aaronmiller

The summoning is complete.

A servant of the demon Bael has been summoned. Best of luck with your new pet.

One of the easy ways to work out problems on a painting is to take a photo of it in progress and work on it digitally until the problem is solved. it can be very difficult to fix it in the paint if you're not really sure of your direction. It's best to do it either as I mentioned or an old school method is to w...

Devil Progress

I've already had an opportunity to jump right into this piece. I'm just setting the stage right now. Some artists can work almost like a printer. My brain doesn't work that way so this is my process. Some liken these process differences to architects and gardeners. I'm a gardener, I plant seeds of ideas and color, I prune, I replant, I'm sculpting the landscape. I make a mess and gradually clea...

Devil Token - Sketch Phase

Hi Everyone!

And welcome new folks! So many new folks to shout out to! And a quick reminder this on top of the crossover promo.

I've worked up a sketch I like for the new devil token. I'll begin working on the drawing this week after I get a few other projects either wrapped up or started. Which is just how things work around here in the studio.

I should have the drawing compl...

Road Trip

I’m traveling back to the studio from GP Niagara. I just wanted to pop in and remind everyone from the Mask Wave I’ll be closing the surveys tonight. All that means is if you didn’t fill it out I’ll pick the mask token you get.

Devil Token sketches inbound by the end of the week.

Canada side!!!!

I made it Niagara Falls. Drive was smooth. Check in not so much. Walking off my dinner checking out the falls

Foil Treasure Token Sample

The Proxy Guy made a quick video of some sample tokens he had produced. These give you a good idea of what's coming your way. Very shiny, shiny. Just in case you're not sure what this is about check out this post.&nbs...

White Shaman Mask

I was able to spend some quality time with the last of the three paintings. I think I achieved the creepiness I was looking for. We had a bit of a scare here as my mother-in-law had been in, thankfully, only a fender bender accident. Just to be sure I packed up all my paints and the puppy and headed over to help out.

Here's all three Mask Tokens at a glance.

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Green Shaman Mask

I've completed the second of the three masks. This is acrylic on paper on panel. I've been so happy with how the acrylics have been working for me. It has been a very long time since I've worked with them. I used to paint with acrylics for years as a mural painter. I've painted the history of jazz, a coral reef, pastures of Italy, and secret gardens. Fond memories with subjects and the artists ...

New pin design! Treasure Skull

I'm excited to share a new pin design with you guys. It's based off the new token coming your way next month from me and Prox (The Proxy Guy). It will be a 1" hard enamel pin. All the gold color will be the gold metal of the pin similar to my original gold skull pin from my logo. 

How can you get one...

Black Shaman Mask

This is my week to try and get a million things done. And that includes artwork for the previous Mask Wave. There are so many ways to work on an illustration. For this one I choose to mount a print of my drawing and work in acrylics. I have't worked in acrylics for a long time and for some reason these pieces just called to me in that medium.

This piece is 9x12.

For those just joini...

April Crossover Special with the Proxy Guy

I’ve been holding onto this for a while and am excited to finally announce a crossover Patreon event for April! I’ve teamed up with The Proxy Guy to bring you something special.

A double sided token featuring my art and exclusive frames by The Proxy Guy for each side. Each sid...

One more for the boosters

Well I finally have a reason to use the zoomed out art on this new Zombie Army token. I think I might put the full art on the back. If you are in a tier getting 5 boosters you'll get this one for sure.

Drawings - Green and Black Mask

Here are the drawings for the Green Mask and Black Mask. For the green, I'm picturing the top half patina copped with Boston ferns for the beard. The metalwork is totally inspired by one of the most beautiful facades here in Chicago designed by Louis Sullivan for the  Carson  Pirie  Scott Building in 1899. I'm thrilled to finally create something inspired by the exterior of that ...

Drawing - White Mask

I'll be working on the drawings for the masks over the next few days. Here is the White Mask. As I work I sometimes changes things up from the original concept. As I was working I felt that the veil just wasn't working for me. I still wanted a similar shape to work with so I just opted for a design crop.

I hope you guys dig it.

Mask Tokens (concepts)

Green and Black seemed to be tied and we had one more vote for White after which would then have been a 3 way ties. And here we are with three concepts above. White, Green, and Black. I'll work on these a little smaller like I did the Mana tokens and I should be able to get all three completed without holding up getting them to the printer. 

I know you all are some of the most suppor...

C2E2 - Chaos Drafting

I'm unpacking from C2E2 today. I got all the metal tokens over the weekend and will begin shipping today.  I figured I'd get the important info to you first.

Thanks to all those checking out with Backerkit. If you didn't fill it out I'll be taking care of that for the rest of you by hand so I can get your pack out today or tomorrow.

I had to opportunity to be part of the events...

4 New Boosters

How exciting is this!! 4 new boosters coming with the next wave. A new Zombie, Ice, Shield, and Arrowhead Token. The zombie is a favorite painting of mine, it's from a zombie workshop I did around Halloween a few years back with the model I loved working with. I was able to get a person to do some zombie e...

Things to come

Now that I've wrapped up the paintings for the tribute series I get to start really digging into a project that has been percolating for a while now. You'll notice the wall of images I've posted. Well, that's the tone of the series I want to start working on. And I hope this gets you get excited for the work as well as your tokens.

I'm still working on a title for the series so I'll just ...

Final Monk painting

Bodhi - Monk Order of the Moon, Guardian of the Dreaming Tree

I'm so happy with this. Thanks again to all of you for supporting my artwork.

Here are a few details of interest I thought I would share. The golden threads on the cloak are for each year of Bodhi's life. There's a little flying squirrel that live in the Dreaming Tree. Fairy bugs are used in the lantern. ...

Bodhi-Monk Order of the Moon, Guardian of the Dreaming Tree

I've completed the drawing of the new Monk Token. I'll be transferring the drawing to a panel today. I'm super excited to paint this one. Hits a few nostalgia notes for me. I hope you guys like it.

For those all sad that we're not doing the Cleric, my wife is pushing for that one to be a young Tiberius our Prince of Logan Square. I'm not sure I can say no. But, I just don't know when I wi...

Monk or Cleric?

There's still time to vote to break the tie. 

I'd love to do both but we're guaranteed for the one. I'd have a hard time choosing myself. I'll start working on a drawing Monday.

Here's 9 of the 10 Cubeamajigs options, one will be in your envelope in the Soldier Tiers and above....

Just popping in for a sec.

I'm wrapping up a few Magic card paintings this week. But I wanted to stop by to say hello to a few of our new fellow patrons.

I've shipped out all of the Elemental Wave tokens. The metal token tiers went in the post this morning.

I'll be working on the thumbnails next week for the next token so there's still ti...

Patreon Pledge Drive - Free Cubeamajigs pack!

I just got a shipment of Cubeamajigs!!! All with my art on them of course.

I want you all to have one too! 

TIERS $5 AND UP WILL GET A FREE CUBEAMAJIGS!

Cubeamajigs is a series of reusable gaming packs for cube, board games,12mm dice, sideboards or jus...

Elemental Wave is go.

Thank you all once again for being able to make this happen. This wave helped me cover the costs of the class I took at the Watt's atelier. This painting came out so much better than I had even planned. And it happened because of you guys. 

Regular Assassins and Cats Are In!

I'll start shipping out the Assassin Wave rewards that I can. I'm still waiting on the metal tokens, they as usual, take a little longer.

Alternate Art January Wave - Elemental Bat

I wanted to share the alternate art version of the new elemental; a firebat. Now this one you'll be able to add any P/T you want. 

We're $9 short of everyone getting a free sketch version of the token. If you know someone that you think might like getting cool tokens and supporting making the artwork, let them know and you all benefit.

January - Elemental / Spore

The last day to sign up for the January Wave is January 31 at 1pm CST.

I wanted to share the next token coming out for the January Wave. A 1/1 Elemental - Fireseed.

Fireseeds are similar to a phoenix in that they a birdlike and on fire. Unlike the phoenix, fireseeds die once their fire is out. Fireseeds are created by a kiss from a Salamander.

I'll be...

Assassin tokens have gone to print!

Just wanted to keep you guys up to date with what's going on in the studio. I've just sent the files off to the printers. I expect everything within a few weeks. 

It turned out my alternate art looked and felt way more "assassin" than the original so I went with that.

Here's the alternate Cat Token:

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Assassin Update / January Wave Preview

Hi All,

I'm back from the Watt's Atelier Illustration Bootcamp. I mentioned before I was bringing both the Assassin piece and the Elemental piece to work on. I ended up working on the elemental for the week and was even lucky enough to get a day in on this one.

I spent the week pushing paint around to capture a lot more depth in this somewhat simple idea. Although a complicated ligh...

Happy Birthday

Today is my birthday. Yeah! I wanted to share something that you'll all be getting in the next mailing. 

I've seen a few versions of this online and I wanted one for myself. I'm totally the target market for a small turn flow reminder. I hope you have a friend that maybe could use this as well. I will also make it available as a printable PDF. But, before I do that I'll give you guys...