Exquisite Corpses in progress
Posted: April 12, 2011 Filed under: art, exquisite corpses, publishing 5 Comments
As has already been announced, Lamentations of the Flame Princess is bringing out a new edition of ‘Exquisite Corpses’ this year so I am busy working on new paintings. Above you see the new ‘mutant’ painting for the second edition (about 1/2 done) next to the original 1st edition mutant(unsliced). Read LOTFP’s announcement about it here.
‘Surge of the Wine Dark Sea’ art book now availible from Mythmere Games
Posted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: crass commercialism, portfolio, publishing 2 Comments
Matt Finch, mad genius behind Mythmere Games, emailed me this morning to let me know that ‘Surge of the Wine-Dark Sea’ is now available from Lulu — in either softcover or hardcover editions (or PDF).
This is an art book of art by artists of the OSR… and I have a few bits in it. As noted in the Lulu ad copy:
This full color book is filled fantasy and swords & sorcery illustrations by artists of the D&D “Old School Renaissance.” These artists have created the visual imagery of recent publications focusing on playing D&D by its early rules, including works by publishers Pacesetter Games, Mythmere Games, the First Edition Society, Frog God Games, Usherwood Adventures, and many others!
LotFP to release Exquisite Corpses!
Posted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: exquisite corpses, publishing 5 Comments
Finally it can be revealed! Raggi made the announcement on the LotFP blog this morning… we are working together to bring out a new edition of the Exquisite Corpses book for your flip-booking monster making pleasure. Visit LotFP for more details.
It will be new-and-improved, but this does not make existing Exquisite Corpses books obsolete… it will have new art (color monsters!), a better binding from a professional printer in Finland (as opposed to Lulu) and new content still under discussion/creation. We are also discussing ways to incorporate the previous edition’s content into the new edition.
Subject to change and the whims of fate, the new edition will feature:
- Color monster art for the ‘flip pages’
- New cover art
- Some new ‘base’ monsters for the flip pages (some will remain the same, some will change)
- More ‘base’ monsters (going from 26 ‘base’ creatures to 32!)
- Elimination of the handful of errors in the previous edition (while probably introducing a whole lot more new errors)
- Better printing and professional binding!
- New and improved higher price!
- New interior art (hopefully — if everything else gets worked out and subject to time)
I don’t know if James has announced yet when the book will be available… so stay tuned.
‘Surge of the Wine Dark Sea’ art book now availible from Mythmere Games
Posted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: art, crass commercialism, OSR, portfolio, publishing 2 Comments
Matt Finch, mad genius behind Mythmere Games, emailed me this morning to let me know that ‘Surge of the Wine-Dark Sea’ is now available from Lulu — in either softcover or hardcover editions (or PDF).
This is an art book of art by artists of the OSR… and I have a few bits in it. As noted in the Lulu ad copy:
This full color book is filled fantasy and swords & sorcery illustrations by artists of the D&D “Old School Renaissance.” These artists have created the visual imagery of recent publications focusing on playing D&D by its early rules, including works by publishers Pacesetter Games, Mythmere Games, the First Edition Society, Frog God Games, Usherwood Adventures, and many others!
LotFP to release Exquisite Corpses!
Posted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: exquisite corpses, publishing 5 Comments
Finally it can be revealed! Raggi made the announcement on the LotFP blog this morning… we are working together to bring out a new edition of the Exquisite Corpses book for your flip-booking monster making pleasure. Visit LotFP for more details.
It will be new-and-improved, but this does not make existing Exquisite Corpses books obsolete… it will have new art (color monsters!), a better binding from a professional printer in Finland (as opposed to Lulu) and new content still under discussion/creation. We are also discussing ways to incorporate the previous edition’s content into the new edition.
Subject to change and the whims of fate, the new edition will feature:
- Color monster art for the ‘flip pages’
- New cover art
- Some new ‘base’ monsters for the flip pages (some will remain the same, some will change)
- More ‘base’ monsters (going from 26 ‘base’ creatures to 32!)
- Elimination of the handful of errors in the previous edition (while probably introducing a whole lot more new errors)
- Better printing and professional binding!
- New and improved higher price!
- New interior art (hopefully — if everything else gets worked out and subject to time)
I don’t know if James has announced yet when the book will be available… so stay tuned.
Goodman Preview from Garycon
Posted: March 28, 2011 Filed under: art, Goodman, portfolio, publishing 3 Comments
Jeff has posted some pics and stuff from Garycon (which was this past weekend) on his game blog (check it out here). I wasn’t able to attend (damn you poverty!) so I appreciate the peek. He picked up a lot of flyers with art and stuff and was kind enough to scan and post.
Shameless bit of self promotion: the drawing at the bottom of the B&W flyer for Goodman’s DCC RPG at right is by me! (it has a wizard translating runes in an ancient ruin while his scribe scribbles notes and a group of mercenaries while away the time with gambling (or maybe they are playing the DCC RPG!)). I’m pleased to see it included (one reason being that I have a couple of pieces in the upcoming game that I would love to show off but feel I should give Goodman the right to show them first). But I am also just overwhelmed with the peek at some of the other art included on the page! WOW! I cannot wait to see this book! And I’m just busting with eagerness to show off some of the drawings that I did for it, so having this flyer go public lets me show off some of the work I did without bigfooting Goodman’s publicity.
But as much as I like to boast about what I did, I’m just blown away by the contributions of the other artists as I finally get to see some of them! That drawing in the middle (Lokerimon the Lawful?) is obviously supposed to be a companion piece to D.A.T.’s iconic “Emirkol The Chaotic” drawing in the 1e DMG, and Mullen’s picture of a wizard’s battle (where one of the participants appears to be giant sized) is just blowing me away… but Peter Mullen is one of my art heroes. I’m not sure I can identify the other artists in this flyer. One of the DCC’s previous flyers included a drawing by the late Jim Roslof… so there is that to look forward to as well. Plus there is just so much more to see. I can’t wait!
There are also some pictures of the color covers for DCC products on Jeff’s blog well worth checking out. I’m not going try to cop all of Jeff’s thunder by re- posting every picture from his blog here; I am just excited and eager to see this game come out!
Art Store now open on ETSY
Posted: March 25, 2011 Filed under: publishing 3 Comments
I now have an art store open on ETSY where you can order one-of-a-kind original published art (not prints) from my RPG artwork. Click here to visit my store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/stefanpoag
In the listing I included a scan of the image as it appears in the publication and a snap of the artwork itself so you can see what you get.
Today I put 20+ works in there, mostly 1/2 and 1/4 page illustrations from Goodman’s “Dungeon Crawl Classics” series and 3 or 4 from Green Ronin’s “Spaceship Zero.” (including the illustration at right, which was always one of my favorites)
There is lots more to post in the store (including color work), I just have to catalog and sort the work, scan it, etc., so please keep an eye out!
Art Store now open on ETSY
Posted: March 25, 2011 Filed under: art, publishing 3 Comments
I now have an art store open on ETSY where you can order one-of-a-kind original published art (not prints) from my RPG artwork. Click here to visit my store: http://www.etsy.com/shop/stefanpoag
In the listing I included a scan of the image as it appears in the publication and a snap of the artwork itself so you can see what you get.
Today I put 20+ works in there, mostly 1/2 and 1/4 page illustrations from Goodman’s “Dungeon Crawl Classics” series and 3 or 4 from Green Ronin’s “Spaceship Zero.” (including the illustration at right, which was always one of my favorites)
There is lots more to post in the store (including color work), I just have to catalog and sort the work, scan it, etc., so please keep an eye out!
More positive press for Exquisite Corpses
Posted: March 18, 2011 Filed under: exquisite corpses, games, publishing 1 CommentSometimes the web shows you some love. ‘C’ has posted a very positive review of my little book over at his blog-o-zine, Hack & Slash. Check it out, subscribe and then head on over to Lulu and buy a copy. If you already have a copy, buy another for the bathroom or guest bedroom!
Pages from the Yaqqothl Grimoire
Posted: March 16, 2011 Filed under: publishing 3 Comments
Nicolo (of The Yaqqothl Grimoire) is putting out a fanzine for Old School Games and I will be doing some illos! Tentative title is “Pages from the Yaqqothl Grimoire.” Look for it in April/May.
From his message to me describing the blasphemous book:
The zine will include:
– three new classes (barbarian, goblin and ghoul) and a revised thief
– rules for laser weapons in A/OD&D
– some new spells
– and a complete, tiny, lovecraftian sandbox, featuring Tower of the Re-Animator (a full adventure), a really weird jungle and an Innsmouth like village (complete flashed out)
I’m not certain how to pronounce “Yaqqothl,” so I am going with “Yah-kaw-thil” till I find out otherwise.
(I did not draw this cool illo; it’s from Nicolo’s blog header and I really like it. Look at that spooky evil fat bastard!)