Although an unnatural obsession with construction toys dominates the majority of my work, I've been known to occasionally paint more traditional subjects. (Traditional for middle-school fantasy nerds, that is.)

Nelson's Blood (2007)

Chupacabra Bob is back from vacation and enjoying a drop of the Dragon's Landing Inn house specialty. If only he'd thought to tell everyone where he was going before he left.

Envy (2006)

Princess Envy escapes the pomp of high Elf society by dressing up as a peasant and sneaking out to hit the town. A standard tradition among the spoiled elite from time immemorial, and harmless enough, except for all the murdering.

Beholder Beach (2006)

Monsters have to work on their tans too, especially ones who are genetically obsessed with their own appearance. On the placid sands of Beholder Beach, one unlucky beholder gets caught in a Coppertone moment when his tanning is interrupted by a hot day's knight.

Also on this page: the story of how I finally got into Dragon Magazine. Sort of.

Dante's Horses (2005)

Dante's Horses appear in a scene from E.M. Forster's short story, "The Celestial Omnibus," in which Dante's carriage is pulled through the heavens by a terrifying trio of undead horses.

Also on this page: additional "The Celestial Omnibus" development material and scenes from an earlier animation treatment we'd done in 2002.

Cats and Lizards Development Sketches (2002)

Development sketchbooks for Cats and Lizards, a story in which kingdoms of cat and lizard creatures fight a war as the universe winds to a close.

Lizard Creature Design (2002)

Creature design for the lizards of the Cats and Lizards project, including development sketches and a sculpture of lizard anatomy.

Shadowbane (2002)

In 2002 I'd heard some bits and pieces of the story for Ubisoft's then-upcoming massively multiplayer game "Shadowbane," and I thought it sounded cool enough to paint a picture.

New American Gothic (2002)

New American Gothic is the most fine-artsy piece on the site, an ostentatious display of strong patriotic symbols and slapdash oil painting techniques, so I gave it a pretentious title and it actually gained some notoriety as a serious piece of art.

Of course the true fact of the matter is that it was just some quick study I did as a random classroom exercise, so I can't help but laugh.

Figure Studies

Just because every portfolio's got to have some or nobody takes you seriously, here it is: a big pile of figure studies.

For those of you who've never been to art school, let me just warn you. By the time you graduate and make it out the other side, you are really, really tired of looking at naked people.