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

Races artwork for Steam States

Human

Human sketches

 As I told you in my previous post, here you have the 9 races with some of the sketches that I did for the roleplaying game Steam States published by Edge Entertainment. As happened with some of the characters, some of them were clear in their descriptions and with some others we tried different designs to find the good one. Also some of the scenarios required different tests and designs.

Elf

Elf sketches

Garlak

Garlak sketches

Ghobb

Ghobb sketches

Gnome

Gnome sketches

Gorn

Gorn sketches

Orc

Orc sketches

Warga

Warga sketches

Yurita

Yurita sketches

 That's all for now, next day I'll show you the cover art process.
As always, thanks for coming ;)

Links:
Edge Entertainment website
Steam States page

Western Art for "Plata de Ley" by Nosolorol Publishing

Cover + backcover illustration

Plata de ley, written by Diego López and published by Nosolorol publishing is a RPG adventure set in the wild west. For the cover we wanted a simple but strong idea that undoubtedly fits the western ambience. In order to keep it simple we played with a cowboy bandit silhouette to get the one. Once we got a favorite, sunset and oranges-reds were the chosen light and colors. Of course, the train and cowboys has something to do with the adventure. I finally added some dust to bring it some dirty-old feeling.

Cover Sketches

Cover Painting Process

 For the characters (I did four of the nine included in the book) the author Diego López had provided some references from films. I felt that his characters idea was to get some kind of "league of extraordinary western characters" so I didn´t hesitate to be obvious with some film character references.

Instead of my classic step by step I have enlarged my work file to show you most of the layers I have used in the work (too much space would be required to show everyone). Some of them are photoreferences, others are sketches or different color versions. I hope you like this approach to my workflow.

Malcom

Maverick

Pancho Castillo

El chico (the kid)

No so much else to say, I am always happy to work in far west stuff. Thanks to Nosolorol and Diego López for they trust.

Thanks again for coming to my cave.
I hope you enjoy the visit.

Charro.

Links:
Nosolorol Page
Product Page

"Her Blue Eyes" Personal Work

Final Illustration "Her Blue Eyes"

This picture started from a discard option done for the previous commission (previous post). After finishing the cover, my next work was delayed so I had some time for doing a portfolio picture. I enjoyed that cover and I thought that the girl's attitude of this choice could deserve a finished illustration.

I tried some design options, I liked almost the same both B.spaceship and C.white dragon concepts, but I had done another sci-fi personal work recently ("Lone Soldier") so I decided to do the dragon one.

Design Options

 Not so much else to say, except the fact that I tried to practice some things that I had read in Color & Light by James Gurney. I wanted to create a sands/desert lighting and atmosphere with colors even though we cannot see any background landscape.

Colour Process

Thanks for visiting my Cave,
I hope you like it ;)

*Prints of this pic are available here

Cover Illustration for "Lady Montague"

This is one of my latests artworks, done during summer 2013 for the novel "Lady Montague" written by Sofía Navarro.
*Spanish edition is titled "La Señora de Montesco"

Final Cover Illustration

Sofía had a clear idea of what she wanted for the cover, the main character looking to Verona city and holding a carnival mask. From that idea I did  some perspective/poses sketches including a lot of variants worried about how she hold the mask and how if the viewer can see see her face.

From a couple of selected sketches I did two color rough schemes. After Sofía selected one of them, I started to work with that one. Finally we used a more simple mask, according to the text's age, and the viewer cannot see her face.

I spent a lot of time working in the city to get a dramatic view, as well as some details like her hair and dress. At the end, I am very happy with the result.

I hope you like it ;)

Color Process

Working with Sofía Navarro has been a great pleasure, since the time we get in touch, I realized that she is a hardworker storyteller, one of this people that knows where she is going, my best wishes for her. Lady Montague will be available soon at Amazon, here you have some links to the author:
Sofía's blog "The Grown Mermaid"
Sofía's books at Amazon 
Sofia at Twitter

English Edition

Spanish Edition

Jim Lee color Fanart

Aquí teneis un pequeño homenaje al maestro Jim Lee hecho por pura diversión. Siempre me ha parecido que sus dibujos ganaban más a lápiz que en la publicación entintada y coloreada de los cómics así que me pareció interesante probar que era capaz de hacer coloreandolos. Aquí está el resultado, desgraciadamente la resolución con la que contaba no era muy alta, abajo teneis los archivos originales sacados de su página de facebook https://www.facebook.com/jimlee.fanpage

Here you have a small tribute to the master Jim Lee made ​​for fun. I've always found that his pencils looks better than colored and inked for publication of comic books, so I thought it was interesting to test what I was able to do coloring them. Here's the result, unfortunately the resolution that I had was not very high, below you have the original files taken from his facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jimlee.fanpage

Jim Lee pencils coloured by me

Jim Lee pencils (from his facebook page)

Inks by Scott Williams & Colors by Alex Sinclair