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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

After 2 long years I finally finished my Beginner's Guide to Art Fundamentals tutorial series!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

$100 client: "Here is the entire history of my very unique universe as well as my own life's story to how I got into creating my incredible project." $5000 client: "Wanna paint a knight?"

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Forrest Imel

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5 years

Finally getting around to working on these again! Here is the first summoner all wrapped up. #characterdesign #dnd #conceptart

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Forrest Imel

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5 years

Finally wrapped up my character series! Sorry for the long dump of artwork, but I don't know how else to do it on Twitter :)

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5 years

Finished up the female Dragonborn barbarian. Pretty happy with the results! #characterdesign #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #dragons #fantasyart

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1 year

I've been working on this off and on for the last month or so. I needed a new playmat for MtG Commander nights and wanted to make my own :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

The last splash I did for League of Legends got revealed today. Was very happy to be able to contribute to the Star Guardian lineup :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

How come there is practically no art of female Dragonborn? It's kinda crazy. #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

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@forrestimel

5 years

Finally wrapped up the Dwarf Artificer to go along with the halfling one. So close to wrapping up this series of classes! #characterart #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #conceptart

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5 years

Here are the two final Barbarian characters together, time to move on to the next pair! #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #characterdesign #fantasyart

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

4 years

#couplegoals

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

This was the last splash I did for League of Legends before I started working fulltime for Blizzard. It was truly an honor getting to work on the star guardian line up :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Finished up the Human Barbarian fella! #dnd #characterdesign #rpg #tabletop #fantasy #fantasyart

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Forrest Imel

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4 months

I made a new video on how I paint/render materials. I get asked about this A LOT on stream and finally sat down and explained everything I think about when painting and how I think it can be applied to all materials.

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Forrest Imel

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3 years

I'm very excited for Endwalker ❤️

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here is an old marketing image done for Wild Rift. This one was a very fun one to thumbnail out, I'll post process pics below!

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@forrestimel

3 years

Oh hey look, it's #PortfolioDay And now all my portfolio is just work I've done with Riot for the last couple of years 😄

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Time for the reckoning! #junkerqueen #OW2

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Forrest Imel

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3 years

Here is the splash I did for Victorious Blitzcrank. I really tried pushing the narrative on this one and had a lot of fun working on it :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

The sketch The final

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Forrest Imel

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2 years

Here is the illustration I did for Admiral Renata Glasc. I was really excited to get to do a skin that gets released with a new champion, in the end I ended up only having 4 weeks to do it all and only about 5 days to render it, but I still think it turned out alright :)

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Forrest Imel

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3 years

Magnamon😀

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

I wrapped up a couple of kitty cats done for the Cats and Catacombs kickstarter, was definitely a nice change of pace from all the serious fantasy realism work I've been doin lately! Here is a link to their project:

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

Today is the last day you can save on my stock art on my website. Thank you everyone who have bought these over the years, it's meant a lot to me and I appreciate all the support. I'll leave a link down below with the details!

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Forrest Imel

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4 years

Finally I get to show off my first image made for Legends of Runeterra! This was done last summer through Wild Blue Studios and it was a huge challenge trying to reach the level of all the other amazing artists on the project.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here are the paladins that I did for my fantasy classes series. I have stock art and prints of these as well, I'll post it below for anyone interested!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Don't think I ever posted the full version of this skin I did for Resistance Caitlyn for League of Legends. Was a fun one to get to work on :) WIP shots down below

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

I finally uploaded the Barbarian classes as stock art on my website here: #dnd #fantasyart #characterdesign #characterart

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

This week I started work as a Senior Concept Artist for Blizzard. The whole experience so far has been very surreal, but I'm incredibly happy and grateful for the opportunity and already love the work that I'm doing :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here is my other artificer character I did. This one is a personal favorite of mine!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Tiefling Rogues are the Shadow the Hedgehogs of the DnD world.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Here is the higher resolution version of my card with some process shots. You can see more at my Artstation! #mtg #MTGC19

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

This was one of the last splash images I did for League of Legends. I was really happy to get to work on one of the initial skins for a brand new champion. However, this image was a really tough one to work on and I also only had about 3 weeks to piece it all together.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

oh hey, I did this😀

League of Legends: Wild Rift

@wildrift

3 years

All spooled up!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

My first card for @wizards_magic ! So happy to have finally gotten to work on the game that pushed me to pursue a career in illustration. #mtg #MH1 AD: Cynthia Sheppard Artstation:

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@forrestimel

2 years

Aww man, didn't end up getting through the first screening for the #digimon art contest. At least that means I can post my entries now. Good luck to everyone else who made it to the finals! #DIGIMONCON #digimontcg

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

Artwork done of young Uther for Hearthstone's Mercenaries mode. I'm super excited I got to do some work for the new mode and can't wait to play tomorrow :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

I can officially post the Corki illustration I did for Wild Rift. Was pretty happy with the results!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

This was the first character done for the second series of fantasy classes. It had been a year or so since I had worked on the first when I started on these and I really wanted to try and push myself further on this next set and do a more diverse set of characters.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

4 years

First time I've been able to doodle in awhile, been on a #digimon kick in anticipation for the card game

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

People have been asking me to make a sorceror and cleric class for my series for awhile and I'm finally getting around to it. Starting with the sorceror! #art #characterdesign #dnd

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

More work in progress shots for a digimon piece I'm working on, would also like to turn this into a playmat for the tcg when I'm done. Anyone got any tips on who to order playmats through?

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Doodle of Thrall I started this morning on stream to celebrate #dragonflight coming out!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

4 years

I'm needing a little boost of inspiration here, can people share some of their favorite compositions in paintings OR cinematography? I'll start it off with a couple ones I really like. (please credit the artists) Artists in order: Brom, Jaime Jones, Joon Ahn, Chase Stone

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

And here's the whole gang together!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

6 years

Monks are done <3

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 months

Before Render // After Render

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here is a throwback to when I had the opportunity to work on the new remodel of Corki that came out in Wild Rift a couple years ago.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

I guess #PortfolioDay is a thing? Here's some of my stuff ❤️

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

1 year

Been getting test prints done for this playmat, hopefully soon I’ll actually be able to put it on my site for preorders :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here is the male version of the swashbuckler class I posted yesterday for my second fantasy classes series.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 months

Here is my last card I did for Outlaws of Thunder Junction, Pillage the bog! I tried to use some of my magic mechanics knowledge to infer that a green/black card like this probably uses the graveyard. Lo and behold... it does not. But this is still my favorite image I did :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here is my favorite of the last few illustrations I did for Smite 😀 I'll reply with some process shots!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Been awhile since I've posted any characters. Been working on a lot of client stuff and getting the tutorial series wrapped up. Here is the finished halfling engineer though! #characterdesign #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #halfling

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 months

My art for Timewinder Zarimi in Hearthstone ended up being released! I really liked the idea of the character and had just watched Billy Madison so I could not get the image Ms. Lippy and Ms. Frizzle out of my head and thought it fit perfectly for this character!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

Here is a new @PlayRuneterra card that I did. I felt like I got to see my own growth in this piece a lot while working on it, but also saw more pitfalls and things for me to work on in the future.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Both of the summoners are finally done and available on my website to purchase as stock art. Thanks for everyone that watched me work on these on Twitch! #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #characterdesign #conceptart

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

Sometimes I don't think people understand just how deep the rabbit hole of technical skill/knowledge goes with art. I've been practicing specifically my drawing skills for the last 4 years now and I recently had another breakthrough that made me feel like I still know nothing.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

My new work needs more bear pig things with mushrooms. 2010-----------------------------2021

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

This was one of the images I submitted for the Digimon TCG art contest awhile back. Unfortunately, I didn't win, but it was a fun opportunity to take a break from client work and experiment with art styles for a bit.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

So happy to see this one get revealed, this was probably one of the most challenging splash pieces I did but I’m pretty happy with the outcome 😁

League of Legends // UK, IE & Nordics

@LoLUKN

2 years

🫖☕️ Porcelain 🍶 Lux ☕️🫖 & Prestige Edition Porcelain Lux! ✨

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here was a prestige skin I got to do for League of Legends. Prestige skins have a normal version and then an upgraded version. It was a really fun challenge getting to work on this :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

Here is the latest splash I got to do for League. Super happy to have provided the illustrations for two Darius skins, was great to go back and have a crack at depicting him after the first one, I've felt like I've learned a lot since the first splash I did.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

This is my second splash illustration I got to do for League of Legends while working with West Studio. I had such a great time working on this and really felt like I got to flex on this one. Really happy with the results. AD: Mingchen Shen

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

I posted up my full version as well as process shots for the latest League splash I did on Artstation:

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

11 months

Here is the art I did for Storm Giant for the newest Hearthstone expansion!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Finally calling this character done! #dnd #characterdesign

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Finally finished up the summoners last night. Happy to be wrapping up this set of characters, I'll post updates over the next couple days for the rest of the set! #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #conceptart #characterdesign

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

I had the great opportunity to work on my first League of Legends splash art through West Studio. If you want to see some step by step process and my initial final you can see more on my artstation post here:

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

my waifu, Y'shtola

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here is an image I did of a halfling Artificer from awhile back.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

A few years back I started a project where I spent each morning doing 1-2 hours of anatomy studies and then another 1-2 hours working on a new character. After a few months of this I ended up having 16 finished characters that opened up a lot of industry jobs for me.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

Some work I did for @PlayRuneterra just got revealed a bit ago, was pretty happy with how this one turned out :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Wrapped up the first Cleric for my character set, pretty happy with how he turned out :) #art #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #characterdesign

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

This year was a strange one for me, I'm actually probably going to do a follow up post closer to the new year on everything I went through this year personally and with my art. For now though I'll just post some highlights of things I did this year! #Artof2019

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

6 years

Here is a #wipwednesday shot on another character I'm working on, the Barbarian was a highly requested class at the last convention I went to so I got right to work on it. #characterdesign #dnd #itsahardbarblife4us

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here is a throwback to the first image I did for Legends of Runeterra. This project, hands down, was the most difficult style and level of technical skill I've had to try and accomplish. It was a struggle but, worth all the time put into the work I did, I grew a lot from this.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here are some WIP shots for Admiral Renata Glasc. Huge thanks to West Studio and the Riot team for their help and feedback bringing this to final ❤️

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

6 years

Trying to get back into morning sketches.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

6 years

It's cool to see some of my Riot work I've done through Wild Blue Studios finally be released on League of Legend's site! …/e…/everything/newest/

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Slowly working my way into doing movie work, gotta get ready for the next wave of live action film adaptations. Call me @netflix .

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@forrestimel

4 years

Another old Smite piece I never posted but still kind of like ❤️

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

1 year

Some Hearthstone work I did got released today! I got to illustrate the new buddy for Ozumat, can't wait to play BGs with the buddies again :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

Here is some work I did for Hearthstone's Mercenaries game mode awhile back. I was so happy to not only get to paint Uther but also get to work on a new game mode.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 months

Here is the art I did for the Magic card, Getaway Glamer! I'll also have a video out soon going over more details for each of the cards I worked on.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

4 years

super excited to see Echo get released! #overwatch #OverwatchFanart

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

4 years

In 2018 I was up for a position at Blizzard as a senior concept artist for Hearthstone. I ended up not receiving the job due to other reasons, and while that was soul crushing, I was also told my art test for them was one of the best they've seen and I rode that high for awhile..

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

4 years

Here's an old doodle I did on the @WildBlueStudios stream awhile back. Still kinda like it :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

This was the first League splash I was hired on for. I was super nervous to work on this because I just didn't feel totally ready to achieve the level of quality other artists I'd seen were achieving. I am very grateful for the guidance of @WestStudioNews and the Riot Splash team

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

4 years

Here is the full art for my first Hearthstone card, Balloon Merchant. I guess this means I have to go back to playing Paladin :)

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

5 years

Finally finished the Assassin class up! #dnd #tabletopgames #dungeonsanddragons #characterdesign

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

This was one of the last images I did for Legends of Runeterra. The process for this one was pretty straightforward and I remember it being a smooth image to work on overall which can be rare haha. I'll post process shots below!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 months

I came out with a new video today where I talk about a few times that I worked on client work and ended up messing up. One of the examples is my first card art I did for Magic. The left was my initial pitched final and the right was the final that got approved.

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

6 years

Finally finished this after the stream. Been working on this one for months off and on and am ready to move on to new stuff!

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

3 years

I've always loved fist weapons in games

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Forrest Imel

@forrestimel

2 years

And here are both of the Swashbucklers together! These seem to be fairly popular within the stock art community as well and I really appreciate all the kind words people have said about them!