I made a lot of things in 2023 and I now it’s 2024 so I have to remember back all the way to the beginning of 2023 which is at least 100 years ago but I’m gonna try:
I got to make some merchandise for my favorite hamburger spot! The folks that run this place are the absolute best and drawing a burger might be my new favorite thing. I should do more food illustration.
Brian! The Cataclysmic Engine- Okay technically this happened in 2022 but I didn’t PHYSICALLY HOLD a copy of it until 2023 so I’m counting it there. I love this album so much and it feels extremely cool to make art for an album that you love so much. I listened to it the whole time I was drawing the art for it and I still enjoy both looking at and listening to it. You should go buy a copy for yourself or at least stream them because it rules.
Freelancers: A Crossroads Game- So this was in production since 2022 but was actually finished in 2023 and released! This is my first board game project that has been produced on a large scale and it’s extremely cool and I really like playing it. I’ve played 2 of the many available campaigns and I really enjoy it’s sense of humor and laid back nature. It’s a great time for folks who have some familiarity with TTRPGs but also I think accessible enough to play if you don’t. This project was probably the largest I’ve worked on yet- here’s some of my favorite pieces from it:
2023 also had me guesting on Between Two Cairns! After listening to a few episodes I got in touch with them to offer my services as a sticker designer and now I am somehow an occasional guest for talking about old RPG modules. These things just happen. I ended up making a zine about Steading of the Hill Giant Chieftain after we talked about it, here’s a few images from that-
Here’s the sticker (you’ll get one if you subscribe to their patreon)-
Barkeep on the Borderlands won an Ennie! It was very kind of W.F Smith to send all the contributors medals for it, I can officially brag about being an Ennie winner now (I know everyone says they don’t care about the Ennies but as someone who has a medal I now care about them a lot, funny how that works)
I finished my first comic! It was a project that sprung out of the NSFW end of my Patreon (my patreon is currently paused because busy but I’m working on making the rest of the content there into something easier to buy) It’s a steamy story about a couple going on vacation for some much needed relaxation called Island Vacation. I’m currently laying out chapter two, and I’m pretty excited to do more.
I’m trying to expand my print library and the pieces I managed to turn into risographs came out really great I think. I’m already working on more in fact. I’m finally going to continue the b/x character class series that I started a few years ago with the Thief print. Next up is the Cleric!
I managed to actually play some D&D in 2023 as well. Nick over at Underworld Adventurer has been running an amazing megadungeon campaign since 2020 and one of the things I love about it is how many artists play in it and make all sorts of great work about the setting and their characters. Here are a few of my contributions to that-
I have enough work from this now that I think I might try and compile it all into a zine- I want to start putting more things together as one of purchases or downloads, I think its cooler that way and relies less on getting people to subscribe to something or get a new social media app in order to see work that I make. I think having stuff like this bundled together and available to just download might be the way to go (print also but that takes a bit more time and money)
I’m running out of steam because this post became enormous, but I’ll leave you with a few more things I worked on. I’ve been doing a lot of work that I think of as sort of just “worldbuilding” that I use for my home games and like to post on instagram. I think it would be cool to put it all together eventually for a kind of Lore/Setting book, because ultimately that’s the thing I like about the hobby the most. Thanks for looking! Enjoy-
