A year ago today I took a hard left turn in life, risking my family’s financial and emotional stability to change jobs, from a government desk drone to a factory shift worker. Luckily the bet paid off!
This idea came six days later, and seemed very unlikely. Not miserable. Zany even. Some other intense ideas lapped past. But I made it the wallpaper on my phone and kept looking at it.
Partly inspired by the cover of the 2nd edition AD&D Monster Manual II, shaped by a crazy reference photo mockup, and finishing in a hot streak of days off during the brewery holiday shutdowns. I love the final work, one of the few full background drawings I’ve ever done, but there’s still something about the raw pencil that gets lost along the way.
By accident it was finished for this anniversary, and hopefully in time to be included in an exhibition at the venue…
