Dragon Vs Spaceship
I have done more work on the Space Dragon – it has its own space dragon rpg illustration page now – and I’ve added an old picture to Illustration Friday.
First the space dragon, I’ve been looking at a lot of images of lizards, to try and get a nice realistic looking space dragon. The spaceship in the image is a render from the 3D model, released under a creative commons license, I made. I rendered a picture of the 3D spaceship model and painted the dragon on top. I also added some detail to the model, like the rips in the hull the monster has made as it tries to winkle out the tasty little player character pilot of the spaceship.
Space Explorer
The word on IF this week was ‘cultivate’ and it reminded me of one of the first pictures i painted after getting my graphics tablet. It’s an illustration of a peaceable spaceman cultivating the plants of a far-away planet.
I noticed a theme running through the two pictures in this blog post, and that is just how dangerous it can be for a character to go wandering around in the outer space of comic books, movies and role playing games. Real outer space can be dangerous too, but it probably has fewer dragons and bug-eyed monsters. Although just because we haven’t found any big scary monsters out there in the void yet doesn’t mean that there aren’t any lurking in wait for us.
