A week to go to FFF day ... But trying to post in July [where does the time go?]

It's a week to go before the Fighting Fantasy Festival on the 7th September in London and I'm gearing up to have stiff wrist, or not, but with the published schedule it certainly sounds like it will be busy to fit everything in. As am I here [grin].

That entrance to the mountain keeps on changing [grin].

For more details of the event - check out http://fightingfantasyfest.blogspot.co.uk/
Or -https://www.facebook.com/events/274966572686051/?fref=ts

Now for something completely different ...

Last year for Kobold Publishing I did a job which, for a variety of reasons has lain dormant, that is in terms of publishing, but I've been kindly allowed to post the work now so you can see what I did.

That was it, and this was it, I think, until after the FF Festival.

But instead a nice short, but important addition about the BloodSword Series.
http://fabledlands.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/blood-sword-is-back.html

Some of the books are reprinting some more of my work of yore.

Next, depending on what 'news' comes out of the event next Sunday will be a generic post about some of the pieces done for The Fiend Folio.

Now that really is ''that's it till next time '', till then, keep well.

June ... and the little birdies are a tweeting in the evening air

Right, this is an other of these mixed posts. With some old stuff from the early 70's and a couple of more recent bits.

So let's start with some more old covers; which link to the April post, most were done in brush but at least one, the last of the four [here], with added pen line.

THE LAST REQUEST

 No idea what happened to the original art but I recently found my original copies of the magazine.

Another from around that period was done for a smaller format magazine. I think this has appeared before in my blog, but have added it here as another part of it's ''history'' relates to figures and characters I was designing for a proposed strip for White Dwarf Magazine. They'd asked me to come up with an idea and make a submission, which I did. The reply ran to a variation on 'Thanks, but no thanks'. But I felt some of the characters I was planning to use in the strip needed airing somewhere. OR... as they say, waste not...

 These last pictures, were produced for a German Magazine, which liked my work and contacted me to send some fillers and here, for this issue, illustrate a story by Van Vogt. The magazine was called 2001 [1978] and I've reproduced the cover below.. Sadly, after a couple of other small German jobs, I heard no more from that quarter. What was fun was they wanted SF work not Fantasy which was refreshing.
I don't have the originals these were scanned from the magazine, which I found I still have.

This next is a variation on a comic fanzine cover I did around that same period. First the cover... and then the variation

I cannot remember which came first... 'the chicken or the egg'; I suspect the later, but the robot design itself dates even earlier from work produced in the very early 70's.

Now, as promised, a couple of new pieces. Occasionally [actually rarely ..laugh] I have, as mentioned, been commissioned for reworkings of older work such as 'The Warlock' or 'Balthus Dire' for example but occasionally I'm asked to recreate an original piece 'full size' such happened to recreate a picture of Chadda from Shadowmaster, by Steve Jackson, in the Fighting Fantasy related series. First the original used in the book ... this copy found on the internet.

Next the 'newer' version, and newer is right as although this mimics the original it is not a slavish copy.

Last, a couple of small colour studies produced for the Dungeonworld game, similar to those done before [see earlier posts].

That's it for now ... next some Games Workshop related bits I think. 

Before the 'cold' returns and my brain seizes ...

A quick 'oldie set of posts thanks to stuff being place on the Internet.

I noticed recently that Games Workshop tried to register the term 'space marine' as belonging to them and tried to use bullying tactics to quash others using the terminology  Frankly, I think a lot of SF writers [and artists] will be writhing in their graves, but it appears they 'failed'. 

Anyway, here are a few of my Space marines done for them many moons ago.

Here now are some other bits ...

Above one of my covers for Rosemary Pardoes's excellent small press magazine about M.R. James.

A recent post on Facebook reminded me of how much I like to draw skeletal figures...

As mentioned before, Dungeon World [French version] hired me last Summer to produce some work for them found a few other bits which contain my work. 

They did kindly offer me a copy of the T-shirt [above], but the rest [below] is totally new to me.

Rather have been sent this T-shirt, or the promised copy of the game [box] but then I saw neither. But still, I did get paid [laugh]. 

http://www.story-games.com/forums/discussion/16694/dungeon-world-french-version-in-a-box-jessica-hammer-principles-in-action-/p1

More recent projects about to come out are for Kobold Press and the French Scriptarium group and I believe that launches soon. I have agreed to appear in Lille but still no idea where [laugh] at the end of March, and of course at the magnificent [if it is anything like the 2011 event] Trolls & Legendes 2013 in Mons, Belgium,  where I will be at the Le Grimoire table for signings and showing off some of my original artwork pieces. If you can get there please stop and say hi.

http://www.trolls-et-legendes.be/   http://fr.ulule.com/loup-solitaire/    http://www.koboldquarterly.com/

 http://www.legrimoire.net/store/fr/loup-solitaire-rpg/161-loup-solitaire-les-heros-du-magnamund.html

http://scriptarium.fr/aff/  

Finally [to size], a re-draw commission of the Death knight I created for The Fiend Folio,

One of my initial sketches for 'The Sorceress',

 and two female character sketches for the original 'Heart of Ice', [not to be confused by the new version].

till the next time ...