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It's hard to believe I'm finally finished with this. This piece is without a doubt in my mind my Magnum Opus. My greatest work to date and hopefully a defining moment in my artistic career.

For a long time I’ve looked at my portfolio and seen art that showed what I was capable of in high school. It’s been a long time since I was in high school. -This- is what I’m capable of now.

This piece started as a sketch I did in about 15 minutes at Gencon last year while I was bored. My friend Rusty convinced me to show it to the art director for Privateer Press. He wasn’t very impressed. Well I think he was impressed that I wasn’t showing him a picture of Naruto or Vegeta or something and that I had a decent grasp of anatomy, but it wasn’t the response I desired. Looking through my portfolio he saw some on my early attempts at digital artwork. He liked one piece and recommended I work on that. I decided to hang onto my dire troll sketch and now 7 months later I’ve finally completed coloring it.

7 months? I certainly didn’t put that many hours into it. I’d guess I maybe have 30 hours tops. I had to battle a two year addiction to WoW. Well I’m happy to say I don’t play anymore so, God willing, you’ll be seeing some more art like this soon. I hope to be able to replace my old portfolio in a year or so, and who knows from there!

Trollbloods and Skorne are copyright of Privateer Press. www.privateerpress.com/

Description
It's hard to believe I'm finally finished with this. This piece is without a doubt in my mind my Magnum Opus. My greatest work to date and hopefully a defining moment in my artistic career.

For a long time I’ve looked at my portfolio and seen art that showed what I was capable of in high school. It’s been a long time since I was in high school. -This- is what I’m capable of now.

This piece started as a sketch I did in about 15 minutes at Gencon last year while I was bored. My friend Rusty convinced me to show it to the art director for Privateer Press. He wasn’t very impressed. Well I think he was impressed that I wasn’t showing him a picture of Naruto or Vegeta or something and that I had a decent grasp of anatomy, but it wasn’t the response I desired. Looking through my portfolio he saw some on my early attempts at digital artwork. He liked one piece and recommended I work on that. I decided to hang onto my dire troll sketch and now 7 months later I’ve finally completed coloring it.

7 months? I certainly didn’t put that many hours into it. I’d guess I maybe have 30 hours tops. I had to battle a two year addiction to WoW. Well I’m happy to say I don’t play anymore so, God willing, you’ll be seeing some more art like this soon. I hope to be able to replace my old portfolio in a year or so, and who knows from there!

Trollbloods and Skorne are copyright of Privateer Press. www.privateerpress.com/