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Re: Fantasy Art Thread First up, my good friend John C. Hocking won the Harper's Pen Award for his short story, Face in the Sea, published in Black Gate Magazine. And your's truly did the artwork. An excerpt is over at Black Gate, Link Here: http://www.blackgate.com/fiction-excerpt-the-face-in-the-sea/ By the way, Black Gate consistently puts out great short stories and has a nice little RPG review section. If you haven't checked it out, you owe it to yourself, you should. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. First up, my good friend John C. Hocking won the Harper's Pen Award for his short story, Face in the Sea, published in Black Gate Magazine. And your's truly did the artwork. An excerpt is over at Black Gate, Link Here: http://www.blackgate.com/fiction-excerpt-the-face-in-the-sea/ By the way, Black Gate consistently puts out great short stories and has a nice little RPG review section. If you haven't checked it out, you owe it to yourself, you should. Next up is a Battle Nun for Death Tribble. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Well, it is that time again. Time for the Art Order contest. We had a good month and 1/2 to complete it and I took advantage of that, doing mine in oil. Here is the gist. The setting is Gamma World. We were to take 2 critters and mash them together. I went a bit out of the box and did cyberlife and veggie life. My idea was to mesh plant and cybernetic life and I got the Cyber Veggie men. Bleh... really need a better name for them. Basically, in faux science terms, plant life got enough brain power to merge with bits and pieces of computers from yesteryear and create superfast connections and become sentient. Anyway, since they don't really sleep (get sluggish during the night), don't eat (photosynthesis takes care of that) and they process information at lightning speeds, they are voracious readers. They consider themselves caretakers of knowledge and histories and lots and lots of useless information... they will read anything, car manuals, old People magazines of people long dead and even something called role playing games. Like I said, Oil, 11.5 x 15. The original is for sale. As are printing rights, if it can fit anyone's needs... this is truly an odd one! If you want to see the other folks submissions and we broke the record on this contest for number of submissions, check out the Art Order link here. (you do have to scroll down a bit as other posts have been put up): http://artorder.blogspot.com/ These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Well, it is that time again. Time for the Art Order contest. We had a good month and 1/2 to complete it and I took advantage of that, doing mine in oil. Here is the gist. The setting is Gamma World. We were to take 2 critters and mash them together. I went a bit out of the box and did cyberlife and veggie life. My idea was to mesh plant and cybernetic life and I got the Cyber Veggie men. Bleh... really need a better name for them. Basically, in faux science terms, plant life got enough brain power to merge with bits and pieces of computers from yesteryear and create superfast connections and become sentient. Anyway, since they don't really sleep (get sluggish during the night), don't eat (photosynthesis takes care of that) and they process information at lightning speeds, they are voracious readers. They consider themselves caretakers of knowledge and histories and lots and lots of useless information... they will read anything, car manuals, old People magazines of people long dead and even something called role playing games. Like I said, Oil, 11.5 x 15. The original is for sale. As are printing rights, if it can fit anyone's needs... this is truly an odd one! If you want to see the other folks submissions and we broke the record on this contest for number of submissions, check out the Art Order link here. (you do have to scroll down a bit as other posts have been put up): http://artorder.blogspot.com/ These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Yes it is. In the fiction in the game, and it has brewed organically over some time, the Occulae killed their gods in the past. Armed with a starmetal, it is pretty damn fatal to the divine beings of the World of the 13 Cities. And in the fiction, godkillers are not easily licensed nor are they reknown for doing the deed. They are really expected to fade away gracefully and never talk about their deed. A war has broken out, partly due to the Occulae continent kept exporting godkillers to the 13 Cities continent as terrorists. But partly because the emperor of the 13 Cities coveted the rich lands of the Occulae. With Occulae about 1/2 occupied by "the Blind" and gods have actually invaded Occulae shores, the godkillers are now being recruited and they are our lucky PCs! It has been interesting, because up to this point, I played 13 Cities characters and they were pretty devout. To play the other side has been really interesting roleplaying and philosophy debate opportunity.

Re: Fantasy Art Thread a couple of sketches from our Burning Wheel game. You can see the latest actual play report here (and in that thread are links to earlier actual play reports in 13 Cities game down at bottom in "tags" section) http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?9217-In-which-the-god-killers-are-given-their-bullets First up is Aaron's Marcus, the senator and gray knight of Occulae. A master politician and a fierce halberd wielding warrior. And Pete's Nikodemus, the assassin who now is finally a licensed godkiller. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. a couple of sketches from our Burning Wheel game. You can see the latest actual play report here (and in that thread are links to earlier actual play reports in 13 Cities game down at bottom in "tags" section) http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/showthread.php?9217-In-which-the-god-killers-are-given-their-bullets First up is Aaron's Marcus, the senator and gray knight of Occulae. A master politician and a fierce halberd wielding warrior. And Pete's Nikodemus, the assassin who now is finally a licensed godkiller. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Pulpy Art The next 4 pics are from our Danger Patrol game. The last two sessions, over the last 3 weeks. DP is a retro scifi rpg. And does the breathless pacing, cliffhanger action that was so indicative of yesteryears action scifi. Here is the link to the Danger Patrol website, which is just the rules. Beta rules are the better ones and the latest ones. This is a fun game, always generates images for me to doodle at the table. http://www.dangerpatrol.com/ First up is the "Carniforous Rex", the terrible pun given vicious life by our GM, Pete. I drew Max Mercury in an early game, but I thought he was a robot... he ain't. He be a cyborg with a toothy smile. So, its a redux sketch time! The Thorn Samurai were definetly a thorn in our side 2 eps ago. Trying to sacrifice a few of members in the jungles of Venus. Lastly, was definitely a "gal with guns" night... as both Nikita and Princess Alura had impact on the ep. I also noodled the kumite opponent for Singapore Sam, Ivan Ivanovitch, the Sultan of Sambo, the Crimson Terror. And i did a quick noodle-doodle of one of the 3 Pyramids of Mars, the runic, mystical starships that were causing so much trouble. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. The next 4 pics are from our Danger Patrol game. The last two sessions, over the last 3 weeks. DP is a retro scifi rpg. And does the breathless pacing, cliffhanger action that was so indicative of yesteryears action scifi. Here is the link to the Danger Patrol website, which is just the rules. Beta rules are the better ones and the latest ones. This is a fun game, always generates images for me to doodle at the table. http://www.dangerpatrol.com/ First up is the "Carniforous Rex", the terrible pun given vicious life by our GM, Pete. I drew Max Mercury in an early game, but I thought he was a robot... he ain't. He be a cyborg with a toothy smile. So, its a redux sketch time! The Thorn Samurai were definetly a thorn in our side 2 eps ago. Trying to sacrifice a few of members in the jungles of Venus. Lastly, was definitely a "gal with guns" night... as both Nikita and Princess Alura had impact on the ep. I also noodled the kumite opponent for Singapore Sam, Ivan Ivanovitch, the Sultan of Sambo, the Crimson Terror. And i did a quick noodle-doodle of one of the 3 Pyramids of Mars, the runic, mystical starships that were causing so much trouble. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Fantasy Art Thread I thought folks might like to see a rejected piece. Not because it was bad...well, the client said they liked it. I like it. But just because it wasn't a "standing" figure. I was going for something dynamic, but it just didn't fit what the client needed to use it for. Hey, it happens occasionally. Still, I like it. If anyone has a use for it, I could color it... let me know.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I thought folks might like to see a rejected piece. Not because it was bad...well, the client said they liked it. I like it. But just because it wasn't a "standing" figure. I was going for something dynamic, but it just didn't fit what the client needed to use it for. Hey, it happens occasionally. Still, I like it. If anyone has a use for it, I could color it... let me know. Next up is some pen and ink work, something I don't do as much as I used to. Always kinda nice to dip my pen back into ink. It is for SilverGryphon Games and will be coming out in a bit. Nice of them to give permission to post prior to it coming out. The actual product is "A Death Undeserving". Check it out. Their website is: http://www.silvergryphongames.com/ And here is the artwork: No CC on this one folks, Silver Gryphon owns Schaeffer there...

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Well, I've been happily burbling and churbling out private commissions at a pretty fast clip. And I thought I had no publisher deadlines for some time. How fast things can change in my world. 3 publishers over the course of 2 days gave me work, all of it due on March 15. 1 publisher has a small job needed at the end of the month. Another publisher has two covers needed at the end of the month and I want to finish a contest piece, full painting, by April 11th. Most of the jobs are pretty small ones in themselves, but as a whole, it adds up. Hopefully, some of these publishers will allow me to place some of the artwork up to promote their games (and to self promote myself, I will not lie ). So, my pretty fast clip of finishing private commissions is going to come to a crawl. Please be patient, I will get everyone's done. I love doing them, and if I can, I can slip them in between jobs occasionally. Here is my latest, a victorian steampunk character, albeit more of western vibe... I believe this is for a Savage Worlds game, but I'm not totally 100% on that. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Fantasy Art Thread First is a version of Sagittarius based on voodoo like magics. For patron extraordinaire Death Tribble. And second is a Ptolus character as a birthday present from husband to wife....awwww.... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. First is a version of Sagittarius based on voodoo like magics. For patron extraordinaire Death Tribble. And second is a Ptolus character as a birthday present from husband to wife....awwww.... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: I took the plunge! Are you asking for my handle? I have Vector1@storn.com and Intercept@storn.com in game.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Here are three more... "Putsch" means coup detat in german according to the patron. The Owlbear I did more as superhero/villain movement than the typical fantasy shot... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Here are three more... "Putsch" means coup detat in german according to the patron. The Owlbear I did more as superhero/villain movement than the typical fantasy shot... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic oh, yeah, Putsch is a freebie, not fantasy...just was lazy and didn't want to take 'em out.

Re: Fantasy Art Thread A trio of fantasy warriors. Although #1 and #2 are the same character. I thought I would amuse you all with my mistake. I had done a quick read through of the character and totally missed a couple of things, it wasn't normal fantasy... it was Exalted, which is more over-the-top. And he had big, stompy boots and gauntlets. So I redid him. But I still like the first image, just not for Exalted. The last one is a cleric of Tempus. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. A trio of fantasy warriors. Although #1 and #2 are the same character. I thought I would amuse you all with my mistake. I had done a quick read through of the character and totally missed a couple of things, it wasn't normal fantasy... it was Exalted, which is more over-the-top. And he had big, stompy boots and gauntlets. So I redid him. But I still like the first image, just not for Exalted. The last one is a cleric of Tempus. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Last week, my players and I got to a game of Danger Patrol run by Pete. And it was a blast. It is a solid little game, even though we were playing off of a beta. An actual play went up, JC launched it off with a hilarious Mac Mercury newsreel framework for the AP. I followed up with a tape recorder report of my PC. And while I was at the table, I was sketching, as there was a bit of down time as we were learning a new system and it was a boisterous table o' fun. Here is the link to the actual play, Planet X Blues: http://story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=11544&page=1#Item_0 So here are those sketches.... First up the trio of PCs, Singapore Sam, Shaolin two fisted warrior, Mac Mercury, the Atomic Flyboy, and Doc Tangent, Genius Explorer. My character, Damian Dagger, Mystic Detective Mac Mercury's bomber, the Enola Ray... bad pun I came up with for the bomber name... but it fit. And lastly, Anthony at one point shouted out about Air Sharks... and lo! They were in the game. Had to draw those suckers. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. A recent digital piece done for ArtBlog. A non-literal translation of the following quote: "A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust" ~ James Stephens Irish poet and storyteller, 1882-1950 I call mine: "The Sorcerer-King didn't care for his Tune." This was a fun, if time consuming piece to do. Digital does make things faster, but not THAT much faster. I still make decisions about color and line and shape as slow as I do in regular traditional paint. But the ability to work in layers, to save the original pencils as a layer, hide it... boy that is cool. And I'm loving my new wacom tablet and Painter XI. My new intuos 4 allows me to change my brush size with a dial that is one the side. And I change brush sizes a WHOLE lot. This is my first substantial image with the new toys, oh, i've gotten out several smaller pieces...but having to contend with the whole surface of the image is something that is much harder for me than having to do vignettes. If any art director can use such an image, it hasn't been published, and I would love to get it a home. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I guess it could be, but it wasn't specifically Thermal in my mine, more like generic pyro-dude.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Sure. If I get paid, unfortunately, I need to charge for my time.... but. I would be happy to work from reference like that.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. And so ya can!!! A couple more superhero-villain commissions. First up is Riptide, for my longtime Champions GM. I've been playing (and occasionally GMing) in Neil's RDU for over 2 decades. While we don't live near each other anymore, I get to participate in an play by email game. Riptide is an old villain who just popped up again and Neil wanted a commission: Then longtime patron, Death Tribble wanted a smoky, fire-y guy named Pyroclastic. I did this one with out inking it first, which is normally my "fantasy" style... but I wanted more grit, more texture to come through on this one...not such a clean, hard line, clean color as I tend to do for my supers. You be the judge if it was the right choice. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I got a chance to do entire team of Golden Age superheroes for someone's Champion's game. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic