The bold art of Ian McQue
Local artist and native of Geek Native’s Edinburgh Ian McQue has a range of fantastic illustrations on show. He’s bot blogged for a while but pop over to Facebook page is a little more up to date.
View ArticleEscape to fantasy with Snow Skadi
Snow Skadi is a somewhat mysterious Deviant Artist from Russia. Snow’s bio explains that the artist isn’t always able to reply to notes and mesages. The majority of Snow’s work involves landscape and...
View ArticleRealism and anime in one: The art of Dawn Pu
Dawn Pu is an illustrator based in China. In Dawn’s Deviant Art collection you’ll find fan art, you’ll find gorgeous backgrounds and landscapes and you’ll find anime. The latter combine nicely; lovely...
View ArticleThe amazing art of Seungjin Woo
Seungjin Woo is a concept artist who’s worked on Star Trek: Beyond. In fact, it’s his first feature film. However, the Vancouver based artist has oodles of experience at places like Double Negative,...
View Article10 scenes from concept artist Kentaro Kanamoto
Now based in the USA Kentaro Kanamoto is a talented illustrator and concept artist. You can check out his professional portfolio here or his Deviant Art gallery. Sadly, Kanamoto hasn’t made any of his...
View ArticleMagic and Time Paradoxes: Shintiara passes Kickstarter goal
Shintiara is a fantasy world caught between two stars. On of the stars has collapsed into a black hole and is dragging the planet slowly towards it. The result? Weird time effects. Past and future...
View ArticleEscape into the art of Chen Zhe
Chen Zhe is a Chinese artist who easily ranges from sci-fi to fantasy, from landscape to character, and back again. His recent work has been for Bean Studio.
View ArticleImps to mechs: the art of Riyahd Cassiem
Riyahd Cassiem is a freelance concept artist who teaches at 3D World Magazine. His art ranges from stoic sci-fi to scary fantasy. Great model sculpts? Sure. He does those too! There are a few places...
View ArticleGorgeous Sailor Moon inspired Inner Warriors Scouts
These Inner Warrior Scouts are by the geek popular artist NoFlutter. She’s pretty humble describing herself as ‘super derpy’ and ‘[I] like to do art things’ but I’m frequently recommended to her....
View ArticleWill you be a good dog? A review of Pugmire
Pugmire @ DTRPG Pugmire is a tabletop RPG set in the future of an Earth in which humanity has vanished and changed the planet forever. In this new world the races of uplifted dogs, cats, rats, lizards...
View ArticleGenre Police: More Than Just Semi-Nudes – Sword & Sorcery
Welcome to back Genre Police, a series of articles where I take a look at a genre or sub-genre, how it has been handled in gaming and how we can implement that in our games. Today, we are going to...
View ArticleThe epic scale of the illustrator Hong il An
Some artists are good enough to be better known in the West than they are. One of the problems is tracking down the origin of the work. Naver has a profile for Useumi which takes us to Red Hong Studio...
View Article12 illustrations to spark your next tabletop adventure from Neal Hanson
Neal Hanson is a fantastic concept artist who works on big, AAA, games. His titles include games like Second Son and Guild Wars 2. You can see a sample of his work below or check out other galleries...
View Article8 more dazzling Kyonghiwan Kim fantasy portraits
Back in March 2016, we got to share these D&D kittens! The artist is Kyonghiwan Kim who shares plenty of his art on Facebook. Kim doesn’t just draw kittens and he is a talent worth showcasing so...
View ArticleA geeky analysis of Carphone Warehouse’s Massive Movie Calendar
British retailer Carphone Warehouse has put a Massive Movie Calendar online. It’s part of their broadband section, so I guess that’s a nod at the fact we tend to stream out movies these days. You’re...
View ArticleScientific research shows that sci-fi and fantasy fans are a top choice for...
Researchers from the University of Oklahoma, led by the psychologist Stephanie C. Stern, suggest that fans of fantasy and sci-fi genre have more realistic believes about romantic relationships compared...
View ArticleRefresh your mind! Stunning art by Alessandro Taini
I love this art. I can’t quite tell you why but I think it would be perfect for Palladium Book’s RIFTS RPG series. Perhaps it’s the whole range of worlds and action-packed energy? You can see a lot...
View ArticleA free introduction to Lex Arcana: A RPG set in a magical Roman Empire
Lex Arcana Quickstart Depending on where you are you might already be a big fan of Lex Arcana. It’s a hugely popular game. The Dark Eye is very popular in Germany, for example, and Trudvang Chronicles...
View ArticleMeet the Lex Arcana characters
Last week Geek Native shared a free to download Lex Arcana Quickstarter. This is an alternative Rome with fantasy mixed in and a world where Divination stopped the Empire from falling. It’s a game that...
View ArticleRPG Inspiration: 18 beautiful fantasy settings from Shuxing Li
Shuxing Li is an artist and illustrator from China who shares their art online. He works in Shanghai for Perfect World. These pictures are fantastic inspiration for any Dungeon Master or GM looking for...
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