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Khairul The Rodian Carbineer

I'm finally a Rodian.

Not really.

But props to Asok Yeesrim the Gran, another Agent of SWAG, for illustrating a Rodian carbineer by the name of Khairul. Khairul was named in honour of myself. The artwork looks badass, with fantastic costume and prop design. Also of note is the Rodian's lack of flexible spines on his scalp, which coincidentally I have doodled before to draw a "bald" Rodian.

Click here to view a larger image on DeviantArt.

Thanks, man. I really dig your Mike Allred-esque style. Here's hoping Khairul the Rodian has more luck bringing in the credits than I do.

Irfan Draws Again

Note the day-old mustache and stubble I have.

Strikeforce Enteague: The Pioneer Team

Once upon a time I had a Geocities Page, where upon I uploaded a lot of Star Wars artwork. Soon the plug will be pulled on Geocities, so a link there from here is a futile gesture. However, there are a bunch of drawings of my first ever Strikeforce Enteague campaign character for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game from back in 1989. The game started in 1989, but these drawings are from 2001 - 2002, by the way. I thought I'd upload them on here for posterity's sake. (Note: this is not every player character of that era. Someday, I'll get around to drawing everyone.)

Players, you know who you are.

Shanna Toarinar, human bounty hunter

Gauntlet Starfighter

Gauntlet starfighter, manufactured by Shobquix Yards, was created a long time ago by West End Games for their Star Wars Roleplaying Game line as can be seen here at Wookieepedia. It first appeared in Planets of the Galaxy, Vol 1 in the "Isen IV" chapter. And in its debut, it was only a tiny little stats block. No image at all.

So I thought to myself the other day, why don't I try to draw one based on the plans seen in the Wookieepedia entry above which was later released in a later publication.

Click on the thumbnail to view a larger picture.

A Bad Example Of A Group Portrait

Here is a picture of the crew of the Bad Example, the Star Wars RPG campaign I've been running sporadically with GOKL. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger image of the gang.

Front: T'k'li a.k.a. Tickley, the Jawa Jedi.

Back (L-R): Ssssawar the Trandoshan cook, Captain Hunter Maelstrom, Neh'Koh'Moo'Su'May a.k.a "Annie" the Trianii co-pilot, HK-78 a.k.a. "Weapon-X" and Aden the former Clone Trooper.

SWAG Request: Rhen Sannin

Shane's about to start a Star Wars RPG campaign and requested his major NPC Rhen Sannin, the freighter captain from the Star Wars Artists' Guild.

After giving some time for any other guild members to pick it up, I decided to claim the request earlier today... so I got to practice with the tablet and Painter Classic again, which is always good.

After some hours, here's Captain Rhen Sannin all made up and prettied, complete with blue milk on the side, cyborged limb and a datapad.

Click here for its SWAG entry page.

Hope this artwork gets some milage in your campaign, buddy.

More Pictures Painted With A Tablet

This time it's not me.

Irfan's learned to not only draw and colour pictures digitally, but he's also learnt to use layers. I'd create a file for him with two layers, and he'll do the rest. He select the top layer to draw his line art. Then, he'll select the bottom layer and choose the colours he want to paint.

Let's go through one artwork at a time:

Take for example this piece here, some kind of a plant based monster complete with petals and legs. Bewildered by the roof like structure atop the monster's face, he finally revealed to me today that the creature was based on Constance's final incarnation in Monster House. The antennae apparently receives television signals.

The Parents of One Irfan Shafiq

Irfan drew some stuff which I thought I'd put up here.

Here's Irfan's Abah.

And then, here's Irfan's Ummi.

Arakyd Diamondback Droid Stats

It was during the Enteague Sector campaign for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game which I GMed perhaps fifteen years ago. A new team of the Strikeforce Enteague, consisting of younger members, had to investigate the Malc Toldreyn Library on the planet Neeuderni to solve the campaign mystery arc of why an Imperial Admiral (no names here, cause in retrospect the NPC naming convention I used at around this time sucked) wanted Ham Slacker the tongue-tied engineer dead.

Naturally, the Imperials attacked during the investigation. Radio communications on and around the planet was jammed. It turned out that the Imps had deployed a Diamondback droid which is designed to jam planetary and interplanetary communications. The group borrowed the local defence forces' CloakShape fighters to attack the droid, which had its own defences in the form of anti-fighter cannons.

I 've rewritten down the D6 stats slightly modified from my original pencil notes and uploaded them to Phil Hatfield's site D6 Universe for posterity's sake.

I've reproduced it here for my own reference.

Illustration Friday: Sail

The topic for Illustration Friday for this week is "sail", as can be seen above. Now what would be weird is if the camera pans down and we see the mast planted firmly on a field instead of a boat. A higher resolution version of the image can be found here.

Only You Can Save The World

I was tagged with a meme by Lil at iFantabulous some time ago and I finally got around to writing (and illustrating) it today.

What I have to do is to fill out the form with 5 lines below to reveal my secret superhero identity and come up with an image of my alter ego.

So, a superhero, eh? Here goes nothing.

Illustration Friday: Poof!

Or more specifically, what happens after the poof!

For Illustration Friday.

Illustration Friday: Foggy

Finally an Illustration Friday artwork that's actually published on a Friday!

This week's  topic is apparently "foggy".

Click on the thumbnail to the left to see the full illustration.

It's nothing special. Just a simple, literal interpretation of the topic.

Illustration Friday: Baby

An Illustration Friday entry, done before the weekend is over. The topic is merely "Baby". The other parts where it has cables connected to its cranium and spine are mostly me.

A Novel Tale of a Novel Cover

Once upon a time, I went to study on how to repair flying machines.

During my dozens of years (not really, just 2 and a half years) of studying there were many instructors that taught me different aspects of flying machine repairs.

Some taught me metalwork, some taught me electrics, some taught me theory of flight.

One particular person taught me about turbine engines. He was a tall gentleman, he was.

Over the years after I returned home, I've always known from second hand accounts that he's now living in this country. In recent years, I've had the pleasure of meeting up with him again briefly.

Last month, he and his lovely wife came down all the way from Ulu Klang (which is about 10 klicks up the Middle Ring Road) asked me to produce a cover for a science fiction novel that he has written and is about to publish.

So I've used all my turbine engine skills and knowledge* to come up with this following cover:

This is only a draft. It might be used, or it might not. But one thing's for sure, I had a lot of fun conjuring up the painting.

Further details about the novel shall be written as entries unto this website when I get more information about it and its upcoming release.

*_{"...turbine engine skills and knowledge"? Not bloody likely.}

The Gallery Is Upgraded

After a long time of uploading images and hard coding the html (and later php) files into the Hishgraphics Gallery, I've now deleted the old setup and replaced it with a proper Coppermine Gallery CMS. It took some time to get the hang of the system, but I think I have it down enough to get by. There are still a bunch of stuff from the old gallery still not updated to the new place, but I'll fill it up as time goes by.

Sorry, I don't intend for the gallery to be a community site - that's what this blog is for - so comments and ratings are disabled. Just enjoy the stuff I got on there.

Two Alien SWAG Requests

It's been a while since I took some time off to draw requests for SWAG. Here are two new characters: Colonel Toby Aambar, as requested by "donp" and Whistler, as requested by "Velovich". Toby is an Ortolan not an ortolan, and Whistler is a Tynnan, whose species first appeared in Brian Daley's Han Solo's Revenge.

Click to expand images:

A Donovian Technician on SWAG

Here's Frobi-wan Kenobi's request which I did on Star Wars Artists' Guild, a female tech from the rainy world of Donovia, Kaydra Leeronel. Click on the thumbnail to view the full picture.

Click here to read the request thread.

Click here to see a bigger picture on SWAG.

Click here to an even bigger picture on deviantArt.

Click here to play Chasm. It's Irfan new favourite game and it has nothing to do with this post at all.

Ha.

Three Recent SWAG Requests

Here are three recent Star Wars Artist Guild requests. Each thumbnail is a link to a bigger artwork.

From left to right: Berdan Ngajio Angantire is a Mandalorian Death Watchman's son, Ryavar Darek is a Togorian Jedi and Jacen Fel is an Imperial Knight from the Legacy era. Click on the links on their names to view even larger pieces of artwork on deviantArt. There are links to the SWAG pages from the deviantArt pages.

Gungan Slicer, A SWAG Request

My first official completed SWAG request since this blog went live is done. The artwork was requested by Acheron and he wanted a picture of a Gungan slicer (a Star Wars term for a hacker, is all).

So, here's a purple skinned Gungan like Captain Tarpals, wearing a headgear with a comlink and a blaster pistol, quickly typing on the keyboard to retrieve some restricted data from a computer database.

Hopefully, he isn't discovered by guards any time soon.

As a bonus, here's a SWAG blog (Swog?) entry of the picture taking it through three days as a work-in-progress in this laptop, from its pencil work in Painter Classic to what it turned out to be.