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Mushroom Princess

I felt a need to return to a sort of dark fairytale style. I wanted to draw someone with mushrooms and ended up doodling a woman wearing a mushroom tiara and plan to make the recap mushroom the main theme…

Queenly sketch

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WIP: Cyberpunk Queen

The title might change based on the end result. I start with a concept and sometimes that idea swerved when I work on personal artwork because my main goal with these pieces to explore. My attempt with this piece is…

Night Forest Queen

I started this acrylic painting a year ago and I finally finished it a few weeks ago. I started this piece when Quarantine was just starting. With no conventions in the near future, I had much more free time to…

Artwork for my D&D game: Barbie

Here is another character from the D&D game I’m in with Clint (writer of Zombie Ranch). This is Barbie, the Dragonborn Paladin who was raised by elves, loves nature and especially pretty flowers. We’re still working on finalizing the podcasts.…

Speed Drawing: Zombie Ranch Sketch

I am preparing the Art of Dawn online store and our other websites (Zombie Ranch and Lab Reject Studios) for the WonderCon@Home event this weekend. So this week I did a sketch for a promo image to help promote and…

Morning After Girl’s Night

This is a scene from the D&D game that I’m currently playing a Dwarf noblewoman. Before this moment, we captured a goblin and planned on interrogating him. But Brussalyn (my character) thought that it might be better to befriend than…

Artwork for my D&D game: Sylmaris

I have shown some artwork relating to my character in a D&D game I’m a part of. Now I’m starting to draw out the other characters in my party. Staring with the tallest; Sylmaris the Firbolg fighter. We are working…

Tis the Season!

I wanted to give you something for the holiday season this year and being an artist, my usual way of expressing thank you is through artwork. May next year be a good one for you all. For now, I hope…

King Sketch

Real quick sketch I did for the Dungeons & Dragons game I’m in. I needed a King and thought about just grabbing some generic artwork of some king, but caved in and decided to draw him instead.

Alien themed Halloween wreath.

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Witch’s Brew

A 4×6 inch quick acrylic painting. Products and prints with this artwork are now available in the Lab Reject Redbubble store:   I really like how this Art Board Print looks. Hoping you are all having a fun and spooky…

WIP Painting: Dark Forest Queen

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Sketch

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Oracle Sketch

I got some acrylic ink and was excited to test it out. So I grabbed my pen nibs, water cup, and brushes to see how it worked. I like how it flowed on the nib and was a nice dark…

WIP: Painting

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D&D Character Sketches

Clint and I were recently invited to play a D&D 5e game. I decided to make a warlock Dwarf, which means I put a lot of points into Charisma. I always like to play that my Dwarf women have beards,…

WIP Painting

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Modern fae

Did a little drawing of a fairy. Thought about doing the whole fantasy fairytale dress, but decided to go a more modern route.

WIP: Painting The Background

I always start with the background because a teacher suggested doing that. Saying something along the lines of “the background will help you determine how you plan on painting the foreground”. So it’s how I start some paintings.

Update & trial painting

Sorry for not posting for a while here. My part-time day job is helping college instructors learn how to teach their courses online. It has been a very busy time recently. I’ve also been updating my website and adding a…

WIP: Coloring a Character

For a while now, I’ve wanted to learn how to improve how I shade characters. My current problem is that I tend to spend too much time shading a character, but the quick ways I’ve learned haven’t achieved the look…