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.

3D cat created with Blender as t-shirt and hoody design

I had this mesh I did of a blue cat hanging around on my hard drive, and I thought it would be the easiest thing in the world to render off an image to use as a t-shirt design, but there was a problem. It had been so long since I worked on the 3D [...]

A Cute Alien in a Crater Illustration

I just did a quick digital painting using GIMP and Inkscape of a cute alien poking its head out of a crater. I’ve painted it in a format that I can sell as a mobile phone cover – although everyone in the world seems to have a smartphone and cover already. I used Inkscape to [...]

Updated Front Page with Second Edition of the SciFi RPG

Extreme Future, the sci-fi role-playing game, has been in its second edition for quite some time now, a few weeks at least, and I’ve finally gotten round to updating the front page of the sci-fi and fantasy publishing and illustration website to reflect that. I’m very proud of the new edition, and on top of [...]

A pretty good app for translating Italian words

This is just a little test post to see if the plugin in my blog to crosspost to Facebook is working. But just so that it isn’t too boring, I’ll tell you about my efforts to learn Italian. I’m learning it by reading a comic book, and translating as I go with a dictionary. I [...]

I’m Writing a Fantasy Book for Self Publishing

After reading an article in the guardian about a lady who self published a fantasy book to make enough money to buy a ticket to go see the Muppets, I’ve decided to write one too. Since then I’ve read a bunch more encouraging stories, including the top Kindle crime book, being self published. I read [...]

One of my spaceship illustrations turns up, with a credit

Here is a green spaceship I painted, being used on a self-publishing writer’s blog. It’s always great to see my stuff being used out there, of course there are copyright issues, because the image is being used without my consent – but with a link so I think it’s cool. And it made me aware [...]

RPG spaceships with Blender

I’m working on a new supplement for Extreme Future, the sci-fi role-playing game, it was released a few days ago and is already selling well. The new supplement will probably be based around a spaceship. The spaceship will be something like a freighter or scientific exploration spaceship. It’ll be a small one; the perfect size [...]

Second Edition of the Spaceship Space Opera Role-Playing Game

I’ve been meaning to overhaul Extreme Future for a while now, and here that marvellous little sci-fi RPG is, finally done. I’m also writing a couple of genre novels too, one fantasy novel set in the world of Realms Fantasy Role Playing, and another for later release, set in the Extreme Future galaxy. The Sci-Fi [...]

Working on Some Fantasy Art

I’m working on a few fantasy pieces at the moment. This image is going to illustrate the concept of wizard, or magic user for the new edition of my role-playing game. I’ve done about an hour’s work on it so far, and I can imagine it going in a nice direction, whether it actually does [...]

New Photography Blog

My favorite photographer just moved to a new blog, and I thought I would give her a shout out, and a link. To some great colorful photography and Venice pictures. I’ve been working on a bunch of stuff, including the second edition of realms – but that won’t see the light of day for some [...]