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FantasyCraft - Astrolabe

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A bit of Fantasy Craft again, this was a particular favorite from the Wyrmstone setting, the Wyrmstone Astrolabe is a magical mechanical device that allows ships to navigate between worlds. As such, its workings tend to operate on multiple planes and may require the odd fetish to tweak the performance.

It was my idea to shape the base as a tortoise. It made perfect sense to me, because The Turtle Moves.

This was one of those pieces where I realized that I couldn't quite do what I wanted to if I wasn't working digital. The filigree-looking action on the shell casing is easy as hell in Manga Studio or Photoshop, just fill in the black spaces and then either switch your pen to paint white or transparent, or use the eraser.

Back in the day, I think I would have either planned it all out carefully in pencil and then filled it with pen and marker, or I would have drawn it in reverse and inverted it after the scan.

Kinda glad I don't gotta do that no more. Don't even get me started on the gears n' such, that required a whole mess o' trickery, lots of duplicates, cut-n-paste, hardly drawin' at all.

Created with an Intuos 9x12 lap-tablet in Manga Studio EX v.3, sometime around a year ago. ©2008 Crafty Games and Wyrmstone. Word on the street is that the Fantasy Craft RPGhas gone gold, and once the PDF become public I'm free to open the taps and switch this trickle to a flood. I'm psyched.
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