Art by Storn

fairytalejedi · Post by **fairytalejedi** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:25 am

Sweet. I really like the look of Ghost Train. He "pops" even without inked lines.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 10:10 am

Back from the ashes of yesterday...

After years of hiatus, I will be in the Champions game (RDU: Red Dragon Universe) run by Neil C. again. We are putting the band back together, using Roll20, Skype and such, hopefully starting soon. We've been doing tons of emails back and forth.

I have been inspired to draw the characters, although I only have 3 done. I have to switch gears slightly to finish some interiors for Golden Age Champions.
The New Pioneers are a group brought together after a decade long alien invasion of our original game. My character, Hope, is actually the daughter of my first RDU character, Vector. Her red sleeve represent Mars, where she grew up and the blue one represent Earth. Her powers are strength, mini-brick from her grandfather, Ultraman and light powers from her grandmother, Lady White. She has some empathic abilities and strong mental defenses from her mom. I eschewed telekinesis, because I played her dad, Vector, for years. I've done pretty much everything I ever wanted to do with telekinesis over that time.

The Terran, played by Joe C, is a martial artist, with earth shaping abilities. Picked by the Gaea like force to heal the world. We haven't played yet, so I don't know all he can do.

Krys is a being of pure Crystaltech, given sentience during the long alien invasion. Crystaltech was a HUGE plot point for years in RDU. Played by Bill S. He has the ability to mimic almost any energy ability.

The campaign will be trying to rebuild Earth and reconnect it to the Mars colony. Mankind has been devastated, population is down to 1 billion souls. I am really looking forward to the next chapter of RDU.

More to come, perhaps next week. I still have Myrk, Shocks and The Blue to still do. And oh yeah, I want to do a pic of our shuttle craft too.

Sijo · Post by **Sijo** » Wed Jan 04, 2017 7:33 pm

Wow! Really good art! 0_0

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 2:10 pm

My character, Hope, grew up on Mars and has a passing familiarity with spaceships and various vehicles. I believe Myrk also has piloting as one of his skills. Neil, the GM, sent out an email describing our approach to the Spire using the STS-014m, built at the martian shipyards and is a space shuttle and VTOL. So *… I had to draw that!

My sketch was done at lunch yesterday.. the prelim pencils were so quick, but I gotta love Clip Art Studio’s curve and straight line tools, much simpler than photoshops. This is not a finished piece of work, just a quick, mostly digital doodle. But it gets the concept across. Hope affectionately calls the ship, “The Stork”

MrJupiter · Post by **MrJupiter** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 8:04 pm

Outstanding art pieces, Storn! The backgrounds for both the characters and the world's setting are great. It makes me envious of you guys.

I really dig the ship concept drawing. It's good to have a team transport that is large enough to serve as a field base as well as taxi.

Post by **BASHMAN** » Fri Jan 06, 2017 3:05 pm

I like them all, but I especially love the picture of Hope.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Tue Jan 10, 2017 12:13 pm

Thanks guys for the nice words.

I shared a couple of pics from my upcoming Champions game earlier. I’ve gotten a couple more done and now that is up as a Clip Art portfolio from LPJ Designs for publishers who might need some super hero art. You can preview all 5 pics before you purchase. And I have several fantasy and super hero clip art collections that might fit publishers needs in addition to the newest one.

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/202529/Im ... Storn-Cook?

Here are a couple of the pics that have not been posted yet that are in that collection.

We have The Blue, a Lemurian immortal mage, now coming out of seclusion to help rebuild the world. Played by Geoff. An extensive multipower of water based magics.

And we have Myrk, a hybrid of two alien races, one of which looks quite huminoid, the Tresselaines. The published Herculon from Champions Enemies is a Tresselaine (I believe). He was on Earth during the 10 year Invasion War fighting for Earth. He is a brick with certain fungus and plant abilities like stretching due to vines and spikes. Played by Rick.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 12:58 pm

Here is a private commission I finished a few days ago. For a D&D game, hence potions and hand axes had to be incorporated somehow into the image. He wanted a somewhat action shot. Hope I succeeded. Might work for a Black Knight kind of super.

Sijo · Post by **Sijo** » Wed Jan 25, 2017 9:29 pm

Oh, this might be my favorite piece of yours yet. I especially like the cape.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:50 am

Sijo wrote:Oh, this might be my favorite piece of yours yet. I especially like the cape.

Thanks Sijo. This one took a really long time. I kept dithering over the colors in the armor.... the cape part actually went really quickly. Sometimes it works like that. Sometimes you have to keep banging away til something good emerges.

MrJupiter · Post by **MrJupiter** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 12:08 pm

I agree with Sijo, this is a great piece. It's great to see the nod to 'real' DnD adventurers with the inclusion of the hero's most trusted, basic asset... the healing potion! Now if only we could see the monstrously large bag of gold they all seem to have so close!

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:07 pm

This was a full page illustration that got away. In the sense that it is supposed to be an interior illustration. But the thumbnails that were more scaled to a interior didn’t suit the client. He wanted a sense of scale and wanted bad guys and good guys and pretty specific visuals on the good guys. This turned into full blown cover in its detail. Took me forever. I certainly lost money on this one.

But sometimes you have to take a bullet for the team. It is better to have a happy client than to finish something too fast.

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Sijo · Post by **Sijo** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:03 am

Well, at least it turned out great!

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:54 pm

Thanks Sijo!

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 2:55 pm

I used to partake occasionally in a contest over at Ten Ton Studios. I had a lunch hour free and thought I would do my first Ten Ton Studio challenge in several years. If you are a member of Ten Ton, you get to vote on the winner. This week's challenge is Superboy. The challenge just started and runs to 9am Thursday. Not a lot of time to get stuff in. But it is always fun to see what is produced.

Link to Ten Ton Studio Superboy challenge here: http://www.tentonstudios.com/forum/inde ... ic=10773.0

I did my entry in pencil, ink and color pencil.