TheQuestionMan Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Never trust Mind Flayer (or Illithid) barber especially a hungry one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. ...Next up, we have Skip. Skip is single. He is a Mind Flayer (or Illithid among his own kind). He likes walks on the beach during sunny dawns. He loves puppies. He has a steady job as a top notch barber. He plays whist. And Ladies, he is a budding top notch amateur gourmet french cook. yup. another death tribble production!! I. LOVE. This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Never trust a bald barber. He has no respect for your hair. "Never trust a man with a better suit than your own." Rule of Acquisition #47 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Gives a new meaning to "a little off the top." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SvZurich Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Why are y'all so suspicious of this fine gentleman who comes into our world to give a great shave and a haircut? If he acted liked his peers back home, he'd be strung up or run out of town. Obviously if he does eat brains still, it's not in the work place and not happening to customers who will come back for his services again and again. He's likely keep the vagrants in check. I'll offer him that bard and see if he's delighted or disgusted. I'll ensure the bard is dunked in water first to cut back on its filth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GestaltBennie Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Given the suspenders and bowtie -- Dr. Ood?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. good work on the indy bard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I hate to criticize when you're sharing all this art with us, but the pose on the bard looks a little awkward. Like he's off balance. The character design is good, though. I always like the way you dress your fantasy characters, for lack of a better word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Holck Posted February 23, 2012 Report Share Posted February 23, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I dare say a violin would fit my whip master well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephron Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Skip is the bomb! The bard looks pretty good, but kind of understated. (Skip "sings" in a telepathic barber shop quartet known as "My Tentacle Romance.") I just had to wipe water off my monitor, dammit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted February 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Yup. I'm involved in another Kickstarter project. And folks, I really hope this one gets off the ground, because I really, really want to do the "old school" dungeon module cover for it. I worked up a bit of art for the interior, "The Beast", hopefully to drum up some support for JB Mannon and At The Table games. Here is the blurb that At The Table provided me: Within the Devil's Reach is a group of three adventures all set in the backwater town of Devil's Reach. The town was already about as close to hell as you could get but things are getting worse. All three adventures are great intro adventures for the Dungeon World Roleplaying Game. Dungeon World is a light weight game that is focused on delivering an old school, dungeon crawl experience. Now I haven't had the opportunity to play Dungeon World, but it gets great buzz from Story Games. More importantly to me, my good friend Judd, has really enjoyed running it. From what I can tell, it is D&D old school, but lighter and tightly integrated mechanics with a lot of flavor for each "class" you play. Kinda the best of "old school" combined with "new school" game design. Dungeon World is reasonably priced too, although only available at the moment as a pdf, print is coming out this Gencon. Here is a link to the kickstarter from At The Table: Here is a link to Dungeon World itself: http://www.dungeon-world.com/ And here is my teaser art, "The Beast". I haven't inked in some time for a project that is to remain black and white. I ink all the time for my "superhero style", so it was fun to go back to an old friend and ink this up as a piece of black and white artwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. OH! $#!?!!! Run! Ruuun!! QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I love Skip, Storn, but I don't think he'll be getting many customers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. COUGHdominationCOUGH COUGHMind ControlCOUGH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted February 27, 2012 Report Share Posted February 27, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. That picture has a fantastic sense of motion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted February 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. That picture has a fantastic sense of motion Thank you. I try. It is odd how sometimes character concepts and commissions seem to run in similar thematics. I remember getting a few years ago, 3 speedster archtypes in a month. While 2 is not quite a trend, they did sorta tumble into my to do queue at the same time. First up, we have a samurai for Death Tribble that called for a pretty straight forward treatment in the concept description. Next, we have a character from a Legends of the Five Rings campaign. A monk who started out in the Spider Clan, became disillusioned, and went over to the Phoenix clan. But the white swash is symbolic of Takijiro being of two worlds. (Very similar to my own Tsuntake PC who was of Dragon Clan, but his mom was Unicorn and she died saving a lot of face for the Dragon, so Tsuntake was raised knowing he would go serve Shinjo Shoji of the Unicorn...also a young man of two worlds.) Lastly, for today, I've got another one done for Inkwell's Monster Project kickstart. This time, I got to do a White Dragon. Dragons are tough. So many artists before me have done Dragons, hard to bring your own stamp on it. I think it is informative to show my mistakes and missteps. The first draft of this was rejected by Inkwell and rightly so...although when I had done it, I was too close to it and thought it was fine. I was rather happy with it. But after it's rejection, I started to see its flaws and a talk with my wife about it really cemented that it, well, sucked... and that I needed to do better. So here is the first sketch: And here is what a good art director, a good wife, a couple of tossed away sketches, and drawing with chums at a coffee shop can accomplish. In my opinion, so much better. Joe over at Inkwell deserves a lion share of the credit for pointing out a much better wing attach to body arrangement. I also wanted to say that I really enjoy working in light colors sometimes. It is fun to do almost watercolor over pencils digitally. Let me know what y'all think... And here is the link to Inkwell's Monster Project kickstart in case anyone missed it before and are interested: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Seen these already over on the Fantasy Art Thread. . . terrific pics, Storn. The second pic of the dragon is the best, but it does look kind of mammalian, not reptilian. The spines on the elbows and tail look like fur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I don't know... while I agree that the wing structure is much improved in the finished piece, I think I prefer the general pose in that first sketch (minus the awkward curl of the rear foot). It's an angle and posture that I don't recall seeing before in fantasy art, and I like the feel of dynamic movement as opposed to a static position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted March 9, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Two commissions, but first I wanted to let folks know that 6 supers are up in the latest portfoilo from moi and LPJ designs. So. If you are looking for superheroes (or villains) clipart that is print quality and reasonably priced, look NO further. Well.... look further by clicking on the link provided. This, by the way, is my 15th!!!! portfolio. So thanks to all the patrons who keep my drawing their characters and cranking away. Here is the link: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=100228 This commission has been done for awhile and goes with the fantasy group that I've posted earlier. But I simply forgot to stuff it onto my photobucket so I could link it here and show it off. I like this one, I felt that young mage as gunfighter was kinda fun concept to play off. Next is another for patron unstoppable, Death Tribble and it is request for a cheongsam wearing korean (beautiful) martial artist. This was a fun one to do because I was breaking in a new brush pen from Pentel that I picked up that day. To be honest, the paper was bleeding just slightly and I spent a bit more time doing clean up than I liked. But the brush itself, the Pentel GFKp rocked for doing the inking. I usually ink with winter sable kolinkskys from Weber, dipping it in india ink (or sometimes using dip pens too, depends on my mood). But the GFKp (I have no idea what the initials stand for) is a nice portable inking tool. And since I was working at one of our Thursday coffee shop work sessions, I bought the Pentel GFKp (not easy to type that) at our brand new awesome art store that happens to be right NEXT door to the coffee shop! How cool is that? Well, y'all out there in internet land probably don't care... but I think it is very cool. Went in for a new kneaded eraser and came out with a very cool new tool. By far the best mechanical brush pen I've used. Anyway, that was waaay too long discussion about my passion over art supplies. Here is the art and I will shut up. Enjoy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Nice work! and I'll be checking out the six pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 9, 2012 Report Share Posted March 9, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Next is another for patron unstoppable, Death Tribble and it is request for a cheongsam wearing korean (beautiful) martial artist. This was a fun one to do because I was breaking in a new brush pen from Pentel that I picked up that day. To be honest, the paper was bleeding just slightly and I spent a bit more time doing clean up than I liked. But the brush itself, the Pentel GFKp rocked for doing the inking. I usually ink with winter sable kolinkskys from Weber, dipping it in india ink (or sometimes using dip pens too, depends on my mood). But the GFKp (I have no idea what the initials stand for) is a nice portable inking tool. And since I was working at one of our Thursday coffee shop work sessions, I bought the Pentel GFKp (not easy to type that) at our brand new awesome art store that happens to be right NEXT door to the coffee shop! How cool is that? Well, y'all out there in internet land probably don't care... but I think it is very cool. Went in for a new kneaded eraser and came out with a very cool new tool. By far the best mechanical brush pen I've used. Anyway, that was waaay too long discussion about my passion over art supplies. Here is the art and I will shut up. Enjoy! And here we have the official Beautiful Female Martial Artist as requested by the members of the board. Enjoy ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Man I would LOVE to use her for my upcoming vigilante book...Can't afford it, and would offend my artis, but she is almost EXACTLY what I was picturing for one of the characters... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted March 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Man I would LOVE to use her for my upcoming vigilante book...Can't afford it' date=' and would offend my artis, but she is almost EXACTLY what I was picturing for one of the characters...[/quote'] I sell 2nd use rights pretty dang cheap. And if you can wait a bit, she will probably show up in one of the LPJ Design Portfolios. Throw me an e-mail if you are interested.... but I wouldn't want to offend other artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storn Posted March 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. You now can wear ME on YOUR chest!!! Silver Branch games has taken two of my covers and made them available as t-shirts. They look kinda snazzy, if I can say so myself. I want one. Check dem out here: http://silverbranch.spreadshirt.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted March 11, 2012 Report Share Posted March 11, 2012 Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Man I would LOVE to use her for my upcoming vigilante book...Can't afford it' date=' and would offend my artis, but she is almost EXACTLY what I was picturing for one of the characters...[/quote'] You have the permission of the guy who paid for the commission. You now can wear ME on YOUR chest!!! Silver Branch games has taken two of my covers and made them available as t-shirts. They look kinda snazzy, if I can say so myself. I want one. Check dem out here: http://silverbranch.spreadshirt.com/ Not exactly the thing to read when you have been watching The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and attendent otherfeatures on the DVD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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