The Bare Bones Game System – to be published by DwD Studios – is a rules-lite, multi-genre role-playing game formatted onto playing card-sized cards. Here are artwork for players that will be printed on card-sized character sheets for a standard fantasy-type world with the usual suspects: Human, Elf, Halfling and Dwarf.
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Mecha Kaiju Cover
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Tugboats for Sages of RPG
Here are some tugboat illustrations for a card game by Sages of RPG. Watch this space for more details on the card game! And the card back: Check out the next entry for the cargo ships they guide in… using the game rules.
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Villains and Vigilante Card Art
Recently, I have been commissioned by Superhuman Games to produce seven Power Cards for their licenced Villains and Vigilantes card game. I am honoured to be illustrating scenes with characters created by Jeff Dee. Spyder and Condor are grappling on the subway tracks as a train approaches. Dreamweaver issues forth a host of spectres in combat. Motivator telekinetically causes Space Racer to feel pain in his gut. Stigmata pops out of thin air behind Gauntlet. Blastar fires a burst of deadly energy from his body. Lady Armageddon does what she does best. Auntie Gertrude feeds an injured Condor soup as he recuperates.
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Power Pack: Cornered
Power Pack is one of Sila’s favourite comic books back in the day. When I thought about submitting art to the Cornered blog where artists reproduce corner art from comic books, I figured, “Why not Power Pack?” Here they are: Alex, Julie, Jack and Katie Power! Click here for the Cornered blog entry. Click here for a larger image at DeviantArt.
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ROBOT GIANT
Irfan’s robot design takes the spotlight in this blog post. It’s a red giant robot with claws on its left hand and a machine gun on its right hand.
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Another F-Sharp Bell
On Twitter, Calamity Jon Morris wanted to see more designs of alien Green Lantern Corpsmen, so I thought why not create another visually blind Lantern of the F-Sharp Bell Corps. Like Rot Lop Fan, this original alien named Toku-Taka Togg of Space Sector 0073, has no sense of sight nor the concept of light and colours.
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Bookmarks for Orphans
Last weekend, Irfan’s aunt Cik Emma was involved with some community activity with her friends at Pulau Pinang. They performed voluntary community service to the residents of Rumah Seri Cahaya, an orphanage at Batu Maung. She asked if I could contribute some art for some bookmarks that she was going to give the children there. I used my ink pens and yellow marker to whip these up quickly: Hope the orphans put them to good use. (Probably mulch by now, though.)
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Cover Process for Hags of Teeb
EBB & Folks sent me another task to complete: The cover for another ebook novella titled The Hags of Teeb. Here is the step-by-step process involved from the first sketch until the finished cover artwork. The first sketch (seen below) was based on the original black and white cover illustration made by David Leyman. I used the general shape of the Hags and the cauldron in the sketch and put them in a cave. After the sketch was approved, I decided to create two painted elements which would then be composited digitally. Firstly, I painted the cave background element (below). The centre of the cave where the cauldron sat upon a fire was lighted. The hags themselves were easy enough. I painted over the pencils I drew, using the outlines of the characters I drew above in the sketch. They were mostly dark and in shadow. Their outlines closest to […]
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Azamar: Owog
Owogs – feral, ferocious creatures that leaked through into Azamar from the Inferium and domesticated into tracking hounds by Orcs – are generally unpleasant little things. Also, keep an eye out for their Strength+18 bite and Strength+12 foreclaws. Because they frickin’ hurt. Artwork for Wicked North Games’ Azamar fantasy role-playing game.
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Cover for Meevo
Meevo is the ebook novella by David Leyman. It is a suitably eerie horror-flavoured science-fiction tale involving an escaped prisoner, the prisoner’s hunters and – as we see in the opening scenes – a mutant, in a post-apocalyptic future. To view the full cover image, click on the thumbnail below. Meevo is available for purchase on Amazon.com here.
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Mithius Cragmoore
Commissioned by the guys at Wicked North Games for their Star Wars RPG game group, Mithius Cragmoore was born on Coruscant to an Imperial Admiral and is now a bounty hunter with the House Benelex. He wields a pulse rifle, a blade and wears a stun cloak. Inked and painted on paper, the original artwork was mailed to them, a first for me as a freelance illustrator. Thanks for the commission, guys. It was great to have illustrated this character. Click here for a larger image on DeviantArt.
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Kate
Kate was created with inks and watercolours, to test out newly purchased brushes.
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Zatanna
Zatanna, daughter of the famed magician crimefighter Zatarra and a member of the Justice League – assembled with a combined application of pencil, brush ink and water colours. Click here to view a larger image on DeviantArt.
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Ebb n Folks’s latest short story soon to be published on Amazon as a Kindle download is Three’s Company. The publisher called for a lined artwork with clean colours on it. So here it is. “Three” in the story title is the catlike lady seen below. But why has she been with the protagonist all these decades? Watch for it on Amazon.com soon. [[image:ebb-n-folks-threes-company-cover.jpg:What’s with the picture in the middle?:center:0]]
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Revisions of Azamar
Here are revisions of several illustrations that was made for Wicked North Games’ Azamar RPG. Click here for a bigger image of this flaming skeletal monster on DeviantArt. Click here for a bigger image of a Shrave administering first aid to an injured Immyr. My first Azamar art redone! Click here for a bigger image of the Immyr city.
Continue readingClark Flies
Smallville has ended its 10 year run making it the longest running series based on a comic book ever. I’d like to say it was a great run through and through, but it did lose my attention somewhere during the fourth season due to Clark’s teenaged lovey-dovey hijinks with Lana. I saw the odd episode here and there over the years, but I never had the urge to return to my regular viewings of it… until the 8th season. [[image:clark-flying.jpg:Some Kryptonian:center:0]] It seemed like a switched was flipped and it went into full DC Universe mode. We’ve already had the Smallville‘s Elseworlds version of Supergirl, Green Arrow, Flash, Cyborg and Aquaman on the show beforehand. But they were visually adapted to fit the “no capes, no tights” rule of Smallville. Suddenly we were getting Maxima, Zatanna, and of all characters Doomsday, that very nearly resemble their comic book counterparts! (The […]
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