Art by Storn

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 12:55 pm

Anyhow, I got asked to do a goblin who is a PC and is a kick * monk for a D&D game. That is a cool concept. The patron was even specific with the pose. So I hope I did the kung fu goblin justice!

Sijo · Post by **Sijo** » Thu Feb 09, 2017 4:19 pm

Heh, I know one fellow D&D player who will just love the concept. I'll link it to him soon!

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 11:19 am

So, my mother in law died last week, early Monday morning, to be specific. I was in Puerto Rico for the funeral and just got back in last night, late. But right before she died, I had done some artwork for commissions, the two superhero pieces.

Happy accident time! I totally had a dyslexic moment and the Honey Badger commission called for a male. But in my brain, I thought I had read female and I drew Honey Badger as a woman villain. (It was the term "Honey" that threw me, so sexist of me). The patron really liked it and didn't take me up on my offer to redraw her as a man after I found out my mistake.

I also really like the Cloud concept. He is a shapechanging, digital entity who resides in the Cloud. That is a scary concept, guess you have to lure him out to like rural-off-the-grid New Mexico or Canada in order to truly defeat him. Good luck with that y'all.

And I fooled around on a painted piece after watching Steve Prescott's painting video with heavy body acrylics. After pestering Steve and asking a few questions about heavy body acrylics, which I had never used, I went and got a couple of tubes (burnt sienna, white, black). I had doodled that drawing in my toned color sketch book and despite it being fairly thin paper, I went to town with the acrylics.

The underpainting is the heavy body acrylic, but the color work was done with some guoache I had lying around. Bottom line; I really like the Liquitex heavy body acrylics, they stay wet a nice long time. Easier to blend and mix. So thanks Steve!

Sijo · Post by **Sijo** » Mon Feb 20, 2017 12:04 pm

Storn: Sorry about your loss. As you can tell from my location, I live in Puerto Rico myself.

Your art is great, as usual. And yeah, your "heavy body" (first time I ever hear the term) piece was the best. Its beautiful, fantastic yet serene, all at the same time.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 11:50 am

Thanks Sijo!

My entry in the latest Ten Ton Studios weekly challenge; The Riddler.

Remember, you can swing by Ten Ton Studios and see all the art and even vote on your favorite (hint: vote on mine, that would be nice), later this week (after 9 am Thursday till 9 am Friday).

fairytalejedi · Post by **fairytalejedi** » Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:56 pm

Sorry to hear about your loss in the family.

Some great character pics, as usual. I love your Riddler.

MrJupiter · Post by **MrJupiter** » Sun Feb 26, 2017 2:32 pm

Sorry for your loss, Storn. I'm glad that you were up for sharing some of your latest work with us. Honey Badger is great as a heroine. I'm one who believes that the best innovations arise from misunderstandings and, after seeing this piece, I could no longer see this character as a male.

Your rendition of Cloud is perfect! I love the mixing of the digital pixilations with the vaporous wafts of dissipating gas emanating from the villain. The piece of the woman generating the swirling magical effect is, as Sijo pointed out, a very comforting image to view. The Riddle selection you have offered is great. The left-side "?" of his chair seems a little high when compared to the right, but everything else is perfect! I love the strong, bright, green trim along the edge of Riddler's shoes. Great stuff!

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:56 am

Thanks Mr. Jupiter (yes, you are right about Riddler's chair... I should have seen that.). Honey Badger was definitely a happy accident. I like Cloud too, thought it was a great concept and I was lucky, honored to get the chance to bring him to visual life.

fairytalejedi: thanks for the condolences (both of you, actually). Glad you liked the Riddler.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:02 am

Let me tell you about my character.... I hope y'all don't dread those words. At least this time, this character concept comes with a picture!

In my Thursday night role playing game, we are just starting out with Unknown Worlds, a Apocalypse Engine game ( like Dungeon World) but the genre is science fiction. Pete, our GM, had been reading the Expanse books and is now watching the show and it is a big influence on our game.

So, set in our solar system, no Faster than Light, no Artificial Gravity. Earth has a lot of rocks dropped on it by Mars 5 years ago and it is a Mad Max sort of place. Luna has become the banking Switzerland of the solar system after Earth "fell". Mars is a techno marvel, terraforming happening at an amazing place, one can walk outside without breathing equipment for short periods.

My character, Tremaine "Trey" Sinclair, is from Europa. Europa colonies are in the buried oceans under the ice, and are heavily into the bio-sciences, including gene splicing and manipulation. Trey is Homo Aquaticus, he is amphibian, can breath under water, notice the gills and webbed, large hands in the picture. He is a pilot (both submarine and starship) and yearned to see the outside world. Left Europa to explore the "other" oceans (both stars and Earth's own oceans). He is the pilot of the "Flying Fin" which was a museum on Earth as it was one of the first Europa probe ships (both starship and submersible), recently salvaged from the Atlantic off of Africa, by a Luna corporation with the Trey and the other characters help.

It is a really interesting game as Unknown Worlds really lends itself to easy character creation with totally interesting results. The world building we are doing is awesome! I look forward to next week quite a bit!

AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 7:34 am

My sympathies on your loss sir.

Feels sort of hollow to praise your art right after saying that, so I'll just say stay frosty sir.

MrJupiter · Post by **MrJupiter** » Sat Mar 04, 2017 4:38 pm

Great sketch of Trey, Storn. That Earth-system, sci-fi setting sounds fantastic. You guys should collaborate together, and develop it for a setting. I'm loving The Expanse. That's the kind of science-fiction that I love best.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:22 am

MrJupiter wrote:Great sketch of Trey, Storn. That Earth-system, sci-fi setting sounds fantastic. You guys should collaborate together, and develop it for a setting. I'm loving The Expanse. That's the kind of science-fiction that I love best.

Thanks Mr. Jupiter. I love the Expanse too. I don't think our setting is quite far enough from the Expanse to warrant its own published setting. Yet. Maybe after we've played for some time and it has drifted from that a bit.

A fun private commission that I got to do. A Star Wars character. I don't have a ton to say about it, although it was a totally digital creation. Usually I do a pencil sketch, but this time I wanted to work a bit more with my cintiq. The initial scribbles where done on separate layers, along with some reference that patron gave me. I did this at work during lunch over a few days. The camo texture was provided by the patron.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/St ... nnzq4x.jpg

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:13 pm

Scimitar and Buckler, variant on Sword -n- Board. Here is another lunch time doodle. Going for some rich colors while trying to make it readable. Hope I succeeded. I like working in vignettes like this, with the negative space allowed to exist almost abstractly.

Storn · Post by **Storn** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 11:51 am

Here is a doodle, I was experimenting with a very loosed pencil sketch. I wanted to see if I could work with that when I went to the paint. I tend, especially with fantasy, to be a "bit" tighter with the pencil work.

But I was quite happy that it came out the way that it did. The face changed a bit, now looking at it, I like the angle of the pencil a little better than the finished. Although I like the paint application in the face. Ah, I'm picky.

This piece, plus 4 others, are my latest Fantasy Clip Art portfolio from LPJ Design, available here: http://lpjdesign.rpgnow.com/product/207 ... Storn-Cook

The preview of the Portfolio wasn't working for a bit, but it is working now.

Solarblast · Post by **Solarblast** » Thu Mar 16, 2017 2:49 pm

Your doodles look like masterpieces.