Rocky Horror DERBY Show Poster - NOW IN COLOR

You might remember the Roller Derby poster that I posted recently. It was the black and white line art stage of the process. I have had a chance to work on it further, and I have for you today the final colors for the Tallahassee Rollergirls Rocky Horror DERBY Show poster.

Rocky Horror DERBY show roller derby poster - Now in COLOR
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

The bout is next weekend so I will be bringing you the final versions of the poster and related materials to you next week... but before then, there are more pressing matters...

GEN CON! Gen Con starts tomorrow and I am going to be there. I am on a very... VERY early flight to Indianapolis tomorrow morning and I will be doing my best to document what I see and the people I meet and will try to get it all back to here on the blog in a timely matter. Please be aware, as with previous con coverage I will not link directly to artist and people I meet until after the con. It saves me so much time while there to not have to hunt everybody down. If you are going to Gen Con I hope to see you there, if you are not going I hope I can give you a virtual experience!

Next stop... GEN CON! Until then...

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Getting ready for Gen Con

Gen Con is finally upon us! We are but a few days away from (what I am told) the super awesomeness that is Gen Con. As I have mentioned, this will be my first time attending. Con season is always a good motivator to get your self promotional materials updated. Since this is my first Con of the year, Gen Con will see the debut of my new business cards, post cards and button set!

2010 Business Card with all the needed info!

2010 Post Card with double sided in your face monster action!

ALL NEW 2010 button set with SUPER SECRET Gen Con exclusive button featuring a brand new piece of work never before seen on this blog!

Hopefully my self promotional materials tell people everything they need to know about me... I LIKE MONSTERS! I am really happy with how these new business and post cards turned out. I once again used postcards.com and they did a bang up job. Did I mention their super fast delivery? The business cards were in the mail to me the day I placed the order and the post cards where in the mail the following day. I can't recommend them enough!

Once again I would like to thank Chris Presley for making all my buttons. He is a stalwart friend and so very generous with his time and resource. Many thanks Chris!

One of these days I will collect all the business cards together that I have used so that we can all have a laugh at my expense. But that day is not today.

I will have a normal blog post on Wednesday. After that I hope to be posting live from Gen Con with photos and updates on all that is happening there. I have many friends and colleagues that I want to catch up with and hopefully they won't mind to have their mugs plastered all over the blog. Until then...

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2010 World Yo-Yo Contest

A few weeks ago Lee Bretschneider was telling me about a friend who had all these little wooden yo-yos that she would like to get artist to work on. They are to be auctioned at the 2010 World Yo-Yo Contest. I expressed interest and before I knew it I had a little wooden yo-yo of my own. Now, what could I possibly want to paint on mine? ...a MONSTER of course!

Monster Yo-Yo top
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

Monster Yo-Yo Bottom
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

Monster Yo-Yo size comparison
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

This was a very fun nice little distraction from my assignments. I hope it is received well at the event. I am told the art auction is a highlight of the event and they go quickly. My apologies for the blurry comparison photo, but you get the idea... they are little.

It is almost here, Gen Con is next week! Check back in on Monday to see some of the new promotional materials I have for this year's convention season. I am really happy with how they have all turned out and look forward to putting them into folks hands. Until then...

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

Runebound: Mists of Zanaga Expansion

Always exciting to see a box by the door, especially when it has the letters "FFG" emblazoned on the side. My copy of Runebound: Mists of Zanaga arrived yesterday which means I can now share the pieces I did for this expansion. I only produced three pieces for this set and after seeing how awesome the expansion turned out I wish I had done more. I present to you, Set the Deceiver, Arachne the Weaver and Ravin the Ravenous...

Set the Deceiver
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

Arachne the Weaver
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

Ravin the Ravenous
© 2010 Fantasy Flight Games

I worked on these a whole year ago... LITERALLY. Yesterday I received the box on my door and one year ago yesterday I got the email to work on the assignment. It has been worth the wait. I am really happy with how the cards turned out, the pieces really pull together at the final print size.

Besides all this nostalgia it is hard to go wrong with an assignment to make three evil Elder Gods. And all evil Elder Gods look even better in head dresses and wielding arcane magics. These were extremely fun to work on to say the least. ...and of course there is only one thing that is scarier then a crocodile... a crocodile with a sword.

That is all for today, I will see you back here on Friday to wrap up the week with something fun I just finished (unless anything else more pressing comes up). Until then...

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WIP - Rocky Horror DERBY Show Poster

Today on the blog I have something I have been working on in the shadows. I sometimes stop and think, "When did I have time for that?!" The Tallahassee Rollergirls have another bout coming up in mid August and I once again designed the art for the big event. Here is the line work for the Rocky Horror DERBY Show poster...

Rocky Horror DERBY show roller derby poster
© 2010 Christopher Burdett

Those who know me well know I don't really do 'pretty' in my work and I find that creating attractive women seems to clash with my natural aesthetic (no horns and tentacles). I know so many artist that seem to be able to create a pleasing female form with their eyes closed. I am not one of them. So these derby posters take a lot out of me artistically. But it is good for me in the end, gets me out of my comfort zone, allows me to better take and use reference for my projects since I rely more heavily on it for a project like this.

For the record, the album art for the London cast soundtrack for the Rocky Horror Picture Show features a tentacle. This is my excuse for why there is a tentacled horror on this poster even though no such thing appears in the movie or play. That is my story and I am keeping to it.

That's all for today. 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

Pathfinder GameMastery Guide (part 5)

Wrapping up the week and wrapping up my post about the Pathfinder GameMastery Guide. If you missed any of the GMG posts you can find them here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. I thought it would be a good way to end things with the two pieces that are very unlike my usual fair. Every good Game Master needs to be able to create worlds, here is mine...

Planet Building
© 2010 Paizo Publishing, LLC

Compass Rose
© 2010 Paizo Publishing, LLC

For the record the Compass Rose ended up not making it into the book, but it was used as promotional art for the GMG on the Paizo blog. That counts, right? There was one additional piece of spot art I did for this section that appears to have fallen through the cracks, hopefully one day it will surface. These were both fun to work on since I was able to use some different techniques in Photoshop to create them.

That is it for another week and another project. As a heads up, I will be attending Gen Con for the first time in just under 2 weeks! Really looking forward to it. I will be wandering around the con showing my wears to whomever will look. I will be posting my new self promotional materials here on the blog next week, I am really excited about them! Also on the horizon, both Pathfinder Chronicles: City of Strangers and Runebound: Mists of Zanaga are out and as soon as I receive my copy in the mail I will be sharing my work from them here. Until then...

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Pathfinder GameMastery Guide (part 4)

Continuing the coverage of my pieces from the Pathfinder GameMastery Guide I bring you two pieces that are near and dear to me. If you missed my previous posts, you can see them here: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. I try not to put myself directly into my work when it comes to reference but sometimes it can't stopped. Sometimes I am assigned a piece that simply screams that I must be the reference for it. Sometimes it seems that the assignment was given to me because it was the role I was meant to play in life. Today I have for you the Village Idiot and a Street Beggar...

Village Idiot
© 2010 Paizo Publishing, LLC

Street Beggar

© 2010 Paizo Publishing, LLC

When in doubt, add a pig to it. Words to live by. When I got the assignment I knew I was destined to be the Village Idiot. I knew it was the role for me in a medieval fantasy game filled with magic and monsters. All I can say is I tried to not make him look exactly like me. Hopefully I succeeded. After being a cool Mercenary my wife was not too thrilled about being the Street Beggar. In the end she helped out and I made sure it didn't look like her.

That's all for another Wednesday. I will be back here on Friday with the final pieces of work that I did for the Pathfinder GameMastery Guide. Until then...

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