Happy holidays!
Christmas elves - bah, the truth is that those tiny guys aren't nearly strong enough to haul all the sacks and packs. But we know the truth. Merry Christmas!
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Rusty Reach
One of my first illustrations for Fantasy Flight Games, for their Star Wars RPG Edge of the Empire. This is a pirate compound, atmospherically built into a scrapyard. It appeared in the Mask of the Pirate Queen adventure module. (c)2015 Fantasy Flight Games
Infinite Adventures Heroes
The cast of the upcoming card-based RPG Infinite Adventures by Inspiring Games, and the box lid image (and some more pieces for the promo video). It's a low fantasy setting with lots of ancient folklore.
Portrait of Benny
A family dog's portrait. For a long time my first full painting in traditional media; acrylics, gouache, and coloured pencils on illustration board, 60×80cm. I immediately got hooked again and have several more paintings in the works. I may have to work out a better way of photographing my works, though, the colours seem off.
RPG Maker background pack
RPG maker is a site for resources to start games with - characters, tiles, items, music, whatever you need. I recently created a background pack for sidescrollers, and now it's up for sale: https://gamedevfort.com/store/product/fantasy-backgrounds-pack
Evolution of the Rhoenoak logo
I've been illustrating the world of Rhoenoak for the upcoming novel series. Among my work was the IP's logo. The name for the scifi/fantasy setting had been changed from Primordial to Rhoenoak, and author John Enitsu wanted to include the supernatural fire the main protagonist achieves mastery of during the story. First I picked some fonts for the name to see what might work - a pure scifi setting would be easy, a pure fantasy setting too, but which to choose for a mixed setting. I get all my fonts from dafont.com, which offers a whole lot of free to use fonts of great quality. After picking some promising candidates, I continued to prettying them up into something more lively than a mere typed name. Particularly the Os looked great for include the fire. I had been working on the first novel's cover on parallel, and included the name into the typography; John found the Os looked like eyes and wanted them to stand out. From these I picked again - there's a gr...
Splittermond creatures
Creatures illustrated for the creatures book of Uhrwerk's new roleplaying game Splittermond: Mottenmaki (moth maki), Sandwächter (sand guard), and Waldtroll (forest troll). http://splittermond.de