Fantastiqa arrived

All my 'professional' board game credits are accidental so far, meaning I didn't seek out to get noticed in a professional way, but somehow it happened anyway. A while back I made an expansion for Fantastiqa, just for fun (found here), and the designer of the original game saw it, liked it, and asked it he could modify it into a real product.

The final version is the "Castle in the Air" found in Fantastiqa Landscapes. It arrived at my door a few days ago, and I'm eager to try it out.

Just finished a beetle. Getting more proficient with my drawing tablet. My ultimate goal will be to make some promo-illustrations for up-coming books and stories, and to create are for new games I design and to re-skin old games I've already made. Also, there's  a secret project I have in mind, details to come.

Above, my first attempt at a portrait on my new Wacom drawing tablet. This is of Amboise Bierce, the author of the The Devil's Dictionary, of which inspired my own Writer's Devil's Dictionary, which is found in my collection Book by Author. I drew freehand in a program called Krita, a great free and open-source Photoshop-style software. It felt a bit weird to draw on a tablet and see the results on a distant screen, but I'm liking going digital.

And below, a landscape with no particular relationship to any of my writing, except, I guess, it's possible there's a nice bit of woodland depicted somewhere in one of my books. Yeah, that's the ticket.