Tor.com Article on GDDS

G. D. Falksen of Tor.com wrote a fantastic article on my artwork as a part of their "December Belongs to Cthulhu", a month long series relating to the Lovecraft Mythos. You should go and check it out, or the tentacled thing-that-cannot-be-described from Vhoorl will eat your brains.

New Art: CONSTRUCT

Just finished up a new piece entitled CONSTRUCT.

New Projects Added / Philcon Schedule

I've just added a long list of various projects to GrendelsDen.net, including work for Information Society, Platform one, Dave Ghoul, and Shadowland Lancaster. To see all of the new stuff just browse through GrendelsDen.net.

I also just received my guest schedule for Philcon, Philadelphia's annual science fiction, fantasy, and horror conference. You can check it our below.

Fri 7:00 PM in Plaza V (Five) (1 hour)
THE SCIENCE OF ZOMBIES (19)
[Panelists: Ty Drago (mod), D.E. Christman, Jonathan Maberry, Michael D. Pederson, James Prego]
Are there any scientifically plausible theories for reanimation

Fri 8:00 PM in Plaza II (Two) (1 hour)
ZOMBIE JAMBOREE (100)
[Panelists: Tony Finan (mod), Michael Swanwick, D.E. Christman, James Chambers, Jonathan Maberry]
Jane Austen spinning in her grave. The current fascination of all things zombie

Sat 12:00 PM in Plaza V (Five) (1 hour)
STEAMPUNK ART: WHO'S DOING IT AND WHY WE LIKE IT. (121)
[Panelists: Kyle Cassidy (mod), D.E. Christman, Thomas Nackid]
A discussion of steampunk artists

Sat 1:00 PM in Plaza IV (Four) (1 hour)
YOUR INTERNET PRESENCE AND YOU (132)
[Panelists: Rob Balder (mod), Ray Ridenour, Dusti Lewars, Walter Hunt, D.E. Christman]
Maybe you're an author who wants to use their website for promotional purposes. Maybe you've started a blog. Or you could be an IT professional with on online resume. What should you know, and be concerned about, regarding your presence on the Internet

Sat 2:00 PM in Plaza III (Three) (1 hour)
THE BUSINESS OF ART: MARKETING & PROMOTION (115)
[Panelists: D.E. Christman (mod), James Harknell, Heidi Hooper, Alan Beck, Sally Wiener Grotta]
Online marketing and promotion. Ways to create a professional web presence

Sun 11:00 AM in Plaza V (Five) (1 hour)
DRAWN TO THE DARK: THE APPEAL OF HORROR ART (113)
[Panelists: D.E. Christman (mod), Mark E. Rogers, Kyle Cassidy, Thomas Nackid, Hartstein Onezumi]
What draws artists to do horror art? What draws fans to love these images of gore and creepiness.

Upcoming Show: Nov. 6th

I'll be participating in a two person show, with the opening reception this Friday. Details are below.

Friday November 6th, 2009


Strange Creations - A Steampunk Art Show
Talleyville Gallery
3625 Silverside Road
Wilmington, DE
See site for details

Work In Progress

Since I've had a lot of work over the past few months I haven't really had the time to make any proper updates to GrendelsDen.net. But you can expect to see all of that new material soon; artwork, promotional materials, music packaging designs, websites... yeah, there's a lot to add. In the meantime though, to keep your morbid interests, here's another look into a piece of artwork in progress. Enjoy!

Fangoria Feature

Ben Smith from Fangoria.com's blog has a great article on Grendel's Den Design Studio, which you can read here.

I personally wanted to thank Ben for the feature. I greatly appreciate it.

Gary A. Braunbeck Portrait

The author that I was creating a portrait for is one of my all time favorites - Gary A. Braunbeck. The piece is finally completed and you can check it out in the GDDS Gallery.

There's also some new promotional material designs in the GDDS Print Section.

Work In Progress

I rarely show one of my art pieces before they're finished, but I am so damned happy with the progress of this one thus far that I have to show it off. This is an author's portrait, sans author right now since I don't want to let the cat out of the bag as to who it's for. I will give you a hint though - They're an award-winning author. Ha! Like that really narrows it down, right.

Upcoming Group Show / New Art and Design

I'll be participating in the group showing OBSCURA / Catwalk Tragedy, a two day event taking place on Friday May 1st and Saturday May 2nd at the The Trocadero Theatre here in Philadelphia. There will be various performances including Live Not on Evil and Rigor Mortis Review and a few photography book releases. I'll be there for the first night OBSCURA so be sure to come out and support local Philly creativity.

I've uploaded a couple of new things: A new print design for the upcoming event Power Strip Festival, which takes place July 10th and 11th at the The Trocadero Theatre. There's also new a new piece of artwork entitled "FINAL CUT", which is also available as a print!

National Haunters Convention This Weekend

This Friday and Saturday I will be participating at the National Haunters Convention, which will be held at the Valley Forge Convention Center. You can catch GDDS at booth 1105 so be sure to stop by. I'm also running a seminar "Building Your Online Presence", which will take place on Friday at 9:00AM.

ISP Outage

Verizon, my Internet Service Provider, is experiencing outages throughout the Philadelphia region today and doesn't expect to have things back to normal until 1:00 PM (EST) today. This means that my online access will be sporadic until Verizon has this issue fixed later today.

Ravencon Cancellation

Unfortunately I've had to cancel my appearance at next month's Ravencon. Even though I won't be there I highly suggest that you check it out. It's one of the better SciFi cons on the East Coast in my opinion.

Two New Projects Added To GDDS

I just added two new projects to the site:

The website design for VignetteNoir.com, which was created for the very talented artist Calyn Williams.

The promotional design for 2009 Philly Zombie Crawl, which is organized by the zombielicious PhillyZombieCrawl.com.

Be sure to check them both out!

New Site Design for Grendel's Den Design Studio

I decided that this site needed a major makeover, so here we go, a nice and new design for Grendel's Den Design Studio. It's more business focused so it will be easier for you to find information on all of the services that are offered. And the overall back-end is more streamlined so things should run faster. Please take a look around and if you happen to find anything wonky please let me know.

Away from Office Today (3/4)

One's chances of being selected for jury duty are vastly higher than winning the lottery. Guess which one I got? I will be serving jury duty for the city of Philadelphia today, Wednesday, March 4th. I will not be available via any means until later tonight. If you need anything you can email me at dave@grendelsden.net and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Wicked Faire This Weekend

Grendel's Den Design Studio will be attending this weekend's Wicked Faire. Our table will be located in Salon F / G, so please stop on by and say hello. For those not in the know, Wicked Faire is a large three day event that is part Ren Faire, part Alternative Music festival, part scifi con - it's an event for all things nerdy.

Wicked Faire takes place at the Hanover Marriott in Whippany, New Jersey. The event runs from Friday at 2:00pm to Sunday 5:00pm.

The Hanover Marriott
1401 Route 10 E
Whippany, NJ
Go here for a Google map and to get directions.

WICKED WINTER - Dead of Winter Art Show (2/6/09)

WICKED WINTER, Dead of Winter Art Show

Show Dates - February 6th to 28th
Opening Friday February 6th, starting at 5pm
With live performance from The Young Werewolves (8pm)

The Artists:
D.E. Christman
Asia DeVinyl
Steve Ellis
Ric Frane
Bombshell Mandy
Kristen Margiotta
Wendy M.

Talleyville Frame Shoppe & Gallery
3625 Silverside Rd.
Wilmington, DE 19810
(302) 478-1163