The Gaming Den

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 1:09 am

When I was in high school, one of the new teachers donated all his old AD&D books to our games club. At that point, I played a hella lot of Dune: the board game, Risk, and chess to even really think too much about D&D. D&D only became a very strong passion in college for me. Yet, I've played the game, on and off, since i was 9. Never really thought about how I've seemed to play the game intently for a couple of years. then give up on it for a few, then pick it back up with a vengeance, and then leave it, etc...

Artless · Post by **Artless** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:43 am

I don't even know why I'm posting. I never post.

But yo.

Most of these are pretty old, because I hate everything I do and it's always unfinished. But I am a senior Illustration major at MIAD, and I'm gonna be working on my thesis this semester.

I'm not that good, but I like to do concept art and fantasy art. I'm pretty good friends with my instructor, John Matson, some of you may know from card games like Magic or Game of Thrones and board games like Arkham Horror.

Note to self: need to stop painting people with sashes...

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:00 pm

Artless wrote:But I am a senior Illustration major at MIAD, and I'm gonna be working on my thesis this semester.

My sister-in-law and her husband went there. Cool.

BTW, I really like those sketches.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:56 pm

ETortoise wrote:@Avoraciopoctules: Here's what I've done so far. I'm in the middle of hunting for a new roommate so this is probably as much as I can do before your next session. I can give you a larger size version if you want.

Thanks, this should be handy. I'd have posted sooner, but I wanted to get an image of a letter handout I used in a game a while ago up, and that involved wrangling with a new digital camera and the software included with it until I had a usable file.

By taking a stock parchment image, applying some graphical tweaks, and then setting it as the background in Word, you can write out something you can print out and give to players to represent papers that their PCs find. Some graphical embellishments beyond the paper background can be added by attaching new images and using the drawing tools included in the program. In this case, I put a seal from the sender on the base of the letter.

After you print out the letter, you can tear off the white paper around the edges, crumple it a bit, and maybe add some water stains if you want the letter the PCs find to be in poor condition. The opposite side is still white, but I generally find that pasting another sheet on is too much work.

If someone wants me to make one of these for their game, I'd be willing to. Probably could upload the Word file or just take a jpeg and put that in an sblock.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:46 pm

A few pieces I did ages ago for Dungeon Crusade (worksafe):

Assault Tier:

Siege Tier:

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:29 am

Koumei wrote:A few pieces I did ages ago for Dungeon Crusade (worksafe):

Assault Tier:

Siege Tier:

That is an awesome Dragon

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:05 am

I'm not even sure what size category that would be. But I was quite pleased with it.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:42 am

And just because I can, another worksafe piece - the Mummy in my Touhous D&D game:

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:26 am

Hahaha, that's awesome. It's not as worksafe as you mentioned though. When I did have a job, I've gotten bitched out for less.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:09 am

Well you should be fired anyway, for spending your work hours chatting about roleplaying games!

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:26 am

Really, they were okay with non-office related browsing. It was a fairly relaxed environment except for the odd anachronistic behavior here and there.

Blasted · Post by **Blasted** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 8:38 am

Koumei wrote:And just because I can, another worksafe piece - the Mummy in my Touhous D&D game:

I think that's your best one I've seen. I appreciate the labelling.

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:26 pm

Good stuff, Artless.

Sarandosil · Post by **Sarandosil** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 4:57 am

I've been sketching the art in the Pathfinder Bestiary for practice with some moderate success. Drawing straight from imagination is deep mystical juju to me.

anyway I'm rescinding the offer for mapping, since I don't have a computer that can run photoshop these days.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:18 pm

Thought I'd bump this with some character art that my wife did for a (now dead) Tome game.

Assassin 1:

Assassin 2:

Tiefling fire mage (He always seemed to be drifting south of 'amoral', hence the puppies. Don't worry, they'd come back as zombies.):

Deepspawn Samurai (Actually carried around all of the party's cash in a big sack. I don't remember what was up with the glasses.):

Knight:

I think this one was a sorcerer (done up in cute animu style to annoy the samurai player):

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 6:21 pm

Those are cool, and well done. The assassin's face is really freaky, though. Motherfucker needs to learn what hoods are all about.

ETortoise · Post by **ETortoise** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:20 pm

The knight in the style of a monumental brass is really cool.

The first assassin looks like a character from Dune, and is in a neat pose.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 10:27 pm

ETortoise wrote:The first assassin looks like a character from Dune, and is in a neat pose.

I thought he looked oddly like Abe Lincoln. But, yeah, I can see that as an Atreides uniform.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:12 am

Tested out my new tablet with Gimp. Legally free, score!

So, a picture of my Aranea (redback spider based, because the venom isn't that serious) cohort:

NCSFWBNTUFW (Not Completely Safe For Work But Not That Unsafe For Work), Dat Abdomen

Judging__Eagle · Post by **Judging__Eagle** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:07 pm

Catharz, I really find the style of work there interesting; there's definitely a lot of character in each of the drawings, with respect to their poses and body gesture. I also like the fact that they all are drawn in a style that suits each character. You should tell your spouse to keep doing that stuff.

Also, people seriously do shell out for character art commissions and she does some high quality work and she's obviously not afraid to change traditional images to better fit the idea (making the stag knight's helm be shaped like a stag, not a statuette on top of the helm as was the original tradition).

eg. http://www.commissionedcomic.com does character art commissions.

Koumei, good joke, you're still as rough as you usually are (but tbh that's your style, so don't change it), and you keep proportions accurate; watch the head & hair, the head is like an egg and the hair rests on top.

Planning out your drawings in layers might help (i.e. draw the gesture of the character 1st; then block out the bodies sections; then draw the details on top). Seriously, you want to start with naked characters, then dress them up; since costume and props can confuse the proportions and viewing angles of a creature/object.

JigokuBosatsu · Post by **JigokuBosatsu** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:36 pm

Layers are your friend.

Luvah · Post by **Luvah** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:14 am

Someone asked me to work on some characters from the tomes. I didn't have time to finish it in one sitting, but I wanted to post the work in progress to show I'm not slacking.

I need to clean the line a little, fix the coloring and do some other details, the wounds and blood need a lot of work. I normally don't do fantasy, but I'm happy with the result so far.

Boneblade reaper, hope to finish it sometime later this week.