Art by Storn

MrJupiter · Post by **MrJupiter** » Wed Feb 29, 2012 11:24 pm

Storn, your first dragon take isn't that bad of an arrangement. It's a neat idea to have the wings extending from stalks. You second take, however, is mundo awesome!

kevperrine · Post by **kevperrine** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:13 am

Hey Storn!

Question for ya... I've been following your art for a long time now. Across many games, websites, forums, etc...

I'm wondering.
Is there a one place link that you collect all your art (specifically all your supers art) in a gallery?

I'd love to be able to see ALL and anything I've missed over the years. Your art inspires me when I'm playing or GMing at my home table top game of supers fun and I'd love to look through your work in a gallery - instead of the more tedious efforts to find threads (like this one) and slowly scrolling through.

Just wondering.
Thanks!
-kev-

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:38 am

ALL of my art. No. Much of my art was prior to things like scanners and threads and such. But we are better for it. So much of my earlier art was flailing around, trying to find my self.

I have over 600 images at my photobucket, but it is probably about 1/3 of the art produced over the last 5 years or so. Much of my art is NDA until published. Publishing can take months and months, so by the time it does, I forget to put it up. So, I've got Mutants and Masterminds, Champions, L5R art that is sitting on my harddrive that folks have seen in the published works, but not on the net. Unless someone else has scanned it in and put it up.

But I feel a little bit weird putting up tons of published material. 1) I don't own it really. And I know folks swipe my art, it is why I put it up. But I feel a bit stronger about putting up art that I own, like all the concept stuff I tend to do. 2) I can't make more money off the published stuff unless I sell the original. Sorry to be mercenary, but I don't make all that much money. Every bit helps. 3) I am prolific. To put up everything would take days of work, and I think I would over-saturate my work. Folks would get numb if I put up 5 images a day (and I could easily do that for about 2 years.) 4) To organize stuff by genre, nice for y'all, I'm sure, but that would be a lot of work for me and time I don't have.... I would rather be doing more artwork!

So, I put up the stuff I remember or am particularly proud of or the stuff I can show immediately and not worry about NDAs.

My photobucket is here and I know a couple of folks actually have subscribed to it, so as I put up new things, they get a notification: http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:44 pm

Two commissions, but first I wanted to let folks know that 6 supers are up in the latest portfoilo from moi and LPJ designs. So. If you are looking for superheroes (or villains) clipart that is print quality and reasonably priced, look NO further. Well.... look further by clicking on the link provided. This, by the way, is my 15th!!!! portfolio. So thanks to all the patrons who keep my drawing their characters and cranking away.

Here is the link: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php? ... _id=100228

This commission has been done for awhile and goes with the fantasy group that I've posted earlier. But I simply forgot to stuff it onto my photobucket so I could link it here and show it off. I like this one, I felt that young mage as gunfighter was kinda fun concept to play off.

Next is another for patron unstoppable, Death Tribble and it is request for a cheongsam wearing korean (beautiful) martial artist. This was a fun one to do because I was breaking in a new brush pen from Pentel that I picked up that day. To be honest, the paper was bleeding just slightly and I spent a bit more time doing clean up than I liked. But the brush itself, the Pentel GFKp rocked for doing the inking. I usually ink with winter sable kolinkskys from Weber, dipping it in india ink (or sometimes using dip pens too, depends on my mood). But the GFKp (I have no idea what the initials stand for) is a nice portable inking tool.

And since I was working at one of our Thursday coffee shop work sessions, I bought the Pentel GFKp (not easy to type that) at our brand new awesome art store that happens to be right NEXT door to the coffee shop! How cool is that? Well, y'all out there in internet land probably don't care... but I think it is very cool. Went in for a new kneaded eraser and came out with a very cool new tool. By far the best mechanical brush pen I've used.

Anyway, that was waaay too long discussion about my passion over art supplies. Here is the art and I will shut up. Enjoy!

kroh · Post by **kroh** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:00 am

What would be really cool is to have Death tribble send in a picture of himself surrounded by Storn Art.

Regards,
Walt

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:34 am

kroh wrote:What would be really cool is to have Death tribble send in a picture of himself surrounded by Storn Art.

Regards,
Walt

I actually have no idea what he looks like. If I ever got to England, he would be one of the two people I would HAVE to meet in person (the other being the incomparable artist Jon Hodgson)

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:36 am

You now can wear ME on YOUR chest!!!

Silver Branch games has taken two of my covers and made them available as t-shirts. They look kinda snazzy, if I can say so myself. I want one.

Check dem out here:

http://silverbranch.spreadshirt.com/

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:39 am

Folks, there have been several events in motion behind the scenes at Studio Storn. I am about to embark on a 3 month (or so) project involving a comic book/video game that I am NOT at liberty to discuss. But it is a ton of work. I also have been working on a facebook game, helping with art chores on that. And several covers have made it to my desk.

So. I am raising the price on my private commissions from $45.00 to $60.00.

I have several reasons for doing this.

1) So, while I absolutely LOVE doing private commissions for folks, I need to slow down the rate of which I've been receiving them. A price increase will do that. The demand on me sometimes gets in the way of taking on publisher's paying work.

2) I haven't raised my rates since I've started to doing this (I lowered the prices when I very first started this gig).

3) I feel that I spend more time on each commission than I did when I first started, and there is a higher degree of polish and finish on my commissions and that takes time. While I am fast, a living wage is in danger of being a barely making it wage the more time I spend on these.

If and when my business gets sparse, I might lower my prices. I wholly admit this is an experiment and I expect folks to be a bit bummed about the price raise. So I might have to change my mind.

I really appreciate all the acceptance and support and work I've gotten over the years and I don't do this lightly.

So. Now that is out of the way, let me lay some art on y'all. This is a superhero group of past commissions gathered into one group shot.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:26 am

Things have been really, really busy here at Studio Storn. I just spent a wonderful extended weekend in Ohio and Michigan. My step-grandfather passed at 89 in Dayton and he had a wonderful life and a wonderful family. I love 'em to pieces. So, please, no condolences. So, we passed through my old haunts in Michigan on the way to the memorial. Had a wonderful time with Eric, Rick and Neil, my old gaming buds. Had an awesome time at the memorial seeing family I haven't seen in decades. It was a very happy time!

And oddly, the best service in Ann Arbor ever! Way better than when I actually lived there. Kudos to Zingermans and Red Tractor BBQ. Just the nicest folks working there. Millie, my wife, loved Ann Arbor.

Getting back to the studio has been really busy with my NDA project and wrapping up other projects. So I have not been posting anything. I've got a couple of things to lay on ya.

First. I don't do many logos... but Darren Watts, formerly of Hero Games, asked me to do this one, because I've done Apes for him before. He is starting up a publishing company called Silverback Press. Here is a link to Silverback's facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SilverbackPress

And here is the logo:

Next up is a private commission I of a character I believe is in a 7th Sea/ Legends of 5 Rings game.... so I went sorta fantasy-ish in that direction.

Lastly. Another LPJ Portfolio of my clip art work has come out. This one is fantasy, some pics are much more fully illustrated than the single figure, no background thing. A preview is available here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/100689/Im ... Storn-Cook

So. Yeah. Posting from me is going to slow down a bit, as I won't have tons of new art to show as I work on the new NDA project. Millie's daughter has moved in with us, she will be going to school at Tompkins Cortland Community College for free, where Millie is a professor. And we might have to seek a bigger house. I so love moving.

I know that I have one painting that has been done for a couple of weeks, just waiting on the client to get his ducks in a row, so I can give him some free guerrilla marketing. And I will hopefully get some of the smaller commissions out here and there as we go along. Check back in a few days!

Dustland · Post by **Dustland** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:18 pm

I love the logo! Also the background for the 7th Sea pic is cool, reminds me of elephant hide which goes great with the pic. Love your work as always!

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Thu May 17, 2012 8:34 am

*phew* It has been awhile since I've posted anything. I've been doing my art and I've had things to post, but I've been trying to put to bed the first 8 pages of the comic I'm doing for Time Tribe.

Why I am bringing this up, is because Time Tribe has just launched their kickstarter looking for some funding. Here is the link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/136 ... nture-game

But just to give you some background, Time Tribe is a video game. I'm doing some artwork for the in-game comic book, where pages will be unlocked as the player proceeds through the game. It is a game aimed at kids and teaching them history as the 4 young kid protagonists have the ability to travel through time to visit various eras. I could tell you more but the link will be a lot more clear and succinct than my poor writing skills.

Luckily, I have other skills. Like drawing. And my clients have given me permission to put up 2 pieces of artwork. Actually, I will be putting up 3, as 2 images are of the same thing... the gift shop. The first sketch I did was not the right angle and when I got a map of the actual mansion where the kids live and explore helped tremendously, so I wanted to show my evolution to the 2nd one. They really needed a ground floor view for the video game in-scene. Unfortunately, I never finished the gift shop as I had to move onto painting some NPCs and get started on the comic pages.

And here is an example of the digital color over pencils style I'm using for the comic pages. This happens to be page 13 (we are doing them out of order because certain pages are needed in-game more dearly than others).

So. There you have it. A taste of what has been consuming much of my time over the last month or so. Hope you are intrigued. If you have kids, really consider backing Time Tribes... I think it is an awesome way to spark some interest in history.

kroh · Post by **kroh** » Thu May 17, 2012 2:44 pm

Awesome deal... Congrats!

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 12:32 pm

So, I got the chance to do some art for a very intriguing kickstart called Sixcess Core Rulebook. They've given me the approval to show some of the art and to do a wee bit of guerrilla marketing for them.

The link will take you to the kickstarter, with a nice video, and there is a quick start pdf available too.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/129 ... e-rulebook

And here is some of the art that I did for them. First up, is a painted piece that was asked to be a "faux" Tarzan. We talked about how to make it a bit different than the Tarzan we know. Red hair was requested and that led me down a sorta viking * jungle man character. And since the game is capable of multi-genre, it was asked to have a hodge podge of genre characters being stalked. The Harsh Realities crew asked specifically for the stalked characters, like Star trek wannabe and cowboy. I didn't make them up.

Next up is a sorta Mexican-cowboy-shaman. The character illustrations were requested to be done in my digital color over line art. So, I complied. This was a really cool concept presented to me by the Harsh Realities crew. I think they have very solid imaginations, I got to draw some characters that were a bit different for me.... and that is really saying something, considering how many character concept illustrations I've done over the years.

And here is the last one I'm gonna show (if ya wanna see more of my art, go support the kickstarter! <g>... my blatant attempt to always leave 'em wantin' more!). I really like Torque, as I came up with a bit of action to show off her post apocalyptic vibe. Of course, y'all are better judges than I. I'm always waaay to close to my artwork to really see what people like or don't like.

p.s. I've also been involved in the preliminary stages of a kickstarter aimed at Mutants and Masterminds ruleset. Those folks are not quite ready to put up their kickstart, when they do, I will let y'all know about it!

Solarblast · Post by **Solarblast** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:23 pm

Storn wrote:First up, another Death Tribble commission. This one is Skin Devil. Bodybrowser from Googlelabs was a huge help on this one.

And here is the first of five for a fantasy adventure group...

The last one looks just like Ranger character for a Castles and Crusades game my wife ran

Solarblast · Post by **Solarblast** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 8:34 pm

Storn wrote:Things have been really, really busy here at Studio Storn. I just spent a wonderful extended weekend in Ohio and Michigan. My step-grandfather passed at 89 in Dayton and he had a wonderful life and a wonderful family. I love 'em to pieces. So, please, no condolences. So, we passed through my old haunts in Michigan on the way to the memorial. Had a wonderful time with Eric, Rick and Neil, my old gaming buds. Had an awesome time at the memorial seeing family I haven't seen in decades. It was a very happy time!

And oddly, the best service in Ann Arbor ever! Way better than when I actually lived there. Kudos to Zingermans and Red Tractor BBQ. Just the nicest folks working there. Millie, my wife, loved Ann Arbor.

Getting back to the studio has been really busy with my NDA project and wrapping up other projects. So I have not been posting anything. I've got a couple of things to lay on ya.

First. I don't do many logos... but Darren Watts, formerly of Hero Games, asked me to do this one, because I've done Apes for him before. He is starting up a publishing company called Silverback Press. Here is a link to Silverback's facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SilverbackPress

And here is the logo:

Next up is a private commission I of a character I believe is in a 7th Sea/ Legends of 5 Rings game.... so I went sorta fantasy-ish in that direction.

Lastly. Another LPJ Portfolio of my clip art work has come out. This one is fantasy, some pics are much more fully illustrated than the single figure, no background thing. A preview is available here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product/100689/Im ... Storn-Cook

So. Yeah. Posting from me is going to slow down a bit, as I won't have tons of new art to show as I work on the new NDA project. Millie's daughter has moved in with us, she will be going to school at Tompkins Cortland Community College for free, where Millie is a professor. And we might have to seek a bigger house. I so love moving.

I know that I have one painting that has been done for a couple of weeks, just waiting on the client to get his ducks in a row, so I can give him some free guerrilla marketing. And I will hopefully get some of the smaller commissions out here and there as we go along. Check back in a few days!

Okay this is getting spooky. The Indian girl with the twin blades is the spitting image of Vijay, my wife's Pulp Hero character. It looks awesome.