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Back in the summer and early fall, if you remember, I was doing a lot of work with an RPG company, Nevermet Press. Their first PDF was published this month, and my artwork is on the cover! I also designed a good chunk of the PDF layout as well. Click on the image below to go to the Nevermet Press page for the product.

Nevermet Press Issue 1: The Desire

If you haven’t heard about NMP, it’s a RPG blog that creates community content non-specific to any game system. Kind of drag-and-drop game ideas. The Desire is the product of a number of writers and artists working together, everyone creating their own content based on a central theme — in this case, a villain named The Desire. The cool thing about the project is that, unlike a lot of RPG products that present a linear script with a beginning, middle, and end — severely limiting the GM’s ability to modify the adventure — NMP’s articles develop locations, encounters, items, and characters around a central concept. As a game master, I think it’s a refreshing take on the “modular” concept of game modules, and is easier to plug in to an existing game. Finally, as each writer and artist presents their own vision which stems from the original article, there’s a wider variety of stories to tell. Just like if 10 artists painted the same scene, you’d still get 10 different paintings. (Admittedly, I’m biased because I worked on the project.)

Today Nevermet Press was updated with Heroes of the Vale, new game content with some characters related to this month’s content. Here are the three pieces I did for the article, but you should head on over to NMP and look at the article for yourself.

Forgegrider's Apprentice

The Merchant

The Shepherd

New artwork posted today at Nevermet Press: Items of the Sleepless Drift. These are some fantasy magical items related to the site’s current publishing cycle, Neirave. I’m going for the DaVinci-esque traveler’s sketchbook theme for these 3 illustrations.

There’s some new content at Nevermet Press with another one of my sketches. This time it’s a dragon. Here’s the picture:

Artwork for "Enemy of my Enemy"

He looks like he’s up to something, right? He’s doing the little finger-twiddling thing. I don’t really know why, but that’s the mood I was in when I sketched him.

Speaking of dragons, I saw an awesome song on TV a while back, on the most famous Japanese kid’s show. I haven’t been able to get it out of my head for days. Here’s the song:

Probably it’s because I want a dragon suit like that…

New fantasy art today: The Scion of Spring. This is the King of Spring with his young apprentice. The full story is on Nevermet Press, but basically this concept is about a forest overrun with cold, and the only way to end the winter is with the help of these two.

The Scion of Spring

I’ve been continuing the artwork for Nevermet Press this past week and then some, but I haven’t had a chance to post anything until now. These went live on the website a few days ago, but anyway here they are. (I decided to do color for these this time, though on the site they ended up monochrome. Oh well.)

The first one is called The Bastion of the Hidden Kingdom. It’s basically a haunted manor in the city-state of Corwyn (from my previous post). You can read more of it’s description on its website.

Bastion of the Hidden Kingdom

Next is a character named Scar, a kind of undead guy with a revenge thing going. Again, it probably makes more sense attached to the story.

Soul's End

I’m working on 3 more pictures for Nevermet Press at the moment, so I’ll be able to post them as soon as I finish. It’s a pretty cool project, and it’s starting to pick up in popularity. Hopefully I’m doing my part well enough.

I’ve gotten back to doing some fantasy artwork recently, and I ended up getting involved with a new publisher called Nevermet Press. They’re publishing system non-specific RPG products, and I’m one of the artists producing some work for them. It’s fun, and my first piece went up today at this site. You can read the story behind the picture there.

The City State of Corwyn