Ralph Horsley: April 2012

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

No Response From Deepmar

No Response From Deepmar

Acrylic, approx 21" x 26"

Original artwork for sale.

I always enjoy depicting dramatic, perilous, situations, and its better still when the frozen moment is a cliffhanger from which you feel the Hero has no chance of escape; though of course we always suspect that they have some trick hidden up their sleeve, that is, after all, why they are a hero.

In this cover painting for Paizo's Pathfinder supplement 'No Response From Deepmar' Harsk is the poor unfortunate, and he hasn't even got inside the mineworkings yet.

During the painting process I took a lot of photographs, and they are shown below as a very comprehensive walkthrough.

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

The Lords

Last year I was able to share with you my cover for the Lords of Waterdeep boardgame, I now have a copy of the game itself and can further share the pieces I worked on for some of the cards.

Not only did I get to paint three of the esteemed Lords* on the cover, but I was also asked to interpret the remainder. I really enjoyed trying to convey strong, distinct, personalities in a fairly limited format.

In the game the players are randomly assigned one of the Lords to play, whose objective is to gain as much power and influence, through gaining resources and completing quests, as possible. The Lords are each represented by their own card, and these are the portraits that appear upon them: