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Cover to
Ultima 6
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Ultima 4
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Ultima 5
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Martian Dreams
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Akalabeth
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Ultima 1
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Ultima VIII
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Ultima IX
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Ultima 9 manual
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Ad for Ultima
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Ultima 3D concept
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Ultima 3D concept
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Cover for Worlds of Ultima 2
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Cover to
Times of Lore
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Ultima 9 Intro
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  • Wacom Graphics Tablets
    I got a Cintiq last year, and I haven't looked back since!
  • Corel Painter 2015
    I use this program to create the raw art. Its imitation of traditional media is uncanny. I do my sketches and painting directly on the Cintiq.
  • Adobe Photoshop CC
    I use this to finish my art. It's the best for color balancing, titling, and layering effects. The monthly fee helps you avoid the initial investment required by an outright purchase.
  • AzPainter2 and AzDrawing
    Barely translated from the Japanese, these two small art programs pack a major punch, especially when you consider they're free! I've used AzPainter2 for inking because it has a line smoothing tool that helps prevent line wobble. That's something neither Painter nor Photoshop have.
  • Sculptris
    Speaking of free, Sculptris is an awesome 3D modeling package that handles very much like clay.
  • ZBrush 4R6
    What can I say, the ZRemesher feature alone is worth the price of admission in this amazing 3D software.
  • 3D Studio Max
    My go-to software for 3D modeling, texturing, rigging, animating, and rendering.

I met Richard Garriott -- aka Lord British -- at Steve Jackson Games while I was serving there as a bad typesetter. Both Richard and Steve were in the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group of medieval re-creationists, and Richard was showing Steve, the local Baron, his new computer game, Ultima. Richard liked the artwork I was doing for Steve, and roped me into doing the cover and the start-up screen for his game.

That start-up screen was my first piece of professional computer art, and was done on an Apple II with an Apple II graphics tablet. The tablet was a metal monstrosity with a tethered pen that rattled like it was about to fall apart. As I tried to draw the lines of a heraldic lion, power spikes created actual spikes in the lines I was drawing, forcing re-draw after re-draw. It was a challenge. But after that, I was Richard's go-to artist.