Cover Art for Magissa, RPG for kids

Roleplaying game for kids Magissa, written by Edanna Patsaki and Fernando R. Reyes and published by Nosolorol Ediciones was released last week in Spain.

It has been a lot of time since I did something with a clear kids target so I find it refreshing to change for sometime and think like a child (I mean, more than usual xD). Well, we looked for a simple landscape cover that brings your mind into adventure, the adventurers, the castle, a dragon (of course!!) and a frozen peak behind (even a puppy ;D)

From that premises there was a clear line from start to finish. I took part of the character designs from the character art inside done by Virginia Berrocal and I remind myself singing old D&D tv series spanish song (you don't want to hear me) while painted it so, I guess it´s something from it too.

That's all, have fun and enjoy your quests!

Charro.

PROCESS:

final art

Book photo

Cover art for Reflejo RPG

Light cover final art

Roleplaying game Reflejo (Reflection), written by Jordi Martín and published by Nosolorol Ediciones has been released this week so I bring the two covers I did for the book.

The interior art, nicely done by Jorge Carrero was previously done with inks and reds so one of our first decissions was to keep our cover grayscale and red. This was one of those covers where we spend more time thinking in the right concept than painting the final so I did several sketches with slight modifications looking for it. The main idea was a girl between world of light and world of darkness.

Finally we decided to go on with she going through a mirror which work as a portal between the two worlds. With that concept I took my references and even did a 3d model to work the body cut.

After the cover was finished, Nosolorol's chief publisher Manuel J. Sueiro thought it will be great having an alternative cover showing the same scene from the world of darkness. So I did another cover as a reflection of the first one.

At the end we have two covers for this roleplaying game, I'm not sure of which is my favourite so I'm happy with both xD I hope you too ;)

Charro.

SKETCHES & PROCESS:

Darkness cover final art

 REFERENCES:

Some of my references: sculptures by Pugliese Barriera and photos by Iain Crawford (golden) and the69th (water)

Poser 3d model

PHOTOS:

Nameless Cults GM Screen (Cultos Innombrables, pantalla del DJ)

Final screen art

Here I bring the process of my first game master screen to be printed, it belongs to the game Nameless Cults (Cultos Innombrables) published by Nosolorol Ediciones. Nameless Cults is a contemporary game based on lovecraft mythos as I told you in the cover post. Again, I worked together with Manuel J. Sueiro, creator, one of the authors of the game and chief publisher at Nosolorol. He wanted a group of cultists who work for hire as a professional team specialized in missions related with occultism and mythos.

In the image, our team will be stealing something from a tomb portal and they meet those Chtonian style creatures waiting for them in some kind of tension before a possible fight to leave the place. In the middle of the process I took some time to design characters and creatures but I'll bring them in other post.

This is a huge pic (screen is 835 x 218 mm) so it took me quite a lot of time to paint all the landscape scene. I hope you like it and embrace the cosmic horror ;)

Charro.

photo: screen on my table

photo: The plant Game Master

Art for "HITOS" Generic Roleplaying System

Final Cover Layout

Last Thursday the generic guide "HITOS" developed by Nosolorol was released so here I come with the cover art that I did for the book.

The first idea for the cover was a collage of the art that illustrate the interior. However, we were not convinced at all so I suggested doing a new pic with three different characters, like happens in some other generic systems. After the first sketches everyone agree to do it and keep the collage subtly at the background.

We chose a low POV with some tilt. The two characters behind were called to show two of the setting suggestions included in the book. The redhead girl belongs to "La Caída de Los Mundos Libres" (The Fall of the Free Worlds) a kind of epic fantasy in other planet with sci-fi touches, something like He-man or John Carter, and the red space soldier belongs to "El Sol en Guerra" (Sun at War) a sci-fi setting where humans have colonized other planets. For the girl on the foreground we discard to choose one of the settings to show another possibility that took shape in contemporary girl with a gun and a fire superpower. From these premises I go on painting to get a good team composition. Finally the characters were also used in the 3 book breaks, so I had a few extra work painting the areas behind the fire-hair girl ;)

Cover Sketches

Painting Process

Cover + Backcover layout

Promo image from Nosolorol website

Book Breaks - Promo image from Nosolorol website

As its name says, the generic guide is not a common roleplaying game, but a system guide that intends to fulfill most of the choices you can create in any setting. From that point of view, the illustrations inside had to show different ambiences such as epic fantasy, sci-fi, super-powers, historical, mystery, etc.  I had quite a lot available artwork done before that could illustrate most of the possible settings so, publishers decided to keep the graphic coherence with only one artist and license some of my artworks for the book interior. As a result, you can find about fifty illustrations done in the last few years credited to the original clients in the first pages of the book. (Sorry for my blurry photos XP)

So, I want to say thank you to my colleagues of Nosolorol but also a big thank you to all the clients, writers or publishers whose ordered artworks are included in the book.

I hope you enjoy a lot of RPG worlds with this HITOS Generic guide ^_^

Charro

Hardcover happiness ;D