Storn

Re: Pulpy Art That is not what the client wanted.

And joined up with Champs Online. As a long time player of the pen and paper and a contributor of not a small amount of art to the franchise over the years.... I am hoping this is a huge success for Cryptic and Hero Games. I like "Darren's Pizza" quite a bit... and I really can recognize Detroit under all that Millennium City glitz...which is cool... I took Darren around Detroit when he was writing up that section many years back. Anyways, look me up in game. Although not quite sure how to do that yet. One pc is Vector1, the other is Gladius

Re: Fantasy Art Thread I finished Kalhandrha here. She has been done for a bit, but oil can take a while to dry and then I was just waiting for a day that I could gang up a lot scans all at once. Yesterday was that day. Now, I'm posting her. 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. Um.... no. I like her skin tones. I finished Kalhandrha here. She has been done for a bit, but oil can take a while to dry and then I was just waiting for a day that I could gang up a lot scans all at once. Yesterday was that day. Now, I'm posting her. 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. Okay, all blocked in. I have to change the boots, I hate them. I've got work her hair over her shoulders, I have a nice pic of a model that has hair cascading interestingly. Got to start in with all the chain work...ugg.... that is going to be tough, don't like the buckles-snap thingees, I think I'm gonna make them gold, bronzish. But, it is coming along.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I worked on this commission painting before the holidays. Work, both freelance and part-time got very busy during the holidays and I'm only getting back to this today. But I thought I would scan it in and share where I am up to this point. I find drow skin tones very difficult. I'm not going to worry to much more about them until the whole painting is blocked in. Then I'll go back and tweak. Very difficult, but a blast to play with. Somehow working in that dark blue for someone's skin is a total hoot! Well, here is the 1/2 or 1/3 point. Comments and critiques are welcome!

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Continuing on with the underpainting. Now, i am just getting values down, not so concern with chroma of the color or it's hue... like I know her skin tones are going to be cooler and darker, keeping with a drow skintone. Having a warm underpainting, I hope, will keep that cool skin tone believable, yet still read as alien and drow. A tough tightrope to walk. And an extra. A very late commission for a Scion game (White Wolf) I believe and this is the daughter of Thor. I drew her for the patron one time before and this is her "more experienced"... and there hopefully will be a third. The patron was very specific about the "power pose" and provide reference for everything from the goat head, the motorcycle to what the t-shirt sez. I LOVE working with patrons like that, who do a lot of the reference grunt work for me!!! 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. Once in awhile, I get the urge to show the steps I take in creating a painting. This is one of those times. Partly because I have a tough job ahead of me. This private commission came with sketches from the client. The one I worked from the most from is this: Added to that was 3 staves and a rod... oh...yeah, that doodle of the rod of splendor was done by me at Gencon in front of the client while I was writing down notes from him. But there is a real joy in working on the imaginations of others. It takes me out of my comfort zone. Like, wow, those are some seriously Georgia O'Keefe inspired staff heads! Not something I would do if left to my own devices. Nor do I tend to do sexy outfits all that often. Here is my version in pencil sketch form. You might notice there isn't any of the wire/bead/thong holding up the halter and girdle. And the hair is just kinda blasted in there. That is because I find it is much easier to paint those details on top of the skin or cloth or the background than try to paint around those little, thin shapes. note: I skipped the roman sandals bit. I just couldnt' get it to look right with those bends in the toes. As soon as I get the underpainting done, I will put that up too.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. These sketches are from our friday night diaspora game. The game has been very inspiring. Link here: http://story-games.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=10882&page=1#Item_0 I sketched up the rest of the Libertine crew. I had another pic for Anthony's Saffron Delaney...but I wasn't happy with it, so I re-sketched him. I also want to resketch my own guy at some point. Because we hadn't played with Anthony yet (he missed the first session), I hadn't heard his description of his character....and that first session, I had described my PC as being a tall, gangly dancer like body... sorta playing against typical starship engineer body-type. But with Carter Manning coming in at 6'3" (totally fine with super-leader clone) and then Anthony declares that Saffron is 6'7" due to genetics. Again fine. But in my head, I was like "what?!?! 3 tall, beanpoles, we could be the Libertine GRAV Basketball Team....and I just wasn't into wanting to be yet another tall dude. I was think 6'4", Tom Selleck height)... so I retro described being 5'10" and stocky, more in line with an engineer who has to clamber around a 40 year old spaceship to keep it going. I also doodled up my soon to be revealed daughter, Andrea. I think she had a scavenger, hard-scrabble life on the planet Scranton. And this morning for my warm-up sketch, I did Anton again. Made him a bit stockier (and a lot more handsome... not sure how that happened...some times the pencil has a will of its own). I'm much happier with this version. 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. This is a character for Diaspora, a sci-fi game that is pretty solid in its science. My character is Anton Kilkenny and is basically Bret Maverick who is an ex-starship engineer. The "VA" was my quickie logo for "Valiance Arms", a sorta proxy for the Dutch East Indian Company for this scifi world. We work for Valiance Arms as explorers, diplomats and traders in the game itself. Next up is the spaceship, Libertine. Which is based on some concepts from Atomic Rocket. These ships are never atmospheric. It was my morning warm up sketch this morning. Atomic Rocket: http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/ Here is our actual play report and set-up: http://www.enworld.org/forum/story-hour/267843-diaspora-friday-night-science-fiction.html#post5015741 These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic

Re: Thanks Eric... I thought I would share a couple of my favorite splash pages from Hero Games Book of the Machine images are shown with permission by Hero Games

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Blue, that is a gorgeous mini paint job. Love it. Here are couple of color interior pics that I did for Hero 6th edition and now that it is out, I can share...These were done primarily in Painter IX, a bit of Photoshop, over scanned pencils. I like the grittiness of the pencils bleeding through the digital paint here and there. This first one was really Fred Hicks baby, he is the art director. He came up with the idea of a evil bard as the main antagonist for a intrepid band of adventurers. I really thought that was cool. I sorta went pied piper. This one was the 2nd in a series about this heroic duo that I made up to represent the more sword and sorcery vibe that Hero 6th could do (as opposed to D&D vibe, the band of heroes thing). I knew Fred loved Apes and Gorillas...so I made one of the duo just that. images are shown with permission by Hero Games

Re: Thanks Eric... Here are couple of color interior pics that I did for Hero 6th edition and now that it is out, I can share...These were done primarily in Painter IX, a bit of Photoshop, over scanned pencils. I like the grittiness of the pencils bleeding through the digital paint here and there. This first one was really Fred Hicks baby, he is the art director. He came up with the idea of a evil bard as the main antagonist for a intrepid band of adventurers. I really thought that was cool. I sorta went pied piper. This one was the 2nd in a series about this heroic duo that I made up to represent the more sword and sorcery vibe that Hero 6th could do (as opposed to D&D vibe, the band of heroes thing). I knew Fred loved Apes and Gorillas...so I made one of the duo just that. images are shown with permission by Hero Games

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. ayup! That was intentional.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. A couple more superhero commissions. Speedbump the "accidental speedster" is for Death Tribble and Bob G. The other is Enermatrix... a power armor energy manipulator. 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. Oh crud. That was scribbled there just as a placeholder to then do the actual type in photoshop, but I forgot.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Folks, I've been gone a long time from posting. I came back from Gencon with a ton of publisher deadlines to hit... then I went straight into a bout with H1N1. The last two weeks have been spent taking care of my 2 cousins (who are teenagers) as my Aunt was in Germany/Italy for her job and the Franklin book fair. If I owe you a commission, I'm sorry. I am working on the pile in my queue in bits and pieces as I do still have deadlines for publishers. But!!!! I've got some done and here they are: oddly, bunch a female in a row, plus a couple of sketches just for funsies.... Here is a 50s sci-fi/horror movie victim.... Another period piece, first time I've done bomber art... And Death Tribble's evil cheerleader... This one is a sketch from a RPGnet thread about pulpy sword and planet Mars world building. and here is the thread that spawned the sketch http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=426241 And lastly, my PC from the Burning Wheel solo game I'm in with Judd/Paka These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Getting back to work after Gencon has been slow going. I was very wiped out by the con. Thanks to all the folks who stopped by my booth and said hello. It was nice putting faces to some online handles! I actually got these done before Gencon, but was too lazy to put them up. Here are a couple of characters from a B 50s horror type scenario... the Menace of the Manpillar!!!! (my title...) The Manpillar himself: And the bird watching sherrif 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 A while back I did a sketch of Judd's pc taking on a green dragon. Well, I finally got off my duff and finished it. Here are some of the interim steps. This was done digitally, mostly in Painter IX, but with a bit of photoshop too. Getting in the background, noodling a bit with the color of the dragon skin. Got quite a bit of the dragon blocked in. Finishing touches on the dragon.. working on the figure... By the way, I will be at Gencon in this upcoming week. So my production will slow down on private commissions. 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 while back I did a sketch of Judd's pc taking on a green dragon. Well, I finally got off my duff and finished it. Here are some of the interim steps. This was done digitally, mostly in Painter IX, but with a bit of photoshop too. Getting in the background, noodling a bit with the color of the dragon skin. Got quite a bit of the dragon blocked in. Finishing touches on the dragon.. working on the figure... By the way, I will be at Gencon in this upcoming week. So my production will slow down on private commissions. 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 for Death Tribble. First up is a density controlling, I think powersuit, worked from DT's sketch on this one. Next up is a chemical spill victim from India. Nasty that. chemical powers and giant size. That will take an entire superteam to deal with. I decided to go with a bit of a painted look so I could get the curls of chemical churning from within and without. 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 superhero/villain commissions. First up, we have another flying, superman type, although this one is supposed to be more like superboy. And next is Stonefist, a commission from long time friend, GM, RDUNeil for his current Champions chapter that is a Tekken type story. Stonefist is a villain and not well-loved by the PCs from what I have heard. 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 saw a video of a guy working digitally that he put up on you tube, actually, about 10 video segments. He does all of his drawing right in the software, unlike myself. I usually pencil, scan in, and then work from there. So, this was an experiment... drawing directly on my wacom tablet and using a lot of layers, allowing for a separate paper surface, the summon critter was on a layer, the staff, etc. I'm somewhat happy with the results, took about 3 and 1/2 hours. I found hands are really hard to draw digitally, at least with the brushes I was working with... I kept messing with them, still not happy, but other work calls. For the record, this is loosely based on Judd's burning wheel character, Sammesh. 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 saw a video of a guy working digitally that he put up on you tube, actually, about 10 video segments. He does all of his drawing right in the software, unlike myself. I usually pencil, scan in, and then work from there. So, this was an experiment... drawing directly on my wacom tablet and using a lot of layers, allowing for a separate paper surface, the summon critter was on a layer, the staff, etc. I'm somewhat happy with the results, took about 3 and 1/2 hours. I found hands are really hard to draw digitally, at least with the brushes I was working with... I kept messing with them, still not happy, but other work calls. For the record, this is loosely based on Judd's burning wheel character, Sammesh. 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 It's been awhile since I've posted anything. Been really busy with finishing up a ton of fantasy artwork for the upcoming Hero 6th ed. I got the fantasy section, so I was pretty damn stoked. Starting to work on some painting for Warlord, the CCG, won't be able to show those until they get published. In the meantime, I'm starting to tackle the huge list of commissions I need to get to. Here is a famous moment in an alternate history of WWII with the inclusion of golden age superheroes. You might recognize these guys. They are earlier in the thread when I did each one as a separate pic. Folks who've been waiting for theirs... I'm getting to them. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic