Fantasy Fantasy fiction, film and illustration are great interests of mine. This collection is rather eclectic, including all sorts of genres from traditional sword and sorcery to weird wild west and science fiction. There are quite a number of pictures on this page, so please be patient while they all download. Click on the picture to see a bigger version. Defenders of Brynnor Media: Pen & ink       Dave: Zombie Hunter, ongoing graphic novel project written by Stewart Cook. Media: Pen & ink   Dave: Zombie Hunter, ongoing graphic novel project written by Stewart Cook. Media: Pen & ink       Dave: Zombie Hunter, ongoing graphic novel project written by Stewart Cook. Media: Pen & ink   Dave: Zombie Hunter, ongoing graphic novel project written by Stewart Cook. Media: Pen & ink       Dave: Zombie Hunter, ongoing graphic novel project written by Stewart Cook. Media: Pen & ink   I’ve always liked this one. This is a picture of a bunch of wolfman raiders post raid, taking time to pose for me to capture the moment. The guy on the left seems to want to hurry things a long a bit. May I say that the stippling in the sky is very effective and I don’t regret doing it, but it took FOREVER! Media: Pen & ink       Dave: Zombie Hunter, ongoing graphic novel project written by Stewart Cook. Media: Pen & ink   This was an idea for a comic set in the ‘Deadlands-The Weird West’ role-playing game world. This comic features Ronan Lynch, one of Pinnacle’s characters that feature in their games and short stories. Ronan is a dead gunslinger come back to life by the means of an evil spirit or ‘manitou’ that refuses to let him pass on. Occasionally this evil spirit makes its presence known, as it does at the point where this story breaks off. Media: Pen & ink       The second page of this comic. When I drew this, I was quite influenced by the work of the great comic artist and writer Frank Miller, especially his ‘Sin City’ stuff. Media: Pen & ink   This illustration draws its inspiration from Pinnacle’s role-playing game ‘Deadlands- The Weird West’. This game presents an alternative history of America’s wild west in which the dead walk, mad scientists have invented flight (and God knows what else) and the civil war drags on without end. This picture was rather Sergio Leone inspired! Media: Acrylic       The two bears in the foreground of this picture have just infiltrated a Faerie masquerade ball on some secret mission. The tall gentleman by the clock is the host of this function, master of all he surveys. Has he spotted them? Media: Pen & wash   This has always been a popular picture. It was drawn in 1985 and depicts Sir Edward Silvertip, Bart., retired adventurer, scholar and all round cool dude. He is reading ‘The Lord of the Rings’ with illustrations by yours truly (wishful thinking). Media: Pen & wash       Gunslinger Teddy Bear. This guy has a bit of a John Wayne quality to him, and probably likes saying ‘Pilgrim’ a lot. Media: Pen & ink   When good knights go bad. This was an illustration for an unpublished Dungeons & Dragons adventure. In it, we see the fallen paladin Vodrec and his partner in crime, the Demon Illexia. It was good of them to pose for as long as they did. I have always loved drawing suits of armour enjoy looking at them the way some people enjoy looking at cars! Media: Acrylic       The stories of King Arthur have always been favourites of mine. The characters illustrated are Thomas, Sir Launcelot, King Arthur, Guinevere and Merlin. Lurking in the background is King Pellinore. Between Arthur’s legs on the ground, is a snake symbolizing the evil within that threatens his kingdom (and sparks off the final Battle of Camlann). Launcelot’s coat of arms is taken from a ‘historical’ source as is Arthur’s. For one reason or another, this version was not used, unfortunately. Sharp eyes will have noticed that Leowe’s name is mis-spelt. Oops! Media: Pen & wash   Dungeons & Dragons Battle In the dim dark ages of early 1990s role playing, I became obsessed with large battles involving LOTS of lead soldiers and cardboard castles, etc. This picture commemorates one such event that I put my cousin Nathan through. I used some photographic reference here for some of the fighters, taken from Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V film book. Media: Pen & ink       Dungeons & Dragons Skirmish Taken from one of my adventures that I ran, here we see the psionisist Orindel and his comrade Gallan doing battle with some well dressed daemons. Media: Pen & ink   This was a college piece that I have always had a soft spot for. The brief was to advertise UHU glue sticks in some way without using words. I think I used some Holbein painting as a reference. Media: Acrylic       Smaug the Dragon. This was commissioned for a boy named Jonathan (hence the name on the sword in the foreground). Media: Pen & ink   This was an idea for a graphic novel adaptation of Ian Watson’s novel ‘Space Marine’ set in Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 universe, published by Boxtree. It follows a Clockwork Orange type youth called Lexandro D’Arquebus who is recruited into the monastic, genetically enhanced Space Marines of the Imperial Fists Chapter. Unfortunately GW were not interested at the time, although Ian Watson himself very positive. Media: Pen & wash       We jump forward in the story to Lexandro’s confrontation with one of the Imperial Fist’s instructor chaplain’s. Media: Pen and wash   We jump even further forward in the story to Lex and his companions on their first campaign as fully fledged space marines. Marine Biff Tundrish acquires a new weapon in the top line, before the narrative switches back to Lex and his friend/rival Yeremi Valance. Media: Pen and wash       This was a piece I did around twenty years ago. I have included it as one of the few watercolour pieces that I have done. It is taken from a very pretty spot in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, which commemorates the American Australian Alliance. Media: Watercolor