Once upon a time, Ralph McQuarrie illustrated a coffee table art book written by Kevin J. Anderson called The Illustrated Star Wars Universe. McQuarrie, if you didn’t know, was one of the first conceptual artists for Star Wars. It was with his paintings that George Lucas was able to convince […]
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Mecha Kaiju Cover
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Cover for Azamar: The Paradise Fragment
Apart from some interior art I did for Wicked North Games’ Azamar RPG supplement The Paradise Fragment – as seen in a previous post – I was also tasked with the painting of the cover for the book. It took me three different tries to get it right. The floating […]
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The sequel to The Adepts Book 1: Furato will soon be released and here’s the cover I painted for it. The blog entry about the cover for the first novel can be found here. Without further ado, here’s the red-tinged cover painting for The Adepts Book 2: Empath, continuing the […]
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The Queen of Air and Darkness
The Queen of Air and Darkness is the title of T.H. White’s second novel of his Once and Future King series. In the Star Wars universe, the Queen of Air and Darkness is a sabacc face card that possesses a value of negative two. There was a request on the […]
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Encounters ~ Plots ~ Places: Barlax
A new commission for Ben Gerber’s Encounters ~ Plots ~ Places Kickstarter project is a book. Well, I draw a book. You can’t find this book at Barnes and Nobles because of its unearthly, eldritch and trickster nature. So you can probably search for it at Amazon.com. Barlax From the […]
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Azamar: Paradise Fragment 2
Here is the final interior artwork for the scenes in Azamar: The Paradise Fragment RPG supplement. Instead of including it with the group of artwork in the previous post, I shall describe how the illustration came into being using work-in-progress photos. First, pencils are made for the half-page sized illustration. […]
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Azamar: Paradise Fragment 1
Here are some interior artwork for the Azamar role-playing game’s upcoming supplement The Paradise Fragment. Player Characters (PCs) are sent to the deserted and floating city of Adrya Orth on a mission and uncover a deadly secret. What is the secret? Don’t look at me I’m just the illustrator, not […]
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Two cover artwork were commissioned by Ebb & Folks for their Iqliptiq Books science fiction imprint. The first is for a prequel and the other a sequel. [[image:ebb-n-folks-rhittach-cover.jpg:Two Blades, One Customer:center:0]] Rhittach: The Beginning This short story tells the rise of Rhittach, the Payan warrior featured in the novel The […]
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D6 Magazine: Two Monsters
Two final images commissioned for the latest D6 Magazine issue featured two entries below are the Redcap and the Springheeled Jack and lots of spilled blood. Springheeled Jack Download the zine from DrivethruRPG to read about them, complete with OpenD6 stats!
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A Squad of Clones Plus Change
These are illustrations for pregen characters for a Star Wars Saga game to be run by Gary Astleford at Totalcon 2012. The one in Massachusetts, not the one on Commenor. Register quick if you want to get in on the clone action.
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Some Encounters ~ Some Plots ~ Some Places
Ben Gerber’s latest RPG Kickstarter project is Encounters ~ Plots ~ Places, where you’ll be given a whole slew of role-playing game NPCs, creatures, weapons, gear and locations you can easily adapt to your own campaign! Lots of awesome stuff about, such as the ones I was commissioned to draw […]
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D6 Magazine: Hellhound
The Halloween issue of D6 Magazine will be a bit late, but here’s a late commission from the publishers! I’m not in the loop as to which article this illustration is slated to be in, but I guess said article has a Hellhound in it! And it seems to be […]
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Void Vulture Scrawlings
Three more Void Vultures RPG artwork was commissioned over the week and a half and here’s what I’ve come up with. Click on the thumbnails to view bigger images, but I can tell you that the world of the spaceborne Void Vultures are filled with psionics in peril, homicidal brainbots, […]
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Uncanny X-Men 159: Cornered
Cornered blog’s event this week is CORNERED FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE! My contribution is Uncanny X-Men #159 where the X-Men meets not just any vampire, but Dracula himself, who finds himself enamoured by Storm! Vampire hunting hijinks ensues. My entry can be found here. I’d drawn another picture using inkbrush, […]
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Revisit: The Vacation is Over
After half a day of house cleaning, I discovered a long lost stash of old artwork. So I thought I’d post some of them on the blog and link to their final versions elsewhere (or on this blog itself if available.) Here are pencils for the artwork for “The Vacation […]
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Void Vultures Scribblings
Void Vultures is a role-playing game by Miriam Robern and Ryan Macklin where players take the roles of space derelict retrieval personnel – salvage experts, so to speak. Space is littered with dead, derelict starships and space stations and players will have to salvage them. However, it’s no easy task […]
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