"Super" Chalk

This weekend I had the pleasure of being invited to participate in an art event at my favorite local comic book store, Tacoma's own COMIC BOOK INK. There several artists, myself and several of my fellow CLAW members, had 3 hours to draw a DC superhero to celebrate the relaunch of the DC Universe. I chose to draw the new armored Superman. This was done freehand with no underdrawing completely in chalk. It is also up against the other insanely good pieces of chalk art also created during the event in a contest in order to win CBI gift certificates. In order to vote in this contest you must 'LIKE' your favorite chalk piece on the COMIC BOOK INK Facebook fan page. This link will get you directly to my piece but I do urge you to look around at the other pieces of art and choose your favorites. Voting continues until the 9th.

DND for Dads 1 PDF

So this morning I reposted the link to this post on Twitter (@jamesstowe if you'd like to follow me) and the response I got was pretty overwhelming. I've gone viral before with this blog but this was different. All day long actual people that play and talk and blog about Dungeons and Dragons let me know that they liked these sheets or retweeted the link to them or both. People who's writing about DND I follow and read regularly were responding not jsut to the art of these sheets... but to the sheet themselves. It wa pretty inspiring.

One thing was pretty regularly requested all day... high rez PDF versions of the sheets that could be downloaded and shared. So, that is what this is. All I ask is that you use these for good. Don't try to resell them or share them for profit. Don't pass them off as your work. Just ue them as intended... to help introduce an awesome game to people ten and under.

Now if you like them, well... I never turn down Donations. In fact, there is a Donation button right to the left of this post.

UPDATE: 9.07.11 7:30pm PST Someone suggested I try Megaupload.com to host the file. That looks like a good situation for now. can now download a smaller but still high rez version of the compiled PDF using this link: 

YOU CAN NOW DOWNLOAD THE DND FOR DADS 1 PDF HERE (17M)

UPDATE: 9.07.11 1:30pm PST I just got an automated letter from Dropbox that my Public account has been suspended due to heavy traffic.

DND for 8 year olds

For my son's 8th birthday party he convinced me to run Dungeons and Dragons for four 2nd graders... I decided to take actual characters made in the DND Insider and simplify them us that the boys could have fun without much of a learning curve. Here are the six characters I made from scratch for the game. I am happy to report it was a huge success, each boy had a fantastic time... and so did I. I would happily do it again.

Here are some Updates about the evolution of the project if you are linking here directly:

I made some girl specific character sheets as well.
You can find them here:
http://jamesstowe.blogspot.com/2011/09/dnd-for-dads-2-girls-part-1.html (for Paladin, Monk and Bard)
And here:
http://jamesstowe.blogspot.com/2011/09/dnd-for-dads-girls-part-2.html (for Warlord, Rogue and Necromancer)

You can find a free high rez complied PDF of the Boy character sheets here:
http://jamesstowe.blogspot.com/2011/09/dnd-for-dads-1-pdf.html

An Errata for creatures summoned by some powers can be found here:
http://jamesstowe.blogspot.com/2011/09/dnd-for-dads-errata-summons.html

And finally... if you want to commission your own character sheet in this style... check out this link:
http://jamesstowe.blogspot.com/2011/09/dnd-for-dads-commission-funtime.html

Oktoberfest Tacoma poster

A recent poster I did for the Triangle District (Tacoma, WA)'s Oktoberfest Tacoma celebration. Oktoberfesttacoma.com

X Generations 2 Archangel

Second group shot of various generations of X-Men if Marvel characters aged as if they lived in the real world. This time... Archangel, who's first appearance was in 1963 (assuming an initial age of 16).

X Generations 1 Cannonball

This is the first of a group shot of various generations of X-Men if Marvel characters aged as if they lived in the real world. First up... Cannonball, who's first appearance was in 1982 (assuming an initial age of 16).

Buck

I drew this Kawaii style picture of an old college roommate of mine on a lark. Might as well post it here.