More from C7's World War Cthulhu: Cold War

Three more pieces from C7's World War Cthulhu: Cold War:

Along with three pieces from WWC: CW Section 46 Operations Manual:

I love working in black and white - the opportunities for lost and found edges are so much greater than in most full colour pieces (chiaroscuro pieces excepted, of course), and the mood imparted by it is quite striking. A lot of power can be conveyed without colour, which in turn makes me think harder about the colour pieces I paint.

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Partial Update - Drawllowe'en 2015 Redux

The Other Work page on my portfolio site has now been updated with the Drawllowe'en 2015 pieces. It's quite nice to see them all collected like this, and a reminder that is was a fun but gruelling challenge; there's a 30-day challenge I've got my eye on, but there's no time to be tackling that just yet...

Work from World War Cthulhu: Cold War

A few of the pieces I painted for C7's World War Cthulhu: Cold War - I'm not cleared to show the others just yet.

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Portfolio Update

If you hop over to my portfolio site you'll see a note saying that an update is coming soon - I've quite a few pieces shown here on the Sketch Blog and waiting to have NDAs lifted, as well as a couple that are ready to be posted shortly, but I don't want to be rushing the portfolio overhaul.

I feel that a sprawling portfolio is never a great idea, and a smaller number (maybe 14-16) of pieces on the main page gives the cleanest and clearest impression of my work, so it's interesting to be balancing which old pieces come out and which new ones make it in. How has my painting changed? Have the nature of my work at C7 caused any shifts in my work? I'd also like to create a section in 'Other Work' for last year's Drawllowe'en pieces.
Okay, that's enough navel-gazing for now :)

I'll make a post here when it's updated. In the meantime, I'm getting back to organising the Ludlow Fringe's 3rd Live Paint Jam and diving into Ludlow Art Society business to help make sure the current exhibition and post-exhibition events carry on smoothly.

Work from Adventures of the Kai

I've had pieces cleared to be shown for the Lone Wolf Adventure Game: Adventures of the Kai supplement, so here they are:

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Cthulhu Tales Stuff!

One of projects I'm working on over at Cubicle 7 is the card game Cthulhu Tales, and some of the artwork for the game is now available as prints, mugs, shirts, and a whole lot of other things over at  Cubicle 7 Entertainment's Cthulhu Tales Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/people/cthulhutales

The pieces below are the ones of mine currently available (with, I believe, quite a few more to come!):

One of things I love about the Cthulhu Tales project is just how much scope there is for artistic expression. I love designing costumes and armour and painting adventurers and battles and all those moments of high drama (see the middle pic - that driver's scared as hell!), but it's not overly common in this industry to have many opportunities to paint the softer things - perhaps the play of the light across a room, or maybe having time to really get into the colour and tonal shifts across skin.

I think the key word, for me at least, is narrative. How do you tell the subtle stories in a picture? Aside from the obvious focus of the painting, what else in the little framed world of this picture is weaving some kind of story, if you look for it? Is it overt (say, objects visible that give clues to the inhabitants of this location, or hint at events and people beyond what you see), or is it just a suggestion (eg the top picture - whose hand is that? That he's not just looking at but touching the rock implies he's feeling emotions, but what is their character? Where is he, and at what time of day, that this lighting is occuring?) ?

I have fun thinking about these things, and while I know what kinds of stories come to life in my head I often wonder what kinds of fantastic tales come to life for other people.

I should stop wondering right now, though - there's another picture to paint.

Work from C7's Cthulhu Britannica: London

This is all the artwork I created for Cthulhu Britannica: London - they're some of the first pieces I painted as a staff artist at C7.

All paintings ©2015 Cubicle 7 Entertainment Ltd

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