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Painted in gouache on watercolour paper, 4 x 6″, 2017
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Character Designs for HeroQuest Glorantha
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posted to: concept arttagged: ancient civilization, bronze age, character design, glorantha, heroquest, image, NPCs, structureFor The Coming Storm, I worked with art director Jeff Richards to create a lineup of 75 NPCs to populate the setting. Each character had to visually communicate specific cultural and personal character traits visually, and be recognizeable if reproduced in multiple formats.
Here are a few of the lineups.
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This gouache painting is about 7 x 9″ in size, on watercolour paper. It’s an exploration of the geological identity of some parts of Gros Morne National Park, in Newfoundland, Canada. The green serpentine crystals are growing from the granite and serpentinite mix of Gros Morne, specifically the Tablelands. The dark spruce and fir trees are silhouetted against distant hills and rolling fog. This piece is my love letter to that gorgeous park and the sense of magic it has.
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This drawing on cream paper is an exploration of the Crystal Island concept to include people. The figure creates a psychogeography of the landscape.
The landscape in this drawing was taken from reference photos of French River Provincial Park, an absolutely gorgeous place in Ontario, Canada. There are delicate tall pines and windswept shrubs and bushes along the shores of a rushing river, passing through a deep gorge. Despite the speed of the water and the constant wind, the place feels still and isolated and special.
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This illustration, featuring a 5th Edition D&D cleric named Brialma, was painted in gouache on hot press watercolour paper, at about 8 x 10″ in size. The scene is taken from 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons, or DnD, and was inspired by some of our in-play failures to detect or defend our characters against monsters and traps.
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This fantasy illustration was created in watercolour and pencil crayon, and is 9 x 12″ on watercolour paper. It features a determined traveller carrying a cranky golden bear in a bag. The sun is just starting to rise and the mist clearing from the ground as they walk onward. We can see a golden bear insignia on the traveller’s sleeve.
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Ankhou – Full Colour Yellow King RPG Book Illustration
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posted to: arttagged: horror, painting, pencil crayon, purple, structure, tabletop rpg, watercolour, yellow, yellow king rpgThis illustration was drawn for Robin Laws’ Yellow King RPG‘s Paris book, featuring the uncanny Ankhou roaming Parisian streets at the Fin de Siecle. It was created in watercolour and coloured pencil, and took inspiration from the art of the era, including the symbolist and late romantic painters, as well as sculpture and poster design.
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