Art for Celtica Chronicles!

Yo, peeps. What up. After a long time of not doing so, I'm putting up some recent artwork that isn't directly for comics and whatnot.

I'm working with Brannon Wyndesor on art for an online RPG, Celtica Chronicles. It's going to be a sort of top-down adventure similar to the old Legend of Zelda games. I've gotten the thumbs-up on one design so far: a water-horse type creature.

Text Credit: Brannon Wyndesor

I designed this one a while back, alongside something called a "Balor":

Comes in new exciting flavors, like Razzleberry! And Doom.

Unfortunately, it looks like our crab-buddy didn't make the cut...a couple of years after the first design. Huh. It looks like they want a more "Balrog"-type critter. Hopefully not too Balroggy - in that case they can trace a damn Balrog and put a big eyeball on it. Anyway, here's my concepts, Take 2:

I'm not too picky about what paper I use. Maybe I'll clean them up. Mostly, though, I've become cagey about expending too much effort when I don't really know what direction the creators are heading in with a concept. All I know is that it's got "a giant eyeball that can see in every direction", a "claw-type attack", and that it's "Balroggy".

So hopefully I can get some more direction, once the creators have seen these new designs: they can say, "naw, I was thinking more of this", or, "Put those body parts on that body", etc. It's a lot of fun designing creatures; I'm kind of hoping I'll get to design characters and backgrounds, too. We'll see how it goes.

Rick Out.

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