aaronmiller

Dragon Wave!

Hi folks!

I just wanted to pop in to let you know the Patreon Member Shop has been updated with the Rhino Wave goodies. Check out the previous post for the password since I make almost all posts publi...

Guest Artist - Tim Taranto

I am incredibly excited to share our next Guest Artist with you, Tim Taranto! Probably better known as GoldSabertooth. I was scrolling through Twitter, as you do. And came across this beauty and I just had to reach out to see if being a Guest Artist was a pos...

Up Next: Rhino Wave!

I'm pretty excited to share the next token here. 

This is a portrait of Old Dent. 20 years of duty and Dent had received the honor of having his portrait added to the Gallery of Service.

There had just been a flurry of busy work over the last month where it seemed I hadn't even picked up a brush at all. Lots of drawing and plann...

Just a quick update.

Hey folks,

First, I wanted to update you on the current wave of mana tokens. All supplies are finally in and I should have all packs out by the end of the week. Except for the painted card, that patron knows it can take a while to get those done.

Second, I have the theme and painting actually done for the next wave which I will annou...

Custom sketches

Working on a few of these while in Denver for a short family visit.

More details soon as to what’s next. Rhino maybe? I’m feeling confident we will take May off. Give me time to figure out what I’m doing, catch up with back orders, and get a few more guests lined up.

I’ll be at Cherry City C...

Sketch Token - Colorless Mana

Hey everyone!

I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was filled with running, working, eating, and some D&D.

All the tokens have arrived for the previous wave and I'm working on getting them in the mail. I should have them all out by the end of the week.

Along with the tokens I got a test deck of Skwirl's Wildshape Cards ...

Chromatic Mana

Hi All!

I've had the painting complete for a while but I needed to get a Magic card done and photograph everything together. I'm excited to get this ready in frame. 

I'll also see what I can do to make a playmat version. I have a file ready to be worked on and experiment. If it does work what I'd like to do is take a few preorde...

Guest Artist - Rich Kunz

Rich Kunz is a high school art teacher and freelance artist with over twenty years experience. In 2012 he began his company, Diligent Visual and has since had the opportunity to work on some of his favorite properties, including: Game of Thrones, The Hobbit, Marvel, DC and Star Wars.

Always striving to further his craft, Rich has participa...

Chromatic Mana on the Easel

Te painting for the Chromatic Mana is just about wrapped up and needs to be photographed. Here it is on the easel. It was mentioned that a playmat would be nice. Once it take photos I'll see how well I can paint in sides to make it work as a playmat. 

The sketch will, like the last mans wave, be a colorless mana. 

Tomorrow ...

Chromatic Mana

I got a commission to paint up a Chromatic Mana. I hadn't painted a mana with a hand in a gauntlet so I felt like that was a great choice. Plus I loved that it made the hand non-gendered. It seems fun to add one more option to the mana choices as well. 

A great spring token, the Chromatic Mana Wave for April. 

Sketch Token - 1/1 Deathpact Cleric

I figured the sketch version of the card could take advantage of the opportunity to make a 1/1 Cleric to work thematically with Deathpact Angel. 

The artwork is a version I created for the workshop the original photos came from.

Here's a bit of trivia when looking at paintings of people. People painted from life generally are no...

New "Random" Tokens

I'm adding a few new tokens to my catalog. At the last show folks were pretty keen on the constructs and it seems I could add a few more variations. You all know I prefer to make new art but, there's only so much time to work. Players don't seem to mind and quite a few liked that they were similar. So, that pushed me to make a Black Iron 6/12 an...

Cleric Wave with Community and Magic

Earlier this month Chris Onagan from Community and Magic came to my studio to film a painting demo. I decided to use a photo from one of my Figurative Illustration Workshops. I have a collection of amazing photos of a dearly missed model, Courtney. Her necromancer was one of my favorites. Looking over all the token options some of you guys felt ...

Guest Artist - Ben Schnuck!

I'm pleased to announce my next Guest Artist for the Cleric Wave; Ben Schnuck. Ben is also amazing the world with his synth-wave lands Secret Lair ...

Coming up next

Alright folks I have some fun news to share.

Tomorrow, Friday Feb 25 around 1-2PM CST start time, Chris from "Community and Magic" will be coming to the studio to film me painting. I've chosen the image above to work on. The photo is from one of my favorite worksho...

Warrior Samurai

Have you ever seen Seven Samurai? Great movie if you haven't seen it. It's inspired so many movies and stories since. I wanted to capture a bit of tension from the samurai living in a bit of danger as ronin. 

Well, I think that about wraps up all the art for this wave. I hope these tokens work into some of your decks, or maybe they ar...

Samurai Token updates

The Samurai Tokens are now updated. I'm going to make a new background for the Warrior. I have a fun plan for that. I kept this background so these could look amazing together.

The second Samurai Token, Matsuta, the older man, will appear in the random token portion of tiers. If you want to be sure to get all the zombies and samurai upgrad...

Samurai Tokens!?!

So, it looks like there might actually be Samurai Tokens coming. I can't not make a Samurai Token for a Samurai Wave.

Here's what I want to do, I'll make an alternate version of the Warrior Token since I'm sure there's folks out there that would still love an art like this on a Warrior. I'll split the difference and if you're getting an ev...

Token line up - Samurai Wave

Here's the tokens coming to you soon. Your main token will be the Warrior Token. The bonus zombies will be mixed in with the random tokens. 

You'll be able to purchase more if you want via the Patreon Member Shop once the wave closes and the shop is updated. The access code to the shop will be posted in the final wave post at the end ...

Ninja Tokens!

Miko has donned his dark outfit for a dangerous night mission. I referred to a great Dean Cornwell painting for the color and pushed it a little bit more intense. I've found I really enjoy finding these alternate solutions to images. Sometimes pushing myself to find a better solution, other times just to see it different. 

He...

Guest Artist - Allen Panakal

Cat Warrior Token

We're taking Allen's Bagh Deo god warrior and featuring it as Cat Warrior token. 

Bagh Deo is the leader of the Suns of Orion. After winning many great battles he went into isolation until years later the Keybinder known as Rohan Mathew finds him and asks him to help stop the World Machine from...

Hiroshi - Warrior

This is Hiroshi from the Shogun Rising comic I worked on. While sketching various landscape backgrounds I just fell in love with the aged woodblock prints. I set the background to feel like the paper but also act as a paper wall with some cherry blossoms I had seen in a few prints.

One of the other characters, Miko, will end up as a sweet ...

Zombies!

Hey all,

I figured while I'm working on the the other tokens I'd do the easy ones. These will be reserved for the tiers getting random tokens. I'll start with with 2/2 for most getting 1 random token, then the X/X and lastly the Zombie Army. I figure I'll weigh heavier on the most useful zombies first. Most of those zombies are me and my w...

Year in Review

Thank you all for another great year and support. I wanted to highlight the 7 releases from this year. Having seven waves is not too bad for a very busy art making year.

I was chatting with colleagues on the number of paintings we can paint in a year for work and it's a surprisingly small number. We figured illustration wise (think typical...

Goblin Token By Inklin Customs

This is pretty great. That's me right there. I love it. She gave me my orange glasses I tend to wear at events. I love the easter egg of my Rapunzel painting in the top left corner. (She's on one of the Human Tokens if you haven't seen it before.) I love all my little helpers.

I hope you all enjoy this incredibly fun Goblin Token....

Blood Art Update

Hi everyone! 

I wrapped up the painting this weekend and got the cards ready. Everything will be off to the printers once we have the Guest Artist artwork. She aims to have it completed very soon.

The painting is oil on linen. I mounted the linen to an 18x24 inch panel. It was something I've been wanting to experiment with. If t...

Guest Artist - Jessica Leonard of Inklin Customs!

If you've been to a Magic event you've probably seen Jess at her table or maybe even someone using her tokens. We've both had tables at events together and I love seeing the players get their personalized tokens from her and seeing laughing, smiling faces.

Jess is making you guys a token of me! lol I'm the Goblin King.

Blood Token sketch

I've got a sketch for the Blood Token ready. I have some reference ready but might just need one more shot with another model. It could also totally be a vampire token as well. I can also make one as an alternate, just let me know in the comments what color you want it to lean towards and P/T.  

I'm excited to be painting some figures...

Cackling Culprit does murder!

I had quite a few pieces released with Crimson Vow. I've auctioned  the Welcome Booster artwork. I do have the moquette of the wine glass. I'll be looking into playmats for 2022.

I also had two flip cards preview. Foreboding Statue...

Goblin - Sketch Token

I didn't create a drawing for the horse token coming out so I decided to sift through all my artist proof scans for something fun. I found this goofy looking goblin I drew. One of those owners that looks like their pets. It makes me laugh when I see it. I hope it makes you laugh a little too.

If you have a friend that loves goblins and the...