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Artwork by Gabriel F. Danilchik

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Barrow Wight

From J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book I, Chapter 8: “Fog on the Barrow-Downs).”

Graphite and wax-pencil on midtone paper, 2025.

The Shire

Graphite and wax-pencil on midtone paper, 2025.

Minas Morgul

From J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, Book IV, Chapter 8: “The Stairs of Cirith Ungol”).

Graphite and wax-pencil on midtone paper, 2025.

Paths of the Dead

Graphite and wax-pencil on midtone paper, 2025.

From J.R.R. Tolkien’s Return of the King, (The Lord of the Rings: Book V, Chapter 2, “The Passing of the Grey Company”).

Amphibians

Amphibians of the Pacific Northwest…

Pacific Tree Frog warrior, Western Toad mage, & Rough-skinned Newt ranger, out on a swampy quest through the rainforest.

Available on T-shirts here!

©2026

Beholder

Beholder, spectator, watcher, onlooker, witness…

Drawn in Procreate and finalized in Photoshop for T-shirt printing, but started out as a watercolor painting.

Available on T-shirts here!

©2026

Dozens of Dragons

Bandana design of dozens of different dragons.

Bandanas can be purchased here!

©2026, drawn in Procreate

Weaponry, Radial

Medieval Weaponry arranged radially. Designed for a bandana in 2023.

Drawn by hand in Procreate, arranged and edited in Photoshop.

©2023

Lich Necromancer

Ink on paper, digitally edited and altered for finalization and black background.

Available for purchase as a Longsleeve shirt!

©2023

Necromancer's Tome

Sleeve print design for the Lich Necromancer Longsleeve Tee, showing the shackles of dark magic that bind the sorcerer to his power and arcane knowledge.

©2024

Forbidden Fruit

The serpent and the apple in the Garden of Eden.

Hand-drawn using Procreate.

©2023

Anvil of the Underworld

Hammer and Anvil, forging a demonic sword, encircled by tongues of fire.

Hand-drawn using Procreate.

©2022

Knights' Duel

Red Knight, Green Knight, Blacklight.

A final showdown between two armored knights straight from Arthurian legend, in a psychedelic color scheme.

Available for purchase in a 3-color T-shirt and a full-color neon Blacklight Poster version.

Whiskey in the Jar

18th-century scene of a highwayman robbing a stage-coach.

Featured in the April 2015 "My Rules" print show at Portland Community College's Sylvania gallery, as part of the Southern Graphics Council International conference.

Purchase prints here.

Mesoamerican

Conquering the Conquistador.

Originally inspired by modern Guatemalan statues of the legendary Mayan warrior king Tecun Uman, this piece also conjures names like Kukulkan, the Feathered Serpent—or Quetzalcoatl of the Aztec, the creator-god of death and rebirth, storms and earthquakes.

©2021

Two Sisters

The classic murder ballad of a jealous fratricide, with the phantom minstrel fashioning a fiddle from the drowned girl’s bones.

Copperplate line etching with aquatint.

9” x 12”

2014

More details and purchasing info here

E Pluribus Mortem

Out of many..... death

One ravenous carrion bird gorging itself on the plunders of greed and waste, under the pitiless gaze of providence.

©MMXVII

Available for purchase as a black T-shirt and as a letterpress print.

Wolf Arch

Lycanthropy under silver and gold entwined boughs, in “Summer,” “Winter,” and “Blood” color schemes.

Designed and printed for a letterpress print, as well as a “Blood Wolf” T-shirt variation.

2018

Purchasing options from the shop:

“Summer Wolf” Print

“Winter Wolf” Print

“Blood Wolf” Unisex/Men’s T-shirt

“Blood Wolf” Unisex/Men’s Tanktop

“Blood Wolf” Women’s T-shirt

“Blood Wolf” Women’s Tanktop

Planet Zed

Oasis Ambush on the Frontier Planet Zed!

A pack of ravening cyborg-hyenas threaten a lone gunslinger on his trusty saurian steed.

This piece was a submission for "Sand & Chrome," a sci-fi/western themed art show at SLC-based comics café Watchtower, in April 2018.

Prints available for purchase here.

Tsarevich

The son of the Tsar, a Slavic prince mounted on the back of a wolf, his banner emblazoned with a Firebird feather.

Copperplate line etching with softground, aquatint, and chine-collé

9” x 12”

2015

Guardian

An ancient sword guarded by a silver dragon.

This drawing began as a pencil doodle in 2012, but after revisiting it over the next several years it finally gained completion as a digital drawing—with physical iterations in letterpress print and T-shirt form—in 2017.

Purchasing options available:

Unisex/Men’s T-shirt

Unisex/Men’s Tanktop

Letterpress Print

Arachnocervid

A large spider perched among the antlers of a deer skull, representing the order behind the cycle of life and death. This was originally a drawing done in white paint marker on black matteboard, but has now been screen-printed in the two colors you see here.

Available for sale in the following formats:

Silkscreen poster-print

Unisex T-shirt

Women’s Tank

Weightless

Weightless as Feathers on Scales: Aerial battle between the mythical roc and a winged serpent. Designed to be a four-color letterpress print.

2016

Purchase prints here

Empty Conquest

A lone cosmonaut explores a mysterious planetscape.

Originally designed as a letterpress print, the first 11” x 14” edition was featured in June 2015 at the “Less Is More” gallery show at The Mandate Press, in Salt Lake City.

Purchasing options:

Unisex/Men’s T-shirt

Unisex/Men’s Tank

Women’s Tank

Crop Top tee

Old Gods

An ensemble of artifacts from the North, signifying harvest, war, sacrifice, death, and life. Depicted are Thor's hammer Mjolnir, Odin's spear Gungnir, and the sickle of Freyr, with the swords and axes of the valiant slain, framed by the leaves of an ash to represent Yggdrasil, the World-Tree.

Available in the following styles:

Unisex/Men’s T-shirt

Unisex/Men’s Tanktop

Women’s T-shirt

Women’s Tanktop

Wormtongue

Vizier of ill counsel whispering evil words.

Originally an ink drawing, this piece was then editioned as an 8” x 10” letterpress print in 2016.

Purchase prints here

Brace Yourself

Brace yourself! Inversion is coming.

T-shirt design with good (albeit satyrical) advice for those living in Salt Lake City, Utah where, during the coldest days of the year, the temperature inversion created by the Salt Lake valley's bowl-shaped mountains traps the air pollution of the city at ground level and makes you realize that Winter is, in fact, here.

Available for purchase in the following styles:

Unisex/Men’s T-shirt

Unisex/Men’s Longsleeve

Women’s T-shirt

Cephalopoidal Disruption

Deep-sea welders facing off against a kraken-like octopus monster.

Designed for and featured in the August 2016 “Prints & Pints: NSFW” show at The Mandate Press in Salt Lake City, as an 11” x 14” letterpress print.

Revisited in 2018 as a T-shirt design.

Purchasing options available:

Unisex/Men's T-shirt

Unisex/Men's Tank

Honeybees

Sweet as honey, for the good of the hive.

Mandala design of honeybees bearing a drop of honey, referencing the Malia pendant, an artifact discovered in Crete in a Minoan tomb.

©2017

Actias Luna

Actias Luna, the Luna Moth, with the phases of the moon wrapped in golden vines.

Print and Garment purchasing options:

Unisex/Men’s T-shirt

Unisex/Men’s Tanktop

Women’s T-shirt

Women’s Tanktop

Hamlet

Shakespearean soliloquy: Hamlet in the shape of a skull. Original calligraphy done by hand in 2014 with walnut ink, and eventually made into a polymer plate for letterpress printing in 2019.

Seraphim

Angels of creativity and craft. Submission for a “Prints & Pints” letterpress art show at The Mandate Press for Salt Lake Design Week 2017.

Letterpress prints for sale here.

Surge of Pain

Unused death metal concept art.

2015

Gargoyle

Caprasphinxus Rhamphorhynchus, a sphinx-like chimera composed of goat, baboon, & pterodactyl elements.

Reductive woodcut, in Dusk and Dawn editions

9” x 12”

2015

Morning Glory

The Angel of Death counting down the hours.

Screen-printed with two split-fountain screens

9” x 12”

2014

Dragonslayer

St. George slays the beast of yore (the last dinosaur, perhaps).

A copper-plate etching study utilizing softground and spit-bite techniques.

9”x12”

2012.

Metamorphocyst

A gruesome visage.

Copperplate line etching with softground

6” x 9”

2014

Firebird

The mythical bird of Russian folklore.

Hand-carved in wood and proofed in 2013, then revisited and editioned on a 1950s Vandercook Universal in 2017.

Edited into a T-shirt design in 2019.

Purchasing options here:

Woodcut Poster

Unisex/Men’s T-shirts

Cossacks

Collage of old generations.

Papercut

14” x 17”

2013

Dama

The Queen of Spades, based on a Ukrainian Cossack playing card by Vladislav Erko.

Four-color process copperplate etching with chine-collé

4” x 6”

2013

Bogatyr Escort

Bogatyr knights leading an evacuation from the sacking of Kiev.

Line etched triptych from three copper plates

8.5” x 9”

2013

Dragonslayer

Also called St. George Slaying the Last Dinosaur.

Copperplate etching with softground & aquatint

9” x 12”

2012

Warrior

Etching study using a reclaimed plate, turning a self-portrait into a medieval battle scene.

Line etched with aquatint

4” x 6”

2012

Barrow Wight

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The Shire

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Minas Morgul

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Paths of the Dead

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Amphibians

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Beholder

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Dozens of Dragons

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Weaponry, Radial

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Lich Necromancer

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Necromancer's Tome

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Forbidden Fruit

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Anvil of the Underworld

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Knights' Duel

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Whiskey in the Jar

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Mesoamerican

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Kukulkan

Two Sisters

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E Pluribus Mortem

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Wolf Arch

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Planet Zed

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Tsarevich

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Guardian

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Arachnocervid

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Weightless

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Empty Conquest

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Old Gods

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Wormtongue

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Brace Yourself

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Cephalopoidal Disruption

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Honeybees

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Actias Luna

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Hamlet

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Seraphim

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Surge of Pain

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Gargoyle

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Morning Glory

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Dragonslayer

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Dragonslayer

Metamorphocyst

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Firebird

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Cossacks

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Dama

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Bogatyr Escort

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Warrior

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©2026 Archangel Impressions, LLC