Last year I was hired to create fifty illustrations including the cover for a puzzle book. The format was unusual because it was going to be triangular, like a mountain, because the overarching story between the riddles was a tribe of dwarves trapped by the magical queen (a bearded lady with a golden hat). Sadly, the book wasn't made, but I am still proud of the works I created for it. My first drawing to get the job of a dwarf. You can see my dwarves aren't actually very small. I enjoyed giving him some biker accents, because I imagine dwarves to be a lot like truckers and construction workers. The design is still recognisable in the main protagonist Günther, who is younger and cleaner than this guy. When we discussed the style of illustration for the book, I came up with a few options. Everyone loved the idea of fully coloured acrylic illustrations; since it was to be the publisher's first book, we decided to go with black and white traditional ink in the end, with col...
A drawing for a character from the story of a friend. The setting constitutes a Rome with magic, so I could go all in with toga, gladius, and fireball. Nice. 50×65cm, charcoal on paper.
The first image I created for Sons of the Singularity, a publisher of roleplaying games largely with Cthulhu and Lovecraftian content, and published with the gumshoe system for detective games, was actually in 2018. Since then I have steadily worked with them on several books on extraordinary images with art deco style or strongly limited palettes, even was tasked with a cover once.
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