DusterBoy Posted August 2, 2011 Report Share Posted August 2, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. All of these are wonderful pics, Storn but my favourites are "American Rex" and "Expedition". What really catches my eye is the building on top of the bluff. From the POV of the drawing, it looks completely inaccessable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted August 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. All of these are wonderful pics' date=' Storn but my favourites are "American Rex" and "Expedition". What really catches my eye is the building on top of the bluff. From the POV of the drawing, it looks completely inaccessable.[/quote'] Thanks! Wish I could take credit for American Rex, but without Death Tribble's sensibilities, I would never have come up with that on my own. A few folks have asked for some different types of originals and prints to be put up at Fine Art, here: http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/storn-cook.html . I've just kinda lost this week and haven't gotten the time together to get those up. I hope to the beginning of next week. So check back there soon! Another Death Tribble, I believe this one had input from the Hero Boards. I went modern in the dress, because I wanted the cool contrast, not only of modern vs. monster, but because the colors worked so well against each other. The kanji is "Power", btw.... according to my google fu. Hope you like. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. You look at him and think one word. Lawyer........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Querysphinx Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. You look at him and think one word. Lawyer........ The ultimate evil in the universe... "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". - (Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Yeah, but the bloke who said it was a reactionary extremist -- the Tea Partier of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooligan x Posted August 5, 2011 Report Share Posted August 5, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I was looking in artist row at GenCon for ya, Storn. Not this year? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Arc Posted August 6, 2011 Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. You look at him and think one word. Lawyer........ The Oni's Advocate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted August 6, 2011 Report Share Posted August 6, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I was looking in artist row at GenCon for ya' date=' Storn. Not this year?[/quote'] I dropped him a line about this when I got the Ogre Mage and he said not this year. Understandable. It comes hot on the heels of his recent marraige. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted August 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I've been doing a sword and sorcery campaign online of late. Called the Swords of a Dying Empire. The Actual Play report is here: (LoA) Swords of a Dying Empire... and we are about 10 episodes in. Using Legend of Anglerre as the ruleset. Mostly, I'm doing the occasional map sketch that is barely serviceable to get the gist of the idea of where/what the party is encountering. And I just did a really quick sketch of two new, but important NPC allies. thought I would share. The Temple of Delleb, recent site of our anti-heroes attacking the Temple as retribution. Sorta Pyrrhic victory. Moving mazes of carnivorous plants, cultists performing sacrificial rites, y'know, typical S&S life in the day... The City of Ahaan is the former Empire's capitol. The PCs just recently got there, trying to ascertain what the political mood was. But even more recently, run out of town for making things too hot. The NPCs i mentioned... And a sketch of the pavilion back of my house done for a party invitation. I just did it today and felt like sharing. Maybe it would be useful for a fantasy game as a merchant's pavilion or something... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted August 8, 2011 Report Share Posted August 8, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but sometimes it is a compliment... I am very jealous of your skills and imagination Sir. Awesome QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted August 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Now, up, something a bit different for me... I got to do 3 brothers, for a modern occult game, and they are Seelie or Elves or something. Wanted the pose/photograph look as this actually happened in the patron's game, the posing for a photograph. Thought that was kinda cool! These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted August 10, 2011 Report Share Posted August 10, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Freaking cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted August 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Time for the next artorder challenge. I've been working on this in dribs and drabs over the last couple of weeks. Thought I would show the beginning steps before I take it to oils, after which it will have to wait for it to dry before I can scan it. The Artorder breakdown is to pick 1 of 3 covers described here: http://theartorder.com/2011/07/13/story-extraction-artorder-challenge/ I haven't done a lot of scifi, thought this would be fun. So I picked "Firaxe". What some of the other artists are doing, along with very good critiques is here: http://artorder.ning.com/forum/topics/story-extraction-artorder Here are the pencils I've come up with: And the underpainting, done in acrylic: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted September 5, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. This was a bit of an experiment. I have a style/technique I use for interiors off and on, for grayscale printing. It is a combo of watercolor and liquid acrylic. I thought I should try and use it as an underpainting for a digital colored piece. I had this multi-figured private commission to undertake and thought this would be a good place to try that. I've done underpaintings before, but using oil. Oddly, doing an underpainting in oil, I am much more shape oriented... maybe cause I can push the paint around after applying it down. The "mistake" I made is that I used quite a bit of line in my underpainting, because it looks good for interiors... falling back into how I work for that context. But then I had to kinda fight those lines in the digital coloring steps. Some I left in. Still, I like the solidity of the figures against the more nebulous digital effects in the background. I like the texture of the watercolor here and there bleeding through. Gives some life to my digital stuff, IMO. Next time, I will just try and keep to more shape oriented painting and really pick those lines carefully, so when I go to the digital steps, I am not having to "redraw" those lines or wipe them out completely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted September 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I went on a mini-honeymoon in the middle of the week. My wife, Millie, managed to trade some hours with other faculty (she is a professor of nursing) and all of a sudden, we had a few days to string together. We had gone to Puerto Rico, but it was mostly to visit family, Millie and I didn't have much time to ourselves. Anyway, on the last day, under the grayest of skies, perched on a bridge that shook every time a truck went by, which seemed never-ending, I painted this quickie watercolor of the very full Hudson river. We stayed at the Lamplighter B&B in Lake Luzerne, a very nice B&B and this bridge was walking distance from the B&B. This watercolor wasn't really planned, sorta a last minute thing, although I always bring watercolors with me on trips. I even used water from a mud puddle, so a bit of the Lake Luzerne earth is in this sketch. On the way home, the flooding was pretty bad, forced off of Route 88 near Oneonta and had to go around 1 washed out bridge in the small town of Morris. Adventures on our honeymoon. Well, enough of that, onto the art. Thought it would be fun to show y'all EXACTLY where I was via google maps. The "river" coming in from the side is actually from the man-made lake Sacandaga lake, ironically, created to help regulate the Hudson river flood control. And here is what I actually doodled on that bridge... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted September 9, 2011 Report Share Posted September 9, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Nice! I'm glad you and Millie got some time away as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted September 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Thought I would show a bit of behind-the-scenes on this entry. This is done for the Anonymous challenge over at ArtOrder. You can see other folks entries, as well as a link to the challenge itself here: http://theartorder.com/2011/09/19/anonymous-artorder-challenge/ Basically, we had to ape a cross between an anime and painted style that was used a lot in the Duelmasters CCG. NOT my comfort zone at all. But I did see that there is a lot of line in the original Duelmaster's art, combined with the digital painting stylings we see so much of in video game concept art. Again, NOT my comfort zone at all. I do not do line on digital well at all... so I fell back on what I think gives a more live line, inking by hand. But since I knew that there was to be somewhat of a painting style, after inking and some erasing, I went back in with pencil to do just the hint of value shading... more like visual footnotes to myself while I went in and digitally painted. So... here is the ink/pencil scan... just so you can see where I was before the color hit the piece. I drew them separately, knowing I was going to move them around and get some overlap in PS. I also knew that I was going to have to finish the foot placement of the troll/ogre digitally, because I wasn't quite sure how he was going to get grounded... the "kitty" was easy, because he is leaping away and is airbourne. Reminds me a bit of Quinton Hoover's work, not as lyrical as his stuff, as I make marks the way I make marks (and he is so totally awesome!), but the strong ink line, backed with some lighter interior lines... similar vibe. Then comes the color work, the background was entirely done digitally. It is an interesting "style", but I feel that it falls short of the Challenge, that to ape a particular style. I just don't have enough experience in doing something like that, but it was sure FUN to try!!! These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted September 22, 2011 Report Share Posted September 22, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. That's a brilliant bit of work, Storn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted September 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. A trio of private commissions. The Smilodon and the Type 5 demon futurized are both carrying over the technique that I did for the "kitty vs. ogre" just above. That of using pencil to shade on top of a minimal ink line. Then scan, color using mostly Painter, but some Photoshop. It takes a bit of time, especially the Type 5 Demon, which has a lot of fiddly detail. But I kinda like the solidity of it. "Riley" was just my usual technique of digital color over pencil. The Demon was also an experiment in warping textures for the snake skin. Btw, the Demon and Smilodon are both Death Tribble commissions. I like to give the guy credit for giving me so much work... and such fun concepts. I really liked doing the Type 5 Demon with a m60 machine gun (although, it is a tough gun to draw)... the m60 was specifically DT's request. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. The Smilodon and the Type 5 demon futurized are both carrying over the technique that I did for the "kitty vs. ogre" just above. That of using pencil to shade on top of a minimal ink line. Then scan, color using mostly Painter, but some Photoshop. It takes a bit of time, especially the Type 5 Demon, which has a lot of fiddly detail. But I kinda like the solidity of it. The Demon was also an experiment in warping textures for the snake skin. Btw, the Demon and Smilodon are both Death Tribble commissions. I like to give the guy credit for giving me so much work... and such fun concepts. I really liked doing the Type 5 Demon with a m60 machine gun (although, it is a tough gun to draw)... the m60 was specifically DT's request. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic For those of you wondering where the machine gun belt for the M60 is. Duh ! She is using magic to refill the gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I really like the last one. That GI Jane ROCKS!!! QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylwin13 Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I like Smilodon and Riley. I'm getting a Photobucket "removed from view" for the Demon, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. It was up earlier. I may have to ask Storn about a modified version. I think I know what the problem is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. ...That of using pencil to shade on top of a minimal ink line. Then scan' date=' color using mostly Painter, but some Photoshop.[/quote'] They look great, but the pen and pencil technique you're talking about is hard to see in the finished pieces. Is there any chance that you could post the B&W scans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted September 28, 2011 Report Share Posted September 28, 2011 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Storn's Art really comes out in Grey Scale Print. FYI QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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