so the group made one last, completely ineffective act of defiance against the lich that had beaten them.

Sometimes the best stories don't come from victory.

Throwback Thursday post to a couple of Goblin acrylic paintings from 2016-17. Cheers!

An Orc warrior woman, standing tall and unshaken in the heart of the wild. With a battle-worn sword and an unbreakable spirit, she embodies power, resilience, and honor.

Harold Lamb is remembered now as the author of pulpy Sword and Sorcery precursor stories from the 1920s published in Adventure—but while he was alive he was best known as a midcentury popular historian. Alexander of Macedon was first published in 1946, and was still popular enough thirty years later to warrant a Ken Kelly cover.

From Imaginistix: Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell (2007).