Author Archives: The Illustrator

I’m the talented illustrator behind this illustration blog. It is the blog on my Starbright Illustration site and it’s a lot of fun – oh and of course there is a lot of illustration.

I’m a UK citizen (although non-resident) and I’m living in Austria right now – my German is getting better and better. I make my living mostly through teaching, translation and, of course, my online illustration related stuff.

New Sci-Fi RPG Supplement

The Colonnade system RPG supplement is the subject of the first ever system guide for Extreme Future and Future Heroes. I’ve sweated over the blurb for RPG DriveThru as usual, and here it is. Colonnade, the first system guide for the Extreme Future game, provides an entire star system to start adventuring from. It is [...]

Superhero Illustration – a scary hulking monster

I keep trying to paint superheroes, only to have them come out looking mean, angry and supervillainy. This creature has just stumbled out of the lab he was created in. Judging from the jets of green light shooting from the lab building roof, we can tell that this supervillain is powerful. I’m still half thinking [...]

Red Spider a superhero swinging from building to building

This is another image from The Future heroes Role-Playing Game. It shows a dystopian future city, rust colored and dilapidated. Through the canyons of the future city swings Red Spider, a superhero with powers connected to projecting rays of web like matter from the palms of her hands. I’m just noticing that a lot of [...]

More Superhero Role-Playing Game Art

Here’s another image from the latest Starbright role-playing game, Future Heroes. The image is an illustration of a superhero, whose powers are based around his power armor. The armor has the weird look of something quite alien that has been given a jazzy paint job to make it look fit for use by a superhero.The [...]

Dark Superhero Flying Over Futuristic City

I’ve created another piece of art for the upcoming Future Heroes Role-Playing game, which will be fully compatible with the Extreme Future game, which is already published. In fact I’m in two minds about whether this character should be a superhero or a supervillain.  If I decide to use him as a villain, he’ll be [...]

Future Heroes RPG

I’ve been working on the latest Role Playing Game set in the Extreme Future universe. The text is 90% there, including game system and descriptions, so the next task is the illustration. The latest version of the cover is really coming together. The text of the title is in a different font to the usual [...]

Peacock

An image of a peacock I did with a nice puzzling tail. This image is a digital painting created using GIMP, and my trusty Wacom graphics tablet. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open source software image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating [...]

Space Monster Chasing Spaceship

Another image from the Deep Space Encounters supplement for the Extreme Future role-playing game. This deep space encounter is of the rather dangerous kind, because this alien is very much inspired by the gods of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu pantheon. It is an alien that uses its immense power just to torment and torture the unlucky [...]

RPG on DriveThru and eBook on Kindle

A couple more of my projects have just gone online on different channels. The first is the book I wrote recently, called ‘The Pet Dragon’ which has just gone live on the Kindle store.The pet dragon is a fantasy adventure where a young elf girl finds a dragon, and is driven out of her elven [...]

Starliner Spaceship

I was looking through my hard disc for inspiration and came across an image I created a long time ago. It’s a scan of a sketch that I coloured after scanning. One of the things I like about this illustration is the giant transparent bubbles on its flanks. Some parkland can be seen below the [...]