Mouse guard

This weekend I'll be a guest at the Boston Comic Con. I'll be donating this new 16" x 20" Mouse Guard watercolor to their art auction. After Bob Shaw, art dealer and co-organizer of the Boston Con, saw my HEROES auction piece, he asked if I could fit something special in for their auction too. This piece follows a similar process to the HEROES piece, though on a more reasonable scale, and today's blogpost is all about sharing that process. The first step was coming up with a composition. I…

Today we celebrate the brilliance of David Petersen and his epic creation, Mouse Guard. For those of you have yet to discover these graphic novels and games, David brings us into the complex and beautiful world of intelligent mice and their navigations through social, political, and personal upheav

Mouseguard Stjepan by David Petersen

This weekend I’ll be a guest at the Lake Como Comic Art Festival: https://www.lccaf.com/ They will publish a folio of art pieces done by the guests and made available at the convention. You can see my finished piece here and below I’ll show the process of creating the piece. For the layout, I wanted to include some architecture found in Lake Como. I happened upon a photo of a terrace with an amazing tile floor and used it for reference (though I did have to alter the scale of the roof and…

We talk to Wes Ball about the virtual production on Mouse Guard

Inst: @theconceptartworld Mouse Guard concept sketches by @darekzabrocki (inst)

Back in the March 2021 Onlinecon, I invited comic artist and creator of 'Mae' Gene Ha on to go through his Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard story: 'Worley & The Mink' with Lowell Francis from volume 1. Together Gene and I go page by page of his story to get his thoughts and process. Enjoy! Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/W2pMocAycOA

Mouse Guard

With the 2nd Edition of the Mouse Guard RPG coming, I created new art not only for the Hardcover Rulebook, but also for the new Boxed Set. This boxed set (like the last one) will contain the rulebook in softcover, a GM screen, Dice, Cards, Character Sheets, a map, and a supplement book. For this week's blogpost I'm showing my process for creating the artwork for the 2nd Edition Boxed Set box. I wanted this new art to catch up with the three mice show on the original boxed set artwork. Having…

This year I'm releasing a Mouse Guard 2023 Calendar. I'll be taking copies with me to Baltimore and selling them through my Online Store. I created seven new pieces of artwork specifically for the calendar (even numbered months mainly). The new pieces were all drawn at 12" x 12" (the size of the Calendar itself) To the left you can see the final art piece for October. I didn't want to do a spooky October piece, but I did think it should have a pumpkin in it, so I came up with a lantern-lit…