Realmsbound Illustrations: D&D work!

 Hello everyone, so this isn't a full art post yet (I don't have the okay to until it's out) but I joined up with the Mythmakers team to work on the Realmsbound project!

Realmsbound is a Forgotten Realms project helmed by Ed Greenwood, who created the setting, to develop areas of the world that aren't as explored as Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate. For peeps who don't play D&D or TTRPGs, the Forgotten Realms is a setting in the same way that Tolkien's Lord of the Rings takes place on Middle Earth, it has it's own history, gods, peoples, etc, and over the years since it was made, we haven't seen as much of certain parts as others. 

Anyhow! I've joined the project as an illustrator, and I created 6 fantasy illustrations that helps explore the Dalelands of FR! I can't share the art, but I can include this snippet from their most recent newsletter that shows one of my illustrations and the writer I worked with on it!

They're producing several source books for DM's and players and just plain fans of fantasy world building and art! Check them out and join up for more info on when the books are available. 

When I have the permission to post the art, I'll make sure to share it here! As a big fantasy and D&D fan, this project has been a blast, and I hope to continue working with them on these for as long as the project continues! 

 

2026 Momocon Commissions and Wrap Up

 

Hello everyone, after a full day of sleep, I have somewhat returned to a normal state, and have some stuff I can report for Momocon 2026! So, Momocon is a huge show, it's 4 days long if you've never been to it, and this year was even larger than previous years. I was lucky as well to get another booth in the Comic Creator's section, and I had some good friends and great creators as neighbors.

One of the things I love about Momocon is that despite it being a HUGE show, the audience is super diverse and that means that even though my booth is largely original comic books, I can still do well there. This year, I debuted Curse of the Eel volume 5 at the con, which almost didn't happen so let me tell that story first: I finished this volume late, between freelance work and school duties, I was running sorely behind on my pages for the latest volume. I managed to turn around that 20 pages in two weeks, but I had assumed getting any volumes in time for the con would be impossible. However, I have an amazing printer in Wonderpress, and they managed to send me copies in time to make my table a success (and it was)!

Long story short, my last two Momocons have been my most successful conventions ever, and this is from most of my sales coming by book sales. Curse of the Eel sold really well, I had a bundle of the 5 volumes and while I worried that it might be too pricey, I sold several bundles and many even came just to grab volume 5 because they had already bought volumes 1-4. Also, Honor Bound might have been my best selling book in general, I even had a few people come back to tell me how much they enjoyed it, which warmed my heart and made me excited to get back to work on chapter 2!

As for the art of this post, I also took on 9 commissions at the show and was able to finish all but one of them at the con! They were an original character obsessed with blood and eyes, Rui from xlov (a K-pop group, this image isn't the finished one, I forgot to get a photo of the complete commission), Commander Wolfe from Clone Wars, Winry Rockbell from FMA in Watercolor, Nico Robin from One Piece (which I forgot to get a complete photo of), Static Shock, Gammoth from Monster Hunter, and lastly, 2 Creepy Pasta characters in a warring embrace, which I completed in the last 3 minutes of the show, but the commissioner was very happy with this one so I'm happy too.

All in all, Momocon is my favorite show to do, and I really hope that I can keep attending in the future. I have plans for new books in some of my other series, like Rare Drops, as well as some one shot and competition comics I plan to make this summer.

Check back to see some of the things I have in the works, and consider checking out my Patreon for more behind the scenes looks into my projects!

 

Honor Bound ch 1 Released!

 Hey everyone, long time no post! I've been working a bunch on new comics, and my newest one is now out in the world: Honor Bound! It's a dark fantasy romance story, about a gender neutral squire, Zheng, and the journey they must undertake to return to the love of their life, Rayner, after suffering a terrible loss while hunting a barbarian queen. This book has been my passion for the last year or so and I'm happy to have done as much of it as I have.

This book debuted at Momocon 2025, and I sold out of all the copies I had printed, which is a first for me in all of the years of creating comics and sharing them at conventions. I was incredibly moved, this book was instrumental in breaking me out of a very low point a year and a half ago so to see it do well was more than I could imagine.

You can follow the progress of Honor Bound, or read more about the worldbuilding, on my Patreon! Check out the link in my header to see the tiers I have available!

You can get a copy of this first book in my store right now! https://jorgesantiagojr.bigcartel.com/

Or, you can buy the pdf on my Patreon store! https://www.patreon.com/jorgesantiagojr/shop/honor-bound-chapter-1-pdf-1641698?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=productshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Holomarches Super Post!

 Long time no post! I've been having more fun posting on Patreon and Bluesky, and it's a lot harder to get posts uploaded to my blog, but I need to be better about that.

Here are a series of drawings I did during Inktober (which I completed, you can see the full bevy of posts on my Bluesky), there's a vtuber named Crimzon Ruze, who is a Hololive talent, and he's been working on and recently started posting a D&D campaign called Holomarches. The game is a hop in hop out Westmarches style game to let the other vtubers in the game play when they feel, and I've been really enjoying the games and world building streams. I even got to draw in one of his streams, you can see my art in one of the art streams where I shared a canvas with several other awesome artists.

Here are some of my character drawings done based off the character descriptions and the actions the players took in the first 2 sessions:

Patreon Launched!

 Hello everyone! This is a post to let you know that I've opened up a Patreon page to support my original comics! I've been uploading to it pretty regularly, and it's become a place for me to share comic pages and to help build more of an audience for my work.

I haven't forgotten about this blog and do still intend to post work on here, I've just been pretty busy with a great many projects, that I will post about soon!

If you want to check out my Patreon, you can find it here: 

https://www.patreon.com/jorgesantiagojr

I've also started a new comic titled Honor Bound! Honor Bound is a fantasy romance story centered around a squire who is trying to return to their love following a failed war campaign. I've already posted a bunch of process work on my Patreon, but I'll share more about the story and my other projects soon!

Illarys Ink Illustrations

 In preparation for the DVPit event where I pitched both Curse of the Eel and Illarys, I wanted to populate my pitch with illustrations so it wasn't just a wall of text in the story summary.

These were very inspired by Gary Gianni's illustrations for "The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms," which is a series of short novels about a knight and his squire. I loved the book and the illustrations were amazing, so I wanted to try out this style of inking for Illarys, and here are the results!

Tools used were Deleter G-pen, Tachikawa Nihonji pen, Pilot drafting ink, on Stillman & Birn Epsilon paper.

This was the cover to the pitch, I still really love this image

Separation

Recovering

The Knight

The Cave

Panther

Dungeon Scrawlers Character Designs

 I got to provide character designs for some characters of "Fearful Symmetry," a short D&D campaign by the Dungeon Scrawlers and DMed by Erin M. Evans! These were a lot of fun to make and I'm glad to have had the opportunity to contribute to their long running campaign!

https://www.youtube.com/c/DungeonScrawlers

https://www.twitch.tv/dungeonscrawlers

Ilya, the Rashemi Wizard

Stirge, the Rogue/Arcane Trickster

Florin, definitely not a Warlock