Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Fighting Fantasy

There's been some talk about RPGs on this blog, so I thought I'd post a few drawings I did recently for a Fighting Fantasy-like solo adventure. These are not illustrations of actual scenes but more like vignettes which are going to be scattered about the book to set the mood. In it you play a guy who tries to escape from a castle where he is imprisoned.










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14 comments:

  1. Noah BerlatskyFebruary 6, 2007 at 4:12 PM

    These are great. Are you a fan of the Mervyn Peake books at all?

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  2. Human MolluskFebruary 6, 2007 at 4:48 PM

    Thanks, Noah. Yeah, the Gormenghast novels are brilliant and I like his illustrations a lot, too.

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  3. PaleoFebruary 6, 2007 at 9:54 PM

    To tell the truth Fufu, i don't know what "RPG" are, but i DO know you chiaroscuro like a master, exquisite!

    Ooh,ust before posting i realized, "rolepalyingblah..." i get it, who cares, you 're still demon with the pencils!

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  4. Human MolluskFebruary 7, 2007 at 7:48 AM

    Thanks, Dave.

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  5. Luke P.February 7, 2007 at 1:36 PM

    These are really good. I really wish I could draw like this.

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  6. Jon ChandlerFebruary 7, 2007 at 5:29 PM

    These are wonderful, I love the look on the guy's face. Is this commissioned or did you come up with the project yourself?
    I did a choose your own path dungeon strip on my website and there's a also a complete map of the Warlock of Firetop Mountain in there somewhere too. I started mapping Citadel of Chaos but it is completely bonkers. I will have to try again.

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  7. Human MolluskFebruary 8, 2007 at 1:30 AM

    Thanks, Luke... come on, man, your drawings are awesome.
    Jon - yes they're commissioned illustrations. I've seen your choose-your-adventure comic and like it very much. Haven't discovered the Firetop Mountain map though.
    Dunno if you've seen my Ray Murphy flash comic, it's kind of like that, too.

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  8. AeronFebruary 8, 2007 at 2:23 AM

    Bitchin drawings, what kind of pencils do you use? And I'm always impressed with your use of shading, you get some really gritty textural effects with it.

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  9. zekeFebruary 8, 2007 at 5:52 AM

    yep, these are great! I love the little beetle on the gruel bowl picture, they're really clear but full of wonderfull details

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  10. zekeFebruary 8, 2007 at 5:54 AM

    another thing, there's been a few times when you've been doing your own work down luke and it's puzzling, you're work rocks! no shit!

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  11. Human MolluskFebruary 9, 2007 at 12:52 PM

    aeron, no special pencil at all, a generic mechanical pencil with a 0.7 mm semi-soft lead.

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  12. Jon ChandlerFebruary 10, 2007 at 5:58 AM

    where the Ray Murphy link, on your webby somewhere? I'll investigate.

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  13. Robert Adam GilmourFebruary 10, 2007 at 7:40 PM

    Fantastic

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  14. Human MolluskFebruary 11, 2007 at 3:09 AM

    Jon, it's here:
    http://www.fufufrauenwahl.com/RM/RM_eng.html

    Thank you Robert.

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