Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Illustration Process

An Example of a little illustration job for 'In From the Cold', part of the Dragon Warriors series from Magnum Opus Press.

Brief:
- ½ page of the PCs – Male Sorcerer, 2 male Knights, male Assassin, Female Mystik, female Barbarian.


It was initially suggested that I might put the characters in a tavern scene, so my earliest sketches reflected this idea...



This being given approval by an assistant editor, the sketch was worked up to this in photoshop...



However it was ultimately decided that it would be desirable to have more of a focus on the characters, and it was suggested that they could be assembled in the Sorcerer's house at the commencement of the quest. I therefore redid the scene, managing to reuse a few elements of the earlier version...



Several other illustrations were done at the time including one with the following biref:

- ½ Page of the Melech demon breathing fire at the demonologist who is protected by the pentacle of protection. (These demons are tall, muscular, bronze-skinned humanoids, with malevolent but not unhandsome features and dancing flames for hair. They can breathe fire up to 10m)
I submitted quite a few different sketches for this one...








The assistant editor chose the strongest image and I sketched out the final composition...



The first version of the image submitted was this:



I was asked to revise it making the magic protection from the pentagram seem less like a glass dome. I duly submitted the following, which was signed off.



The other images done did not require revisions...





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