My art books EK2 - The Lost Years and Born In Concrete: The EK Series are currently on sale at Amazon.com…just in time for the holidays! Packed with paintings from each of the EK series, along with design work from various model kit and other collaborations, as well as materials created specifically for each book. The perfect companions for your travels in inner space!
%40 off EK2 - The Lost Years here.
%15 off Born In Concrete: The EK Series here.
Published by Design Studio Press
Cover wrap illustration for volume 2 of Dan Fogler’s dystopian cyberpunk comic series Brooklyn Gladiator! This one was a lot of fun... big thanks to Dan Fogler and Fogler's Fiction!
Up to six players can play the game Mission: Red Planet, and each player has a colour, so the art for all 9 of the character cards had to be done in way that we could create 6 colour ways for each design. We tried a couple different methods for achieving the colour distinction, different coloured backgrounds, coloured graphic elements overlaid on the card art, but art director Maxime Erceau really liked the idea of having design elements on the characters displaying the player colour. This decision helped drive the creation of unique elements on the character designs, and along with the player colours being washed over the backgrounds, really sets them apart from each other.
I didn’t want to rely on adjustment layers in Photoshop to achieve the colour variations, so I kept the local colours and the shadow and highlights on separate layers while painting these in Photoshop, so I could fill or adjust them individually to achieve the colours we wanted. Below is the whole line up of colour ways for the character cards, all 54 of them:
Thanks again to Maxime Erceau and Matagot Games.
Mission: Red Planet is out now and published by Matagot Games.
Card art for the Launch Pad and the Rocket/Extractor for the board game Mission: Red Planet. As the gameplay centres around colonizing and extracting resources from Mars, the players have to get their miners up into space and over to the red planet. That is where these cards come into play.
Originally the Launch Pad was going to a smaller card that was to be laid over the Rocket/Extractor card (as seen above), but in the final version of the game, Matagot reworked the artwork into a much larger, multi-launch pad board.
Thanks again to Maxime Erceau and Matagot for the opportunity to work on this project.
Mission: Red Planet is published by Matagot Games.
Here is the artwork for the Mission: Red Planet game board. The board is modular, consisting of two half circle cards that are double sided, so the 4 images had to be created in a way that they would fit together in any of the 4 possible combinations. While I’m not a texture artist, I have worked in the games industry for 25 years, so I have created my fair share of tileable textures over the years so this wasn’t too hard a task.
While all parts of this project were fun, working on the game board art was probably one of the most enjoyable aspects of this gig, as it was a new experience for me. Over my career I’ve done countless character designs and I have done a bunch of cover art work, but this was my first game board.
Anyways, big thanks to Maxime Erceau and Matagot for the opportunity.
Mission: Red Planet is out now by Matagot Games.
I’ve been so busy lately I’m late in posting this, but I had another piece featured in Imagine FX Magazine a few months back. This time it was a personal piece from my EK Series, laid out in a cool vertical 2 page spread! Big thanks to Dom Carter and Imagine FX for the opportunity!
The new edition of the board game Mission: Red Planet features these new 9 character designs. These images will used as art for game cards used in the game by players as they mine and colonize Mars. These were a lot of fun to create and Matagot allowed me to lean heavily on my personal style when bring these characters to life.
Big thanks to Maxime Erceau at Matagot games!
Mission: Red Planet is out now from Matagot Games.
I had a small feature on the work I did for the upcoming board game, Mission: Red Planet, in a recent issue of Imagine FX magazine (#252). Big thanks to Dan Vincent and Imagine FX!
I'm going to be a guest at the Design Studio Press Booth at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle this Friday, March 7th. I'll be signing books and hanging out from 3:30pm - 7pm, so if you are attending ECCC this weekend, come by and say hello at Booth #20101
Last year I had the opportunity to work on the illustrations for the new, 20th anniversary edition, of the boardgame Mission: RedPlanet. This is the final box cover art created for the game. The designers and the publisher, Matagot, wanted a clean break with the steampunk style of the first 2 versions. They also wanted to move away from the yellow/orange/red dominant colours of the last version, replacing it with a more red/red-violet/purple colour scheme. The result was a colourful, playful, somewhat fantastical, more modern look and feel that leans heavily on my own personal aesthetic. This was a fun project and I’ll post more of the work created for it soon.
Coming in April of 2025.
Thanks to Maxime Erceau and Matagot!
Both my art books, Born In Concrete: The EK Series and EK2 - The Lost Years are on sale at Amazon.com, ...just in time for the holidays! Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a book of gnarled cosmonauts floating through the hazy void of inner space! The EK Series book is %30 off, while EK2 - The Lost Years is %20 off. This is for a limited time so grab them while you can get a deal!
I’m always late posting things here, …mainly due to laziness, but also due to the fact that most of the engagement I get is on my social media sites. Anyways, I’ve been running a %25 off sale on all items currently in the shop, and there are a few days left so check it out here!
Turnaround of the digital sculpt used to create the 3D master print for the new Overwhelmed model resin model kit. The figure was sculpted by the talented Mark Henriksen. In the past I’ve worked with Mark at Next Level games and have always been impressed by by his work. You can check some of his other awesome sculpts here.
The overwhelmed model is currently available for order from The Kombinat here, or by emailing them at info@thekombinat.com.
Shipping early 2025.
Here is a look at the design materials created to help guide the creation the new Overwhelmed model kit. This includes turnaround images and various design details made for the sculptor, the talented Mark Henriksen, along with decal designs and placement details.
This kit is now available for order from The Kombinat at their website here, or you can email info@the kombinat.com.
Shipping early 2025.
I’m late to getting to posting this here, and this has been posted to my other social media channels for some time now, but I’m happy to announce that my new Overwhelmed resin model kit is now available for order! The kit is 1/10th scale, and consists of 32 resin parts, a clear base, decals and instructions. The kit was sculpted by the talented Mark Henriksen and produced in Europe by The Kombinat.
The kit can be ordered on the Kombinat website here, or by emailing info@thekombinat.com.
Shipping early 2025.
I'm going to be a guest at the Design Studio Press Booth at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle this Saturday, March 2nd. I'll be doing a book signing from 4:00 - 5:30pm, but I'll also be kicking around for most of the afternoon, so if you are attending ECCC this weekend, come by and say hello at Booth# 10042!
I had a short interview segment on a recent episode of the CBC Radio program On The Island with Gregor Craigie. I talk to CBC correspondent Sterling Eyford about my new book and we touch on the topic of AI generated images as well.
You can listen to the segment here.
Big thanks to Sterling, Gregor and the CBC for the opportunity!
To celebrate the release of my art books I’m having a %15 off sale on all limited edition prints on my website. Prints of pieces from both books are available...including new prints and the return of some older classics. Check them out at: http://www.borninconcrete.com/shop
Ends Nov.15th, 2022.
After a month long supply chain related shipping delay, my new book EK2 - The Lost Years, is now in stock and available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Target and from my publisher, Design Studio Press. The book will also be available from physical retailers as well...so it might pop up in a bookstore near you.
Thanks to everyone that have already pre-ordered copies!
Here are the links:
Amazon - tinyurl.com/mr8ekwh4
Barnes and Noble - tinyurl.com/bdh43a7r
Target - tinyurl.com/9ndua4n8
Design Studio Press - tinyurl.com/5b5fkjjd
