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‘Ere, what’s all this then?

Hopefully the most well-stocked wing of the gallery before too long. Sketches are the best way to look into artists’ minds and see both how they think and what they’re thinking about. Visual problem-solving can be extremely rewarding if for no other reason than to provide something tangible (or at least visible) to show for […]

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Skyriders

…do you hear Wagner?

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A Few More Settings

During the course of story development, close to one hundred different sets were designed for Delgo. As a result of a number of story modifications, many more locales were conceptualized than will most likely appear in the film. Should any of these or other sets posted on ATOM ring a bell while you’re gnoshing your […]

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The Palace at Jharmoor

Another preliminary draught. The final needed to be more expansive and palatial. I’ll include the sketch of that in a later post. I do so enjoy inventing exotic names, alphabets and dialects. I’m no Tolkein by any stretch of the imagination, but that never seems to deter me from having a go at it. During […]

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Delgo’s Village

Like most of my work on the Delgo Project, this scene was done in pencil and Berol PrismaColor marker/colored pencil. In other cases, when time permitted, I was able to render in watercolor. Photoshop occasionally came into the frame, but not as often as it could have. This was more out of choice and personal […]

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Poster Prelims

These were just pencils scanned and quickly airbrushed in photoshop. As it turned out, none were selected. The final composition was worked up by the resident graphic designer. This reminds me of how sometimes an artist is asked to do little more than simply dream out loud for their clients so that they can ultimately […]

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More of the Dark

From an RPG called, Fading Suns made by Holistic Design, Inc. Think Dune enters the galactic Dark Ages. Its an uncommonly elegant and, at least to me, unaccountably melancholic world. No doubt its something to do with the title. Worth a looksee.

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I’m a little bit GothPunk… And a little bit SciFi too

White Wolf likes it dark. As you’ve no doubt noticed, so do I. While it may not be an actual genre in itself, Dark makes an apt adjective to establish the mood for a wide range of settings. The GothPunk millieu of the World of Darkness pretty much sells itself. However, prior to the first […]

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Floating Castle

we all FLOAT down here… Neurotics build castles in the sky. Fantasy artists draught the blueprints.

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Deadlands

One of my many RPG assignments. The few jobs I did with Pinnacle Entertainment were fun, but I sure wish I had been able take more time off from other assignments to do more work on this title. Along with Weird Science, Weird West is yet another genre I adore. Any kind of vintage indutstrial/steam/boilerplate […]

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