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Continuing the archive of independent Art reporting (Archive Page 89).

Biological mythology in sketches

October 6, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Simone Des Roches is a PhD candidate studying evolution and ecology. She’s also an artist and illustrator and over the years has spent some time drwing biological textbook style illustrations of fantasty creatures. There are two ways to keep up with new art; via the blog which will suit fans of RSS, or via a […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: dragons, monsters

Shanli, Chinese style anime

October 6, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

[wooslider slider_type=”attachments” limit=”20″] Yao Yao is a designer and an artist from Shenzhen China. Over on Behance, Yao Yao’s profile includes a range of fantastic art and a desire to work on a TV project. What do you think of the style? The title of this post calls it “anime” which, technically, can’t be right […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: anime

Planet Hulk: Tear of the Green Scar

October 3, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Once and a while Jeffrey Thomas shares some of his fantastic art on his blog. It’s worth subscribing to watch. This week he’s drawn a fantastic illustration based on the Planet Hulk series. Green Scar is the name the Hulk is known by in the planet Sakaar. He ends up there after powers on Earth […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Jeffrey Thomas, the hulk

Picture this… Yoda as a human

October 2, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This sculpture of Yoda as an old human was created by Andrea Eusebi. His blog has more pictures. The model uses sintafoam (polyuerethane resin) and is about 33 cm tall, which is pretty large. Despite the fantastic design and sculpting I think it’s the painting, that careful flesh tone and colouring, along with the whisps […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Jedi, models, star wars, yoda

The Justice League and The Avengers as chambara samurai

September 30, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The word “Chambara” is used to describe a genre of movies in Japan with the focus on sword fighting. They’re very often samurai peroid pieces set somewhere between 1600 and 1868. Talented deviant artist Alex Mitchell must have wondered what some of America’s most famous superheroes; the Justice League and The Avengers would look like […]

Filed Under: Art, Comics Tagged With: batman, iron man, justice league, Samurai, The Avengers, the hulk, Thor

Picture this… Tim Burton’s The Avengers

September 28, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Imagine if Tim Burton had created The Avengers. What would Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow look like? As it happens, Tim Burton certainly didn’t create and probably has never drawn The Avengers. However, deviant artist Xenia Rassolova, a talented 18 year old from Canada, has and she has adopted […]

Filed Under: Art, Comics Tagged With: black widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, iron man, The Avengers, the hulk, Thor, tim burton

A look at the Prismatic Art Collection for gamers

September 28, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Back in April Geek Native looked at attempts to raise funds for the Prismatic Art Collection. The goal of the collection was two-fold; firstly to produce art of heroes of all colours and secondly to make this art available via the Creative Commons license so authors and gamers could use it to make their own […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Crystal Frasier

The faces of famous robots

September 27, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This charming poster was created by the designer Daniel Nyari Nyari was born in Roania, grew up in Austria and now lives in New York. In addition to his art talent he clearly has good taste in sci-fi too.

Filed Under: Art, Geek Stuff Tagged With: doctor who, r2d2, robots, sci-fi, star wars, The Avengers, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wall-e

A look inside the stonepunk RPG: Cavemaster

September 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Cavemaster was a successful Kickstarter project from Jeff Dee. The game positioned itself as a “stonepunk” RPG – playing on the steampunk evolution from cyberpunk. Players could take on the roles of hunters, gathers, warriors, shaman and other stone age classes, the game would feature historitically accurate creatures alongside magic and other fantasy rules. The […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Chronicle City, jeff dee, kickstarters, previews

Devin Night’s awesome Tabletop Forge tokens

September 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I backed the Tabletop Forge Kickstarter at a level where the pledge reward included a custom token. Tabletop Forge is an impressive Google+ Hangouts app for roleplayers. It allows gamers to have the tabletop gaming experience without actually all being at the same tabletop. Google+ Hangouts provide the impressive video functions and the Tabletop Forge […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: tabletop forge

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