Here is part of a large panoramic artwork I made for Kallisti Press’s The Vicious Crucible of the Villa Argentate RPG. A bunch of other stuff is occurring in this walled city where the river divides it into the unbelievably rich section, the working class section and the dirt poor section. Meanwhile, an army is camped outside its walls. You can download for free the first Vicious Crucible game entitled The Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley here! (A thumbnail link can be found in the left column under “Complete Tabletop Games”.)
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Mecha Kaiju Cover
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Two More SWAG Pickups
Two more Star Wars Artists’ Guild player character art pickups. I love picking up these requests once in a while for a warm-up sketch before work begins in the morning. Badji Hida is a Devaronian scoundrel requested for oexto‘s Edge of the Empire game. He wields a DL-18 blaster pistol, presumably with aplomb. Mano Vector is a human Special Agent of the Senate Bureau of Intelligence (before it eventually evolves into Imperial Intelligence, shudder). He was requested by one Agent M.
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D6 Magazine 5: The Space Opera Issue
The community driven D6 Magazine issue 5 has been released by Wicked North Games. This is the space opera issue with lots of space-based scenarios and stats for the Open D6 game system. Six pieces of artwork were commissioned from me for two articles. The first three are used for the scenario Outpost 1717, a sci-fi horror adventure written by Peter Schweighofer. Click on the thumbnail above for a larger view of the space scene. The second three are for Brett Pisinski’s Hard Times for the Talisman article. These are NPC portraits based on Drew Moss’ character designs that can be seen on the cover of this issue! Download D6 Magazine at DriveThruRPG at this link for free! D6 Space can be found here, also a free download.
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A Mi-Go from a Dream
Many months ago, I had a nightmare. Well, it’s not as much as a nightmare as it is weird things happening in my dream in which I should be creeped out but I don’t. I haven’t had a proper nightmare from which I wake up feeling scared for a very long time. I was walking home with friends at night under a bright full moon, and home was an apartment above a shoplot. You know the type, where you climb a single flight stairs to get to your door. At the door out on the sidewalk, I felt like I was being watched. I thought to pull aside the doormat. Beneath the doormat, in a hole, was a gigantic biological human-like eyeball. It tracked and was fixed on me wherever I moved. I don’t remember any eyelid. I covered up the eye with the mat and quickly locked the door […]
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Midget Tarrasque
Tarrasques are the most lethal creatures without a destructive breath weapon in the Dungeons and Dragons mythology. You don’t need a lot, just one will do in any RPG campaign if you need a continent or two levelled. This is either a very young tarrasque from the planet Falx (if we’re playing in a Spelljammer campaign) or a midget tarrasque. In both cases, I think the city in the image will have an hour or two before it’s reduced to rubble. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger image.
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OSR Handbook Cover
Cover for Brent Newhall’s upcoming OSR Handbook, which will be a guidebook of all existing Old School Renaissance games available. Watch this space for announcement of its release!
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Wotsit?
Back in secondary school, for some reason that I can’t recall anymore we suddenly had this bat as our mascot so to speak. Its name, Wotsit the Confused Bat, also popped up unbidden. It was easy to doodle and we doodled it here and there and everywhere. There was an earlier design where the bat had no moth and bigger shoes, but we finally decided on this design, created by my best friend. Here it is once again, in a digitally painted form, for old time’s sake.
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Across The Stars
A follow up post from the earlier D’Kathi alien concept design, here are the final artwork commissioned by Christopher Mennell for his Across The Stars science fiction game setting. While it starts out looking and feeling Star Trek with a lot of analogous signature elements, it diverges in many ways and has the potential for imaginative game masters to take it into high concept science fiction.
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Vader’s Imperial Sourcebook
Click on the picture above to view a bigger image of Vader reading the Imperial Sourcebook.
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D’Kathi Concept Design
Christopher Mennell’s Across The Stars commission is presently being worked on. Here’s a delightful surprise that occurred over email / Google+ discussions of the project. One of the aliens I have to create an initial form for is the D’Kathi. The image below is my first sketch of the alien’s head. Suddenly, artist Eric Quigley came up with his own painting of my D’Kathi design using Painter and Photoshop. It looks spectacular as can be seen below. Click here to visit Eric’s website.
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BareBones Experiment Artwork
DWD Studios came up with a great project suggestion. Somewhat like Wicked North Games’ Azamar: The Paradise Fragment project, I was to create a cover and six interior black and white artwork, which the game developers will create a adventure around them. The adventure will be a supplement to their BareBones Fantasy RPG. The cover has a creature that’s pretty blue about things. How will the rest of the artwork be used in the still-untitled adventure? Watch this space when I announce its eventual release at the end of the year. Here are the rest of the interior images.
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Vicious Crucible of the Eburnean Tower
Here is a large artwork I made for Kallisti Press’s The Vicious Crucible of the Eburnean Tower RPG, to be released later. Strange things are happening in and around the Eburnean Tower. Click on the picture above to see a larger image. You can download for free the first Vicious Crucible game The Vicious Crucible of Verdigris Valley here to check it out!
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Westward RPG Creature Wallpaper
And here is the latest batch of creatures that inhabit not just the deserts, but the lesser illustrated jungle and tundra of Westward… presented in the form of a 1280px by 800px wallpaper! Tentative names from left to right: Ice Fish, Entracter Crab Spider, Death Ogler, Snow Globber. Watch for the Westward RPG core rule book to be released by year’s end!
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Hipster Penanggalan
Here is a penanggalan with hipster glasses.
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Westward RPG Critters – Part 4
Some more bizarre alien creatures were commissioned by Wicked North Games for their space steampunk western role-playing game Westward! While you’re riding a shieldhorse or piloting a steam-powered mech, you might come across these guys in the Badlands of Westward.
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Mecha RPG
Heroic Journey Publishing commissioned a series of artwork for the Mecha Mercenaries supplement for their Mecha RPG. Here are some, but not all, of the mecha arrayed together to form a 1280px by 800px black and white wallpaper for your widescreen monitor. Check out their fantastic Mecha RPG at DriveThruRPG, which is fun, simple to play and very true to its source!
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