Evil Hat

Awhile back I had the pleasure of doing a few black and white interiors for Evil Hat Games. Fred Hicks and the Evil Hat team are great to with. Of the images I did, I like this retro alien companion guy the most. The image called for black and white but I chose to do the original with a spot color behind him just for fun. The other images were done this way too. His feet remind me of Bossk, so don't let that smile fool you…

"Alien Companion"
From Strange Tales of the Century RPG
Evil Hat Games

A Couple Touch Ups

After attending many shows this year and speaking with lots of creatives I was shown and picked up on many things I have been doing poorly. The two images below are ones that I chose to go in and touch up after considering them done. Dan Dos Santos and Lauren Panepinto both gave me some great advise on how I treat edges. This was a major flaw for me. Most images were rendered at the same detail level from front to back. And oh the rim lighting was out of control. I was like a kid who just got photoshop and put lens flairs on everything. Sigh.

The Green Wizard

Touch ups included removing rim lighting around fingers, adjust the hue of the face and adding he Cthulhu medallion. Also I should mention I these were scanned on two different scanners.

The Haunted Woods

This piece also had a lot of unnecessary rim lighting as well. Steve Prescott was kind enough to suggest  adding some additional depth by extending the tree line into the background. He also suggested a few color shifts and again softening some edges. Spot on advice, though Im not sure I went far enough. I pushed the darks a bit more too, added some more details to the spooky ghost stuff. 

There always seems to be more that can be done to an image but you have to stop somewhere and start working on the next piece right? As I write this I see plenty more opportunities for improvement, all the way down to the composition, but….