The Girl on the Liar’s Throne is a rare fantasy – it is the last in the trilogy and the best in the series. You can check my reviews for the first book The Boy with the Porcelain Blade and the sequel The Boy Who Wept Blood and see how the series starts of good, […]
14 stunning character concept images by Kait Kybar
Kait Kybar is a concept designer based in Tallinn, Estonia. He’s worked on projects like Killzone: Shadow Fall, Horizon Zero Dawn, Overkill’s The Walking Dead and PayDay 2. Kindly, he shares much of his art over at Behance complete with some personal projects. This post compiles and teases some of his character designs; all of […]
The amazing art of Halil Ural
Halil Ural is an artist from Finland with a knack for bringing digital art to life. You can see his work on Deviant Art, on Facebook and, better still, you can buy it on InPrnt.
Creatures and characters by Markus Lovadina
Markus Lovadina, aka malo, is a senior concept artist at Rocksteady Studios in London. His concept art is used by both movie and game studios and is out of this world. You can check out a larger sample of his portfolio over at his public Behance page as well as his blog which he updates […]
The staggering art of Joseph McLamb
Joseph McLamb has worked on titles like Hogfather (TV movie), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Avatar, Centurion, Clash of the Titans, Prince of Persia and Sherlock Holmes 2. He’s now the lead concept artist at the award winning Framestore. He shares some of his work in a gallery on his site Robot Arm and […]
Realms of Mayhem character designs
Realms of Mayhem looks like it is now an expired browser based MMO. The character designs by Kerem Beyit, however, live on forever. In fact, I think these particular designs are great inspiration for RPG PCs; we’ve sensible armour, sensible but interesting looking weapons and some common tropes.
Bold and colourful: The illustrations of Chris Rahn
Rahn began illustrating when his family moved to a small town in rural Washington state. Since then he’s gone on to work for Magic the Gathering, Tor Publishing, Random House, Harlequin and Blizzard Entertainment. You can buy some of his prints, sometimes signed, from his online store. If you’re lucky this includes the artist’s proof […]
Kittens dressed up D&D style
Concept artist and illustrator Kyonghiwan Kim has a set of kittens dressed in typical fantasy RPG clothes. There’s an Assassin Bombay, Bard Abyssinian, Fighter Sphynx and a Warrior Scottish Fold, for example. Via Courtney Kraft at Geek and Sundry.
The amazing fan art of Patrick Brown
He was drawing aged 5 and took it from a hobby to a profession. Australian Patrick Brown’s Deviant Art page says “Fan art is my thing”. Goodness, is he right! His illustrations are impressive. Patrick notes how he takes inspiration from many things and by being a fan he has a reason to draw, improve […]
Kill your favourite character: A review of Akame Ga Kill
The anime kicks off as we meet Tatsumi travelling on the road. He swiftly steps into the role of hero by taking on a fearsome and dangerous creature – an Earth dragon – and in doing so demonstrates he’s quite some swordsman. It’s interesting to note that that earth dragon isn’t called a monster. None […]
