River of Heaven process

Here is a little process for one of the bestiary images for River of Heaven (available now on DriveThruRPG).

The brief was for a Raptor alien species. Essentially a mix of dinosaur and xenomorph: savage predators living in hive-like catacomb spires. I wanted a big lot of teeth and ripped a little more from a T-Rex than a Velociraptor just to make it a little different. Long arms with prehensile hands convey a hint of 'civilisation'. I chose purple for the base to, again, make it a little different. Complimentary shades of green and grey were used for details.

Flats. Shading (on a solid layer of black, details erased out and opacity dropped) and Tones (you can see the palette I used at the bottom: colour-picked from here as I went on). Textures were painted onto the skin with rough brushes and picked out of the shading.

All work done in Sketchbook on Samsung Galaxy Note 3 phone.

River of Heaven

rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/137589/River-of-Heaven

Well it is finally out so I can share with you some of the art which I did for the River of Heaven RPG from D101Games.
I did the whole of the book except the cover, which was done by the mighty John Hodgson before I came on board.

Great game: you should check it out.

(I didn't do this logo by the way, it's just on here as a header.)

River of Heaven

www.kickstarter.com/projects/645319106/river-of-heaven-sf-rpg

This is a fantastic hard sci-fi RPG from D101 Games which I will be doing all of the interior artwork on (Jon Hodgson did the lovely cover).

The more money the Kickstarter raises, the more I get to draw! And I'll be pulling out all the stops on this as it's as close as I'll get to working on Star Wars (*cough* hint, hint Disney).

Please spread the word as much as you can.

And if sci-fi gaming is your thing, back the campaign!