Talisman: Highland (part 5)

All good things come to an end and so do my Talisman: Highland posts. Today I have for you the final card that I created for the expansion of Talisman. If you missed the previous post you see them here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Wrapping things up I give you the Hand of Doom! which is a new alternate ending card for the game...

Hand of Doom
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

I got a lot of feedback on this piece from other artist and it was almost unanimously, "You should have used reference". The fact is that I took reference photos with awesome lighting and everything. I look back at this piece now and say, "I should have used reference". Apparently taking and having the reference is only half the equation. I am happy to say that since working on these I think I am taking better reference and in turn using it more effectively. Live and learn!

That is all for another week! Starting next week I will be posting my pieces from the Pathfinder GameMaster Guide that came out recently. Oh and Gen Con is coming up... have I mentioned I will be there? More on this soon. Until then...

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Talisman: Highland (part 4)

More Talisman card art today! These are the last two standard cards that I did for Talisman: Highland (I have one special card waiting for Friday). If you missed my previous posts you can check them out here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Today I bring you a little and a lot...

Gong of War
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

Eyrie Vanguard
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

These were both outside my comfort zone as an artist at the time I did them. Learned a lot from doing them. Still not sure how successful they are, but I think I walked away with the knowledge to make the next ones top notch. Live and learn, make the next one better, really can't go wrong with that mantra.

That's all for today, short and sweet... well at least short. Still a lot on my plate and my attentions are elsewhere. I will see you back here on Friday with my last piece that I produced for Highland! Until then...

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Talisman: Highland (part 3)

Why yes, I do have two more cards from Talisman: Highland to share with you today. If you missed them you can check out my earlier post here: Part 1 and Part 2. One is a monster type thing and one is not a monster type thing…

Magpie
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

Highland Raiders
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

I am really happy with the Magpie. I had the piece in my hardcopy portfolio late last year when I was attending some events and got some good reactions on it. Before you ask what was I doing showing this around last last year especially when the game just came out… I got permission to use it. Never hurts to ask! For the record, the gold gnome figurine was in fact in the art order. I think I am most pleased with the sticks and nest, not really sure why, but I like how they turned out.

The Highland Raiders was really straight forward. The art order requested simply an Orc.. that's it. I came up with the rest as I developed the sketch and now we have Highland Raiders. I wanted to try something interesting with the lighting, something I have never done before. Not sure how successful I was with it, but it never hurts to try something new once in awhile.

That is all for another exciting week on the blog. There won't be a post on Monday due to the holiday and I will most likely be offline getting some work done. But fear naught, I will be back on Wednesday with some more pieces from Talisman! Until then...

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Talisman: Highland (part 2)

Today I have for you two more cards from Talsiman: Highland. If you missed my first post you can see it, HERE. No monsters today, per say - but real treats of the mountains none the less...

Tumbling Boulder
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

Mountain Goat
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

I had a lot of fun with the Tumbling Boulder. I initially went back and forth a lot wondering how much destruction it needed to be causing and how grand the havoc should be. At one point it was destroying an entire village, people fleeing in every direction, tress being knocked around like toothpicks. In the end I scaled it back and decided to go with something a little simpler and to throw in a little humor. The final art was cropped a great deal to allow for all the game content on the card so in the end I was correct in toning the scale back. In the final card you only see the running knight and the lower half of the boulder.

The goat... the goat may not be smart, but is really patient. Creepy creepy goat eyes!

That is all for today. I will be back here on Friday with two more cards! Until then...

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Talisman: Highland (part 1)

Way back in September of last year I began working on the Highland expansion of Talisman from Fantasy Flight Games. It was great to get back into the Talisman universe. It is my pleasure to finally be able to share the work I did on the set with you. I produced 10 pieces for the set with 9 of them making it into production.

Rock Mauler
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

Manticore
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

I worked on Highland in waves. When I first began working on the set I could only take on two cards and these where the two I was assigned. I got them done much quicker then I expected and to my pleasure more were available. As I mentioned above it quickly increased to 10 cards total. These were some of my favorites to work on, because after all... they are MONSTERS!

I will be back here on Wednesday with two more cards from the set! Until then...

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