Jump to content

Storn

HERO Member
  • Posts

    1,728
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    49

Everything posted by Storn

  1. Your guess is as good as mine... but that would track. I didn't get specs on the race/culture, just some reference with that blue skin color.
  2. A fun private commission that I got to do. A Star Wars character, ex-imperial scout/sniper. I don't have a ton to say about it, although it was a totally digital creation. Usually I do a pencil sketch, but this time I wanted to work a bit more with my cintiq. The initial scribbles where done on separate layers, along with some reference that patron gave me. I did this at work during lunch over a few days. The camo texture was provided by the patron.
  3. Let me tell you about my character.... I hope y'all don't dread those words. At least this time, this character concept comes with a picture! In my Thursday night role playing game, we are just starting out with Unknown Worlds, a Apocalypse Engine game ( like Dungeon World) but the genre is science fiction. Pete, our GM, had been reading the Expanse books and is now watching the show and it is a big influence on our game. So, set in our solar system, no Faster than Light, no Artificial Gravity. Earth has a lot of rocks dropped on it by Mars 5 years ago and it is a Mad Max sort of place. Luna has become the banking Switzerland of the solar system after Earth "fell". Mars is a techno marvel, terraforming happening at an amazing place, one can walk outside without breathing equipment for short periods. My character, Tremaine "Trey" Sinclair, is from Europa. Europa colonies are in the buried oceans under the ice, and are heavily into the bio-sciences, including gene splicing and manipulation. Trey is Homo Aquaticus, he is amphibian, can breath under water, notice the gills and webbed, large hands in the picture. He is a pilot (both submarine and starship) and yearned to see the outside world. Left Europa to explore the "other" oceans (both stars and Earth's own oceans). He is the pilot of the "Flying Fin" which was a museum on Earth as it was one of the first Europa probe ships (both starship and submersible), recently salvaged from the Atlantic off of Africa, by a Luna corporation with the Trey and the other characters help. It is a really interesting game as Unknown Worlds really lends itself to easy character creation with totally interesting results. The world building we are doing is awesome! I look forward to next week quite a bit!
  4. My entry in the latest Ten Ton Studios weekly challenge; The Riddler. Remember, you can swing by Ten Ton Studios and see all the art and even vote on your favorite (hint: vote on mine, that would be nice), later this week (after 9 am Thursday till 9 am Friday).
  5. So, my mother in law died last week, early Monday morning, to be specific. Sad, but expected. She was 80. Much beloved. I was in Puerto Rico for the funeral and just got back in last night, late. But right before she died, I had done some artwork for commissions, the two superhero pieces. Happy accident time! I totally had a dyslexic moment and the Honey Badger commission called for a male. But in my brain, I thought I had read female and I drew Honey Badger as a woman villain. (It was the term "Honey" that threw me, so sexist of me). The patron really liked it and didn't take me up on my offer to redraw her as a man after I found out my mistake. I also really like the Cloud concept. He is a shapechanging, digital entity who resides in the Cloud. That is a scary concept, guess you have to lure him out to like rural-off-the-grid New Mexico or Canada in order to truly defeat him. Good luck with that y'all. And I fooled around on a painted piece after watching Steve Prescott's painting video with heavy body acrylics. After pestering Steve and asking a few questions about heavy body acrylics, which I had never used, I went and got a couple of tubes (burnt sienna, white, black). I had doodled that drawing in my toned color sketch book and despite it being fairly thin paper, I went to town with the acrylics. The underpainting is the heavy body acrylic, but the color work was done with some guoache I had lying around. Bottom line; I really like the Liquitex heavy body acrylics, they stay wet a nice long time. Easier to blend and mix. So thanks Steve!
  6. Steriaca... I have never seen Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. I have no idea what a STand is.
  7. Anyhow, I got asked to do a goblin who is a PC and is a kick ass monk for a D&D game. That is a cool concept. The patron was even specific with the pose. So I hope I did the kung fu goblin justice!
  8. I used to partake occasionally in a contest over at Ten Ton Studios. I had a lunch hour free and thought I would do my first Ten Ton Studio challenge in several years. If you are a member of Ten Ton, you get to vote on the winner. This week's challenge is Superboy. The challenge just started and runs to 9am Thursday. Not a lot of time to get stuff in. But it is always fun to see what is produced. Link to Ten Ton Studio Superboy challenge here: http://www.tentonstudios.com/forum/index.php?topic=10773.0 I did my entry in pencil, ink and color pencil.
  9. This was a full page illustration that got away. In the sense that it is supposed to be an interior illustration. But the thumbnails that were more scaled to a interior didn’t suit the client. He wanted a sense of scale and wanted bad guys and good guys and pretty specific visuals on the good guys. This turned into full blown cover in its detail. Took me forever. I certainly lost money on this one. But sometimes you have to take a bullet for the team. It is better to have a happy client than to finish something too fast.
  10. How about this, just throwing it out there. Give people 3 versions of each class. Have 7-9 classes. Hide the numbers. That's right. If someone has a spell, no (-1/2 limitation)... just write out the limitation. No character points, None of that. Allow them to pick a few different options on each character that cost the same amount of points. Then in the back, show the math, direct them to how everyone can tweak the game to their liking using the hero system. Same with monsters, don't show the math, have that as an online resource. Presentation is SO key when providing a new game world. The fluff and the mechanics need to go hand in hand, but not every single thing needs to be delineated out.
  11. Philosophically, I believe that I paid the points for the Advantage, I should be able to turn it off and on. It is just cleaner and easier than the inelegant ways to circumnavigate it. It is one of those things that "you have to have it bought perfectly and can only use it the way it was bought" that flys counter to any superhero comic I've ever read and often, lots of fantasy magic systems. Lastly, it just seems to stifle creativity at the table. It is one of the reasons that I still play Champions reluctantly and not enthusiastically.
  12. Dirty Tricks Squad The Dragons The Jamm The Janissaries Justice Malta Professionals Mavericks The New Pioneers The Sentinels of Justice The Trouble Shooters UNTIL/UNITE The Vanguard The New Pioneers, appropriately enough, are the brand, newest super team in the RDU. I'm playing the daughter of my very first PC, who was under the auspices of the Sentinels and founded the Mavericks and Vanguard.
  13. Oh heck yeah. I am making a living wage. Anything I make from art is gravy on top of that. And I get paid weekly. HUGE difference.
  14. The Short Bussers. (that is awfully mean, not to the superteam, but to thousands of kids). The Flunkees. The Flops.
  15. Yeah, I think there are some awesome comics now. The variety is amazing. The amount is overwhelming, I don't read monthly titles anymore, preferring to pick up the odd graphic novel as a kindle or from the library. ... But when I was the MOST excited about comics, it was the bronze age... including two of my favorite runs... Master of Kung Fu and Conan. I didn't read Conan until Dark Horse recently compiled the original run, but they are really strong. Put in Paul Smith's X-men run and I had to vote Bronze Age.
  16. Yeah buddy, I miss doing your wacky ideas! But my production is a lot less these days as I'm 9-5 doing advertising and marketing. I work on my lunch hours and some mornings before works, usually a day on the weekend... but I'm not full time freelance.
  17. I don't do a ton of vehicles, bases and the like... as I tend to get commissions of *people* (which could mean aliens, mutants, monsters etc). But I have done them. Often, if I'm playing in a game I will do a doodle of a space ship or shuttle... Bases I don't do a lot of, but I have done city scapes for Mutants and Masterminds or Champions in the past. Both interiors and exteriors. I just did this one: I did this one that is in a Expanse like sci fi game, but had to be a submarine to explore the oceans of Europa. This is a really quick doodle. Not meant to be anything but the basest of concepts. I did this one when I was 9. Proving I was doing vehicles way back when. Here are more finished pieces: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/StornCookRoarSkyTrio.jpg
  18. Here is a private commission I finished a few days ago. For a D&D game, hence potions and hand axes had to be incorporated somehow into the image. He wanted a somewhat action shot. Hope I succeeded. Might work for a Black Knight kind of super.
  19. I don't get this in 6th ed. If I have a power with an Advantage, why cannot I just decide not to use it. I've paid the points. I'm using the power at a lower level because of the Advantage. Doesn't make sense to me. Especially for super heroes or magic, where the small tweaking of powers is SO genre.
  20. I got more... I've done a lot of private commissions over the years and there is a lot of NPCs and PCs from my own gaming group... Some are a bit pulpy, but I think the pulp adventures and mystery men are the pops and moms of what Dark Champions characters are doing. More tomorrow.
  21. Some of these are commissions. Some of them are from an actual game, Dark Champions type characters but in a Champions world.
×
×
  • Create New...