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Jordan W. Thatcher

@jordanwthatcher.bsky.social

Fantasy artist and illustrator. Polymer clay artist and jewelry maker. Guild Eleven artist. Wizard. 🚫 NO AI 🔮 linktr.ee/jordanwthatcher

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Jordan W. Thatcher@jordanwthatcher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Quote this with the piece you've spent the longest on, and how long it took you. Here I was attempting to make an interior scene as vast as an landscape. I spent over 100 hours painting in Photoshop, plus the time it took to record a time lapse of the entire piece.

A digital painting of a vast underground dungeon lain with greyish-blue bricks, ornamented stones and pillars. The main walkways are raised above a lava chamber and covered in fine red carpet with gold embroidery. It is a maze-like ruin with paths and stairways leading left and right to various walkways and doorways. The scene is lit by hanging metal chandeliers clasping large illuminated crystals. The main hall leads back to a raised portcullis, behind which is a winding hallway that twists as if the fabric of space has warped. There are elegant vases on either side of the stone rails bordering the entryway to the main chamber. One vase has been knocked over and shattered open, and you can see rats scurrying about among the gold pieces and ruby fragments that were once inside. Pillars more than twenty feet tall line the main hall, and a strange maze-like rune lies on the floor before a parapet with triangular openings which leads down to the lava pit. Bats are circling and swooping through the scene, no doubt due to your disturbance in this ancient tomb. The pathway left leads to a short staircase guarded by gargoyles, which leads up to a raised platform surrounded by a circle of pillars where rests an item of great power, a fiery gauntlet lying upon a red stone block. There is a decorative red cloth with gold filigree draped throughout the entire hall pinned above columns, which leads to this platform and marking it with some significance. This is clearly an item of incredible power. The right path from the center hall leads over path with the statue of a knight standing on a pedestal, guarding a short pillar which is holding a red potion bottle. The end of that path is marked by a tomb with a cross before a stairway leading to up to a raised path and multiple doorways. Clearly there is much to explore here, do you dare to continue? Or turn back for fear of what you might find? Artifacts, gold and magic are abound in this deep, forgotten place.
Michelle Pecoraro (Commissions Open)@coveofmadness.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Quote this with the piece you've spent the longest on, and how long it took you. CSP clocked this at 73 Hours, 45 Minutes. And that doesn't include the thumbnailing, character/creatures design sketches, and 3D Reference time.

Jordan W. Thatcher@jordanwthatcher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I have so many pictures I can share, but the reason I went on a hike the other day was to see what all this yellow up on the hill was about (this area of the PNW is still new to me) I found these in full bloom and they were really stunning.

A grassy hillside of a dry wetland area which is covered in patches of weedy yellow wildflowers that look a lot like sunflowers but much smaller.A closeup of a single blossom of this yellow wildflower.Two blossoms one of top of the other of this weedy yellow wildflower.