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Anonymous said: hii! i also was going to apply to intern @ riot and i was wondering what you sent them? like a portfolio? with what kind of art? thanks!

I went to their hiring page and looked over the internship page first! It basically says to send them a “note” with what you want to get out of an internship at Riot Games and what sort of skill set you have. 

I wrote them a very personal, letter of intent that was about three paragraphs long. I tried to explain myself and my artistic career up until now and where I want to be heading. I also sent my portfolio

Ultimately my suggestion is to try and speak about your strengths and what you want to do at Riot Games. They said that internships are pretty much made up if your skillset is desired. I was really apprehensive about sending my application in but a lot of Rioters gave me a lot of supportive words and wished me luck. The best advice was that you can’t achieve anything if you don’t try, so best of luck to you if you do send in an application!!

I took a few courses on hyperventilating and sent in a letter of intent for internships at Riot Games today. Wish me luck! I did this to avoid doing other work, so now I’m a bit behind for AUSA but no regrets right now…

By the way I’ll be headed off for D.C. for Anime USA this weekend (tomorrow the journey begins) so please stop by and say hello! I did the badge artwork for the convention like previous years, so I’ll be on the guest area—not sure where that is. But I hope to see you there!!

I present to you the long awaited Twisted Fate and Teemo shirts, debuting for a second time at PAX East! This poster will be at the Riot booth, pretty stoked!

I mentioned this before but I’m really happy with how my artwork for the Twisted Fate shirt came out! Can’t wait to show you guys more! 
PAX East is almost upon us! Join us for a night of partying at the Boston Tee Party at 8pm, Saturday, April 7th at Vintage Lounge. 
This is a 21+ event, but if you wear your Sanshee merch you will be eligible to win free swag. That’s right, swag.

And we may be having some guest appearances from Riot Games so be sure to get your League on! 
We will also be selling our official League of Legends Teemo and Twisted Fate shirts at PAX. Know that we also have some future, great League of Legends designs in the works and hope that we’ll be able to release those sooner than later!


All of that being said, I will be selling at Anime Boston (artist alley) as well as attending/working the Sanshee booth at PAX East. I’d love to meet up with anyone who’s going to either event but understand that I will most likely be at PAX and/or tied to a booth.
I finished this at like 2am last night, submitted it and passed out. Hahaha. I’m not entirely happy with the result but if I have some time I will go back and fix all of the things that need fixing. And that’s a lot.
But I’m glad I finished on time.
SO BIG NEWS. I work as an artist for a company that designs t-shirts for video games and nerd culture called Sanshee. We’re all big fans of League of Legends, and we were granted an opportunity to work with Riot Games for a possible shot at merchandising with them! This is one of two shirt designs that we will be displaying and selling at PAX Prime this weekend! I drew the Twisted Fate shirt and another talented artist took care of an adorable Teemo shirt. 
So if you’re going to PAX be sure to stop by the booth and buy a shirt! I’m hoping we do well enough to impress Riot Games and we can do a lot more with them in the future! : ) 
Working with Riot

I finally got the prompt for my art test with Riot!! I wish I could post the preliminary sketch and the prompt but I most likely won’t be able to release anything until it’s accepted and or published in the Journal of Justice but I’m so incredibly excited and nervous.

Hopefully what I sent will be critiqued and accepted so I can move on to the painting process and finer detailing. Regardless it’s an incredible feeling to know that I’m working with a real company in the gaming industry and all this experience will be something I can use in my future career hunting. 

Now if only I could tame the butterflies in my stomach————-!!!

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