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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DwD Studios is a tabletop RPG publishing company. It has released titles such as BareBones Fantasy and Covert Ops. I sometimes do some work for them. Usually artwork.
Yeah, mostly artwork!
Bare Bones Cover Process
The Bare Bones Game System published by DwD Studios – the rules-lite, role-playing game featured in the previous post – also required a cover art. I was commissioned to produce a comic-style scene of the characters in the fantasy template cards appropriating loot. Here is the step-by-step process of how the cover came to be. I start with a rough sketch of the cover in black and white, overlaid with the margin and bleed marks. The previous sketch is used as a rough pencils layout by reducing the transparency. Inks are applied on top of the pencils. In this case, I do not pencil with a lot of detail. Colours are applied under the inks. Actually by this time I’ve coloured the background, but I’ve blocked it out with a white layer so you could see the foreground colours. What does the background look like? The background looks like this – originally. […]
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Bare Bones
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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