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Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. yeah, interesting placement of kirby dots.... can't compete with that....

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. This odd one is another from the Hero Games boards semi-contest hosted by Death Tribble for unusual superheroes/villains. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5 And I finally, finally got around to entering another one of Top Ten Studios sketch challenges. This time around, it is Supergirl, and we can re-imagine her costume a bit. I didn't stray too far though... If you like, come to Ten Ton Studios and vote on yer favorite sketch! (not creative commons) ten ton studios link: http://www.tentonstudios.com/forum/index.php?topic=6263.0

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Here the cover to Winterweir, by Phipps Studios. A Dark Fantasy setting for Savage Worlds. Oil, original is about 15 inches wide. (this is not a creative commons image)

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. DT, yours will be coming up, in the next few days, definitely next week. I've got a busy weekend.... but I have no immediate publishers after I put to bed a Green Ronin interior job which is almost done. Here the cover to Winterweir, by Phipps Studios. A Dark Fantasy setting for Savage Worlds. Oil, original is about 15 inches wide. (this is not a creative commons image)

Re: Fantasy Art Thread It has been awhile since I've posted anything. I've been busy with a couple of covers, a couple of interior assignments and had to put down private commissions for a bit. One cover should be forthcoming, as the publisher is going to allow me to post it. But I'm waiting for a "cover blurb", something to give y'all an indication of what it is all about. Meanwhile, I have managed to get a few commissions done, a couple for 7th Sea, a couple of fantasy, most likely 4th ed d20 d&d. Enjoy! These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. It has been awhile since I've posted anything. I've been busy with a couple of covers, a couple of interior assignments and had to put down private commissions for a bit. One cover should be forthcoming, as the publisher is going to allow me to post it. But I'm waiting for a "cover blurb", something to give y'all an indication of what it is all about. Meanwhile, I have managed to get a few commissions done, a couple for 7th Sea, a couple of fantasy, most likely 4th ed d20 d&d. Enjoy! These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Fantasy Art Thread I've been a bit busy of late, with paintings for publishers and web banners, I haven't been churning out the commissions of late. I also am homeless...well... not really, I'm house-sitting for my aunt who is in Italy. But it does mean that most of my studio is in my folk's barn. But, between cleaning and painting my new apartment for september, and moving my stuff around, dashing down to Philly to help my girlfriend on her move, I am starting to crack down on my queue of commission art. Got a couple of "fiery" concepts... one superhero, one fantasy. And one more fantasy. I'm loving 4th ed D&D simply because it is giving me a chance to do a lot of fantasy characters!!! . These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. I've been a bit busy of late, with paintings for publishers and web banners, I haven't been churning out the commissions of late. I also am homeless...well... not really, I'm house-sitting for my aunt who is in Italy. But it does mean that most of my studio is in my folk's barn. But, between cleaning and painting my new apartment for september, and moving my stuff around, dashing down to Philly to help my girlfriend on her move, I am starting to crack down on my queue of commission art. Got a couple of "fiery" concepts... one superhero, one fantasy. And one more fantasy. I'm loving 4th ed D&D simply because it is giving me a chance to do a lot of fantasy characters!!! . These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. IF that happens... I want some money, dang it. They aren't making any money off of it at the moment... but all the merchandising.... hoooweeeeeee!!! People would make a ton of money off my artwork, I want a piece.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. John Cusack for me. At his geekiest. The lead singer from TLC looks a bit like Millie, wonder how good her spanish is. Tionne Watkins (thank you google). Thanks y'all for such nice comments. Just showed Millie, she was thrilled.

Re: Fantasy Art Thread I really like it. It has got great mood. My only beef is that the hand on the staff seems like it is a *bit* far away from the body and it is pretty large. But this is just a sketch and I love the rest of it. I'm just a perfectionist.

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Here is a winged dude with a bow for a supers game. And this one has a bit of a story behind it. I met Millie 23 years ago. She became my wife after 4 years of living together. We broke up a year later. But parted on very good terms. I always thought the world of her, but we simply where too young, too different (she is Puerto Rican, I'm a white guy without an ounce of religious upbringing, she comes from a huge family and is a twin, I come from a tiny family. I was a raving geek, she was not etc. etc.) 18 years pass and we meet again and rekindle our romance this last xmas. She is now moving to my home town and I'm very happy to have this 2nd chance. One of our causes of friction was she thought role playing was "stupid". Now, many years later, and because she is a nurse instructor, she uses roleplaying as case study-teaching aides every semester. When we rekindled, she expressed large interest in trying out this odd hobby of mine (ours). This picture is her first character, done during play. She played 4th ed D&D this last Saturday and had a great time, wants to do it again. She was very nervous, but my fellow gamers did a wonderful job of embracing her and her character. I had a great time. So... there's the story behind "Midnight aka Serielle, Paladin of Avandra".. Millie's first character. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Here is a winged dude with a bow for a supers game. And this one has a bit of a story behind it. I met Millie 23 years ago. She became my wife after 4 years of living together. We broke up a year later. But parted on very good terms. I always thought the world of her, but we simply where too young, too different (she is Puerto Rican, I'm a white guy without an ounce of religious upbringing, she comes from a huge family and is a twin, I come from a tiny family. I was a raving geek, she was not etc. etc.) 18 years pass and we meet again and rekindle our romance this last xmas. She is now moving to my home town and I'm very happy to have this 2nd chance. One of our causes of friction was she thought role playing was "stupid". Now, many years later, and because she is a nurse instructor, she uses roleplaying as case study-teaching aides every semester. When we rekindled, she expressed large interest in trying out this odd hobby of mine (ours). This picture is her first character, done during play. She played 4th ed D&D this last Saturday and had a great time, wants to do it again. She was very nervous, but my fellow gamers did a wonderful job of embracing her and her character. I had a great time. So... there's the story behind "Midnight aka Serielle, Paladin of Avandra".. Millie's first character. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Got a chance to do a cover for "Messiah". This was one fun cover to do! It was fun researching all the different faces... and finding a sweatshirt that would work. Wanted to share and to shill for Chris Perrin, the game designer of the game. Here is a link to what Messiah is about. Sounds like fun! http://knrpg.blogspot.com/2008/07/introducing-messiah.html And here is what I did for the project:

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. A bit of an unusual commission (for me). Friends of mine wanted a sumac leaf, as they have several of the trees on their property, painted onto their sink cabinetry. Thought I would share. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Fantasy Art Thread MisterAdam, I really like your portraits... they have a solidity to them and a playfulness with the "paint" that is a lot of fun... yet they have very distinct character. Cool stuff. On my end: A 4th ed dwarf for a long time client. Kinda neat that he is a wizard instead of the usual dour fighter type. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. A 4th ed dwarf for a long time client. Kinda neat that he is a wizard instead of the usual dour fighter type. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Yeah. Here is what I said over at the Atomic Think Tank forum about similar questions.... I think it is interesting that this has come up in a couple of different places. It is fine by me. Why no shield? Because often with these flag characters, there is a tendency to try and boil down their country into a visual concept. I wasn't trying to do that. Just because Cap. America, probably the most famous flag character, has a shield and just because the Flag of Kenya has a shield... I resisted the urge to follow suit. I really wanted to have "just" a Power Armor with a flag on it. Maybe because in a strange way, it is less expected. I wanted to present a sophisticated Kenyan female pilot/scientist... and didn't feel the need to make her a zulu warrior. Then it becomes a cliche. If the hip thingees there pay homage to shields?...cool. As stated on another board, the stance looks shield and spear like?... cool. But I didn't feel like I wanted to go directly at the stereotype.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Death Tribble and I discussed "Flag" characters, perhaps combining it with Power Armor Suit characters and how many countries never really got represented in comics. DT worked up a list of 15 countries, I took a look at their flags. I settled on Kenya... liked the iconic Masai shield quite a bit and worked that into a power armor design. The other discussion that was happening on a few boards was females and power armor... how to do it, make it look practical, (in a paranormal sense and setting), yet still register as a female under all that muscle weave and servos. So I wove that element in as well... so here we have a female Power Armor suit from Kenya. Hope y'all like. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Pulp Hero Resources Okay, the 2nd illo is a bit more pulp than the first... but I like this thread and wanted to see a bump. Here is a buffy-esque type, but with a beeeg spear... ...and a 60 year old Tonto... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Here is a buffy-esque type, but with a beeeg spear... ...and a 60 year old Tonto... These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Fantasy Art Thread And this sketch was done last night while playing 4th ed... the Beetle Matrons are tough, undead squad leaders we've fought a few times over the last few sessions. My GM, B., made these guys up as a test of how quickly a monster could be made on the fly during a session. Pretty fast, it turns out, and very, very cool mechanically to fight. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Made my night last night when I read this. Thank you for sharing that little story. Here is some more oddness from Death Tribble, Frank-einstien. boy, I love these strange requests I get sometimes. This was fun. A more traditional villain from Death Tribble, Snowstorm And this sketch was done last night while playing 4th ed... the Beetle Matrons are tough, undead squad leaders we've fought a few times over the last few sessions. My GM, B., made these guys up as a test of how quickly a monster could be made on the fly during a session. Pretty fast, it turns out, and very, very cool mechanically to fight. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Fantasy Art Thread With 4th ed D&D coming out, it seems like lots of folks want commissions along those lines. Here is something a bit different, a prop. A mystical sword that has been shattered into 5 parts and must be reforged as part of one group's quest. And this LOOKS like a fantasy character, but is actually a trans-dimensional superhero character. I think it could work for a fantasy game too. Does 4th ed have rules to do other races besides its core? Cat people just seem to go with fantasy. These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Mister adam Great sense of light there, I really dig this piece. I swiped it for my fantasy file!!!