Joel DuQue

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Hi Joel. I'm a huge fan of your work. So much that I've been using a picture of yours as my avatar on Twitter for a few weeks. :) I was wondering if I could have your permission to use that same image on my Twitch page to officially represent me- at least while I'm getting started? The image in question is Black Mage: A Portrait - I'll leave my name out so I can't be accused of plugging. Thank you for the consideration and for your beautiful work.

sure, I would love it if I could be credited somewhere in your bio! Thank you so much for asking! 

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Here is a bright sunny forest sketch! Going to be coming in with more BATTLETECH soon!

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BATTLETECH Vol 3. We’re close to the release of BATTLETECH! Coming April 24th on steam and GOG. Here are some more paintings featured in cutscenes in the game!

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I was playing through Dark Souls 3 awhile ago and sketched up a version of my character. I loved Sirris and her armor set. The souls games are big inspirations for me in many ways from world building to artistry. Hope to see more soon!

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Some paintings were let out for BATTLETECH recently. We had some recent press releases and I was able to post some art finally! Many many more to come later!

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Sketch from yesterday. The topic was Inexplicable Animals. The wolf's Mona monkey is such a fascinating blue colored monkey.

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Missed posting these here! Awhile back I was able to paint some art for BATTLETECH coasters merchandise. For each one i tried emulating a famous artist. 1. Gemini Stables: This was very Nouveau, Mucha inspired. I’ve always wanted to chase that aesthetic a little more closely! 2. Silver Dragon Stables: This one was going more towards Frank Frazetta in colors and stark shadowing. It was really fun to try and emulate. 3. Valrayvn Koschei: This was less a specific artist and more pursuing Graffiti and dripped wall art. Something really tough for me.  4. Legend Killer: This was full pin up, Gil Elvgren is a great pinup artist I love, so I tried doing some of his softer strokes and blends. 

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Fall topic for our sketch friday at work! I love working in these colors! I also included the much more appropriate sketch part of it. Since i sort of went over my allotted time a little bit. 

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Tropical Seclusion A cleaned up version of a sketch from quite awhile ago. I’ve always loved bright color and floral aesthetic. Going to be selling this one at RCCC as well!

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Hey everyone!  I’m doing a con for the first time ever! I’ll be at Rose City Comic Con this weekend with a couple of my good friends @hollisketch and Maury Weiss. I’ll be selling some select prints! Come by and say hi! Illustration done by @hollisketch

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Echo Topic was a fun exploration today. Something pretty different but It was nice to get out of my comfort zone!

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Serpent Tamer A cleaned up sketch from a bit ago. I had a lot of different ideas for how the snake would turn out. Was really nice to get into some big colors!

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Moon A fun attempt at the character design challenge that was going on for the month of July. The prompt was a Tarot card as a character. I always loved Akihiko Yoshida’s Tarot decks from Ogre Battle and Tactics Ogre. I’m all about the elegant and mysterious yet dark visuals. 

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Something I sketched tonight. I may have been a little inspired by current events.

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Been a little bit since my last posts! Here’s a Valkyrie sketch from a bit ago! 

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Sketches I liked from the past weeks!

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Shadowrun: Hong Kong, Skyline Throwback Thursday to a city painting I did for SR:HK. I was trying to do something Blade Runner-esque with it. I still like how the colors turned out at least!