JasonEngle

It has finally happened. I have a new website.
Every five years or so, it comes to pass that my old gallery of work, scarred and ravaged by time, gives way to a new glimmering online homestead, unveiled to the harsh, scalding gaze of the wide world in it's newborn glory. Shimmering with the dew of morning, and a slightly damp sheen of placenta.

Too much? yeah. That may have gone overboard.

Anyway, it's at the usual locale, www.jaestudio.com

Please check it out when you have a chance. I would greatly appreciate it.

thanks!

- JAE

I will be exposing myself at gencon in Indianapolis, or rather, appearing to the public and exposing them to my art. My booth number is #2633. If you look on the exhibit hall map, you can see this is situated somewhere between the island of Atlantis, and mars. Which is to say it will be hard to find. If there is a bright center of the universe, my booth is the booth that is farthest from it.
However, I will endeavor to make it a worthy destination, as always. This year I bring free booze, go-go dancers, cake, fireworks, and lots of art. Most of that was a lie.

I will be bringing a good number of original pencil works this time, including matted original drawings of my Magic the Gathering cards, over a dozen in fact, and the first time I have offered any of these particular works for sale, and a full portfolio of artist proof magic cards, all with pen drawings on the backs for extra spice and flavor. I learned a lot about these last year, and what people seem to want and what they have less interest in. Just random fantasy drawing, even well executed, is surprisingly in less demand then simply cool stuff. And so I have heard your pleas and answered back with generous abandon.
I will also have several large canvases on display, 3 ft. x 4 ft., which will make up a good amount of my display, and while they almost certainly won't sell due to their size and price tag, they should add quite a layer of frothy ambiance to the background. Which is really more what I'm going for anyway.

I have also secured a table in the art show of Dragon Con. I made a larger purchase then I originally realized in fact, not realizing that I was purchasing the "full package", which evidently at Dragoncon, entitles you to a death star sized area for display, including a table in the "Bazaar", a spot in the print shop, and two large bays in the gallery. These bays are 8 ft. long and 4 ft. deep. each. Which means I have inadvertently acquired an area fully the size of two booths at most conventions when I thought I was just doing a slightly pricey art show. Which would have meant I was sitting at a table. Generally a small one. With a tiny amount of art laid out both upon and behind said table.
So instead of that small presentation, I'm now forced to bring my full artistly powers to bear, doing it up with utmost zeal and workmanship. So to sum up, basically I'm hanging lots of stuff, and about twice as much as I originally planned.

I also have one more new announcement for the schedule this year, I am signed up for my first Magic Grande Prix in Orlando, which is totally a thing if you're into Magic, and the gladiatorial mindset it encourages. Tales of such events have been relayed to me over the years from many of my artist peers in the business, tales of such harrowing adventure and daring, glorious enterprise that I simply had no choice but to seek out such an event, and involve myself in its roiling sea of potential.
So that should be cool.

Lastly, I may also be appearing somewhere in and around the United Kingdom, during the exact weekend of the Legend of the Five Rings world championships, so I may be stopping in there as well. I will announce that shortly if it can be made a real thing.

If you can make it to Indianapolis, see you in two weeks!

Convention season is starting, at least for me, in a few weeks, on May 9th-11th in Kansas City. Spectrum Live III is upon us, and it's going to be bigger and better then last year. By a lot. 

I'm doing a different setup this year as well, since the show itself seems to cater more to a collector crowd, I'm not actually bringing any prints. Which makes this the first show I've done in about 16 years where I didn't have prints. 

Instead I'm doing lots of canvases, some printed as I've done before, and some mixed media; Which is also a first for me. I will have all the new magic cards I've contributed to the Theros set, as well as a lot of my newer personal work

As for the rest of the appearance schedule, I am actually skipping Comic Con in San Diego, at least for this year, and allowing my good friend Tyler Walpole to take over my booth. He hasn't done the madness that is San Diego Comic Con before, so be sure to stop by booth 4617 and make him feel welcome. He does a lot of work for marvel and Paizo and basically everyone else in the entertainment and publishing business, and he does it rather well, so you won't be sorry. 

I will again be attending Gencon in Indianapolis, but for the first time in years, I won't be in the art show. I am doing a large double booth out in the wilderness of the main hall, and it will be both strange and glorious. Probably. But the one thing I know for certain, without question, there will be less artist booths on either side of mine. Which might be good? I don't know. But I will find out.

I am also hoping to be a part of Dragon Con this year, but will have to get back to you on this one.

As I'm sure many of you have predicted by this point, I'm leaving soon for San Diego, and wanted to say a few things before I am away from my keyboard for an entire week.
First off my booth number, #4617. Repeat that number in your head over and over if you are heading to San Diego next week. If not, probably don't worry about it.

Also, I finally had a chance to create another conan themed piece in time for the convention, and I will be packaging all 6 prints of my frazzeta inspired personal works as a print pack for the show this year. It will be a limited, signed and numbered print set. So, if your going to be there, and are into that sort of art, it's pretty cool. The equation is time tested and fool proof, swords+boobs+giant snakes+panthers+vulture silhouettes=awesome.

In other news, we're coming up on over a month now that I've managed almost daily updates on my blog! that's pretty nuts frankly. I'm not saying every post has been Pulitzer worthy, but hey, regular new art, on serve, all the time. Yes I realize the internet in general is good for that kind of thing also. I'm saying this particular part of the internet is the best possible place for new art if that art is created by yours truly. So it's been pretty awesome that I've been managing that kind of consistent output. All while creating actual art on the side.
Today's post by the way, is on my most recent Magic card to see the light of day, and one I will be posting here on Deviantart very soon, along with a ton of new stuff I've been dying to show you guys.

Thanks for stopping by!

- JAE

So, in the fantasy art community, Spectrum is kind of a big deal. The book that is. So when the same people who publish the best and brightest annual collection of fantastic art decided to do a real life show, with real live artists (instead of dead ones?) a lot of us were pretty excited. We knew even if no one showed up, the caliber of artists attending would be so high, that it would be something we wouldn't have missed for the world.
And it was pretty awesome. It's been a while since I had a chance to meet some of my heroes in fantasy art, because many of them don't do the convention scene anymore, but this is one convention they all came out for.

And one other thing, this is the biggest collection of Magic: The Gathering card artists anywhere. Ever. And it's happening again, this weekend, from Friday-Sunday (5/17-5/19)in Kansas City.

Also, I will be there. Doing my artist thing. Amongst the other artists, who will be, I assume, doing THEIR respective artist...things. So, lots of artists doing lots of art. Like, almost a surplus. And it will all be a blazing hot vat of pure amazing. If art is your thing. Otherwise it will be kind of boring honestly.