My shameless art plugging

[Storn]

I got a chance to do entire team of Golden Age superheroes for someone's Champion's game.









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[erazmus]

Very cool Storn. You've captured them, I don't have to have anything but your pictures and I know these guys.

Mike

[Richard H. Fay]

Cool!

One looks an awful lot like Springheel Jack, a strange leaping figure that terrorized Victorian England. Spring heels, steel claws, blue flames, these are all familiar traits to any who know of the tales of Springheel Jack.

[erazmus]

Perhaps he's spring-heel Mac, a copycat who terrorized the Portland underworld in the twenties.

Mike

[Richard H. Fay]

Perhaps he's spring-heel Mac, a copycat who terrorized the Portland underworld in the twenties.

Mike

Copycat, or the same entity on a different continent?

Reputedly, there was a similar figure, a tall man clad in black cape, skin-tight pants, quarter-length boots, and gray or black clothes. a man said to possess the ability to bounce upward into a pecan tree, seen in Houston in 1953.

[bdurham]

Great work, Storn. Glad to see you post it here.

[Storn]

A couple more superhero-villain commissions. First up is Riptide, for my longtime Champions GM. I've been playing (and occasionally GMing) in Neil's RDU for over 2 decades. While we don't live near each other anymore, I get to participate in an play by email game. Riptide is an old villain who just popped up again and Neil wanted a commission:



Then longtime patron, Death Tribble wanted a smoky, fire-y guy named Pyroclastic. I did this one with out inking it first, which is normally my "fantasy" style... but I wanted more grit, more texture to come through on this one...not such a clean, hard line, clean color as I tend to do for my supers. You be the judge if it was the right choice.



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[Storn]

A recent digital piece done for ArtBlog. A non-literal translation of the following quote:

"A sword, a spade, and a thought
should never be allowed to rust"
~ James Stephens
Irish poet and storyteller, 1882-1950

I call mine: "The Sorcerer-King didn't care for his Tune."

This was a fun, if time consuming piece to do. Digital does make things faster, but not THAT much faster. I still make decisions about color and line and shape as slow as I do in regular traditional paint. But the ability to work in layers, to save the original pencils as a layer, hide it... boy that is cool.

And I'm loving my new wacom tablet and Painter XI. My new intuos 4 allows me to change my brush size with a dial that is one the side. And I change brush sizes a WHOLE lot. This is my first substantial image with the new toys, oh, i've gotten out several smaller pieces...but having to contend with the whole surface of the image is something that is much harder for me than having to do vignettes.

If any art director can use such an image, it hasn't been published, and I would love to get it a home.



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[jason]

Thanks for posting your work. It looks fantastic. Being neither an artist nor all that technologically inclined, I'm especially intrigued by the digital work and find it fascinating how closely it mimics actual paint on a medium.

[Storn]

Thanks for posting your work. It looks fantastic. Being neither an artist nor all that technologically inclined, I'm especially intrigued by the digital work and find it fascinating how closely it mimics actual paint on a medium.

I have tendency to make my digital look pretty close to my traditional paint. It isn't anything I particularly strive for, but I guess it is just the way I make marks.

A trio of fantasy warriors. Although #1 and #2 are the same character. I thought I would amuse you all with my mistake. I had done a quick read through of the character and totally missed a couple of things, it wasn't normal fantasy... it was Exalted, which is more over-the-top. And he had big, stompy boots and gauntlets. So I redid him.

But I still like the first image, just not for Exalted.

The last one is a cleric of Tempus.







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[Storn]

Here are three more...

"Putsch" means coup detat in german according to the patron.

The Owlbear I did more as superhero/villain movement than the typical fantasy shot...








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[Storn]

First is a version of Sagittarius based on voodoo like magics. For patron extraordinaire Death Tribble.

And second is a Ptolus character as a birthday present from husband to wife....awwww....





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[von Darkmoor]

Thanks for sharing, Storn. Lots of pretty cool works here, though I enjoy Pyroclastic the most!

[Christopher_Heath]

You have a very nice style, Storn! I've always enjoyed it.

[Storn]

Well, I've been happily burbling and churbling out private commissions at a pretty fast clip. And I thought I had no publisher deadlines for some time. How fast things can change in my world.

3 publishers over the course of 2 days gave me work, all of it due on March 15. 1 publisher has a small job needed at the end of the month. Another publisher has two covers needed at the end of the month and I want to finish a contest piece, full painting, by April 11th. Most of the jobs are pretty small ones in themselves, but as a whole, it adds up.

Hopefully, some of these publishers will allow me to place some of the artwork up to promote their games (and to self promote myself, I will not lie <g>).

So, my pretty fast clip of finishing private commissions is going to come to a crawl.

Please be patient, I will get everyone's done. I love doing them, and if I can, I can slip them in between jobs occasionally.

Here is my latest, a victorian steampunk character, albeit more of western vibe... I believe this is for a Savage Worlds game, but I'm not totally 100% on that.



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[Storn]

I thought folks might like to see a rejected piece. Not because it was bad...well, the client said they liked it. I like it. But just because it wasn't a "standing" figure. I was going for something dynamic, but it just didn't fit what the client needed to use it for. Hey, it happens occasionally.

Still, I like it. If anyone has a use for it, I could color it... let me know.



Next up is some pen and ink work, something I don't do as much as I used to. Always kinda nice to dip my pen back into ink. It is for SilverGryphon Games and will be coming out in a bit. Nice of them to give permission to post prior to it coming out. The actual product is "A Death Undeserving". Check it out. Their website is: http://www.silvergryphongames.com/

And here is the artwork:



No CC on this one folks, Silver Gryphon owns Schaeffer there...

[Storn]

The next 4 pics are from our Danger Patrol game. The last two sessions, over the last 3 weeks. DP is a retro scifi rpg. And does the breathless pacing, cliffhanger action that was so indicative of yesteryears action scifi.

Here is the link to the Danger Patrol website, which is just the rules. Beta rules are the better ones and the latest ones. This is a fun game, always generates images for me to doodle at the table.

http://www.dangerpatrol.com/

First up is the "Carniforous Rex", the terrible pun given vicious life by our GM, Pete.



I drew Max Mercury in an early game, but I thought he was a robot... he ain't. He be a cyborg with a toothy smile. So, its a redux sketch time!



The Thorn Samurai were definetly a thorn in our side 2 eps ago. Trying to sacrifice a few of members in the jungles of Venus.



Lastly, was definitely a "gal with guns" night... as both Nikita and Princess Alura had impact on the ep. I also noodled the kumite opponent for Singapore Sam, Ivan Ivanovitch, the Sultan of Sambo, the Crimson Terror. And i did a quick noodle-doodle of one of the 3 Pyramids of Mars, the runic, mystical starships that were causing so much trouble.




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[von Darkmoor]

Sweet Thorn Shogun and Princess Alura, Storn!

[Storn]

a couple of sketches from our Burning Wheel game. You can see the latest actual play report here (and in that thread are links to earlier actual play reports in 13 Cities game down at bottom in "tags" section)

http://www.burningwheel.org/forum/sh...-their-bullets

First up is Aaron's Marcus, the senator and gray knight of Occulae. A master politician and a fierce halberd wielding warrior.



And Pete's Nikodemus, the assassin who now is finally a licensed godkiller.



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[Storn]

Well, it is that time again. Time for the Art Order contest. We had a good month and 1/2 to complete it and I took advantage of that, doing mine in oil.

Here is the gist. The setting is Gamma World. We were to take 2 critters and mash them together. I went a bit out of the box and did cyberlife and veggie life.

My idea was to mesh plant and cybernetic life and I got the Cyber Veggie men. Bleh... really need a better name for them. Basically, in faux science terms, plant life got enough brain power to merge with bits and pieces of computers from yesteryear and create superfast connections and become sentient.

Anyway, since they don't really sleep (get sluggish during the night), don't eat (photosynthesis takes care of that) and they process information at lightning speeds, they are voracious readers. They consider themselves caretakers of knowledge and histories and lots and lots of useless information... they will read anything, car manuals, old People magazines of people long dead and even something called role playing games.

Like I said, Oil, 11.5 x 15. The original is for sale. As are printing rights, if it can fit anyone's needs... this is truly an odd one!



If you want to see the other folks submissions and we broke the record on this contest for number of submissions, check out the Art Order link here. (you do have to scroll down a bit as other posts have been put up):

http://artorder.blogspot.com/


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[Storn]

Sorry folks, I've been quite absent from the various forums and threads that I usually post to. I've been busy with a local move, my studio is still only 80% set up. I've been working on publisher's stuff that is NDA and cannot share. And I've been a bit overwhelmed energy-wise and enjoying a few hours loafing at Cayuga lake this summer.

But I'm back and I'm posting artwork again. Here are a couple of pieces.

First up, another WotC artblog contest from awhile back. This time we had to work from a particular model, Veronika Kotlajic, who so generously gave us permission to work from several photographs she supplied. NOT WORK SAFE!!! Here is her website: http://www.perfectmuse.com/ NOT WORK SAFE!!!

I supplemented her photos with some of my own girlfriend holding the sword there...but y'all ain't gonna see those photos. Heh. So, in this challenge, I was going for a 50s crime novel covers (like those of my fav, R.A. Macguire) crossed with those sorta collage/movie poster covers of the 60s but smack dab in the fantasy genre. This is oil. About 35 hours. And it is up for grabs if anyone has a project that it could be used for...



Next is Turtle Armor for Death Tribble. Modify a Star Wars At-At, driven by a dwarf...and this is what tumbled out. I kinda like this one.



Lastly, we have Heart Girl. A super heroine created by a 6 year old girl and I worked from her sketches! This was just a fun, sweet commission to be working on. Her dad wanted Heart Girl in 3 poses and that is what I did.





Veronika is NOT creative commons. The others in this post are:

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[Discogoblin]

Your art is amazing.

[Storn]

Hi folks, sorry for the long absence. I've had a few things on my plate, but I've been cranking away. One choke point is that I'm switching computers... but my scanner and a lot (hundreds!) of files are still on the old computer. New computer won't run my scanner, Windows 7 issues with my SCSI card.... yup, my massive scanner is THAT old.

While I've had some of Death Tribble's commissions to put up, I've been lazy about getting them off the old computer, up on to my photobucket and posted in the various threads I've got around.

Anyway, here are some of those commissions...

First up is the Terrible Terrapin, a concept from over on the Mutants and Masterminds boards...



Next we have one of Death Tribble's contest entries, Acylla. I am always excited to tackle a "national" hero that seems to be a bit out of the norm. She is Peruvian and it was fun doing the research to put this one together.



Lastly in our trio of ladies is another of Death Tribble's, his concept of a Super Drow. Somehow, the theme to Shaft is rattling around in my head. 'nuff said.




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Your art is amazing.

Thank you so much!

[Storn]

This is Achilles. He was the PC of Andy Matthews, art director for Hero Games. Andy passed awhile back. His great friend Jack B. commissioned this picture in Andy's honor.

I didn't know Andy super well.... but I enjoyed working for him. I was honored to do this tribute.



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[Storn]

My search for getting my new monitor's settings to something that works well has been ongoing. But thanks to help from Aledin over on the ArtOrder site that I started a wee little blog on this particular problem, I think I've gotten much closer to getting it nailed.

So, here are three pieces done either as a combo of the old and new monitors or wholly on the new monitor.



And here is a private commission that was done completely under the newer settings.



And here is a piece that was tweaked under the new settings, but was done completely on the new monitor. This one I spent some time on, multi figures do eat up the time!



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