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Joshua Keyes

Raise your hammer to the storm!

Welcome to the Forge

  • Side Scrolling Study

    On my Long Journey learning about creating side scrolling game assets and development I’ve done many an intensive study.  Today I thought I would share a few of my older study images I generated along the way. Click here to see time lapse video of me working Here we have a familiar forest:

  • Sketchbook Therapy – Father’s Day Treasure

    I have a lot of father figures in my life that I like to honor on Father’s Day.  Fathers that are friends of mine that I think do an amazing job, my imperfect father and step father, as well as mentors in my life that have played a fatherly role.

  • Melech – Warlock Character Concept

    A friend of mine requested a concept image of his D&D character, Melech.  I agreed, and here we have the result.  I don’t feel like I did the character character the justice it deserves.

  • Roll20 Rogue Token

    I really enjoy doing artwork of all kinds.  Often I believe I spread myself too thin creating so many types of graphics across so vast a spectrum.  And then Twigly happens, and I remember that it’s these kinds of joys that keep me making graphics.

  • What if.. Starcraft 2’s Cyclone was the Cyclops

    What if… the Cyclone was the Cyclops? This is my super ridiculously serious breakdown on why I believe this swap needs to happen. I mean, I spent like four hours thinking about this, it must be right.

  • Sketchbook Therapy – Armor Up, Dont We All

    Intimate insight cannot be pried from a person, it can only be shared. – Joshua B. Keyes Recently I saw a bit of news popup while traversing through social networking sites.  It was RDJ walking out of an interview he was doing to promote the upcoming Age of Ultron film.  The interviewer seemed to want to…

  • Sketchbook Therapy – Errr

    You might be a combat vet if you know two letters can communicate more than two books. Kind of an inside story here.  Marines often say ‘Errah’ in a variety of ways.  Basically, you can mean any one specific thing, or a million.  It’s the the tone, pitch, texture, situation, gesture that defines the utterance of this…

  • Sketchbook Therapy – Easter Detective

  • Sketchbook Therapy – Mario Reacts

    There is a lot of misuse of the word ‘hero’ these days.  Sometimes people just assume if you are in the police department of the military you are a ‘hero’.  While there are many heroic individual’s that reside in these stations, it is not always the case.  Public servants should be treated with every bit of…