Tag Archives: Photoshop

3D droid illustration for science fiction role-playing games like Traveller, progress report

  This 3D droid illustration for science fiction role-playing games has started to look less like a lifeless sculpture, in fact it has started to run. As you can see from the previous two posts, which both have previous iterations of this 3D droid design, there has been a lot of progress – but there [...]

TDSF Legendary – a new spaceship design to go in my Traveller selection.

This role-playing game spaceship design is a new departure for me. I started with a canvas and some paint before scanning in the spaceship painting and working on it a bait with Photoshop. At first it felt a little odd working on the image with Photoshop after I had spent so long painting this spaceship [...]

Tarazet the space opera setting for Traveller the role-playing game is now with monsters

I have just migrated over a couple of my favorite science fiction role-playing game monsters to the Traveller game system. Including this pretty green monster to the left here. I am really striving to make my Tarazet pages a useful resource for science fiction role-playing gamers who are seeking elements to spice up their Traveller [...]

Working on a new spaceship for use in role-playing games, e.g. Traveller

  One advantage of having such an underpowered laptop for an illustrator is that it gives you an opportunity to doodle ideas as you are waiting for Photoshop or trueSpace to finally open. This illustration is a case in point from today. I was just doodling on the pad I use as a mouse mat [...]

A spaceship called The Artful Dodger

I’ve reached page 218 of the science fiction novel that I am reading and, at the same time, illustrating; and at last a spaceship has caught my eye. The spaceships from the book – The Dreaming Void by Peter F Hamilton – are of a very futuristic kind indeed. The spaceship on page 218 is [...]