Leo

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27 days ago

Project Update: Early Sketches

Hello wanderers,

as promised I'm going to be switching to a different update format over the summer. My big job now is to complete 81 outstanding illustrations for the core rulebook, so I'd like to post every few weeks with some news about how that's progressing.

I haven't yet completed any final pieces, but I have been filling sketchbooks with preliminary work. This stage of creating is really fun and vital for me - although I have some ideas about what the final illustrations will look like, the sketching stage is a good time to start exploring forms and composition. I sometimes wish my final illustrations could look as fresh and spontaneous as the sketches do.

The Sketches

A quick study from Moebius. He has a lot of signature quirks in his SFF illustrations, one of them being these dome-like buildings that seem almost moulded into the landscape.

An Autarch. My take on these vanished God-Kings is they're a little bit Bablyonian, a little bit Hindu god, with some Space Pharoah in there as well.

An okapi, being used as inspiration for Vaarn's Zorses (which aren't quite horses and aren't quite zebras despite the name).

Some ray cat explorations. Drawing from real world Sphynx cats.

A bit of inking. I'm quite out of practise with the brushes and dip pen so there's a lot of this stuff - mark making and trying to reignite the neural pathways that operate my drawing hand.

I hope this was fun and informative! There should be some final inked pieces to look at in the next update.

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