SKETCH-OF-THE-DAY 100!!!

With a little surge in posts not seen since the early days of my draw-blog, I made my way to Sketch-of-the-day 100! And it only took me about 500+ days to get to that number. Wow. Bad.

I wish I had something more grand to display for this momentous occasion - but, considering the jobs I have beating down on my schedule like a silverback, this is all I had time for - a modest random-sketchbook-doodle. Enjoy!

Oh yeah, and since plugging my book of pencil drawings hasn't gotten a plug in a while - I will take the time to plug my book: Buy my book! Seriously. Do it. Your life can't possibly be complete without it.

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This is an oldy I dug out of a folder of D&D miniature designs that was still lingering on my computer. Ugh - age does not serve many of my D&D miniature drawings very well - but some of them do retain some fun and flair. This one is fairly nice - even if it does look like she has no left arm. The miniature came out nice, too.

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PROPELLERS!!!

In other news, Studio Rottface has moved to Dublin, Ohio! So all y'all Magic: The Gathering folk out there that like to send cards for signing would be advised to e-mail me first (steve2@rottface.com) lest your cards go to my old studio location. Which is now a deep chasm with a river of bewitched magma at the bottom.

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Will I break the 100 entry mark before the end of the year? These days, that seems to be asking a lot. While everyone else was having fun and taking vacations, I spent the Summer slogging through a long chain of decidedly UNfun days - all revolving around the profoundly stressful project of cleaning and "staging" one house for selling, looking for, finding, and buying a new house, and then MOVING into the new house. Now, living amidst boxes, I can say that the worst is over - unfortunately, so is Summer!

I celebrate my melancholy over a lost season by posting a random sketchbook page that I doodled out in some Renton hotel room at the very beginning of Summer so many moons ago....

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Dogs? Not slavering hounds from planes of evil and chaos - but silly ol' dogs? That's right - just when you think I'm going to go fastball high and tight, I throw a change-up and make you look silly. And what's with the baseball analogy?

Anyways, yes - dogs. A good friend wanted to get a little sumthin special for her beau so she requested a drawing of the four dogs that they share their lives with. In a very rare occurrence, I worked directly from photographs - *gasp*! - and exaggerated some of the their features ever so slightly to emphasize character.

This was a fun little side project. But don't expect a series of sketchy dog portraits now though.

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"My Wish is Your Command" is another piece for a Archenemies Magic: The Gathering card. Along with the previous post's "Fauna Shaman", this is one of the most fun pieces I have done for the acclaimed collectable card game. The drawing I am particularly fond of mainly because it took so long to get to. I must have went through a dozen or so iterations of this awkward concept before something finally clicked. Someday soon I will post to final painting but for now, enjoy the pencils!

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Leading up to GenCon, I thought I'd chuck a Magic: The Gathering drawing up on the ol' drawblog. This drawing is for "Fauna Shaman" and the finished painting (which you can see over at ROTTFACE NEWS) is one of my favorite that I have done for Magic. Yeah, you can argue that maybe it isn't my best piece - but a lot of the feelings I have for my artwork comes from how much fun I had creating it. In the case of Fauna Shaman, I had loads of fun.

In fact, I knew going in that this would be a fun painting so I made it a much bigger image than necessary. The cropline for the actual card art is roughly through the middle of Mr. Toad.

Anyway, if you're wondering what my status is for GenCon, again, go on over to ROTTFACE NEWS and waste some more time reading my writings!