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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMAC" data-source="post: 2062474" data-attributes="member: 20332">Bobitron: Yes, I've done published work for Fantasy Flight Games, Alderac Entertainment (AEG) and White Wolf.  I just received my complimentary copy of "Gamma World: Beyond the Horizon" from WW this week which has about half a dozen pen and ink pieces by me in it, always exciting. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Aristotle: Without writing a book on the subject...  I've been drawing for as long as I can remember.  It's just one of those things where I was always doodling in my notebooks and on random scraps of paper.  RPGs were definitely a big inspiration to draw.  When my friends and I started playing Palladium's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness back in junior high, I used to illustrate our characters instead of paying attention in class.  Other people getting excited about seeing their imaginations "come to life" on paper is a big part of what makes this type of thing fun for me.  I got into comics around that time too.  Jim Lee was a big favorite, as was Chris Bachalo. Outside of comics, I really like Todd Lockwood, Alan Lee, and Brian Froud.  All definitely have an influence on my work. I actually took industrial design in school (Basically: designing furniture, vehicles, and other products to be both aesthetically pleasing and functional.)  I find a lot of the same principles apply to designing costumes/characters though.  I usually start by doodling/brainstorming elements that I think would suit the character:<img src="http://www.darrencalvert.com/zdoodles.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />This is a page from my notebook.  You can see a lot of elements that made it into the final design and a few that didn't (or might make it into one of the other "evolutions" I'll be doing).  I like to doodle in pen for a number of reasons: because I find it's cleaner (less smudging), it gives a better idea of what a "finished" version will look like, and it's what I got used to from goofing off in school. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Once I have something like the doodle of the character down in the lower left, I start the final illustration, lightly sketching in the figure and clothing/accessories and then, once I'm happy with how things look, I either ink or go back over with a darker pencil line.Hope that helps.</blockquote>

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