Saint Aurora is not amused. This is a painting I made as a demo in my color theory class today. I was teaching the kids about paint mixing and skin tones. She’s my previous D&D campaign character, a level 25 paladin. She became a baroness, a bannerette, a general, a saint, and eventually a god. Also, she rode a flying unicorn as her paladin mount. Ridiculous. Painting is 16” x 20” in Golden acrylics on canvas paper.
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I made a painting for my friend Amy. She plays a Druid in our newest campaign and wanted a picture of her Mayan inspired elven druid with her dinosaur animal companion. Golden acrylics on canvas board, approximately 11” x 14” in size.
League of Legends is having a contest again. They want you to make a My Little Pony of a character. I know Spike isn’t a pony or a bronie but it works for Shyvana.
I made a portrait of Tom Morrison for our old D&D game. His character, Javert (a rogue), was turned into a half dragon. I made the shadowed section of his face into the half dragon. I think it turned out pretty well. 11”x14” on canvas board, golden brand acrylics.
Direct Painting Photoshop Tutorial, flying goldfish for no reason. You can get the desktop version here: http://margaretpoplin.com/direct-painting-photoshop-tutorial/
SXSW Badge. :)
Yep, this is why I miss pretty much everyone who works at Inkhead, because they’re fun and awesome nerds with a great sense of humor.
Something silly I made for work.
My new cards have arrived just in time for SXSW. I wish the border had been cleaner but that’s what I get for a rush order I guess. Antique laid paper in ivory with black thermographic ink, the pictures don’t do them justice. :)
I am headed to SXSW in Austin, Texas tomorrow night. If you’re in the area and want to say hello just click on my contact information above. I am really excited to meet new people and network with all the Interactive folks! I think it is going to be a blast. Hope to see you there!
This is a finished piece for a show in New York called Utopia. You can go sarcastic or hopeful. I went for the no people route because I don’t think human beings (at our current level of civilization) are capable of creating a Utopia together. I hope that changes but right now an ideal world may be one with little or no people after a much needed population reboot. Happy thoughts right?
Finished Gragas painting for Riot Games’ “Art of Revelry” contest for Chinese New Year. I painted Gragas as the Buddha with a Sapphire Mana Crystal. Top prizes are Alienware laptops, so wish me luck! There are some really great submissions from far more talented artists on there but not a whole lot of traditional media. This is Golden acrylics on canvas board, approx 14” by 17” in size.
Goofy but fun typography project I did for my vis com typography class, breaking up the monotony of the history of type and lectures on usage (which I enjoy but not everyone does). This is from my tutorial. Students were allowed to use any font to create a self portrait of themselves. They could copy, scale, flip, or rotate the letters but the could not warp or skew them. This is what I came up with using just Apple Chancery.
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Laurent Durieux’s The Iron Giant poster.
Lord of the Rings
by Frank Frazetta
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true story…
