Tag Archives: science fiction

New Sci-Fi RPG Extreme Future goes live at DriveThruRPG

My latest project has just gone live at DriveThruRPG – a giant tabletop role-playing game site. It’s based on the FATE system, and I’ve used that basis to write the role-playing game I’ve always wanted to play. I’ve also filled the book full of my role-playing game illustrations. It’s a simple system, but surprisingly subtle [...]

Working on more droid concept paintings for sci-fi role-playing games

The first line of images on my sci-fi concept art website is a bunch of robots. The ones that are there are nice of course – capturing the essence of a dark, nerdy future, when droids are as likely to help you with an adventure, challenge you to a game of chess, or try to [...]

More work on the Frog King digital painting

I’ve been working on the Frog King a little more tonight, and I’m thinking that maybe it is more like an illustration for a modern-day role-playing game like Call of Cthulu, or the more modern occult horror RPG, Cthulu Tech. This creature could has probably crawled out of its lagoon for the first time in [...]

Frog King Monster game concept art digital apinting

I’ve been working on a sketch today that’s been in my portfolio, just sitting there for a couple of years. It’s still far from complete, but I think I’m getting to the point where I’m getting happier with the mix of colours in the image. It’s a monster frog of course, and so the colours [...]

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 [...]

A Digital Painting of A Wilderness of Stars, oh and of course, a spaceship.

Every week I go to The Illustration Art challeng website to get inspiration for a digital painting. This week the word on Illustration Friday is “Wilderness”, and me being the science fiction, space ship obsessed nerd that I am, the first idea that jumped to mind was “A Wilderness of Stars”; but where had I [...]

I just saw Avatar in 3D and loved the design, the alien ecosystem and all the concepts.

OK, so I just watched Avatar and I’m not going to even fight the influence this is going to be having on my sketches for the foreseeable future. It’s a great movie and I absolutely loved it. It has attracted some criticism for a certain simplicity in the story, but I think that’s missing the [...]

The Hatch Dragon Illustration, Saved for Web thanks to the GIMP Plugin Registry

  This week we internet artists are being challenged with the word “hatch”. Now of course this is going to produce one or two images of dragons hatching from eggs, produced by the more fantasy, science fiction and role-playing game minded – like me – but it could also be associated with a hatch in [...]

That 3D spaceship mesh now has a nice planet to orbit

  There have already been a lot of changes made to this blend, which now has quite a few lamps, meshes and even a bit of text scattered about, but there is still a long way to go. The latest big change is that the scene has now got a planet in it. And a [...]

I hate Adobe so much right now and it is Illustration Friday time again

  This week’s word on Illustration Friday is “shaky” and I had drawn a nice space elevator and written a great post about space elevators in response. I know space elevators sounds crazy as a response to the word “shaky” but my post explained it and it made sense – I swear. I used Windows [...]