After… well, too many years to mention, we have finally put an on-line ordering system for prints into our web site. For now we have kept things simple and while you browse the gallery you will see “buy a print” links next to some of our artwork. As time goes on and we have different merchandise for sale we will add a separate store page.

Currently we are selling our standard 13 x 19 inch signed limited edition prints on watercolor paper. We are also selling extremely limited runs of canvas giclee’s of some of our work. If you have any questions about the store or our prints you can check the FAQ or send us an e-mail.

As I had mentioned in a previous post my wife and I were expecting our first baby. She arrived on Tuesday, May the 13th and was a healthy 7lbs 1oz baby girl. Her name is Ferris Elyn Brunner. It’s been a crazy few weeks since then just trying to keep up with it all. My artwork and my lawn have been the biggest suffers of my lack of free time

Embrio is also facing a big change as well. This summer he and his family will be relocating to Ontario to be closer to family out there. The funny thing is when we tell people this, they often ask how it will affect DPI Studios. It shouldn’t shake things up too much since we never actually work together in the same space anyway. We’ve been creating our artwork over the internet for many years and the only time we would see each other is for socializing or taking care of the business side of things. Other than the obvious downsides of my best friend moving across the country, the silver lining in this cloud is that we will be able to attend more of the conventions out east and the shipping charges from our on-line store will be the same for everyone across the country.

We will be trying to remain productive during these changing times, but if you don’t get a response to an e-mail right away now you have a better idea why.

Alsatia is our latest piece and if you frequent our gallery often you have probably already seen it but I thought it was worthy of getting a more detailed look. Alsatia was my wife’s old D&D character and this was a scene of one of her greatest achievements, landing the killing stroke on a young dragon. The picture started, as always, with the pencil art by Embrio done in Sketchbook Pro on a Tablet PC.

Then I took his line work into Painter and started painting. For this piece I forced myself to use Painter as much as possible and only use Photoshop for color corrections and edits. I also painted the main subject separately in Painter and composited them in Photoshop.

Now, since I spent a lot of time fussing over details that can’t be seen very clearly on the smaller version I thought I’d upload a bigger detailed image to show as well.