Jungle Ascent Pre-order is available

If you missed the Kickstarter, don't worry.  You can now pre-order Jungle Ascent from 5th Street Games.

Also, I don't think I ever posted this video on my blog.  It's a quick overview of the game.

Jungle Ascent Box Bottom

Here's the box bottom.

Box Top

Here's the Jungle Ascent box top.

How I created Jungle Ascent

I've posted a story about how I created Jungle Ascent on boardgamegeek.com.  I started this game when I was in middle school, forgot about, worked on it more during high school, forgot about it again, and finally brought it to completion after graduating college.  It's been a loooooong process, and I'm really proud of the result.  Check it out!

Reviews of Jungle Ascent

Here's InD20 Group's video review:

Also, check out FatherGeek's review (it's a great text review with pictures)!

Don't mind this post...

You've all seen these cards in earlier posts.  Don't mind me.  I just need to link to this image.

Two more Jungle Ascent cards

More Jungle Ascent Goodness

Here are some more cards from my new game, Jungle Ascent.  If you want to help out, please click here and like the game on Facebook!  Jungle Ascent on BoardgameGeek.com

The like button is on the right!

Jungle Ascent is LIVE!!!

Hi, everybody!  I can't tell you just how excited I am for this!  Jungle Ascent is up for pre-order on kickstarter! Holy heck!

Click this sweet ad to see the preview video and more game info!  The game will only be published if we hit a minimum number of orders...  But it looks like we're already off to a good start!  Wish me luck!

Still More Jungle Ascent Cards

More Jungle Ascent characters

A couple more character pawns.  This is Short John (the cook) and Bonny Vane.

More Jungle Ascent Effect cards

More Jungle Ascent

Here are some more Jungle Ascent cards:

And a couple character pawns:

That's Dr. Livesy, and Captain Jean-Francios DuBaguette.

Jungle Ascent soon to be published

Jungle Ascent is on Boardgamegeek.com! 

Some Effect Cards

 Some Hazard Cards

 Some Pathway Cards

 Some Jungle Ascent action!



I am about to accomplish one of my life goals!  Jungle Ascent, my new board game, is being published by 5th Street Games, and it should be up for pre-order this fall!
Help me out by clicking here:  Jungle Ascent image gallery
Choose an image and click on the thumbs up!

Right now, I'm feverishly trying to finish all the artwork in between my regular job, family reunions, and trying to maintain my sanity.  Wish me luck!  It's been a long, long, difficult project.  Sarah, THANK YOU for all your help and support!  You have been the number one biggest help (playtesting, prototyping, videoing, endless awesomeness)!  I also need to thank my friends and family who have given me encouragement, playtesting, criticism, and enthusiasm.  I'll try to get a better thank you list together shortly!  Also, a special thanks goes to the Board Game Designers Guild of Utah, who have been absolutely indispensable in making Jungle Ascent polished, balanced, and fun.  Thanks, everyone!

The Road to Canterbury Illustrations

I did these illustrations for Eagle Games' "The Road to Canterbury". The designer, Alf Seegert, asked me to do them, and the tone of the game is so awesome I couldn't resist! Check it out! The game currently has a few days left on Kickstarter.

Eagle Games
Alf Seegert

Based on no one in particular.

A troll.  Any similiarities to real persons are purely coincidental.

Bug Wars

You can always win the battle once you've deployed your Beetle-Copter-Bomber squadrons! I painted this for the Avalanche blog.

Value study

I did this value study from a pic that looks like it's from a high school yearbook from the 50's. Of course, this would have been the principal or something... Thanks to Todd Harris for the sweet brush!

Redo

I attempted to polish up the image two posts down, and had some success, but it just wasn't dynamic enough. I decided to redo the image entirely, and I like this one a lot more! It hits the personality, righteous rage, and god-like indignation I wanted. Thanks to Sam Nielsen again for critiques.

Disney Princess

Well, this started out as a coloring book page I was painting for the Avalanche blog, and one thing led to another... Anyway, something about the image just said "Drink Coke!" I attempted to rip off the color and style of some old illustrators- I specifically tried to imitate Gil Elvgren's colors. I'm sure he'd be overjoyed.

sketch

A sketch a did yesterday for an idea I had... Wow, these colors don't look good on grey.

some recent life drawings

Most (maybe all?) of these are from recent figure drawing sessions at work.

Robotic Armor Design

And, just to prove I'm not dead, I'll post something! Hooray!

Ripoff Head Paintings

Corel Painter. Based on an image by Paul Bonner. These are the results of me trying to learn to paint. I copied these to learn how. Also, I have to thank Ryan Wood for showing me some great techniques in Painter! Sam, I wish I'd have listened sooner. This image was MUCH faster than images I painted in Photoshop.
Oil on board. Based on an image by Burt Silverman. Obviously, Burt did it much better, but I learned a ton about color. I did this one while I was taking Bob Barrett's head painting class at BYU.

Head Paintings

Head Paintings from Bob Barrett's class. This class was unbelievably helpful! I highly recommend Bob to anybody. This was my first ever real media painting class.