Hunters of Alexandria

I broke a stylus nib drawing this lighthouse.
Great fun, though.
Great game, too!
Check it out.

http://d101games.com/storytelling-games/hunters-of-alexandria/

Numenara Character

I was contacted about drawing someone's character from their Numenara campaign.
(Numenara is a cool RPG which includes a lot of different stuff, from fantasy to sci-fi. If offers you a pretty broad sandbox to play about in.)

This one is called Elise. She came with some pretty specific design elements, some of which were quite a challenge (glass hand with a magic symbol in it, black glass claw, golden sword with a transparent liquid claw, digital static facial tattoo and a giant beetle) to draw.

Working out how to draw all of these was a good experience. Pushing yourself is always a good thing as an artist so I always try to do something new or differently on each piece.

I had a real blast drawing her. It's always a bit of an honour getting to draw someone else's character. I know how attached I get to mine, even new ones, so I am very conscious of doing a good job on them. It's important to capture everything they tell you about the character and distill it all into a real, cohesive design. Something which captures and portrays their essence as much as possible.

The client was also a genuine pleasure to work with. We had a great dialogue, which is important and makes everyone's life easier.

I hope you like this one, anyway. I had a lot of fun doing it.

Dungeons & Dragons 5E Adventurer's Toolkit

5E Adventurer's Toolkit

I have been busy compiling together all of my homebrew stuff into a pdf for public consumption.

Here is a quick summary of the contents:

•There are new player races, including duregar, hengeyokai, fey'ri and more.
•New archetypes for every character class including a newly improved beast master, exorcist, ninja, gunslinger, bounty hunter, medic battlemage and engineer.
•There are new backgrounds such as the detective and the occultist.
•New firearms and devices rules for more advanced societies.
•The CSI: Waterdeep campaign setting with the new City Watch faction.
•Return to Ravenloft rules for 5e expiditions into the mists which includes new races like the vistani, the werewolf, the dhampir and the revenant.
•And finally, the rules for Martial Arts with new feats, ki manoeuvers and setting ideas.

All of these rules are designed to be used together. There are backgrounds and classes which mix ideally with some of the settings. Please have a play around with them, pick and choose as you like.

If you like anything in here, then please share the link on to this page.

I am not charging for this, it's all done out of my love for the game and gaming in general.

I elected not to put any illustrations in this edition to make it more printer-friendly.

All of the original material is copyright of Wizards of the Coast. Any new rules are copyright of myself and are not to be printed for monetary gain without prior arrangement with myself.

Fantasy Detective

I've been working on what started out as a little expansion for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition (which has since spiralled out to over 80 pages so far..) and thought I'd draw one of the backgrounds from it.
He's a little Bladerunner.
All done in Sketchbook on my Samsung Galaxy Note mobile.

Mad Max: Furiosa poster

Mad Max: Fury Road is just fantastically amazing.
The depth and beauty it manages to express in what is essentially just a big chase-scene action blockbuster is astounding.
Charlize Theron is her usual fantastic self in it so I had to do a little tribute image.
When I had drawn it I decided to knock up a quick background and poster layout for it just to round it out a bit.
I really enjoyed painting with the big smeary brushes for her skin. Also, using these for inking was a blast. Hopefully I'll get to do more of it.

Harely Quinn: Suicide Squad

I had to do a picture of Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn from the new Suicide Squad movie: she looks awesome.

Here are a series of process shots from rough pencils to finish.

All done on my Smasung Galaxy Note phone and in Sketchbook.

Lady rogue

This is a character illustration for a female bard. It's for a personal game project I'm working on on-and-off.

I ended up changing her whole colour palette as I went on. I was originally going to have her in a full dress but I wanted to make her a little more action-ready so I changed it. I got caught up in enjoying my earthy palette.

A little hint of her bardic past is in her comedy/tragedy belt buckle.

I also changed her hair colour. She was going to have black hair, but I am making a conscious effort not to draw everyone with black hair, at least for a while. The hair ended up being the last bit which I did and it was just blank white canvas, which looked quite nice and complemented the rest of the composition nicely so I went with the very pale hair. (Also, with being dyed like this it makes her look a little theatrical and plays to her half-elven roots - yes, her ears are meant to be a little pointy like that.)