Starbright Illustrations



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Welcome to Starbright

Starbright Illustrations is the home of Extreme Future - a science fiction role playing game, set in a universe where human space spans the galaxy, where we share it with countless alien powers and robot empires, and adventure is just a hyperjump away.


It's a dangerous galaxy, strewn with the remains of civilizations that came before us, their secrets, powerful weapons, and enigmatic ruins waiting to be explored.


Extreme Future is a role-playing game with refined rules and loads of background information and examples, to include everything you need to start playing your first game, in an easily digestible and beautifully illustrated book.


This book contains the background, character creation rules, vehicle creation rules and lots and lots of examples. There are planets, scenario ideas, monsters and psionics, all implemented in a simple but sophisticated and powerful way.


I'm also proud to showcase some of the best images here on the site. I'm passionate about illustration and get a real buzz from providing the right illustrations to convey the feelings of the games produced here.


I pride myself on producing illustrations and paintings of a particularly high quality. They are realistic, but at the same time, utterly fantastical. These concept illustrations and digital paintings are vistas on the far future, the Extreme Future.

Using my style galleries, you can access over various portfolios covering a diverse range of sci-fi and fantasy styles and subject matter including; spaceships, robots, monsters, book covers and 3D.

Visit my blog for the latest updates, and to see the latest projects I'm working on.


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Related Portfolios of My Art

Role-Playing Game Art


fantasy sci-fi game illustration of first contact

Role-playing games set a unique range of artistic challenges. The most important thing about game art is that it should be believably realistic, but at the same time totally fantastic. Depending on the sort of game in question, images including cutaways of spaceships, concept paintings of monsters or digital paintings of characters might all be required. And these elements are often set against the most fantastic of backgrounds – fantasy worlds of volcanoes rising from ice bound seas, sunsets over deserted asteroids, or primordial jungles stuffed with the most dangerous creatures that can be generated with the game mechanics at hand. Worlds of wonder, in other words.


Vector Art Portfolio


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I originally started producing vector art as a source of images and logos to decorate my blogs and sites. Vector art has nice sharp lines, looks real neat online and can be scaled up and down without any loss of detail or too much pixelation. These particular images are a mixture of subjects, but tend toward being more light hearted - perhaps even childlike pictures for children's books. A complete children's book created from vector art can't be far away.




Sci-Fi Digital Painting Portfolio


spaceship in an asteroid field

You can find illustrations of all kinds of science fiction subjects here at Starbright. The sort of images used in designing and promoting things like role-playing games, films, animations and movies. This game spaceship concept art is an image created using three open-source digital painting and art applications, Blender, GIMP and MyPaint. The basic 3D model used to create the image was produced in Blender and then more detail was added using MyPaint. The final low-data web image was produced using GIMP.


There are lots of different types even of sci-fi art from golden-age rocket ships and giant monsters to gritty cyberpunk, and I love ‘em all. I enjoy the different challenges of producing images for each type of sci-fi background.


Illustration Friday Art Challenge Images Portfolio


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This is a gallery of various different images, and the only thing they have in common are that they were all produced for the Illustration Friday art challenge site. The way the site works is that a different word is posted every Friday, and then artists from all over the world produce images inspired by that word and link to them on the site. It's a lot of fun and I have produced a great many illustrations in response to these art challenges over the years. You can see some of the best of them in this gallery.


I hope you enjoy journeying through these worlds of the imagination as much as I have enjoyed making them. You can read the stuff I've written about my images, just look at the pictures or even download a 3D blend file to play around with or use these ideas in your own fantasy role-playing games.


And you can also email me to get my artistic talents on your project, or read my blog where I talk about the exciting challenges of producing these images.