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Most of the illustrations I produced for paperbacks, gaming magazines and role-playing game rule-books were interior illustrations and therefore in black and white. These were done in pencil or pen & ink, depending on the restrictions imposed by the commission. My usual method of working is to do several loose pencil sketches until I have the layout and feel right. Then I trace over the chosen sketch, transferring a clean, faint pencil image to a fresh sheet of paper. The ink-work is then done on top of this.
Some of the pictures are from a small selection of the black and white illustrations I did for the Skyfall series of 'advanced fantasy' gamebooks published by Armada in the late 80s and written by David Tant. David's imaginative writing was easy to illustrate (although the timescales were very tight - usually around a month or so to complete the full set of illustrations). I did two of the four books, 'The Black Pyramid' and 'The Garden of Madness'. Each book had around 40 or so illustrations.
Other pictures here are from various game manuals for RPG publishers such as Avalon Hill ('Runequest'), Games Workshop/Chaosium ('Stormbringer'and 'Golden Heroes'), and from gaming magazines shuch as 'White Dwarf' and 'Warlock'.
Still others are works that I did for my own amusement or as speculative 'calling cards' to send to art directors and editors.
Click on the individual thumbnails to see larger versions.
