Fantasy Art for Beginners

On the First of November my book on creating fantasy art for beginners hits the streets. It is full of non threatening, easy to follow ways to draw and paint your favourite fantasy fings! The first half is gently introduced theory, aimed at absolute beginners, and then the second half is a series of step by step walkthroughs of 6 paintings of favourite fantasy subjects. All in an easily approachable art style for beginners. Rather than me just letting rip at it in my usual manner...

Here's some Amazon links!:

UK chums: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fantasy-Art-Beginners-STEP-STEP/dp/160061342X

US chums: http://www.amazon.com/Fantasy-Art-Beginners-Jon-Hodgson/dp/160061342X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1255595696&sr=8-1-fkmr0

Canadian chums: http://www.amazon.ca/Fantasy-Art-Beginners-Jon-Hodgson/dp/160061342X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255595724&sr=8-1-spell

Career High Point.

So whilst on holiday I happened upon a bottle of ale for which I painted the label art, (over another unknown artist's pencils). I was never sent samples by the client, so I snapped this one up. Last in the shop!

Scotch Corner prize arrives

So I don't know if you've been following Scotch Corner - a group blog put on by a group of Scottish/Scotland based artists? In August we ran a contest to win a print of my "Dragon Rein" image. The winner was Brian, who works in the Ukraine as part of the Peace Corps, teaching kids there English. He felt such a print might inspire his kids to read more. What could we do? Of course he was the winner, and the print, along with some bonus extras was duly despatched. We recently heard that the parcel had arrived, and here's the kids with the work!



Great stuff.

Faces in the Smoke

Another cover for my friends over at Cubicle 7, this time for their rather good Victoriana line



And you can click this for a bigger view:

Mountain Boy Prints

So I'm offering a limited run of ten of this print:


The prints come on heavy 230gsm stock, and measure 120mm x 40mm. £50 including postage and packing to anywhere on people world.

Each print will be signed and numbered. I've already taken some orders (awaiting confirmation so can't give precise figures right now), so if you do want one, don't wait. Drop me an email, or a comment here for more details on how to get one.

Edit: The first batch arrived. That's a big print!

Derro

So Paizo are using one of my quarter pagers as a cover here.

Here's the original.

(C)2009 Paizo

Done for the day

Done for the day: