Played with some new methods and process stuff. space base also re using paintings blah blah. Try to post more things soon however in a big moving point at the moment. the beginning of June i'll be moving to London to work at MPC, really exciting, and i hope to keep a sketchbook of my move on my sketchbook blog, so, wish me luck and thanks again for all the positive feedback! cheers

Who's excited about the new book for Song of Ice and Fire!! im super pumped!

some new illustrations done for Tor.com, twisted throne in post apocalyptic Iceland, and native american mercenaries in Ireland around 1000 a.d. really fun to do:)

did a norn wall paper for guildwars 2, you can download it here:)

Norn wallpaper guildwars 2-link

A little style check i did for D&D, super fun:)

did i promotional piece for guildwars 2 april fools, a commando class wallpaper:)

some work done for Random House, unreleased project, a version with-out the map and they wanted me to add a map with it torn to reveal the character.

I know it has been awhile, i have new work but have been extremely busy with side things such is life.
However i was very lucky this year to win gold in Spectrum this year with this piece.
last year i didnt get anything in the book and this year gold...
Felt pretty good:)

Spectrum Winners.

thank you all for all the positive feedback! paint from today

sword and the stone paint tonight.

speed paint. thanks for all the feed back guys!

speed painter sketch thingy

play paint.

little competition with my friend ryan demita, were doing a space gangster are thing:)

heres a link to a "making of GuildWars 2 Cinematics" some idea of what were doing, and what i've been working on, and a couple of illustrations from the cinematic you'll see. I split up the fly through to show the different shots i had in mind, it was pretty intense one, working with like 250 layers or something kinda lost my mind:) hope you enjoy! cheers!

Guildwars 2 Making of cinematics

painting from last night, working on controlling my values more:)

headed to comic con!! boo ya

Me and Kekai Kotaki will be at comic con next week signing GW 2 art books on Friday and saturday at 1:45 to 2:30, and also i'll be at the booth signing the Ghost of Ascalon cover from 1:00 to 1:45. Please stop by whom ever is going to be there and get a book! cheers!

some GW art of mine made the cover of PC gameplay magazine in germany! thought that was pretty cool :)

little sketches after work.

Little drawing i did for tenbills.com

thanks a bunch for all the comments! got some more stuff to show.

Also i started a new sketch blog for just my sketch book stuff, i felt like i wanted to have one with just paintings and such and didnt want to dirty it up with crappy sketchbook stuff :) so for people interested in sketchbook stuff heres the link:

http://flapssketchbook.blogspot.com/

I'll be updating it a lot more, since it's a sketchbook i wont worry about the good and the bad:)
hope u like and let me know what ya think!

cheers

rich

something that i've had for a bit, thought i would throw it up.

Playing with process, and found some awesome pictures on flickr of old samurai stuff, so felt compelled to try one:)
thanks for all the comments too!