{"id":1158,"date":"2026-02-12T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/15-badass-fantasy-paintings-by-daarken-mike-lim-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:34:00","slug":"15-badass-fantasy-paintings-by-daarken-mike-lim-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/12\/15-badass-fantasy-paintings-by-daarken-mike-lim-2\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Badass Fantasy Paintings by Daarken (Mike Lim)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mike Lim or \u201cDaarken\u201d<\/a> to his followers, is a freelance concept artist for games. He began his professional career in 2004 after receiving an unexpected call from Wizards of the Coast–while he was playing video games, of course.<\/p>\n Since then, he has been a mainstay in the gaming industry, working for big entities such as Mythic, Blizzard, Fantasy Flight Games, Applibot, and more.<\/p>\n Having his career seems to be a dream come true for anyone who shares his two greatest passions. Here are some of our favorite pieces from his labor of love:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The post 15 Badass Fantasy Paintings by Daarken (Mike Lim)<\/a> appeared first on Paintable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being an artist AND gamer, this man is living the dream… Mike Lim or \u201cDaarken\u201d to his followers, is a freelance concept artist for games. He began his professional career in 2004 after recei<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.texasalcohollicensing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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