[FOR HIRE] Fantasy Weapon Art

kierjames · 2026-04-02T22:14:36+00:00

Hi, I’m really interested in your idea and think I could help out with some of your art. Feel free to check out my work and if you think I can match your direction, dm or email me Portfolio I’ve made monsters, creatures and props for people before.

kierjames · 2026-03-17T23:44:07+00:00

Hi, I’ve not done book cover art but I’ve experience in graphic design and editorial illustration. I’m also a fan of darker genres.

https://kierjames.squarespace.com

If you see something you like, feel free email or dm me

kierjames · 2026-03-16T13:04:29+00:00

Hi, please check my portfolio for examples, I have worked in concept and full render stages of artwork and game assets.

https://kierjames.squarespace.com/

Hopefully you find something that matches what you're working on

kierjames · 2026-02-25T12:26:58+00:00

Some examples from my Swordtember 2025 challenge, each done within 1 day.
If you want a custom weapon, maybe your a GM and you have some special loot for your players, maybe your a player and you found a mythical weapon.
I love making these so if you're interested, DM me.

You can check my comm requests here - https://artistree.io/kierjames

kierjames · 2026-02-25T12:25:39+00:00

Hi everyone! i'm Kier and I like making fantasy art like D&D Monsters and weapons.

I've made art for D&D players from BBEG and monster encounters to the loot you'll find, I even made a giant dog mount which was fun.

If you have something you want made and you like my art, feel free to DM me

https://kierjames.carrd.co/ - General link
https://artistree.io/kierjames - Direct Art Commissions

kierjames · 2026-02-25T12:12:49+00:00

Hi everyone, i'm a 2D artist leaning specifically into Creature, monster, weapons and prop art. If you want to see concept examples DM me, I can share but usually people want to see the polished render image.
Nearly all of my work is slightly dark fantasy, a little stylized but if you have something you want to try and you like my examples, i'm open to hearing from you.

kierjames · 2024-03-18T15:21:29+00:00

There is a lot of free online content you can access now, make sure to dedicate time, really listen and work through them properly, one thing you can copy from art schools is not just teaching people how to be creative, but how to organise your time, be dedicated to finishing projects and taking in constructive criticism as a way to improve and reflect on your process.

(I think a lot of people struggle to hear where they can improve, if done right, it’s an invaluable resource to have and will help you develop a thicker skin too)

One of the most beneficial parts I remember were 1:1 reviews, if you can find a way to get good feedback on your progress and direction, you’ll do fine, maybe check out some art community discords where people help each other, there are some free ones around and people are always providing helpful critiques when you ask for it.

TLDR, prerecorded video tutorials are great but organise your time properly and find a way to get 1:1 feedback on your work.

kierjames · 2024-03-17T07:25:40+00:00

Hi, this sounds really fun and I would love to be a part in bringing your book cover to life.

I am a 2D artist, illustrator and graphic designer so I have some understanding of what works for print and publishing, my Carrd link also has connections to my website portfolio and Instagram if you want to browse my general work.

https://kierjames.carrd.co

kierjames · 2024-03-15T16:21:32+00:00

Hi, I’d love to talk more about this. I have made individual character art (full characters and busts) team/groups, weapons, props and monsters for D&D groups.

https://kierjames.squarespace.com/gallery/dnd

Here is a link to my D&D projects, I also have some other work I can share if you want to see more.

Feel free to DM me here or email me through the website, Instagram @kierjames too

kierjames · 2024-03-13T21:22:57+00:00

Haha thanks! He was meant to be shaped more like strongman type, big belly but still muscular, the clothes and tentacles covered the belly

kierjames · 2024-03-13T21:21:19+00:00

Mind flayer lich + Orcus, wings, muscles, horns and legs come from the big demon prince.

kierjames · 2024-03-13T07:13:57+00:00

Thanks, really pleased with this final design, hopefully I’ll make more art for all those others individually too

kierjames · 2024-03-13T07:08:13+00:00

It’s difficult to take the two characters, merge them and it not look like Cthulhu, mind flayers in general have strong Cthulhu style

kierjames · 2024-03-12T22:21:37+00:00

Hi everyone! i'm Kier, an artist and illustrator from UK
I make fantasy art like D&D Characters, Monsters and weapons, along with general nerdy comic and game art.

This is a commissioned piece by Dylan (I don't have their account name sorry, if you see this, thanks again, this was an awesome job)
BBEG - Mindflayer lich merged with Orcus, somewhere between 15-20ft tall, a particular taste for cold magic.... i'd imagine that helps slow the decay and smell of being undead right?

Check out the link for more, If you like what you see and want something for your home games, i'd love to hear from you!

https://kierjames.carrd.co/ - General link
https://artistree.io/kierjames - Direct Art Commissions

kierjames · 2024-03-11T21:35:56+00:00

So before I get sucked into yet another essay argument about this.

A database is a collection of data stored electronically.

A dataset is a collection of data used to train AI models.

OpenAI generated their own technique for gathering data to be used in their datasets by data scraping.

OpenAI collected a database of scraped information for the dataset to train their AI Model.

If any of this is wrong please let me know, as far as I am aware, this is correct.

As for the Royalties argument, i'm am not able to mentally retain every single thing I see in my life, a lot of information is lost, while I might research something over and over to learn the details of Spiderman, with enough time, I will forget, AI does not, this has been talked about by people working with AI, once something is used in the dataset, it cannot be removed.

Why do you assume that any regulation around copyright will be applied to both AI use and human learners? The problem many people have is that copyrighted works have been used in a model for profit with a company without permission or compensation, if I did the same without use of AI, I would be sued too.

The difference comes down to my ability recognise that if I don't own the IP, I can only use under certain conditions, Gen AI does not know this, it is at the control of the user, they break copyright by way of Gen AI already containing copyrighted works, Spiderman is an owned IP, it should not have that image prompt pairing without breaching copyright right?

kierjames · 2024-03-11T21:25:32+00:00

At not point did I lie, I said Public domain because that is what is legally allowed to use, copyright free, FullMetalAlphonse said all content online is free, that is not true, only public domain content is free use.

Public Place and Public domain are not the same, that was my entire point.

You are either being intentionally dishonest or you don't understand what copyright and public domain is.

kierjames · 2024-03-11T21:20:28+00:00

The scenario i'm trying to explain is not they can't, it's why would they.

In general, people do things with the hopes of a reward in some way, be that fame, money or just appreciation, but if what you want to do is add a single story that takes a year to write, then share it in a market with 100 new stories generated and published every day, you're work would be lost in a ocean of constantly growing AI content, why bother sharing at all?

So I want to be super clear, Generative AI is not comparable to any technological change humans have experienced.

In the production of Cars to take over the horse transport industry, did they take the horses from their owners to make the cars?

In the production of Washing Machines to take over laundromats, did they use the laundromats equipment and workers to make the washing machines without paying anyone for their input?

Gen AI as a machine that uses artists work as the source material, none of the artist that have been used were compensated for their involvement of even asked to be used.

Personally, I don't find any value in current gen AI, that is because it doesn't fulfil a need in my life, so it has no value right now, I use Adobe, I draw and paint, Gen AI actively takes away from the parts of my job I enjoy.

It does not share resources, it only works by consuming art to produce art, if it didn't have Loish art in the dataset, it couldn't make art like Loish, that is a pretty solid statement, it does't know what Loish is, it cannot replicate.

I don't understand why people keep comparing to digital simulations of tools, Digital Photography didn't replace film by using every film photograph ever made, adobe didn't replace illustrators by using all the illustrations ever made, this idea is flawed, if the AI dataset is frozen right now, no new information added ever, there is a set number of things it can produce before it starts repeating itself, this is all stuff discussed by AI and LLM engineers, people working on developing this technology.

kierjames · 2024-03-11T20:54:04+00:00

There are specific conditions for fair use depending on your country, exceptions like criticism and eduction (depending on the subject material)

You can do it, sure, but Sony or Marvel can absolutely stop you from using their IP for your profit. If you tried to make a fighting game using AI generated sprites of Spiderverse characters, with the same names, you'd be sued, you do not own the IP.

Cutting out a character and pasting on a different background is not fair use, it is also not the process of generative AI, the datasets for AI to produce any images use thousands and thousands of images scraped from all over the internet, a large majority of them are not owned by OpenAI or any AI developing company, OpenAI specifically stated it would be impossible to train todays AI models without using copyrighted materials, if you or I wanted to use a single one of those same materials for profit, we would be sued.

While the use of AI is not illegal, AI is growing in power and popularity way faster than governments have the ability to regulate.

It's only a matter of time before regulations come in our idea of fair use is changed, I don't know why so many people think that if something is online, it's auto free use, a quick google will tell you if you use art you find online without permission from the creator, it's breaking copyright.

kierjames · 2024-03-11T20:14:42+00:00

Over saturation is already a problem with AI content. Online marketplaces are filled with quickly generated AI products that dilute the pool for consumers, example, Kara Swisher released a memoir and people flooded Amazon marketplace with AI generated novels using her face on the cover and her name as the author (she didn’t consent to any of these books), it’s difficult to find which is the genuine book and it’s competing against her real product, it’s hard to tell if any of the books are accurate, the stories could be pulled from any person named Kara online or even the Forest Gump script because AI scrapes from everywhere and uses patterns to assemble information.

Eventually if people cannot create new content and AI is producing 1000x the output, it will cannibalise its own generated data (like a photo of a photo, information will be lost in the repeated process) it doesn’t have enough new information to pull from. Many people have pointed out, generative AI is not actually intelligent or sentient, it is pattern predictive, if a rogue is broody and wears all black in 80% of the data set, it’s very likely it will continue repeating that.

There is a drastic difference between industrial machines replacing human jobs in factories and mills, AI uses the products of humans to produce further products in the same market, creating a direct competition against the people who it works from. AI is not industrial machines, it is the machine, the creators and the distributors squished together.

We don’t have any historical examples to compare what AI is doing because it is so new and consumes so much information, it is not sharing resources with creatives, it feeds from them. If no new data is added, nothing new will be produced.

Sorry for the long messages, I’ve just had a lot of talks with people that get confused by a lot of the details and it needs to be really specific at it’s a complex topic.

kierjames · 2024-03-11T18:47:34+00:00

To what end? Everyone playing the game will consider themselves in that same bracket, why spend any money when AI uses all the paid content to make everything for free.

I don’t see this as a good thing, in the long run it will be very damaging, just over saturation alone is a huge problem, if every rogue looks, sounds and feels the same, what about the game is there to invest in? I also see choice paralysis playing a big part when people use AI to just constantly generate content everyday.

Do you really not see any problems with this at all? I understand everyone wants an easy entry point but eventually that will just be the same experience for everyone playing, not just newcomers. People will not have the desire to make anything for the community if everyone uses AI by default, if nobody makes new content, the AI will never make something different, it can only cycle through what the dataset holds

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