BrikWars is a tongue-in-cheek wargame, designed for taking the most congenial and innocent construction-toy figures and plunging them into the darkest depths of the most horrifying forms of violence. But don't feel too bad for them - they're construction toys, pop their body parts back together and they're as good as new.

I've made piles and piles of artwork and illustrations for BrikWars over the years, which eventually helped me land my concept design job at LEGO. However, it's important to note that BrikWars itself is completely unrelated to LEGO and is not a LEGO-specific game. For more information about BrikWars, please visit http://www.brikwars.com.

Artwork for the BrikWars Tenth Anniversary Edition (2006)

The web release of BrikWars' Tenth Anniversary Edition required a whole pile of artwork, some pieces scraped together and retrofitted from years of previous material, and a whole bunch slapped together from scratch over the course of the last year. Here's a page of some of the highlights.

BrikWars! (2003)

This epic piece, showing universal BrikWars warfare from every era and genre, would be the ultimate painting - except for the inexplicable exclusion of giant robots. Other than that unfortunate omission, it's the most popular BrikWars painting to date, one that I'd love to sell as a poster, if only it weren't for those nagging trademark issues.

Also on this page: Development sketches for the painting.

The Dread Pirate Two-By-Two (2005)

For the 2005 edition of BrikWars, we thought we ought to finally consider an icon that wouldn't leave us open to trademark-violation lawsuits, so the Spaceman got discreetly moved to an interior illustration while we developed a new icon for the cover. The result: The Dread Pirate Two-By-Two, the scourge of the construction-toy seas.

Also on this page: The Thong of the Dread Pirate Two-By-Two. Seriously.

BrikThulhu Rising (2005)

BrikWars has a unique philosophy of glorifying cheerful violence and happy-go-lucky mayhem for their own sakes, and it's spawned a number of distinctive religions among the construction-toy populace. The most iconic figure in construction-brick religious practice is that of BrikThulhu, the octopus-headed god of disorder.

Also on this page: the many icons and insigniae of BrikThulhu's associated cults.

The Deadly Spaceman (2001)

The Deadly Spaceman has been BrikWars' official mascot since the first edition in 1995, getting a new portrait with each new edition. This was the painting for the 2001 ruleset.

Also on this page: The Nefarious Nega-Bloktrix, the Spaceman's antithetical adversary, who appeared in 2005.