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Post by geoffrey on Dec 30, 2008 10:49:49 GMT -6
I've written a D&D module set in the world of Carcosa for Fight On! #4. If you've ever had a hankering to draw tentacly, oozy, gloppy, fungusy, etc. D&D art, now's your chance. In no particular order, here are some things that would go well with the module: a vast cavern filled with giant, twisted, and psychedelic fungus of all sorts and shapes a vast lake of green slime, with green slime dripping from stalactites into it a Bone Man (i. e., a human who is entirely transparent except for his skeleton) sorcerer in a cavern: This sorcerer wears plate mail and is armed with a laser pistol! Amphibious Ones (i. e., misshapen, pale, semi-translucent green frogs) in a cavern Deep Ones in a cavern (I picture them as a cross between this: www.acaeum.com/ddindexes/modpages/modscans/d2first.htmland this: www.angelfire.com/extreme/kengage/cthulhu/critt06.htmla 2' tall, exquisitely-carved black idol of Cthulhu (in a cavern) a charnel cave, with half-eaten body parts of at least a dozen men on the floor swimming in a cavern pool, one of these (the head is the slender end): skywalker.cochise.edu/wellerr/students/tully-monster/tully_monster_files/image003.jpga mad scientist's alchemical laboratory in a cavern (you know, with all the glass tubes and containers full of bubbling and smoking liquids) a colorless amoeboid covered with glaring eyes in a watery pit a high-tech outpost (like something out of a Jack Kirby comic) in a desert Conan-like barbarians (with purple skin) armed with lances and mounted on red allosauruses. The leader of the barbarians has red skin and a laser rifle. naked Yellow cannibals in a desert mummies that look like the unwrapped Boris Karloff in the 1932 Mummy film an Unquiet Worm (i. e., swollen worms assembled in a vaguely humanoid shape) in an underground tomb last but not least, anything that could have lurched, slithered, flapped, crawled, etc. out of this: www.angelfire.com/extreme/kengage/cthulhu/critt14.htmlIf any players in the module try to glean clues from it by reading this thread, may their respective Judges not give their characters a quick, clean death. |
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Post by kelvingreen on Dec 30, 2008 12:00:13 GMT -6
a Bone Man (i. e., a human who is entirely transparent except for his skeleton) sorcerer in a cavern: This sorcerer wears plate mail and is armed with a laser pistol! What do Carcosa sorcerers look like? Do they have any distinguishing features like arcane runes, wands, etc? In other words, what sets a Bone Man sorcerer in plate mail apart from a bog-standard Bone Man in plate mail? |
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Post by labsenpai on Dec 30, 2008 13:05:27 GMT -6
Mythos-themed is always fun to draw, but I'm waiting to hear what the specific content for issue 4 will be before I plan extra art. I'd prefer the character/monster topics over the locales. The latter can be difficult with lighting and perspective concerns. Lastly, interior art is grayscale, so descriptions of texture, pattern & material are more important than color  |
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Post by stonetoflesh on Dec 30, 2008 13:36:31 GMT -6
a vast cavern filled with giant, twisted, and psychedelic fungus of all sorts and shapes Oh, if only I had kept the doodle pages from my college notebooks! This is the coolest thing I've read in at least a few days. I only wish I was skilled enough with a pen to draw this for you! Geoffrey, I'm kinda getting an Arik Roper vibe from a lot of your imagery... |
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Post by calithena on Dec 30, 2008 14:06:09 GMT -6
Awesome. I'll have more general art requests soon.
Do keep in mind that we can only do B&W on the interior though.
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Post by kelvingreen on Dec 30, 2008 14:35:50 GMT -6
Do keep in mind that we can only do B&W on the interior though. No grey? |
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Post by geoffrey on Dec 30, 2008 17:25:03 GMT -6
What do Carcosa sorcerers look like? Do they have any distinguishing features like arcane runes, wands, etc? In other words, what sets a Bone Man sorcerer in plate mail apart from a bog-standard Bone Man in plate mail? Carcosan sorcerers are not (generally speaking) visually distinguishable from non-sorcerers. Of course, artistic license is more than welcome.  |
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Post by calithena on Jan 1, 2009 9:38:16 GMT -6
Grey is fine. (Why would it not be?)
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 1, 2009 19:22:59 GMT -6
Grey is fine. (Why would it not be?) I was just clarifying your "only black and white" statement. I would have thought that greys would have been okay, but I didn't want to go and do lots of greyscale stuff only to have the printers only accept black and white linework. Although that said, I now recall there being photos in FO#2. Oops. I've been sketching some "audition pieces", which I hope to post tomorrow. |
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Post by Alex Schroeder on Jan 3, 2009 6:53:10 GMT -6
a colorless amoeboid covered with glaring eyes in a watery pit  ( Flickr page) I'll send a copy to Ignatius. |
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Post by geoffrey on Jan 3, 2009 10:08:39 GMT -6
Awesome! ;D
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 4, 2009 11:51:27 GMT -6
Right, so here's some sketches. If you like any of them, I'll work them into proper pieces. The two on the left are both of the same Bone Man sorcerer, but when I realised that he was the big villain of the scenario (unless the name is a red herring), I thought the top-left pose was a bit too conventional, so the lower-left one is a bit more dynamic.  Now, Picasa might have a hissy about linking to the image, so here's a link to go to the page directly. The greys haven't shown up very well in the scan either, but I'd do the mummy flesh in a grey, and I'd use a dark grey for the Cthulhu idol too. |
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Post by geoffrey on Jan 4, 2009 15:27:06 GMT -6
Right, so here's some sketches. If you like any of them, I'll work them into proper pieces. The two on the left are both of the same Bone Man sorcerer, but when I realised that he was the big villain of the scenario (unless the name is a red herring), I thought the top-left pose was a bit too conventional, so the lower-left one is a bit more dynamic. Now, Picasa might have a hissy about linking to the image, so here's a link to go to the page directly. The greys haven't shown up very well in the scan either, but I'd do the mummy flesh in a grey, and I'd use a dark grey for the Cthulhu idol too. I especially like the Bone Sorcerer in the bottom left. That's about perfect! The larger image of Cthulhu looks good, too. It doesn't look too big to me. The mummies are very cool, but they do not look like typical Carcosa mummies. Carcosa mummies have no bandages. They instead look like emaciated humans with very dry, very wrinkled skin. Great work! I'd be honored to have this stuff illustrating my module. ;D |
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 4, 2009 15:37:08 GMT -6
I especially like the Bone Sorcerer in the bottom left. That's about perfect! Thank you! The larger image of Cthulhu looks good, too. It doesn't look too big to me. Well, I drew it as a statue larger than human-size; note the skull nearby on the floor. It's easy enough to fix though, as I'll just make the skull larger! The mummies are very cool, but they do not look like typical Carcosa mummies. Carcosa mummies have no bandages. They instead look like emaciated humans with very dry, very wrinkled skin. So more like an Aztec/Mayan mummy. Easy enough to fix. It's just so difficult to resist drawing the bandages. Great work! I'd be honored to have this stuff illustrating my module. ;D Well, if you're happy, I'll go ahead and start work on proper illustrations for these. I'll aim to have them done by the end of the coming week. |
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Post by geoffrey on Jan 4, 2009 16:03:15 GMT -6
Whenever I think of mummies on Carcosa, I picture the unwrapped Boris Karloff in the 1932 film, The Mummy. Here are a few images:    (That last photo of Karloff nails it.) Please go ahead and do your stuff, Kelvin! |
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 4, 2009 16:55:33 GMT -6
That Karloff stuff is very useful, thanks!
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 7, 2009 13:42:08 GMT -6
Real life gets in the way, as it so often does, and it means that we're looking at Sunday or Monday for the art now, if that's okay.
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Post by Geiger on Jan 7, 2009 13:50:52 GMT -6
I may be able to help with one or two of these, if I can get the school scanner to work... |
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Post by calithena on Jan 7, 2009 13:52:08 GMT -6
There is plenty of time for you guys to help Geoffrey out with art. I hope you'll check out the main art thread as well, if you have a chance!
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 7, 2009 15:24:19 GMT -6
There is plenty of time for you guys to help Geoffrey out with art. I thought there would be, but as I'd originally said Friday, I thought I'd best revise it. I hope you'll check out the main art thread as well, if you have a chance! Once the Carcosa stuff is done, I shall certainly be looking in on the other thread! |
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 11, 2009 12:11:52 GMT -6
Here's the statue of Cthulhu:  More to come as they are finished. What format/size should these be for printing? I scanned it in at 600dpi, which should be more than enough, and I should be able to save it as any of the major formats. What does Fight On! use? |
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Post by calithena on Jan 11, 2009 12:38:14 GMT -6
Anything 300+ dpi should work. As far as I can tell for B&W all three of jpg, png, and tiff work just fine.
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 11, 2009 12:47:33 GMT -6
Thanks. The next question is where it gets sent?
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Post by geoffrey on Jan 11, 2009 13:39:08 GMT -6
Freaking awesome piece of work!  |
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 11, 2009 14:04:21 GMT -6
Thanks! Next up will be the Bone Man sorcerer, and I'm also going to have a go at the dinosaur riding barbarians, because they sound like huge fun to draw. |
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Post by calithena on Jan 11, 2009 15:53:23 GMT -6
calithena and iggyumlaut, both at gmail, work for subs. Thanks!
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 13, 2009 16:10:05 GMT -6
Cool, expect the images in the next couple of days. Cthulhu is done, and the Bone Man Sorcerer and dino-ridin' barbarians are pencilled, to be inked tomorrow, most likely.
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Post by Melan on Jan 14, 2009 1:50:52 GMT -6
That's some inspired work there, kelvingreen! I especially like the laser-toting sketch in the upper left corner; the Cthulhu statue is also some excellent stuff.
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Post by kelvingreen on Jan 14, 2009 11:49:56 GMT -6
Thanks! Okay, here are the dinosaur barbarians, first in colour:  and then in print-friendly (I hope!) greys:  And finally, here's the Bone Sorcerer:  I didn't do anything extra to this one, as I think he works well as is. |
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Post by calithena on Jan 14, 2009 12:09:13 GMT -6
wow wow wow. Send those along!
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