This is a map of the continent that my current campaign is set. This is the actual whole continent for my purposes but the Characters don’t know how vast it is as all ‘good’ races were forced down to the South a millennia ago.

There was a Great Demon rallying the Forces of Darkness, pushing the races of Light further and further south until the great battle at Tear’s Field where the forces of Light vanquished the Great Demon finally. The forces of Darkness lost cohesion and were dispatched with ease. The Forces of Light were too demoralised at this time to press onwards to the North and take back their lands.

Time went by and all became complacent until now; The forces of Darkness have become bolder and after all this time have stepped up their general skirmishes pushing further and further South.

(Original? No! I’m only creative with images – not stories)

I’ve created a map showing the boundaries for the main races in the type of map a studious character would have access to (which is basically anyone who’s bothers to go to the halls of knowledge to pick one up at the gift store).

As you can see, the main kingdoms are limited to the south of the continent leaving many ruined cities of times gone by further north. Plenty of adventure hooks and thoroughly evil denizens. There’s a lot more surprises in store as well!

As always, click for the larger versions.

Both of these were created entirely in Photoshop and the mountains used a combination of custom brushes and layer styles.

The Alien entry is coming to an end – all that’s left is the text! Here’s some of what’s in store here …

As always, click for the larger version.

It seems that scribbling very hard with a biro does actually lessen the Migraine pain marginally; so I present to you a couple more scribbles!

I may be ready to compile the sketchbook for my Alien Creature entry (but as that’ll require a little more time looking at the screen than I really want to right now, these 2 sketches will have to suffice for the moment).

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Just a sketch of an Aztec Mummy to use in the intro for the Crypt Map Contest. They used to bury their leaders that way in Jars apparently (but even if they didn’t – they do in THIS fantasy land).

This is another biro sketch – Click the image for the larger view.

Well, an alien landscape actually.

Some more Vue Infinite action again. This is going to be on the cover of the Alien Sketchbook that’s going to be my entry to the ICE Alien Contest.

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ICE seems to be competition central all of a sudden! As well as the 2 I’ve mentioned below, they’re also doing an Alien contest. ICE Alien Contest.

I’m going to be doing an alien sketchbook kind of a thing with coffee stains an notes on the creatures etc for my entry but here are some of the raw images so far. In my favourite medium – biro… Bic to be precise. When there’s no way to rub it out or hit ‘undo’, every line counts!

Click the babies to see larger versions. Enjoy.

ICE’s second Mapping contest is for a Crypt Map.

I wanted to do something that isn’t the usual Gothic/Egyptian style setting so Aztec was chosen (well, my friend chose it for me – I was totally going to go down the ‘predictable’ Gothic route). And with the Map itself, we need some support illustrations and one for the front cover of course and this is what I’m going to be using.

The Temple was modelled in Strata CX and the landscape was modelled and the whole scene rendered in Vue Infinite.

I’ll be posting more Work In Progresses as soon as I’ve done any more – that is the reason for this site after all!

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There is a contest at ICE (developers of the Rolemaster roleplaying rule set) for Chimera Creatures.

These are but the 2 initial creatures. Hardly bone chillingly fearsome until you realise that the Lick is 10′ tall!

As for the Wabbit, his bite is certainly bigger than it’s bark!

The Lick (Lizard & Chicken)

The Wabbit (Wolf & Hare)

This in my final entry into the ICE (Iron Crown Enterprises) Temple Map Contest and a few of the interior illustrations. Click on the cover image on the left to download the PDF. The file is 19MB.

Here’s the rough digital painting I did for the cover as well as the intro spread to the PDF where I’d dropped in some of my biro sketches.

My entry was a runner-up. The PDF map included a ‘Master the Map©’ feature which allowed you to select one of the three options – the ground floor, the first floor or the secret locations – and the pages would update within the PDF overlaying the base image of the Temple which allows you to show a lot or a little leaving the choices up to you.

ICE are going to be doing more Map contests and I’ll include my future entries on this site – the next one is a Crypt Map.

In the meantime, they’re running a different contest concurrently; it’s a Chimera Creature creation. I’ll add some of my early versions next.

Iron Crown Enterprises are the creator of the Rolemaster, Spacemaster and Harp roleplay rule sets.