The Paradise Fragment cover

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 city of Adrya Orth proved a difficult factor in painting it because I tried putting the city and a couple of characters before it in an action pose. This caused characters to partially block the city. Finally I just put more characters in the picture but positioned them further away, and voila: For a closer look of the cover art, check out its entry at my DeviantArt gallery here.

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That's a lot of guns, maaaan

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 Star Wars Artists’ Guild by one “Lord Cygnus” of a starship in his Star Wars RPG campaign named The Queen of Air and Darkness which I picked up. The ship is a heavily modified Corellian Engineering Corps YV-545 light freighter and this is how it turned out after about 90 minutes of work: Here’s the original request thread and here’s the final image on SWAG.

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This should be in a library

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 Kickstarter update page descibes this sapient book: A magical tome that assists in translating just about any language in existence. It also has its own wicked sense of humor and considers practical jokes to be wonderful things!

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Right side partial inks

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. Something stalks the characters as one of them pushes open the strange stone door from a previous picture, then a dragon swoops down. Is it attacking? Is it warning the characters of something? A close up on the partially inked artwork. Pencil lines are still visible with the inks – but you can’t really see it thanks to the blurred photo. A close up on the other half of the artwork. The details on the dragons are added using brushed ink. The image is scanned, then GIMP is used to add ziptone / newsprint shade effects to the final black […]

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The party... striking a pose of some kind

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 the writer. However, the publisher’s art order requested that a series of sequential artwork was created as if it was a comic and I had the discretion to direct the visual flow of the story if not the actual story. Let’s see how the game story ends up! Watch this space for the upcoming release of the publication soon! To be continued…

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He wears a red cap

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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D6 Magazine #3 cover

D6 Magazine Issue 3: An Interview

D6 Magazine – the online fanzine for Open D6 role-playing game material – has released issue #3! The horror issue has a variety of articles and scenarios, including vampires, a hell hound, a redcap goblin and Spring-heeled Jack. There’s also a simple Sanity System for running D6 horror adventures. The eerie, underwater Cinema6 adventure “Down Below” written by J. Elliot Streeter brings the zine to a close. You might remember my artwork created for the adventure in this previous blog entry. But it also has a bonus four-page interview with me by Peter Robbins, interrogating me about my past, present and future in artwork and illustrations, as well as role-playing games! Here’s an excerpt: Q: When did you decide, “Hey, I could make money doing this? Sure, let’s roll in that dough!” And what were your emotions when this decision came into fruition in your life? A: When I ran […]

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I want a Peanuts strip reboot with this guy as Snoopy, pretty please?

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 somewhat agitated.

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...so stop messaging him!!!

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, giant mecha, feral mutant killers and a guy who has to call his mom NOW! To read more about Void Vultures, check out their Kickstarter page here!

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Blow up cyborg priests and goats as you explore space derelicts

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 since the old derelicts might have perils such as alien creature infestation, mutant berserkers, cyborg lunatics and heavily armed rival salvage teams! To read more about Void Vultures, check out their Kickstarter page here! And here’s an awesome illustration of frickin’ space sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads by fellow art conspirator Ed Heil. Check out my three art contributions to the Void Vultures RPG by clicking on the thumbnails below.   Wait, what? Cindy Bear snuck herself into that last illustration? She did it again, that evil bear? We’re gonna have words. Click here to see more […]

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Benthic what?

D6 Magazine: Down Below Redux

So, anyway… under the sea, I take it that it’s better down where it’s wetter; and also where they devote full time to floating. However, the sturgeon and the ray do not get the urge and start to play in the adventure Down Below in the upcoming Halloween issue of D6 Magazine! Gamemasters and players of OpenD6 system of role-playing games take note! Something horrific is awaiting players who will have to eventually board the deep sea station in the illustration I did: For the previous illustrations I did for the adventure and hints to what players will encounter in Down Below, please click here to view them in a previous blog post.

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Carrion Crawlers

Dark Times in Brighton

Recently DWD Studios commissioned two black and white artwork for their Labyrinth Lord-compatible RPG product Dark Times in Brighton, an adventure for 1st – 2nd Level characters. The first is a goblin throne room with the adventuring party sneaking upon the host behind pillars and stuff. Click on the thumb below to view it. The second is the same adventuring party having a party while adventuring with carion crawlers. No not really, the crawlers are trying to eat them. What’s that decanter doing in the background with the well? Get the book to find out!

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Worst shaving accident ever

D6 Magazine: Down Below

Halloween, being a permanent fixture to the month of October, has inspired the upcoming issue of D6 Magazine to have horror-themed articles. The third issue of the online magazine continues to deliver articles, adventures and interviews for the Open D6 gaming community. Here is a sneak peek to illustrations I did for a horror adventure set deep under the sea, entitled Down Below. Yes! That’s a baby dumbo octopus in the bottom illustration there. Watch out for the third issue of D6 Magazine due to be released at the end of the month.

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The ultimate sockpuppet RPG for kids

Play Argyle and Crew With Your Kids!

Argyle and Crews: Adventure in the Land of Skcos is a simple and fun role-playing game produced by Benjamin Gerber which is designed to be played with very young children… using sock puppets! I contributed three pieces of art for this project, including line art for the cover. The ultimate sockpuppet RPG for kids The game is released under the Creative Common License. Purchase Argyle & Crew at: DriveThruRPG Lulu.com or you could legally Torrent it using the following torrent file: AndCtorrent (right click and save this file) At the very least, you don’t have to throw your old socks away!

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