Have some wintry vibes? Cover illustration I was honored to paint for the KQV Remastered album a few years ago!

It's hard to choose the best, or even my favorites. If you didn't manage to catch all that I've been up to (revealed in 2025), here are some pieces that felt like highlights for various reasons.

A demo drawing for a mentee from today. Believe it or not, that's me, circa early December 2006, kicking a sand dune in the Taklamakan desert!

Today is my birthday! 🎂 I feel grateful for everyone who supports me, my art and the work I love. It makes even the hardest days brighter and gives me the strength to keep creating🫶 If you could spare a repost, it would mean a lot and help my work reach more people 🤗

Making fun plans for next year!

A couple more AP paintings I finished and sent off to their commissioners the other week! It continues to be fun expanding what I'm capable of putting onto such a small surface.

I'm enjoying these D&D paintings of mine hanging in my dining area!

This was fun! A shot of the panel I was on at Tabletop.Me last month.

Silver's Vengeance, 2022, for D&D's Shadow of the Dragon Queen. Although not something I paint very often, I do enjoy the challenge of painting dragons when I get the chance. A very nostalgic piece for me, since I grew up with Dragonlance!

"Inauspicious Birth", personal piece, 2018. It sometimes feels we're born into such a cruel world, but it *could* be worse.

I'm pleased to be taking part (once again) in the third Magic the Gathering in Miniature gallery show @gallerynucleus.bsky.social in Los Angeles next month! 111 MTG artists are taking part. Here are the three pieces I'll be submitting. Any guesses on which cards these are painted on the back of?

Sometimes you just need a laugh, and as silly as this particular project was, I was laughing throughout! "Ruckus in the Orchard", 2017 or so.

Another early career piece I'm proud of for Numenera: 'The Isle of Forbidden Cultivations'

I'll be sharing some old work for a bit! This one is from 2016. 'Fourth Mark', commissioned by Lone Shark Games for Numenera.

Ask yourself if kids prefer toys, or stores. Games from a generation ago were allowed to be toys. Games today are forced to be stores.

Finally got my hands on this beauty that I did two illustrations for!

Last show of the year! Yes, there were too many shows this year. 😅 Nonetheless, I'm excited to be here in chilly Salt Lake for Dragonsteel! Come say hi if you're at the show! Booth E40.

Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.

"Things Left Behind", personal piece from 2019 or so. I'm always trying to remind myself to save some time for personal work like this, but I haven't been terribly effective at doing so.

The final D&D piece I get to share for now, from Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun! Plus the painting (acrylic, 12x16) when it was in progress while I was visiting my in-laws in China this past winter. Harrowdale AD: Emi Tanji

My easel as I headed off to Vegas this morning....

Las Vegas this weekend! See some of you there. :-)

"Shadowdale" D&D Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerun AD: Emi Tanji I was incredibly honored to paint this one (acrylic, 16x12 in.), because Shadowdale is one of THE most iconic places in all of Faerun!

'Telflamm' Illustration for 'Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun' from D&D. A very challenging piece! On the left (click on it) the final version that saw print. To the right, a progress shot of the acrylic painting. Behind the painting you can see one of my 'models', my cat Loki! AD: Emi Tanji

I finally get to share some new work! Recently published in 'Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun', I give you 'Rashemen' AD: Emi Tanji (painting as it was in progress, vs final seen in the book)

Having a great time in the Emirates! I'm heading home tomorrow, but already looking forward to my next travels abroad.

A new artist proof painting coming with me to 'Tabletop.Me' this weekend! An alternate vision of Ancient Tomb.

I'm getting very antsy to reveal five pieces I painted for D&D's new Forgotten Realms books starting most of a year ago! More on this in a week, when I'm back from Dubai.

Very much looking forward to my trip to Dubai this weekend for the inaugural 'Tabletop.ME' event! It'll be my second trip to this most palatial city of the Middle East. Drop by and check out some cool art if you're also there!

This weekend a Halloween show in nearby Tacoma (LDXP), and next weekend I'll be in Dubai for Tabletop.ME! I'll have a selection of my freshest works with me for both, so come say hi! "Sword of Feast and Famine" for MTG: AC.

New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Artist proofs, before and after! #mtgart

New Issue: BCS #443 out today, featuring stories by Chris Willrich @librariangoblin.bsky.social (a new Eldshore story) and @adrianwardwrites.bsky.social, a podcast of the Ward, cover art by Bruce Brenneise @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Recent box AP commission!

I've been getting a LOT of people asking for this one, so sure, who am I stand against the will of the masses! 😅 Preorders for Ancient Tomb as a mat: www.brucebrenneise.com/shop/ancient...

I was recently honored to have my work featured on the cover of SFF magazine, @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. To the left, the cover, to the right, the full piece!

Still really proud of pulling off this artist proof painting! Those cards are a SMALL surface to be painting on.

Thankfully, I've got two and a half weeks at home. Then the long march begins with Houston and Baltimore. See some of you there!

They headed off to their new home! "The Defect", 20x24" acrylics. I had a really great time with this one.

"Sundial: Dawn Tyrant", illustrated for MTG Aetherdrift. I recently heard at a con that folks are calling my cryptid baby, 'Sunny D'. Love it!

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

Day 2 of FanX! Come say hi if you're in Salt Lake City this weekend: booth AA 244

I'll be at FanX in Salt Lake City this weekend! Come say hi if you're there; I'll be at booth AA 244. I'll have a bunch of this unimpressed astral Albatross at the Docks of Bral keeping me company.

"The Beyond", background art I painted for Slay the Spire, 2016. One of my favorite areas of the game to visually design!

Cover art for "Company of Ghosts" from J. Kyle Turner. The book just released, you can check it out here: www.amazon.com/Company-Ghos...

Finally got a bit of time to work on painting a personal piece! Early stages still.

And I'm finished with my rendition of 'The Defect'! The Littlest Art Director (my son) took an interest in this piece, insisting I add the eyes peering out of the shadows as well as "more shading, Baba, do more shading". #slaythespire

🎨 Return to the Hidden Summit “Beyond the mist where memories wait Like silent dreams and comforted rest Where clouds drape coolly upon the stone In the mountains deep, and wild forest” #watercolor #gouache #traditionalart #painting #art #dragons

"Trail of the Dream Titans", illustration for Numenera, 2017. Really quite a milestone piece. It showed what was possible with clients that trusted me to create something interesting from scratch, no brief or prompt of any kind.

And that's all for DragonCon! Had a great time and made the requisite moneys. Until next year: same dragon place, same dragon time!