I've been a fan of these games for a long time now and it seemed like a dream job. Thanks to some misalignment of schedules, I ended up doing a lot of the art in a fairly short amount of time. Nobody's fault really, sometimes both sides just end up waiting on something and the delay grows unexpectedly long.
I knew the final result was solid, but it wasn't my best work. I sent it off, because that's what you do. But if I could, I would've done a lot of it differently and better.
I filed the drawings in a "done" folder and happily forgot about them. Recently I found them again and they aren't as "awful" as I remembered. I still see what I could've done better, but I think I'm now ok with showing the better pieces online. ;)
Hey, it wasn't all I dreamed it could be, but I still got to work on on a TES-related job. That's pretty cool.
(I did more than these, and some of them weren't even used in the books, as I found out when my copies arrived. These are the ones I kind of like.)
Cool work Jan, really good one!
ReplyDeleteThe body armor I find a bit unusual, it appears to me some sort of a combination of a chest protection and a soft? protection for the belly, with the obliques having laminated armor extended down the sides of the hipbones? ? Must be a fantasy type of armor - :)
Thanks!
DeleteYeah, I was going from established designs where they existed. (only had the chance to invent a few that were known from "history" in the games, but never actually appeared visually)
That's just how it's usually done with big name game stuff.