Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Fantasy cover art

During my brief foray into fantasy art, I managed to catch the eye of a few independent RPG publishers. As a result, I was commissioned to provide some artwork for various products, and the biggest of these gigs was an actual cover. I was pretty thrilled at the opportunity, and had a lot of fun working on this. In the end, it took me way too long to complete for it to be cost-effective, but it was nonetheless a great experience-- one I wouldn't mind repeating in the future. Plus, the client was quite pleased with the results, and asked if I could do some interior art as well.

The cover was for Blueholme, which I believe is a retro-clone of the Holmes version of Classic D&D (if you didn't understand that sentence, I can't really explain it ;) ). You can find out more about the game at http://dreamscapedesign.net/

Anyway, here's the cover! Didn't turn out exactly like I wanted it to, but nothing ever really does, now does it. Old-school D&D fans should recognize a few themes and flavours. NOTE: I did this cover based on a sketch provided by the client, along with a few notes and ideas. While I did make a few changes here and there, I still can't take credit for the basic concept.





4 comments:

  1. Well it turned out pretty much the way I wanted it to! ;)

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  2. Its awesome!!! Great job dude. Super excited about this. Not sure what your guys plan is for the internal pages, but I've always been a fan of the b&w old school artwork. However that's just my opinion, i think whatever you guys will do will be awesome. and yes I'll be putting my order in for Blueholme Compleat rules as soon as it comes out. woog

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  3. Nice cover... invites adventure gaming.

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  4. It is great, has a lot of flavor from the original cover, but with some nice depth and very alluring architectural detail.

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