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Please email me at: ashenvale@hotmail.com Present Projects and Status: I am looking for new illustration and cartography projects in all genres with deadlines in March 2008 or later. I joined WereCabbage Publishing, a writers' group with whom I've been involved in a number of writing, cartography, and illustration projects that haven't reached production yet. WereCabbage Publishing brings together more than thirty of the most successful and promising RPG writers, artists and cartographers. We're a one-stop shop for RPG publishers, whether they need an experienced team to complete a large project or a single author or artist for a special task. Obey the Slaw! The Bestiary of Pathfinder # 5 (page 80) commended my conceptual work on Steve Greer's Warbeast, a monster he created for "Sins of the Saviors", the penultimate adventure in Pathfinder's "Rise of the Runelords" adventure arc. Paizo's managing editor Wes Schneider graciously recommended readers visit this website to see more of my work. In 1006, I had two book covers published, Hear Them Roar, a fantasy anthology edited by C.J. Henderson and Patrick Thomas, published by Spyre Press, 2006, and Yesterday's Dreams, a novel by Danielle Ackerley-McPhail, published by Mundania Press, 2006. Artistic endeavors other than illustration and cartography have monopolized the bulk of my time over the last two years. I'm presently devoting most of my efforts to preparing for a solo show next September. In 2006, I was a finalist and won an Honors Award in the portrait world's equivalent of the Academy Awards, the Portrait Society of America's 2006 International Portrait Competition. I won second place in the Portrait Society of Canada's 2006 International Portrait Competition. In 2007, I won the Best Portfolio Award in the Portrait Society of America's 2007 International Portrait Competition. I won First Place in a national juried competition at Gallery West, and won First Place, Best of Show, People's Choice, and numerous other awards in international, national, and regional and juried shows. I painted a portrait of Ming-Na, the Hollywood actress who played Dr. Deb Chen on E.R., who was the title voice of Disney's Mulan and the voice of Aki Ross in the CGI film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, and who starred in The Joy Luck Club.
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All That’s Really Important: Please call me Ted. I’m a freelance fantasy, horror, and science-fiction illustrator and cartographer. I live in Virginia just outside of DC with my astoundingly supportive wife and our fabulous children, who think all dads spend their time either painting naked people or playing D&D. Fall from Grace: I’m relatively new to both the fine art and fantasy illustration worlds. Until several years ago, I was a Harvard-Law educated litigation attorney working in DC. During my ten years of legal practice, I split my time between plaintiff-side civil-rights cases and commercial litigation. I helped a lot of people but lifted a paint brush only once in a blue moon. At the end of 2000, at age 36, I became disabled and was forced to leave the law behind. I went from a wildly active professional life that kept my hair on fire all day every day, to sitting around alone, in varying degrees of physical pain, staring at the walls. I turned to art (and to gaming) to avoid becoming that guy who wears pajamas all day and watches daytime television. Training: About a year after leaving the legal world, I began, to the extent that my disability allowed, to study art seriously at The Art League School in the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. I focused all of my energies not devoted to family, or to pain management, into artistic training. I now paint portraits, figures, still life, and landscapes, and enter and win prizes in juried shows. I n the fall of 2004, The Art League School invited me to join the faculty. I now teach portrait and figure painting. Inspiration: I first tried my hand at illustration at the tail end of 2001, principally to show the players in my D&D campaign the places they were discovering, the NPC’s they were meeting, and the monsters that were about to eat them. Over the next year or so, I ground out a pile of swords-and-sorcery illustrations. Charles Hildebrandt, an intellectual property litigation attorney, creative genius, and all-around good guy, is one of my gaming buddies. One evening, Charles, with no warning or preamble, dragged his father, Tim Hildebrandt of the illustration team The Brothers Hildebrandt, over to my house to look at my illustrations. Tim is a real hero from my childhood. I’d wallpapered my room as a kid in images cut from his Tolkien calendars. I'd never met him before. There I stood in my kitchen, wholly star-struck. I babbled incoherently a bit and generally made a fool of myself, much to Charles’s amusement. Nonetheless, Tim reviewed my paintings and encouraged me to assemble a portfolio, attend gaming conventions to meet people and gain exposure, and solicit work from publishers. A New Start: I took Tim’s advice. In September 2004, on the front edge of a hurricane, I drove down to Gamefest Richmond, in Richmond, Virginia, to attend my first gaming convention since I was 15 years old. There I met C.J. Henderson, who took me under his wing and introduced me to my first publisher contacts. Since then, I’ve been lucky enough to paint two book covers, cards for a variety of collectible trading card games, and to create maps for DUNGEON Magazine. Although both my painting and illustration careers are fledgling endeavors, they're on the upswing. Now I’m soliciting work from publishers. Life is good. Here's the Fine-Art Resume:
RESUME TEACHING EXPERIENCE – THE ART LEAGUE SCHOOL • Oil Painting, winter-summer 2006, 2006-07, and 2007-08 full academic years • Portrait & Figure, Oil and Pastel, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, and 2008-09 full academic years • Painting, Oil and Acrylic, summer 2004 • Portrait & Figure Painting, winter 2004 • Still Life in Oil, winter 2004 | |||