*Ironshod

I'm busy making preparations for next week when *RalphHorsley and I will be attending and exhibiting our artwork in the art show of Indy Gencon, in the USA. This would be a lot easier but for the fact that we live in the UK! Getting ourselves and all our art to the show is quite a challenge. Plus of course we now have our 1 year old son Leo to bring along too.

I am sure we will all have a good time. It is a really huge convention and the art show has nearly 100 artists exhibiting their work. I am really looking forward to catching up with other artist friends of ours that will be going. I hope Leo will be ok on the plane. He is generally a very happy outgoing little boy and so I think he will enjoy his holiday in America.

If you are going to the show, do stop by and say hi

Yey! the 2009 calendar of my dragon artworks goes on sale today! I have posted the calendar layout as a Deviation


The calendar features 12 of my dragon artworks including

Along with the illustrations, each month has a quotes from Beowulf, Shakespeare, legends, and fairy tales.

Available for only $12.99 from US publisher Llewellyn [link]

or if you are in the UK (or Europe) and use Paypal you might prefer to order it from my own web site shop [link]

Go buy one now!!!

I have re-designed and updated my web site. It now has a wider format to allow for the new images to be shown a little larger than before. You can check it out at [link]

So heres a question for the technically minded amongst you

This image [link] is no longer appearing in my gallery. The thumnb nail just appears for me as a red x but when you click on it you get the full view. Any ideas why that is?

There maybe others but I haven't checked them all.

Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition has been released! I'll be posting some of the artwork that I did for the core rule books here on DA over the next few days/weeks. I was really happy to have been able to work on this project. Wizards of the Coast are a great company to work for and I have been a fan of the game for many years. I remember studying the artworks of Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley in the D&D editions that I had when I was a teenager and wishing that one day I could work as an artist like them. They are both true masters of fantasy art.

You can also see some great images that Ralph did for the D&D books in his DA gallery *RalphHorsley