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This is the first piece I produced for Games Workshop's/Sabertooth Games' Warhammer 40,000 CCG. As the art director wanted to give me the chance to get started as soon as possible, I was given a fairly wide-open advance assignment to depict these winged troops. However, some of the details of this card set had not been settled by the company at the time, and they made me aware of this. Thus, when producing the rough sketch, I just included a background of some generic bombed-out and crumbling buildings (as is typically appropriate to the apocalyptic tone of Warhammer 40K). After I sent the sketch in for approval, the art director told me that they had just decided that the setting would be an untamed "ice planet." So, I simply changed the crumbling buildings into huge, fantastic shards of ice, without really changing the basic composition. Warhammer 40K is known for outrageous, improbably awe-inspiring settings, so I was allowed to go a little wild in designing the outlandish ice formations.

Acrylics, 2002