BRP – The Worm Ninja


I’m currently illustrating two books for Chaosium. The one needing to get finished first is the Basic Roleplaying Manual. I’m having a lot of fun with it. Since the manual is a rule book rather than a scenario book my role is provide inspiration for the players rather illustrate a specific scene. I’m making an effort to be as diverse as possible with my illustration subjects.

I’ll be presenting preliminary sketches for many of the illustrations over the next few weeks. Some of the sketches have stories behind their inspiration. Some of them, like the one here, just came to me without a lot of thought.

Getting to Carnegie Hall


One of the things I wish I had more time for is practice. I have a 40+ hour a week job. All my art gets done in the time that’s available around the job, chores, socializing and sleep. If I want to learn a new skill or practice one that I’m not using in a current assignment I have to find the time for it.

Currently I’m working on illustrating two books for Chaosium. The first – Basic Roleplaying is done in Photoshop enhanced pencilwork. For the next – Terrors From Beyond, I want the illustrations to have more contrast than I get with just pencils. So I’m putting ink on the places where I want solid blacks. Today’s piece was done earlier this week to see if what I was picturing in my head would work out as well on paper.

Mansions of Madness – Tsathaoggua


Some Cthulhu Mythos entities are more of a challenge to depict than others. Tsathoggua is one of those. Descriptions of him/it are vague enough that he could be depicted in myriad ways. Unfortunately he/it has already been depicted often enough in Call of Cthulhu that I felt like there was a basic form I should stick to. I didn’t want to stray so far away from previous depictions that he/it would be completely unrecognizable. Some of those previous depictions are almost cute. And not very threatening.

I do like how this one turned out. I don’t think he’s cute. Your mileage may vary.