Author Archives: The Illustrator

I’m the talented illustrator behind this illustration blog. It is the blog on my Starbright Illustration site and it’s a lot of fun – oh and of course there is a lot of illustration.

I’m a UK citizen (although non-resident) and I’m living in Austria right now – my German is getting better and better. I make my living mostly through teaching, translation and, of course, my online illustration related stuff.

Second Edition of the Spaceship Space Opera Role-Playing Game

I’ve been meaning to overhaul Extreme Future for a while now, and here that marvellous little sci-fi RPG is, finally done. I’m also writing a couple of genre novels too, one fantasy novel set in the world of Realms Fantasy Role Playing, and another for later release, set in the Extreme Future galaxy. The Sci-Fi [...]

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 [...]

New Photography Blog

My favorite photographer just moved to a new blog, and I thought I would give her a shout out, and a link. To some great colorful photography and Venice pictures. I’ve been working on a bunch of stuff, including the second edition of realms – but that won’t see the light of day for some [...]

Mysterious character for role-playing games

I just added another supplement for download for the Heroes in Time role-playing game. It’s a shaman character showing how the rules can be used to create a starting character with real depth and interest, but also lots of room to gain experience and grow as they adventure through the game. This is the cover [...]

Great review for the RPG (Heroes in Time)

I just got a great review for the Heroes in Time role-playing game on RPG Drive Thru. Here are a few choice excerpts, but you can read the whole role-playing game review here. “…[With]  extensive contents that includes the wide variety of settings for adventures – Primeval, Fantasy, Swashbuckling, Steampunk, Modern, Cyberpunk and Space Opera. [...]

work starts on new role-playing game cover

My new role playing game is called Heroes in Time and has everything needed to role play across an entire span of history from brutal primeval barbarian sword and sorcery to space opera and its laser battles, but the cover needs work. It is the element of this project that has been most severely letting [...]

Spaceship Art and Character Sheet for Heroes in Time role-playin game

There is an ocean of starts, and this spaceship is designed to ride the swells. More work has been done on Heroes in Time again, and this time I’ve added a character sheet that can be downloaded for free. The game itself is available here (just click the nice attractive banner, it goes directly to [...]

Completely New RPG System

The new role-playing game is ready for release and it is a generic system that nevertheless comes with a huge range of settings, all tied together by a time traveling/ alternate histories theme. It is a very ambitious project and it will be a project that will be undergoing constant revision for a long time [...]

Cool role-playing game tools that work on Ubuntu

These cool tools are all free, and all work seamlessly with Ubuntu*. I’m talking about stuff that helps in running table-top games here, not on-line RPG stuff. I was very impressed by how professional and smooth these are, and they are all free to download from the author’s RPG tool download website. I’m mostly using [...]

perennial assailant for role-playing game characters

The word on Illustration Friday this week is perennial – and of course my thoughts turned to some sort of rampoaging plant-based monster for use in role playing games. I have had no time on my Wacom pad and computer and have instead been sketching this image on my phone on the tram to work [...]