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As before, click "Download" for the big-big version.

This is a partial on one of three half-pages drawn for the recently-released Fantasy Craft Role-Playing Game, out now from Crafty Games.

And a bit of good news, I hear the hardcover will be at GenCon this weekend, so it IS in print as well as PDF! Might be a week or so before it's available in stores/online, but it's nice to know. I can't wait to hold a copy in my hands, that feeling never gets old.

SO! This is a partial, but it's a good bit bigger than you're likely to see it in print, unless you have a huge monitor and monster resolution. I blew 'em up a bit to show off the detail. From left to right we've got our classic Fantasy Archetypes: Dwarf, Elf, Goblin (the full image in the book also includes a relatively small Dragon). While the playable Species list extends way beyond these three, they're the familiar landmarks of traditional Fantasy.

Also, I'm pretty stoked that even two years later, I still like the designs. I wonkled the Dwarf's fingers a bit, but that warhammer of his I am proud of... it was one of those perfect moments: I was drawing the hammer head, but it was pretty generic. I wanted something unique, the Dragon was behind him, I looked at a fang and *bing*.

Another feeling that never gets old. :D

It's mostly nice 'cause I didn't take it from anywhere but the page in front of me. Most designs I work out are a mishmash mix of different influences and references and so forth. It's rare that I think of something that I can't source out past the moment I thought of it. I'm not saying nobody's done a fang-hammer (I'm pretty certain someone out there has), just that I don't think I've seen one before.

Other than that hammer, I don't know that I did anything particularly unique... I wasn't trying to do anything new exactly. The instructions called for familiar archetypes, and so I tried to throw down the best traditional Dwarf, Elf and Goblin I could.

I think it came out okay.

©2008 Crafty Games. Illustrated in Manga Studio EX v.3 using an Intuos 9x12 tablet.

There is (I think) only one logo in this illustration.
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~ishmadrad Oct 13, 2009
Toothammer 100% cool.
Nice elf. Super funny goblin!
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~butterfly-dragon Sep 25, 2009  Hobbyist Writer
:+fav: TOOTHAMMER FTW! okay, i liked the characters :)
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Mood: Joy ~Cybogoblin Aug 18, 2009
I picked up the hardcover at GenCon, and it really is great - though you've cut out part of the final image ;)
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*Inkthinker Aug 18, 2009  Professional Digital Artist
Yep, that's why I called it a partial. C'mon, I can't give it ALL away. :D
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~Cybogoblin Aug 19, 2009
Heh, that is true. I'd forgotten about that particular character option and almost dropped my book in surprise when I saw it.
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~Kisuke755 Aug 17, 2009  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
The dwarf's a rocker, with tooth ax. They all look like a motley rock band.
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Mood: Wow! ~hclark Aug 15, 2009  Hobbyist Digital Artist
that is an excellent design of the tooth hammer

I love it!
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~CyberWyld Aug 14, 2009
As usual man, more fantastic work.
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~Eldahast Aug 14, 2009
Yeah, the fangammer really stands out. I think your dwarf stands out as well from those three. Yeah, he's dwarf'ish, he is, but the leg part of his armor looks like those of the samurai. And with the bandana, he look like an old, beardy fan of ZZ TOP. And last, but not least, a nice ornamented pauldrons add the finishig touch.
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~weisen1 Aug 13, 2009  Student General Artist
That is a pretty sweet hammer - and wow, so great, even two years ago :L
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