Forgive me Blogger for I have sinned...

It has been two years since my last post.

So, what have I been up to and what can you look forward to over the next couple of months?

Well, I have worked on two iOs games for Rebellion called "Dredd vs Zombies" which I enjoyed, and the morally bankrupt "Guns4Hire" that has good art work that really pushed the iPhone 4S and iPad1 to their limits, but I had trouble with the notion of making a game where tooled up Yanks run arround Arabia shooting, torching, RPG-ing anyone and anything that moved.

For the last year and a half I have been lead artist on Evil Genius Online and that has been great fun. I think this will be getting a page all to its self.

In the book covers page you will find details of ;
"Uprising" which is about the fictionalised England of King Richard V in the time of witchcraft and demons.
And "Upside down in Overdown", a cracking little tongue in cheek murder mystery novelette available on Kindle, here
Upsidedown in Overdown: A Hilary Long Mystery

Just completed a new book cover for Margaret Evans' first novel "Jago".

It is the story of love, loss and redemption set amongst the dramatic Cornish coast fishermen and upcountry broadcast journalists during the Bosnian wars of the late 1990's.

The main character was completely hand painted in Photoshop and the background of the Cornish fishing town of Moushole was manually "cloned" in oil using Corel Painter.

The whole image took about 20 hours. Please see the book covers page to view the finished image. I hope you like it!

Never Dead Apartment work added

From the soaring jungles of A v P to the grungiest, down market, anti hero lair in all the Never Dead world. What more can I say? It was me. I did it. And I'd do it all again I tells ya!

Aliens versus Predator work added

Just call me Capability Evans :)
I did a year of off world landscaping for the A v P 3 game a couple of years ago. See the A v P page for more information.

Full page add in 2000ad Megazine

Well the final image for the book covers is done and out in 2000ad Megazine issue 310 (I think) but if you cant (or dont want to) get the Meg, here is an image of the full page add.

The image is made up of the Lobster pot and sabre of the first book with the helmet, tulwar and arquebus of the second book.
All the "bits" were then re positioned and re lit and then sat on a basic blue background with plenty od space top and bottom for any text. Pye Parr then went in and repainted the blue to make it look like the objects were sat on heavy cloth and picked out some of the edges to bring them out. He then added all the text and book covers etc

A nice job I think you will agree!

Century of the Soldier Artwork

Well, the second book cover is now reliesed so I can show you... The Century of the Soldier!

A more Arabian helmet, a Tulwar instead of a Sabre and an Arquebus to replace the Mace of the first cover.

How it was done....

rather than blog "how it was done" and have the dumb blogging software feed you my latest posts first (why you cannot have a setting for "oldest posts first" I dunno - anyway...) I have decided to set up a separate page on how the Prussian Courassiers helmet was made. monarchies-3d-how-it-was-done.html so you can read it in the propper order rather than reading the end first. Arent I good to you :) !