Tag Archives: Sketch

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cute little monster moon owl illustration and games

This is a cute little green monster moon owl going for a walk outside the super high-tech futuristic city where it lives. I created this digital painting in response to the Illustration Friday art challenge site. The challenge was to illustrate the word ‘deja-vu’ and so I sketched a little monster walking past a statue [...]

Resolutions, illustration for IF art challenge site

When I saw that the art challenge word for this week’s illustration at Illustration Friday, the art challenge website, was resolutions the first thing I thought of was food. How we all eat way too much of it, and how we resolve every year to eat less. I’ve illustrated this facet of the human condition [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

D20 RPG mech design, the Swamp Viper

  I’m having real fun with my new D20 Mecha rules, I downloaded some D20 Rifts rules at the same time, but I haven’t even looked at them. These rules for mechs have sent me back on a wave of nostalgia to the days when I was regularly playing Battletech and MechWarrior the role-playing game.The [...]

Genetically engineered science fiction wolf.

The second illustration from my illustrate-a-chunk-of-space-opera-as-you-read-it wheeze. This is a wolf creature from page 97 of my chosen sci fi tome victim. The book in question being illustrated is The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton, and I can heartily recommend it. For a science fiction nerd like me it is a gold mine. It [...]

More work on the Kadar spaceship

I spent quite some time with the background eraser and have a nice spaceship skeleton. The skeleton lines are a bit of a mixture of pixel colors though so it’s time to do something about that. Click Image – Adjustments – Levels and a window pops up with a graph and a couple of sliding [...]

Dreaming Void Illustrations

I just started reading a book by one of my favorite authors, Peter F Hamilton. It’s called The Dreaming Void and, although I’m only on page 52 of 796, I can already say that it has the makings of being one of his best. I’m enjoying it so much that I came up with a [...]