Starbright Illustrations (blog)

By The Illustrator 　http://starbrightillustrations.com/blog/2011/12/21/working-on-some-fantasy-art/

I’m working on a few fantasy pieces at the moment. This image is going to illustrate the concept of wizard, or magic user for the new edition of my role-playing game. I’ve done about an hour’s work on it so far, and I can imagine it going in a nice direction, whether it actually does or not is another question. I’m back to blogging again, because I’ve finally released the new edition of Realms. The image above shws how it looked after a few minutes blocking colours in roughly and trying to come up with a composition.

Here’s Realms the role-playing game to buy at RPGDrivethru.

If you click through the link, the nice piece of text I wrote explains what the game is all about, but basically it’s set in a fantasy world similar to the world of European legend, full of fairies, giants, goblins and devil dogs.

That’s why I need a nice magic user image, an image where the magic user is looking powerful and commanding. It’s to go in the section where the players roll up their characters, and I want to instill a bit of confidence.

This image shows how things stand at the moment, after about 45 minutes work putting the first few hints of detail into the image. The whole thing looks a little wimpy at the moment, like the wizard is attending certain well known magical school. I’ll have to feed him a few steroids and beef him up a bit before the picture is complete. I’m particularly happy with the lightning at the moment. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of lightning on a dark and stormy night in a fantasy illustration.