Category: Portfolio
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Environment Design for Unannounced Solarpunk Game
Environment design exploring the possibility of using asset store models to populate the level without losing the worldbuilding and colour design. Created as a thorough guide for the level designer, including labeled assets and isolated colour palette information. We started with thumbnails painted from level blockout exploration to choose a location to build up: The…
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Blue Sky Environment Concept for unannounced solarpunk game from Peculiar Path
Blue sky ideation process for environment designs and world building for an unannounced game from Peculiar Path. The final image: The linework: Stages in the design process – we started with something fairly realistic, pushed it to extremely stylized, and ended up somewhere in the middle for the final.
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Impossible Landscape Concept for Project: Octopus Tales
When Ryan asked for a quick proof of concept sketch of a curving tube world with a whimsical, pastoral feel, I was happy to oblige! Shoutout to the beautiful O’Neill Cylinder concepts that NASA artist painted in the 60s and 70s for being very helpful in how to visually sell the concept. Art owned by…
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Lomy in the Abyss
Lomy in the Abyss is a humor webcomic about highschool and heavy metal at the turn of the millennium. You can read the archives on WealdComics.com
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Blood of the Paladin
Blood of the Paladin is a graphic novel memoir written by Jonathan Hill about his life living with hemophilia, and the way that Dungeons and Dragons helped him find the strength to fight. I contributed my art to the D&D sequences, which interspersed the memoir sequences drawn by Allison Conway. You can learn more and…
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Stranded – Digital Illustration, Character and Environment Designs
Inspired by the retro scifi themed album “Warp Riders” by The Sword, this piece is designed to be used in whole or in part. Here are some details:
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Portrait and Figure Studies
Studies from reference, exploring applying limited colour palettes and narrative composition choices to figure and portrait studies. Using Max Ulichney’s MaxPack brushes in Procreate; inspired by symbolist and post-impressionist painting, especially the works of Odilon Redon.
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Character Portrait – Smoking Out Back
This piece was painted using textural chalk and pastel brushes in Procreate.
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Sword and Sorcery Character Portrait
Inspired by symbolist painters.
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Marine Animal Illustrations
These were created for washcloths and other home goods for young kids, featuring friendly illustrations of a walrus, manta ray, salmon, humpback whale and jellyfish.
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Fantasy Playset Character Designs
Three characters and a fruit cart, designed to be compatible with the fantasy maps!
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Private Commission – Spacebear
Spacebear was drawn as a private commission for nursery pillows.
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Kids’ Playmap Design – Seven Odd Islands
Seven Odd Islands is a playmap designed for floor or wall display. It prints up at 36 x 54″.
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Kid’s Playmap Design – Realm of the River Dragon
The Realm of the River Dragon is a playmap designed for floor or wall display. It prints up at 36 x 54″. Below, see several compatible character designs.
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Retro Sci-Fi Cover Art for Necronautilus
This painting was created digitally in Procreate, for Adam Vass’s tabletop RPG Necronautilus, published by World Champ Game Co.! Adam created a beautiful mockup of the final cover layout: Here are a few details of the expressive digital brushwork:
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Wolfspell Album Art
Wolfspell, the game by Epidiah Ravachol, available here, is a tabletop RPG published in a 12″ x 36″ gatefold LP format. I did fully painted illustrations for both the outside and the inside of the game, featuring the players (the wolves) and the GM (Winter) in a nighttime and daytime view. The outside illustration, plus…
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The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra – Pocket Dungeon Zine & Pocket Pack
The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra is a system-agnostic, story-heavy dungeon crawl about a community recovering after disaster, and how a goddess might try to understand mortal grief. The village of Phylinecra was a tight-knit community of artists and creatives, until it suffered a devastating flood. In the aftermath, as the survivors try to salvage their…
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The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra – Cover Illustration
This piece was created as the front cover illustration for The Ghost Houses of Phylinecra, an RPG adventure about the strange processes of grief in a disaster-struck community. This piece was drawn initially in pencil on Arches cream rag paper, then scanned and digitally coloured.
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The Mammoth and the Namedealer – Watercolour Illustration
This illustration has been painted for Joshua A. C. Newman’s game The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze, and features characters from a short story I wrote for the text. It was painted on an 11 x 14″ piece of Arches 140lb Hot Press watercolour paper, using W&N and Daniel Smith watercolour pigments, and a little metallic gouache.
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The Isle of Pelursk
The Isle of Pelursk is a mixed media piece from 2018, inspired by the Canadian Shield, twisted pine forests and strange lights at dusk. Created in graphite and Photoshop.
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The Corruption of Pelursk – Pocket Dungeon Pack
The Corruption of Pelursk is a system-agnostic tabletop RPG hexcrawl/dungeon, written by Shel Kahn. The Isle of Pelursk holds a glowing, steaming, mist-shrouded secret at its heart, and once you’ve entered its clutches it does not want to let you leave. Designed to fit easily as a sidequest into an ongoing campaign or stand confidently…
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Lone Tree Crystal Island
Painted in gouache on watercolour paper, 5 x 7″, 2017
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Teaching Comics, Zine-making and Visual Literacy at OSF
In autumn 2017, I taught a four week comics course at the Oasis Skateboard Factory, an alternative highschool within the Toronto District Schoolboard. OSF has a project-focused curriculum, so our comic project was multifaceted, to approach multiple curriculum aspects. Over the course of the four weeks, we read Emily Carroll‘s Through the Woods, and Mike Mignola‘s…
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Teaching the Shahnameh via Dungeon World
In July 2016 I spent a week running a Dungeon World campaign as part of summer camp for 16 kids, aged 9-12, at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. This program made use of the museum’s collections in combination with crafts, storytelling and the tabletop role-playing game Dungeon World to teach campers about ancient Persia through the epic poem The…