Tag Archives: sci-fi

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 [...]

Eclipse Phase – interesting role-playing game concept.

I was looking through the DrivethruRPG website looking for cool free stuff, when I found Eclipse Phase. This isn’t listed as a free game, but when I had a quick look though the sample PDF I noticed something… It’s free – or at least the text is – it’s made available by the authors, Catalyst [...]

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 [...]

Mech design gets colour and D20 Dungeons review

The drawing of my new mech design that I started in my last post is slowly taking shape. It has some basic colours now, but I do like the black and white look of the original Battletech Technical Readouts, so I hesitated a little bit before adding any colour at all. But the rest if [...]

D20 spaceships for gaming: and MegaMek: A BattleTech Video Game… for Free?!

Outsyder is another cool gaming blog which I found because it links to one of my posts. Outsyder Gaming: MegaMek: A BattleTech Video Game… for Free?! This blog has some really, really nice stuff. For example he links to this D20 rifts site, eeps!! And this games blogger has somehow found this other cool D20 [...]

Critical Hits

Dave T. Gamer commented on my site recently, and pointed me in the direction of CthulhuTech. I like it by the way, but it isn’t free, so it’s just going to have to wait until after I’ve checked out D20, which is a free RPG. Before I approved his comment I followed my usual procedure [...]

Spaceship, cracked open, an image for RPGs

In my sci-fi role-playing game setting, a setting for Traveller – although I just downloaded the free version of the D20 system, so it could soon be for that too – the spacers are a superstitious lot. This is only to be expected in an RPG galaxy full of monsters, psionics, super science, spaceships as [...]