Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Updating a drawing.

I was recently asked for a small illustration to advertise someone's Harn game session at a convention- Des-Con 2011. It would go in the convention catalog. They are running the adventure 100 Bushels of Rye.
I did not to any of the illustrations for that adventure, those were all done wonderfully by Eric Hotz.

I did to an illustration of one of the characters in the adventure- Sheriff Maldan Harabor. I thought of sending the image I did for the Olokand article, but decided to just do an updated version of it. I really like this illustration, but it was a bit clunky. It was a done almost 10 years ago and I thought it needed an update. I often cringe at some of my early illustration work and hope I keep improving so I can cringe at the stuff I am doing now- but it is a problem if there is an opportunity to reuse art. I often end up reworking it.
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I thought I would just touch up the face of Maldan showing him without the hat on, a more relaxed I am going to take over the throne kind of look.
So here was my first image reworked in photoshop. I was able to sculpt his head out a bit more and give it more form.
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Here he is without the hat and without hair. I got a few complaints from some of the Harn writers that his dad is not bald so he should not be. I don't think genetics works that way, but I thought about it and threw on a full head of hair. It was also suggested he looked too much like a Klingon.
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Feel free to save these images to use in your game if you like. Let me know which one you like better- I still prefer the bald one.

4 comments:

  1. I prefer the bald one as well.

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  2. Bald Maldan looks like a Klingon. I like the hairy Maldan, it matches Hotz’s Elendsa family illo better.

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  3. Well, I have to confess that I do prefer the bald Maldan...although prescedent has apparently been set with a previous illo of Maldan showing him with a full head of hair.

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  4. The bald one looks much better - sinister and more dangerous.

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