This is a sketch for one of the larger illustrations. It’s an even more vague sketch than I often do because I planned to improve most of the details when I was inking. Jean, the mutant child here, was described in the text as being almost formless.
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Mansions of Madness – Girard and Garth
Blah. Threw my back out on Saturday. At least this time I was helping someone move heavy furniture.
The scenario I illustrated in Mansions of Madness featured one of those families that dabbles in Things Men Should Not Know. This (and the occasional inbreeding) results in a variety of warped and deformed immortal children. Girard is one of those children.
Mansions of Madness – Deleted Scene
This illustration didn’t make it into the final gamebook. Not enough space.
Mansions of Madness – George and Wilfred
Earlier this year I got an assignment from Chaosium to illustrate a new scenario in their reissue of the gamebook Mansions of Madness. I’ll be showing the preliminary sketches for those illustrations over the next few days.
Stepping Lightly
This was to be an illustration for the Mandate of Heaven RPG. There’s a scene in one of Jet Li’s movies (Fist of Legen, I think) in which one of his martial arts battles amps up to the point where he and his opponent are walking on the heads of the crowd while fighting. That seemed like a handy skill to have, especially in modern crowded cities. This illustration features a character escaping his pursuers by running atop the masses.
This is also the last page scanned from my 2003 sketchbook. Tomorrow I’ll start show more recent work. Work that actually evolved into finished projects 🙂
Invasion of the Saucer Men
I’m not sure if I’ve seen Invasion of the Saucer Men. I don’t think I actually have. I have seen The Eye Creatures, a made for television remake with an even smaller budget than Saucer Men. I saw Eye Creatures as a kid and you can tell that it didn’t make much of an impression on me because I’ve never felt the need to sketch an Eye Creature.
Sketchisketch
I usually don’t scan pages that have this big a ratio of unfinished to finished sketches on them but I think that young lady is so full of life that it would be a shame not to share her with the world. The troll next to her is pretty cute too.
Random Sketches
Just random practice sketches. I see Mara and a half hearted attempt at H.R. Pufnstuf. The rest is randomness.
Great Cthulhu
Because everybody’s got to draw Cthulhu once or twice.
The Female Master
This was the design I settled on for the female master for the Mandate of Heaven kung fu dictionary. Originally I’d been leaning toward a female version of the other master – older, sort of beaten up, but Derek expressed a preference for someone more conventionally attractive. I don’t know that I do conventionally attractive very well but I gave it a go.
