The DOODLES, DESIGNS, and aRT of CHRISTOPHER BURDETT: Deathwatch

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Monday, July 23, 2012

The Rising Tempest

Late last year I was approached by the good folks at Fantasy Flight Games to help out on the newest supplement for the Deathwatch RPG, The Rising Tempest. They needed a new monster for the Warhammer 40K universe designed and I was put to the task. I am always happy to be able to design a new monster for a project. To make this more interesting the assignment called for me to produce drawings as the final art (a bonus!). The drawings were to be rough and sketchy as if done as field notes with some spot art elements to be added in. I handed over the elements and the design team at FFG put them all together. The book arrived in the mail on Friday so I can now share it with you! Here is my contribution to The Rising Tempest, the Ghanathaar...

Ghanathaar (disguised)

Ghanathaar (revealed)

These were the the two main creature designs that I was asked to produce. After these were all set I did some quick detail spot art elements that would be added in to make a sketchbook/field note book type graphic...

Ghanathaar (spot art elements)

The wild scribblings of a deranged madman? Here is how the final pieces all came together in the book...

Ghanathaar art as it appears in the book

Here are the early sketches that I submitted for the approval process. It was nice to be only producing drawings for the assignment, though it was a little weird since they had to be rough and sketchy. But I was drawing, so it was all okay in the end!

Ghanathaar sletches

That is all for an exciting Monday on the blog, see you back here on Wednesday to see the first test of something new! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Monday, March 26, 2012

The Jericho Reach

Last year I was approached by the good folks at Fantasy Flight Games to help out on the newest supplement for the Deathwatch RPG, The Jericho Reach. They had a straggler monster that needed to be done for a fast approaching deadline. I stepped in and made quick work of it. The book arrived in the mail on Friday so I can now share it with you! Here is my contribution to The Jericho Reach, the Harridan...

Harridan
© 2012 Fantasy Flight Games

Nothing like working on crazy Warhammer 40K monsters. This quarter pager came together rather quickly and reproduced well in the book. Not much more to add, it was a really quick turnaround from start to finish and it was a really straight forward process. Here are the thumbnails and the drawing that went into this piece...

Harridan - thumbnails
© 2012 Fantasy Flight Games

That is all for another exciting monster filled Monday, see you back here on Wednesday! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com

Monday, August 15, 2011

Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos

Starting off a week of new work I have two pieces that I produced for the Fantasy Flight Games release of Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos, RPG supplement. While at Gen Con I had the opportunity to see a ton of newly released products that I worked on. This of course means I can now share them here on the blog!

I contributed one color and one black and white piece to Mark of Xenos and they were pretty fun to work on! They were both pretty much dinosaurs and you know those are always fun to work on. The Diablodon was described as living near volcanic areas and I had this image of a glowing hot lava tube in my reference folder I had been itching to use. It was a piece of cake from there! The Great Knarloc on the other hand went through several iterations before the final pose was locked down. I may share some of those drawings with you in a future post. It is always a little intimating to work on something like Deathwatch and Warhammer 40K that has such a huge back story, vast IP and incredibly devoted fans who can spot if it is wrong instantly. It is also really rewarding to be able to add my voice to such a large and huge property for all the same reasons.

See you back here on Wednesday when I begin to release my inner demons upon the blog with more brand new Warhammer 40K work! Until then...

For more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website: www.christopherburdett.com