So what IS Dragon Press Graphics and what IS the purpose of this website?

Dragon Press Graphics is a small, home run company, intent on promoting art and comics. We do commission works, as well as personal works. We work on comics and attend conventions and use this website for the display and selling of artwork.

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July 1st - Still incredibly busy. have returned from Anime Next. Did allright for a first time. Working on tons of commissions etc as usual. About to go on vacation and I'm also running a contest through my Deviant Art Account dragonpress for a new group called UnsungMediums. If you participate in the contest, among the prizes are free commissions. Its a FUN contest, you do have to be a Deviant Art member to participate. The contest is the Crayon Challenge! Draw a picture in Crayon, the best one wins! IT CAN BE DONE, and here's the proof (this is a sample done by me and not an entry): Latest Projects: (as of July 2nd - not counting C6 items) when i have time for more than thumbnails, I'll put up a few of these as bigger items in some of the galleries - hopefully after my vacation, I'll have time for some good website reworking). June 1st, 2010 I desperately need to do some art updates here and a few other things but life has been keeping me pretty busy. My to do list is QUITE long right now - some are individual things and some are long term massive projects - and then theres the fact that there is a convention in 3 weeks!!! CURRENT PROJECT STATUS Not all projects will wind up being in the galleries... ***NEW ITEMS*** Random Artworks for characters from the Outcasts trilogy, but not necessarily from the books themselves: Venn and Eysah: Couple Tiriahn and Sehvia: Couple characters commission of 2 sisters fantasy character commission : Ranger Bardic Elf - Jerran Original - Clockwork Fantasies: Mechanical Dragon - inked and here it is finally:Clockwork Fantasy Dragon Color Fanart: Lucca and Bulma - Love of Science Aardrin - art trade with friend from DA girl-n-herhorse Other Current projects include (but are not limited to): Xmas Portraits Dan's House - Inked Spring Fairy Commission Original Character commission CD Cover "Happy Songs of Death" for Marc Gunn Book Illustrations for Cinema6 - in progress : Details uptop! Book Illustrations for a Top Secret RPG #2 - on hold by creator One of the Winning Logos for AAC 2009 Putting together a new Art Book - formatting issues from the print test, on hold. Working on a collaboration, Post Apocalyptic Comic - in concept stages Fantasy Wedding Invitations - waiting on details Ongoing - keeping the Bards comic strip going steady - 1 strip per week Added a Facebook Fans Page for " The Bards Comic " - which might be a good way for people to watch for updates so check it out Designed a cute autumn flavored Scrolling Pherryt - which looks great on a bunch of cafe press products, as I've found out! Be sure to check them out... Designing a set of Poker Cards - Angels and Faeries - all but the back of card design is completed Designing a set of Poker Cards - Reaper - in concept stages Writing a series of novels - Outcasts series (intended to eventually be a comic in and of itself) Book 1 - Shadows of the New Dawn Formatting Issues found, Adding small snippets as per suggestions, reworking some of the interior work to get around format issues, redesigning the cover piece Book 2 - Ancient Stars (working title) Complete Rough Draft written - now needs to be gone over, fleshed out and art designed Book 3 - Fire and Night (working title) Rough Draft in process Shipping Prices- Shipping prices are no longer calculated based on the amount of money you've spent. Instead - paper items (aka prints/commissions) have no extra charge to ship while the shipping prices are automatically factored into the prices when purchasing shirts. I have buttons up currently for purchasing shirts IN the USA as well as Belgium. More choices will be available as people make the demand for it. Books - All Books will be done through Lulu.com and subject to their shipping calculations, same with items from Cafe Press. About Updates: Please remember that even if I don't update this page with "Specific" Updates, that does not mean I'm not working on it. It may be that I ran out of time and later forgot to update this portion after making a change. sometimes the change is very minor, or just loading a new picture to one of the galleries. Send email to: dragonpress@gmail.com All work herein copyrighted 2001 by Nikki O'Shea

2010 : This schedule is still largely undecided. Currently, these are the only ones i'm planning to attend. Anime Boston : Hynes Convention Center - Boston, Massachussets on Easter weekend, 2010 Over and done - a great bit of fun and some little bit of success - a great combo :) Anime Next Down in New Jersey over June 18th - 20th weekend at the Garde state Exhibit Center in Somerset AAC: I am confirmed for Another Anime Con in Nashua during October 15th - 17th Looking into: ICON, Dragon Con, Portcon Maine, Bakuretsucon, Any suggestions would be accepted glady. Cinema 6 of Wicked North Games One of my massive long term projects right now includes this, so if you're into gaming, check out this site: Cinema6 RPG a d6, Gaming Evolved Framework, has been the super secret project I've been helping out on. Devoloped by Wicked North Games, of which I am part of, Cinema6 is an easily adaptable RPG system taking a lot of new ideas and incorporating them into a d6 system rather than a d20 or d10 system. I've been working on some art for them, just a few things so far, but its about to ramp up a lot! In the meantime, Head to the main page,Go to Products, and download free! Thats right, FREE! While Wicked North does intend to have saleable products (who doesn't like to have a hardcopy edition of whatever game they're playing? I know *I* do), there will be quite a few things that are downloadable for free! so go ahead and check it all out! January 3rd updates and Recap of older, important updates: Added Conventional Combat Cards to the Misc. section - more information found there. completely revamped the Photo Print Section of the Print shop - there is a new layout there, 2 new sections completely, as well as new art, and new options! All pictures in the Photo Print section are Fantasy pictures. Amazon.com Incidentally - you may find some of my books available on Amazon.com right now if you search under my married name "Nikki Bean". It's a new service that the company I am with is testing out This service is still under testing by the company so details may change, or become completely unavailable, I just think its cool that I'm listed on amazon!/li> Also remember - I won the logo (well, there were two winners and I was one of them) contest for AAC It is now on the site - though it is the final design, it is not what they printed. The Bards Comic Book #3 is available now. I've also finished two, inter-related projects. The first is a special Japanese Journal I have made for the purpose of being able to practice writing Japanese Characters - Kanji and Kana, and to use in having a more organized way for trying to practice reading/translating japanese. I've sent away for the test copy and as soon as I get a chance to look it over, it will become available for purchase online and will debut physically at Anime Boston. The related item is something I'm creating as a way for me to practice writing as well as learn my grammer - its a new comic called Chiisana shinpo or Baby Steps. It's a hybrid comic of english and japanese - baby japanese to start because thats what I know, but hopefully it will get better asI continue on. This comic is mostly just for fun, but if anyone else wants to use it to help practice reading, go ahead! *Note - this comic has not been added to the comics list of links as of yet, so right now its only available through this link here. I'm hoping to correct that as i get the time to