Friday 24 September 2010

Falon the Warpriest.

Alerted.

Acrylic, Approx 8.5" x 20"
Original Artwork For Sale
©Wizards of the Coast.

Wizards have just released the Heroes of the Fallen Lands, a player's essentials supplement. Not only did I create the cover artwork, depicting a new set of iconic D&D characters, but I had the pleasure of portraying one of them, Falon the Warpriest, inside as well.

I didn't design the concept for the character, but when you get to work with an iconic they do get moulded a little bit towards your own sensibilities, and a sense of part ownership accrues. At the very least he acquired an extra pouch and potion bottle.

With the two internals I added a little narrative that hadn't initially been asked for; so that above we have a lone single character shot, but one that directly relates to the piece below...

...this is what happened next:

Duel

Acrylic, Approx 16" x 21"
Original Artwork For Sale
©Wizards of the Coast.

Making those additional connections and being able to add that little bit more is always very satisfying.

Here is the cover artwork, which was shown in  a previous blog post.

Heroes Of The Fallen Lands

Acrylic, Approx 16" x 21"
Original Artwork For Sale
©Wizards of the Coast




4 comments:

  1. The costume looks GREAT in the tall halfpage one. Really good job on the mail and cloak!

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  2. Absolutely fantastic work! Very inspirational!

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  3. Seen that fabtastic last piece before, the other two have a date with my Ralph H inspirational folder. ;)

    Thank's for posting, been anywhere nice lately?

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  4. Thanks for all the comments.

    Jan; this was one of the times when I felt the image really worked within this tough format, rather than fighting against it, and the drapery really helped with that.

    Daniel; Thanks very much. Great to hear.

    ATOM; Thanks, glad I am keeping to fill up your folder ;)

    No breaks recently, just work, but looking forward to Illuxcon :)

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