Duty & Honour / Beat to Quaters Stuff

Here's a load of headshots I did for some new/forthcoming Duty & Honour and Beat to Quaters stuff. Thought I'd share them with you.

There are rumours of some big shiny new stuff on the horizon... once Neil and I can get some spare time to sort it out!

Keep your peepers peeled, but I'll keep you posted.

LEGENDS OF STEEL

I was asked by my now good friend Jeff to do some updated character illustrations for the new edition of his Legends of Steel RPG. In our opening conversation he hit me with the music to my ears:

"I know you usually do historic stuff but this is more high fantasy"

I grew up on high fantasy (and sci-fi) and love drawing it almost as much as fine women and dinosaurs, so I snapped at his offer.

Jeff kindly sent me a PDF of the orginal version so I poured through it and was filled with millions of ideas! The setting is so rich and detailed that I could have done a hundred illustrations for it. I highly suggest that if you like your RPGs and are after a good Conan-esque game, then you get yourself a copy now.

But it was the signature characters he wanted updating first. Luckily there's a character sheet for each one in the book which, as a life-long gamer, makes for the best design brief you could ever get! I know how to read from them and took all the details from their gear and backgrounds to flesh them out. And I really went to town on them! I designed specific weapons and costumes and worked out the cultures of each character. I also put in a few nods to some classic fantasy heroes if you can spot them...

Anyway, here they are in their full glory.

WIP

Working on a load of awesome fantasy projects from stateside at the minute. I'll post up some images as soon as I get the go ahead!

By Crom!

New Project

No illustrations for a little while as our baby girl was born on Monday morning.

Kitty Jean. Four weeks early, but 6 pounds and 7 ounces. Can't wait to get her home!

Beat to Quaters Chracacters- 1

Coming Soon...

another photoshop painting

Here's another picture, done for the forthcoming Beat to Quaters RPG. This one's inspired by the character of Queequeg from one of my all-time favourite novels, Moby Dick- he's a character who has always fascinated me so I thought I'd channel a little of him into one of the pieaces for some inspiration.

I think I may be getting better at this. Applied a testure overlay on this one. And I like the colour palette.