he charges $15.00 per figure in color. IIRC, B&W cost $10.00kevperrine wrote: - what are Kris' rates and timeline for characters like these?
As for timeline, it depends. The 5 most recent had a deadline of about 5 or 6 weeks from when I told him to do them. I forget what the timeline was for the Golden Age heroes, but I know he finished them a day or so early. Since I haven't sat down to finalize planning for my first villain book, I don't have timelines for art for a release. I play that by ear. We've discussed about 5 or 6 image concepts so far, but as that's only half of the planned roster for the release, we are nowhere near planning a deadline. If there will be one. I don't really have a release date in mind, so I don't plan for one yet. In the future, who knows?
When I come up with a concept, I send him a description for that concept. Many images use bits and pieces of ideas from other sources, so I try and get images of those sources for him to reference.kevperrine wrote: - do you have an example of how you ask for art? I'm interested in how you do the art direction. What's your creation/direction and what's the artist's
For example: I had specific influences for the Cosmic Legion uniforms. The basic design is modeled from the costume of Ultimate Captain Mar-Vell, but sans helmet and with different colors. The chest symbol was the symbol for the New Universe character Starbrand, but reversed. The pointy shoulder parts of the uniform comes from a more recent costume worn by the hero Nova. I sent images of those 3 things, and described what parts of each I wanted. He then drew a sketch in B&W, and when I confirmed that matched what I wanted, we went into what the characters who wore those outfits would look like.
I tend to use various influences in many designs. Not all, but at least 80% or so of the stuff he's done for me has been done that way.
I like his style because it reminds me of the DC animated style, but is just a little different. I just really like the style. I am going to use art from other artists, but my dealings with some others have been less than satisfying. Kris always comes through for me so far. If he falls behind, he busts * to catch up for me. He loves doing art for me, because I tend to tell him little bits of backstory on the characters, so he gets a feel for what they're like, not just what they look like. He told me that he really digs doing Golden Age stuff after all the stuff he did for me in that vein. I think he did a great job with some of those characters, and while Vigilance Press has come out with a kick * line of Golden Age stuff, I am hoping to do my own as well.kevperrine wrote: - the style is VERY similar to the style of artist I've worked with in the past on supers projects (my HERO HOOKS book I did for M&M). I love the style. THIS THIS THIS... should BE the style for all of BASH! If this artist (or a similar style) were hired for art direction on ALL of the BASH! material (especially the new updated rule printing),
Anyway, for the most part, Kris is the in house artist for Soultaker Studios, much like Dan Houser is the one for ICONS. I will use others here and there, but afaik, Kris is just as much a part of Soultaker as I am.
Not sure, but I may have an image him too. I thought the character was named Velocity Jones, but I couldn't remember (I think the name on the image file was just VJ). If that is the same character, then he was an influence on the name of Velocity Jane.kevperrine wrote: - strangely ... coincidentally... I have a character made and published from my HERO HOOKS book from 6-7 years ago named "Velocity Johnson". That said... I was at the same time bummed (that our name choices were so close) and excited, because the art is beautiful. LOL
Almost all the art I've posted here has been specifically created for one shot games I've run locally for Recess, which is a gaming event sponsored by NerdNYC, a forum/community here in NYC for gamers, and nerds of all types. I feel super hero games are partly a visual thing, so having art for the characters inspires the players, especially given that many will be new to the game system (if they know it at all). So yeah, I bought all this art to use in one shot games.kevperrine wrote: - I may have missed the info... what is all this for? Will it be a published product of some sort? It should be. If the product lived up to half of the art style... it would rock.
However, Chris (and others on the forums) have encouraged me to do something with my Golden Age one shot as a release. if I do, some of the characters will likely end up in it for use by players if they want to use it as a one shot. I just need to revise them from the original stats, as some came out more powerful than others.
I'm tempted to possibly do a Cosmic Legion sourcebook (though I might rename the group), since I think there is a lot of potential with it. I dunno. I have too may * ideas for possible books, so I need to kind of focus on one project at a time!
Well, feel free to contact Kris. I linked to his deviantart page in my first post, so you can some of his other work. If you want his email addy, pm me for that. I know Chris wanted him to do some work for BASH, but I never asked him or Kris about it. He's done some art for Cartoon Action Hour Season 2 (it was an ad for him in that rule book that got me to contact him back in 2009), so he has done rpg work before.kevperrine wrote: - I have a project... a simple one. That I'd love to be able to have art like this done for. I did it before, but I haven't looked into finding a new artist (or requesting from my old artist) in awhile. Hence with all the questions.
Thanks. The great art Kris does for me is part of my motivation to run games when I cankevperrine wrote: overall... love it. Great stuff. GO YOU!!
-kev-
