From yesterday’s rough cover sketch I did this detailed pencil drawing. I’ve included the Detour title in each sketch (pasted in after scanning into Photoshop) so that I’m making sure to leave room for text in the final artwork.
If Detour were a movie pitch I’d say it was “The Road Warrior meets Dawn of the Dead (2004)” but, of course, it’s a little more complicated than that.
I’m interrupting the Oz Squad posts to throw some attention at another project I worked on recently – the resurrection of the Dark Conspiracy RPG. 3Hombres Games are the folks producing both new and revised material. Their first release – Detour – went live on Friday at drivethrustuff.com.
Over the next few days I’ll be posting the rough sketches of the illustrations I did for this supplement. The final art is available in the product.
Today’s post is of the really rough sketch for the cover. I usually do three or four thumbnail sketches for a possible cover and submit them to my editors to choose from. In this case I did a number of really bad, barely comprehensible sketches that made no sense to anyone but me, finally came up with this one and, fortunately, the editors liked it.
Another couple of examples of the kung fu visual dictionary from the unfinished Mandate of Heaven RPG. I believe that’s a palm strike on the left and (probably) a couple of leopard punches on the right. I did these back in 2004 and my memory on exactly what I illustrated is a little fuzzy.
