Great Old One - Miniature Now Available! (FINALLY)

This is a long time in coming. Way back in 2010/2011 I created a painting of my take on a Great Old One... for a personal project that is recently getting some traction. That said, I was approached in 2013 to license the image for an upcoming RAFM Kickstarter. That Kickstarter came and went with it being funded and many stretch goals were also funded. One of the funded stretch goals was to have a miniature of my painting created! While there were teaser images and miniatures available for the Kickstarter backers the miniature based on my painting has yet to be available to the general population... until NOW!

Great Old One Miniature

Image courtesy the RAFM Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Miniatures Kickstarter

Great Old One Miniature

Image courtesy the RAFM Website

Those interested in the Great Old One miniature can now head over the RAFM Website and get one for themselves. Mine showed up this week and I did not know what to expect. It sure is neat and I will need to put it together at some point and paint it up. There is something about it still all in it pieces that I find interesting too... the potential of being a monster. It is interesting to see where they strayed from my painting and where they stayed completely true. Here is a look at the miniature as it arrives...

Great Old One miniature by RAFM based on my painting

If you are interested in getting one of these for your very own just head over to the RAFM Website. I have had to wait 8 years to get my hands on one of these, you will only have to wait a week or less! Here again is the original painting that was the inspiration for the miniature. I have always really like this piece and I look forward to it eventually being put into context with what I am working on.

Great Old One

12.8 x 12.5 - Digital

© 2010 Christopher Burdett

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog, see you back here on Friday! Until then...

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

Great Old One - Miniature

A couple of years ago I was approached to license one of my monster images for a Kickstarter being run by the good folks over at RAFM for a new line of Cthulhu miniatures they were working on. My Great Old One painting became a featured piece for their Kickstarter and eventually became a stretch goal add on as an actual miniature. In the fullness of time an image has surfaced of that miniature...

Great Old One Miniature

Image courtesy the RAFM Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Miniatures Kickstarter

RAWR! I love miniatures and I love miniatures of my monster even more. Here is the original Great Old One piece that this miniature is based on. Hard to believe it has been five years since I created this one, how time flies...

Great Old One

12.8 x 12.5 - Digital

© 2010 Christopher Burdett

Not a bad translation of my painting if I do say so myself. I look forward to getting my hands on one of my own. Be sure to check out the rest of the really cool miniatures that RAFM is working on.

That is all for another exciting Monday on the blog, 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

Never enough tentacles...

Even though there are deadlines and assignments and plenty to that needs to be done both professionally and for day to day life... sometimes I just need to take a break and draw a mass of mouths, eyes, and tentacles...

Tentacle Friend

© 2013 Christopher Burdett

When I am not working on client work I have several personal projects that I am drawing for... be it the Beastly series, redesigning the Monster Manual, revisiting Dreamblade miniatures, or updating my demon designs from Angel and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sometime I just need to put that all aside and just have some fun drawing without any expectations or goals. Monday night I was beginning a drawing and decided to abandon the intended idea and just had some fun... this is what came about. I need to take more tentacle breaks...

That is all for another exciting Wednesday on the blog, see you back here on Friday! Until then...

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

Great Old One

You might remember a drawing I shared with you back in February... tentacles, gaping maw... the classics! All the elements that make it right up my alley for some fun. I began working on this painting just before I took up the Mutation Nation gauntlet which meant this critter got pushed to the side. I am happy to say that after an extended break and several other projects I was able to get back to it. Between you and me, I think it is all the better for the break!

Great Old One
12.8 x 12.5 - Digital
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

How can you go wrong with tentacles? I believe I originally thought of this creature being akin to a mutant or primal Beholder, but after working on it I think it is something far worse and far more powerful. A devourer of worlds maybe?

Now that this piece is done I can focus on some personal work that has really captivated my attention. More on that some other time though... See you back here on Friday! Until then...

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