Tag Archives: GIMP and graphics tablet

work starts on new role-playing game cover

My new role playing game is called Heroes in Time and has everything needed to role play across an entire span of history from brutal primeval barbarian sword and sorcery to space opera and its laser battles, but the cover needs work. It is the element of this project that has been most severely letting [...]

Spaceship Art and Character Sheet for Heroes in Time role-playin game

There is an ocean of starts, and this spaceship is designed to ride the swells. More work has been done on Heroes in Time again, and this time I’ve added a character sheet that can be downloaded for free. The game itself is available here (just click the nice attractive banner, it goes directly to [...]

New tabletop sci-fi RPG resource to feature my illustrations.

  I was recently approached to use some of my illustrations in the latest supplement from Draken Games. I was very happy to provide some illustrations, and most pleased to see the quality of the supplement when it was released. One of the problems with sci-fi role-playing games is that, unless they are copying a [...]

New look – again – for my sci-fi and role-playing game concept art portfolio website

Starbright Illustrations is my sci-fi and role-playing game concept art showcase. I’ve had a dull white background on my site for a really long time, and I wasn’t sure it was the best background to display my concept art illustrations against. I wanted something a little more concept artish and dramatic, and so now I [...]

More work on the Space Dragon, and IF

I have done more work on the Space Dragon – it has its own space dragon rpg illustration page now – and I’ve added an old picture to Illustration Friday. First the space dragon, I’ve been looking at a lot of images of lizards, to try and get a nice realistic looking space dragon. The [...]

Space dragon – a sci-fi monster for role-playing games

I’ve always been a big fan of giant space monsters, however uncool they are with real sci-fi fans, and I really enjoy painting them. Giant space monsters are very infrequently encountered in more realistic games and TV shows like Star Trek and Eclipse Phase, but they are a fun addition to a more relaxed, space [...]

Working on more droid concept paintings for sci-fi role-playing games

The first line of images on my sci-fi concept art website is a bunch of robots. The ones that are there are nice of course – capturing the essence of a dark, nerdy future, when droids are as likely to help you with an adventure, challenge you to a game of chess, or try to [...]

Sci-Fi Role-Playing Game Character Painting

I’ve been painting sci-fi stuff again. I wanted to make sure that there are some human beings mixed in with all the robots and spaceships I have been painting for my gallery of role-playing game illustrations and concept art. One big danger when doing sci-fi illustrations however – and fantasy role-playing game illustrations for that [...]

Warning competition droid for illustration friday rpg concept

Here ‘Hawk’ the gladiator robot is a little further through the illustration process and is looking a lot more colorful. Welcome to Starbright Illustrations. I’m painting a robot this week, in the style of a concept illustration for a game or movie. The title of the illustration is ‘Warning’ – which is the word posted [...]

Crazy Space Rabbit sci-fi picture starts to take shape

It’s been a while since I did any blogging here at Starbright, and there are a couple of reasons for that. The first reason is that I’m completely redoing the main section of the website so that it is a dedicated gallery of all my best illustrations. There is still some way to go, but [...]