Sketchbook Warble

A batch of sketchbook faces.

 

Sketchbook Upchuck

Another batch of sketchbook drawings.

 

Artists I Like: Waldemar Kazak

I can't remember where I first laid eyes on the work of Russian artist Waldemar Kazak, but I know I liked it. His paintings are like looking at "what if Norman Rockwell painted beautiful women, airplanes, and weirdos?".

From perusing the artist's Facebook page, you can see that he draws a lot. Like... he puts everyone to shame with how much he draws. His approach is naturalistic. He posts a lot of color sketches of local parks and scenery, life drawing, as well as his whimsical illustrations. And he is able so shift between that immediate, naturalistic style to a more commercial, vibrant style with extreme cartoon exaggeration.

He also posts a lot of concept imagery of some unusual cars. I don't know what's up with that. I think he is a professional concept artist.

Check him out.

Sketchbook Rampage

Even though this Vanrtto sketchbook is kind of a piece of shit (the binding is falling apart), I've enjoyed trying to fill it up with random doodles. Here's another batch.

 

Doomslakers RPG 02

A brief note about adventures and "game support".

I like making game books, then moving on to the next thing. I never made a GOZR expansion or source book partially because of this and partially because holy shit that game was labor-intensive. Hand-writing an entire RPG is kind of fucking hard. I am proud of the work. It's probably my favorite single book I've ever created. But I'm not likely to do a follow-up any time soon.

My biggest regret with GOZR is that I didn't include an adventure. In my mind, I was including tons and tons of adventure ideas and resources. Hell, the whole book is a toolkit. But I think including a fleshed out example would have been good.

Anyway... this is one area where I hope to do a better job with Doomslakers. It's still very early in the process, but I'm hoping to create at least 1 or 2 adventures for the book and another couple of adventures to publish as follow-ups.

But also, I know me. Once I finish this game and publish it, I will likely want to work on anything else OTHER than this project. I'll need some space from it. So the goal, right now, is to finish the book and some adventures at the same time rather than try to circle back and do the adventures after the fact.

Sketchbook Roundup

This Vanrtto sketchbook has toothy paper, which I complained about earlier. But I'm having fun with it. I think when I realized it was so toothy I didn't care about what I drew in it, which was kind of liberating. The grainy paper gives a nice, organic feel to the brush strokes.

Here's a batch of recent doodles.