Tag Archives: Art

A phenomenon is an extraordinary event – game illustration

Another hour’s work brings a lot more definition to the image. The brave adventurer is starting to get some nice sharp outlines to his space suit. The colours have become darker and more muted too, just the way I like them. Building on the very rough shapes of the previous image, this digital painting is [...]

Love Birds Valentine Vector Image with Inkscape

This image is called Love Birds, and it is, of course, in honour of Valentine’s Day. I’m focusing on producing images in Inkscape right now. Since the death of my XP laptop and my consequent inability to use my new Bamboo graphics tablet – Linux just doesn’t like it (even my brand spanking new Mandriva [...]

Sketching in Photoshop with my new Bamboo tablet, and some Scifi Comic Books

The word this week on Illustration Friday was music, and of course I wanted to do a quick sketch with music, but also with my usual sci fi elements. This time I included a robot playing the trumpet in the sketch. The sketch was done with my new “Bamboo Pen” graphic tablet, and it makes [...]

3d editorial illustration for article on internet piracy and copyright article

This is my latest editorial illustration for Dragonbat (my illustrator/Guardian reader rants and sketches blog). I’m writing an article about copyright on the internet, and as usual I wanted a cool illustration to accompany it. The article itself isn’t finished yet – pressures of actual work that brings me real cash money, rather than the [...]

Frozen, and at last something to show for my 2.5d 3d animation efforts in Blender

It is Illustration Friday time again and the word this week is “Frozen”, and that suits me just fine. Here in Vienna it is freezing, and we even had a little bit of snow yesterday, though it didn’t lie, perfect inspiration for this Illustration Friday word. I’ve snipped out a detail from a painting I [...]

Magnify Monkey, Illustration Friday

It’s Illustration Friday time again, and although I usually just search out an image from the dark recesses of my hard drive to use as the challenge picture, this time I have created something entirely new in honor of the occasion. I hope you you enjoy my stuff, you can see more 2D vector art [...]

Spaceship, cracked open, an image for RPGs

In my sci-fi role-playing game setting, a setting for Traveller – although I just downloaded the free version of the D20 system, so it could soon be for that too – the spacers are a superstitious lot. This is only to be expected in an RPG galaxy full of monsters, psionics, super science, spaceships as [...]

New 3D Spaceship Illustration at Starbright, the Sci-Fi RPG website

I’m starting to have fun creating my 3D science fiction role-playing game illustrations with Blender (exclusively spaceships so far, with droids and other equipment sure to follow). But there are still a few things that are giving me a little bit of trouble. In blender itself I highlight faces on the 3D mesh and this [...]

The Vernisage

A couple of nights ago I was at the opening night of an exhibition. Here in Austria this kind of event has a special name all of its own, it’s called a vernisage. It was such an extreme event that I knew I had to do an illustration. It was a glimpse into the art [...]

Slaves of New York

This illustration was inspired by a cool book I just read called Slaves of New York. The book is written by Tama Janowitz and gives a real glimpse into the unhappy lives of the Soho art crowd. This image is intended as a possible cover. The character in the sketch represents one of the proud [...]