Tag Archives: Illustration Friday

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 [...]

More work on the Space Dragon, and IF

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 [...]

Warning competition droid for illustration friday rpg concept

Here ‘Hawk’ the gladiator robot is a little further through the illustration process and is looking a lot more colorful. Welcome to Starbright Illustrations. I’m painting a robot this week, in the style of a concept illustration for a game or movie. The title of the illustration is ‘Warning’ – which is the word posted [...]

ZTE Blade phone doodle digital art layers

I just got a ZTE Blade mobile/cell phone, it’s actually what they call a smart phone, and the first thing I set it up for is painting. I downloaded an app from the Android Market called PaintJoy. This app has this strange bar which says click adds to donate and make the add bar go [...]

Surrender Illustration Friday cute children’s character digital book painting

Thank goodness for Illustration Friday, without this art challenge website forcing me to put stylus to graphics pad at least once a week I’d probably never get anything done. This week they have given us the word, “surrender” to get our creative juices flowing. As usual I opened MyPaint to start playing with ideas and [...]

Dusty – the cute t-rex – for Illustration Friday

I decided to do a real quick illustration for the art challenge site this week, little more than a doodle really. But despite that, I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out. As usual I first opened MyPaint to scribble out an initial idea for the illustration, because MyPaint lets me feel free. It’s [...]

Winter wonderland digital painting

In response to the Illustration Friday art challenge this week I have done a nice little digital painting using MyPaint. I am as always having a lot of fun using MyPaint, and I still find it hard to believe that such a powerful piece of software is available for free. Today I used the tree [...]

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 [...]

Prehistoric monster for Illustration Friday

I love painting prehistoric monsters, and I love my new app – MyPaint. In fact I did a couple of dinosaur illustrations as part of my portfolio to get on to a graphic design course. I also did some giant robot paintings and other assorted game and sci-fi movie related images. Of course because I [...]