I can hold my own in commander, but in limited I’m a professional L taker. Will gladly be paid to suck each prerelease because woo boy it’s gonna happen
Posts by 🕯️James Bousema 🕯️ Illustration
the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it
Can’t believe the news, Disney shutting down the marvel. vis dev department. This teams art made them billions and billions of dollars, but it seems that paying a handful or so of fulltime illustrators is simply too much to ask these days.
Sup #PortfolioDay ⚔️
I’m a freelance illustrator specializing in dark fantasy/horror themes.
I regularly do album artwork with all sorts of metal bands while also doing card art for Magic the Gathering
If you see this, drop a hero with a sword
Spring allergies always get me like
Seeing mutuals going to the Brain Dead Fantasy Fest while I have to stay home and work this weekend:
One of the better case scenarios. Then he’ll claim he’s some sort of world peace keeper. Threatening annihilation sure is a funny way to keep “peace”.
I’m so tired
"When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?”
-The Creature, #Frankenstein
(Referenced from Dying Gladiator, by Pierre Juilen, 1779)
Langella rocked that role despite those awful prosthetics 😆
Same. Though it looks and sounds nothing like him so I wonder what was even the point behind the casting?
Who knows if the movie will be all that great, but these screencaps of Skeletor look sick I must admit
Time moves slower when you’re waiting on final approval on a freelance gig.
Poster design from 2022 for my dudes in Municipal Waste⚡️
Rmnce
I swear people can’t handle fictional characters who are flawed making decisions that the viewer doesn’t agree with anymore without the director having to include things that tell them THIS IS A BAD THING I DONT ENDORSE THIS IN REAL LIFE
Death From Above
Done in Photoshop
Winnie Hollmann as Red Sonja in Esquire Magazine - May 1977
Dragon’s Blush
Done for a Tiny Dragon art book. This piece is almost 10 years old😱
Reference vs Art
I like to post this occasionally as part of my "you can learn 3D really really badly and it can still be useful for your process" agenda
Thanks!
BATTLE WORN
done in Photoshop
A group of dragons play Dnd together, rolling a big die and moving some knight minifigures.
Kow Yokoyama, via dreamsrecurring.tumblr.com/post/8063888...
A bit of Carnage
Done mostly on Procreate
#Spiderman
The whole point of defending the right for uncomfortable, or even reprehensible fiction to have the right to exist isnt that its all cool and nothing is ever wrong with it
Its that government/corpo organizations will NEVER look at things with the """nuance""" you think is so self evident
illustration inspired by Mary Shelley's novel "Frankenstein" showing the creature standing beside a tree on a hilltop.
"It was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life."
Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" was published on this day in 1818 🫀
Cult Wizard
Meet art where it's at not where you want it to be