Wednesday 1124 - Judges Panel
Are you getting excited about the upcoming Book Cover challenge judging?I am.and so is the judging panel.I promised that I would let you know who is on the judging panel this week. I wanted to leak it earlier, but I'm still awaiting confirmation from three judges. I've decided that I'll just have to take a chance...For your judging pleasure, here is the illustrious line-up of judges for the Hurakan Book Cover Challenge that will go up on Dec 6th.Irene Gallo, Tor PublishingLou Ander

Wednesday 1125 - Call for art
For those folks in the US, tomorrow is Thanksgivings Day. I plan to be cooking away, goofing around with my family, and NOT working in any way...that includes writing on the blog.I'll make up for that slacker attitude right now.Call for artI've decided to put together a ArtOrder calendar for 2010. I'll be looking for some of the best and brightest pieces to go into the calender. This is going to be a fast and furious process - so that I can get the calenders printed and delivered as quickly as possible.Submission process open to All artistsRules: Each artist can submit one (

Tuesday 1124 - musings
I'm working from home today in an attempt not to infect the world with my stupid cold. I don't do very well on days like today...when I know I have a ton of work to accomplish and can't work on most of it. Unfortunately, that gives my brain far to much time to fret, and think about all sorts of stuff.At the moment it is thinking about ArtOrder.I've been thinking a lot about ArtOrder since my trip to IlluxCon. I ended up having a lot of conversations about the blog while I was there. (Sidenote - thanks for the ArtOrder buttons Mike Sass! I got lot's of comments about 'em) The discussions ranged from why I started it, to where I see it going,

Monday 1123 - Beautiful Grim
Last week the wonderfully talented Daarken dropped me a line and invited me to get involved with a new project that he is putting together. The cause is so selfless, and honorable, I wanted to pass the information on to everyone I know in the art community.Here is intro:"My name is Daarken and I am a concept artist and illustrator working for Mythic Entertainment. My friend Leif Jeffers, an animator at DreamWorks, and I are organizing an art auction fundraiser that will be held next year.Earlier this year my girlfriend, Cat, was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 25. On November 3rd, 2009, she had a bilateral mastectomy after go

friday 1120 - Art In Review
Since I was out last week today will be a 2-fer. Let's take a look at the products from the last two weeks. Between Dungeon and Dragon magazines, and the latest RPG release - that's a lot of visual goodness.Enjoy!Dragon® magazineTyler WalpolePerforming the Pact