This piece appeared, albeit cropped, in Tales From The Smoking Wyrm #2. I was asked to make this a double-page spread, which was great as it allowed me to throw in all sorts of detail. The sketch that this was drawn from was done around 2001. It was intended for a Spelljammer D&D 3e conversion project that a guy was doing online. But that idea died on the vine but not before a friend and local artist James Cox and myself managed to produce a few drawings for it together. This one was never finished and it was chosen from my sketchbook by the Wyrm team. I updated it but decided to keep the Spelljammer theme alive (subtly of course).
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| Early pencils. |
I added the Necromancer that I drew for issue #1 urging his pet... thing... to stop the robbers that raided his ship. I like repeating characters throughout the drawings I do for TftSW as I think the continuity is fun for the readers. Also it's easier on me as I don't have to design a new character each time I set about doing an illustration. Sadly he had to be cropped as space restrictions ment that this piece had to be reduced down to a half page illustration.
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| Fully penciled in. |
Also reappearing the Dwarf Jaeger from the cover of Tales Of The Smoking Wyrm #1 as well as the Telekinetic Rat also on that cover and featured within issue 1. The halfing thief will reappear in a future issue (#5 tentatively).
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| Early stages of inks. |
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| Later stages of inks. |
So here it (the first pic in this post), for your viewing pleasure, in it's uncropped form. Enjoy.
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| The mostly done stage. |
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