Brian Valenzuela

Long live the pig-orcs!

Hi all,

Looking to fill some gaps in my schedule. I’m open now until end of March. If you’ve got a project I’d be a great fit for let’s connect! Website is in bio.

Reposts and the like is much appreciated 🙏🏽.

Sample work below ⬇️

If you see this, post a monster!!!

Aaargh! What a lovely beastie

A triceratops charges towards us through trees and dust.

Still one of my favorites.

My inner 5 year old will always say “yes” to a dinosaur gig.

For the #dnd Monster Manual.

Ohhhh this explains the new followers. Thank you!!

Thank you so much for sharing your work and a bit of your story too. Cheers!

The character vs. how you drew the character.
#art #dnd
(I thought I’d try it…they didn’t tell me “no”)

A huge congratulations on such a meaningful achievement! You have already made some wonderful work, and this will be a fun way to continue that.

I’m really excited for it. Thank you for putting the course together!

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.

"I can't afford a visual artist"

So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?

Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

I invite you join me this Friday, January 30, for a nationwide general strike to protest this administration’s actions against American citizens. Each of us has a voice and we are capable of great change together. I encourage you to do what you can. More info here: nationalshutdown.org

A new lovely book of curses arrived today! I can’t wait to have nightmares.
“Vermis (3) Old Curses and Buried Horrors”
Find it through: @hollowpress.bsky.social

Artist: Plastiboo
Devious imp deciding on a different size for each book: also Plastiboo

#vermis #darkfantasyart #horror

Really thoughtful and helpful. Thank you!

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

Whoa, nice one! Wonderfully strange.

QRP with your Wing art!

A really old piece during Covid…

A digital ink drawing drawing of two fantasy characters resting on the body of a minotaur they have just killed with a medieval granary burning in the background. One of the characters is a woman in armor with a huge sword. The other is a man in black leather with a knife.

A digital ink drawing of a dwarf, an elf, a witch hunter, and a pyromancer being attacked by a hoard of skaven and a Nurgle chaos warrior.

A digital ink drawing of Conan the Barbarian fighting off a giant snake with a woman in the background.

A digital ink drawing of a T-Rex dribbling a basketball.

Happy #portfolioday !

I'm Igor, a freelance illustrator who mostly focuses on black and white line art. I can't show what I'm working on right now but here are some of my favorites from last year.

Just reposting my last Portfolio Day post because I haven’t got anything new (that’s released yet) that I can show you.

Soon.

Illustration of a medieval inspired demon

Illustration of a knight after a deadly duel

Illustration of a woman stepping into a fairy ring

Illustration of a knight holding a handkerchief, his horse by his side

Hey #PortfolioDay🖤

I'm Andrea, freelance illustrator and concept artist who loves to paint fantasy and dark fantasy themes.🌙
I've worked in TTRPGS, TCGs, videogames and book publishing.

Would love to work for MTG and DnD one day!

✉️corasndrea@gmail.com
🎨 www.andrea-corsini.com

Thank you! It was one of the Yuan Ti illustrations I did for Dungeons and Dragons.

Hello #PortfolioDay!

I'm Eli, a freelance illustrator working in publishing, ttrpg and games.
I like to focus on characters and storytelling in my works.

💼 Www.elizabethpeiro.com
📨 Elizabethpeiroart@gmail.com

Big thank you for the art share!
bsky.app/profile/bria...

Illustration of a two headed red dragon roaring on a volcano with lava splashing below and a lightning cracking behind. Done for Magic the Gathering. Card title: Twinflame Tyrant.

Illustration of a Storm from the X-Men joyfully creating a tiny cloud to water baby Groot in his pot while he takes a shower and dances under that rain. Done for Magic the Gathering. Card title: Regrowth.

Illustration of a blue ooze in the shape of a Chordatan pirate hammershark after absorbing them, wearing their pirate jacket and skeleton inside. They are waving at the rest of the pirate crew on the deck trying to blend in with them while they look at the ooze with confused expressions. Done for Magic the Gathering. Card title: Slick Imitator. Illustration of a blue ooze in the shape of a Chordatan pirate hammershark after absorbing them, wearing their pirate jacket and skeleton inside. They are waving at the rest of the pirate crew on the deck trying to blend in with them while they look at the ooze with confused expressions. Done for Magic the Gathering. Card title: Slick Imitator.

llustration of a April O'Neil from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. A black young woman with curly red hair and a yellow lab coat sitting at her desk working on her laptop on her science research. She's turning around to face Baxter Stockman, whose shadow we can see on the wall after he's just opened the door. Done for Magic the Gathering. Card title: April O'Neil, Hacktivist.

Hey #PortfolioDay!
I'm Xabi, freelance illustrator from the Basque Country in Spain, with a deep love for fantasy art and pirates🏴‍☠️
Currently working for MtG.

xabigaztelua.com
linktr.ee/xabigazte
💌xabigaztelua[at]gmail[dot]com

A sorceress astounded by her freshly sculpted homunculus. A single shaft of light illuminates her creation. Bounce lighting reflects upon the sorceress. The homunculus has a flaccid butt. The maker's hands are covered in fresh clay. They are the only body parts of the sorceress that are directly lit. Faint, residual purple smoke wisps from her fingertips: the homunculus stands in an awkward pose, that of a creature freshly adjusting to its body. The homunculus has thin limbs and a hefty torso, though it is faced against the viewer. The sorceress's workshop is littered in sculpting tools, brushes, an open tome of transmutation, ceramic bowls and a pitcher of dirty clay water in which lie a few of these tools. Clay shavings are scattered about the floor. A red, runic circle surrounds the humonculus. In the dark background it is possible to catch a few failed prototypes on a shelf. A sorceress astounded by her freshly sculpted homunculus. A single shaft of light illuminates her creation. Bounce lighting reflects upon the sorceress. The homunculus has a flaccid butt. The maker's hands are covered in fresh clay. They are the only body parts of the sorceress that are directly lit. Faint, residual purple smoke wisps from her fingertips: the homunculus stands in an awkward pose, that of a creature freshly adjusting to its body. The homunculus has thin limbs and a hefty torso, though it is faced against the viewer. The sorceress's workshop is littered in sculpting tools, brushes, an open tome of transmutation, ceramic bowls and a pitcher of dirty clay water in which lie a few of these tools. Clay shavings are scattered about the floor. A red, runic circle surrounds the humonculus. In the dark background it is possible to catch a few failed prototypes on a shelf.

A giant cyclops. Slender, female. Her armor is golden bronze, made of large plates with shield-sized domes protusions, which help veer off attacks. She wears a golden diadem, golden earrings, and her single eye is bright blue. Her armor shines from the warm light that trickles into the large chamber, pouring in from an off-scene oculus. Her face partially in the dark, tall that she is, only illuminated partially by the bounce lighting of her armor. Her right arm adjusts her belt, while her left arm is lifted, underneath it; we see a shirtless servant on top of a tall staircase, tying the laces of her bracer. The staircase is built of beige stone. The bracer is almost the size of this person. By the cyclops' feet, we see two other servants donning her greaves. One of them holds the giant slab of bronze in place, while the other, behind the cyclops' calf, ties up the laces. The floor is a white marble tile, giving the entire scene a slight reflection. Did you know a single greave of this Cyclops weighs around 150 kilos? Behind the Princes Warrior, we see a 2 story tall greataxe. It is brightly illuminated by the single shaft of light that brightens the entire room. In fact, the entire scene is illuminated either by the natural light, or the bounce lighting of the cyclops' armor, giving the entire painting a warm look.

A night-time, rainy alleyway: stealthy obscura spies clad in overcoats and leather, using blue magic to stick to walls, stalk a rival mobster below.

Two Carverine (orc-like humanoids), a male and a female, ride alongside eachother, on top of war hippos. They hold each other's arms. With the other hand, the female orc displays a freshly decapitated head - the enemy king. While the male lifts his axe up in prideful show. Both orcs have red hair and pinkish-gray skin, similar to the hippos they ride upon. The carverine have long, elephant like tusks, and wear minimal bronze armor.

Hey #PortfolioDay!

I'm Matheus from Brazil 🇧🇷. I've worked on Magic: The Gathering, D&D, Draw Steel, Age of Mythology: Retold and a buncha other games.

Currently working on my own weird fantasy RPG (first two images of this post!)

My website: www.matheusgraef.com

Contact: mentergraef@gmail.com

A lineup of drawings of three elaborated outfitted mages

An illustration of a mage hovering above a rocky desert outcrop as magic swirls around them

Ornate mage hat designs

A tiefling encounters a large spider in their lair and are surrounded by spider eggs.

Hey #PortfolioDay!

Looking for gig for mid-Feb and beyond~ I draw great mages if thats your thing or just some pretty fantasy illustrations~! #illustration #fantasy #characterdesign #ttrpgart

kstramat.com
kim.stramat@gmail.com
www.patreon.com/c/kstramat

A digital illustration of a horned character rising from the ground inside a circular stone building in high-angle perspective. They are surrounded by and imbued with green fire-like magic. Human skulls swirl around them.

A digital illustration featuring two fairy characters standing together as a flock of pale teal moths swirl around them. One character has with pale blue-green skin, dark eye makeup and long orange-red hair, in blood-red and black helm and armor resembling the carapace of a Japanese rhinoceros beetle. They hold the second character, who has pale pink skin, soft features, and fluffy short pink hair, in a pink and green outfit reminiscent of a pink rose.

The full-wrap book cover illustration for the novel VOW OF ETERNAL NIGHT by Lily Crozier. It features a brunette woman and dark-haired man in both in 1700s inspired clothing in shades of red and crimson, standing in front of a full moon.

A digital illustration of a pale-skinned, horned woman with long black hair, black eyes, white paint on the top half of her face, and dried blood down her neck. She is dressed in ragged black robes with bone, metal, and rope accessories. A black wolf made of smoke with red glowing eyes stands behind her. They both stand upon bloodied snow, and the northern lights flare in the sky.

Howdy #PortfolioDay ! My name is M.E. Morgan & I'm a freelance artist working on illustrations for book covers & ttrpgs. I’m a fan of fantasy, horror, folklore, & romance. Please feel free to view my portfolio & get in touch below.
➡️ morlevart.com
➡️ mmorlevart@gmail(.)com

I hope you are having a great #portfolioday and getting some well deserved applause! My name is Brian and I work in mostly fantasy, horror, and costumes for film etc.

Mood and atmosphere but great gestural energy too. So beautiful!

Some have mentioned that art school is not needed, it’s the portfolio that counts. True.
BUT ALSO
“Personality” not that only charming people are hired (I’m far from that), but being professional, easy-going, empathetic, and determined are important when working with others (ADs)