Eiffel Extravaganza at Kickstarter

Do check out the Eiffel Extravaganza at Kickstarter at the link below...

Eiffel Extravaganza at Kickstarter

Eiffel Extravaganza, 1896 starts with a collection of fine lasercut scenery sets for tabletop miniature games. Sets are in 30 mm scale so they suit perfectly with the major skirmish and wargames in stores now like Malifaux, Mordheim, Deadzone, Warmachine, Wild West Exodus, Guild Ball, Infinity, Confrontation and again: In Wolsung, Twisted, Empire of the Deadso on.

With your support, Eiffel Extravaganza will become a campaign pack with dedicated miniatures, background and missions. Scenery and Models will have general statistics such as movement, switches, and particular events etc. which can be adapted to the ruleset of your preference.  In future, it could even evolve into board-games, card games and other lasercut scenery sets! 

I will be producing the ARTWORKS for this project. It will all be in Pen and Ink rendition that would perfectly match the 1896 theme of the pieces. The artworks will look like etchings of sorts. We hope for your support with this project! I will be sharing my sketches for this project my @donsuratos accounts Twitter and Instagram, and at my Facebook page @DonSuratosArtist .

Thanks as always for dropping by! Please help us share the word! CIAO! 

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Traditional Dip Pen Art to Digital Art

I love my Dip Pens! Albeit some clients like them traditionally colored ( with markers ) or digitally colored. I have this one client that needs the drawings ( illustrations ) for box art, manual and cards. Thus I scan my Dip Pen drawing and color them in Photoshop. The Aliens piece here ( and the project for Labmasu ) are perfect examples of Traditional ART to Digital ART.

As I've blogged here, there are various advantages between traditional and digital art.
I do enjoy both. And my current process of drawing on paper, and coloring in Photoshop, makes me produce a traditional dip pen and Indian ink ART, and a Digitally enhanced version at the same time.

Much like anything else, ART is a process. You need to enjoy making ART from pencil to rendering. An artist is in his own world from penciling to Photoshop work. You cannot jump to details OR you cannot be effective in any part of the process, if you did not enjoy every step of the process. ART is unlike office work where the boss jumps at the end and critic your work without understanding the process. Enjoy it and it will reflect in your final piece.

I hope you find this post insightful at the very least. Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next post guys! CIAO!

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The Grendel for LABMASU

I just finished this piece for LABMASU ( Italian Gaming Company ) today. Sketched the creature on paper using Staetdtler 4B pencil early yesterday. I got a couple of miniature model photos and a ton of description as guide. Me and the client went through the details and revisions of the sketch until I got the look of how he imagined the creature should look like. It was actually fun getting revisions online and showing the revisions right there and then.

Once the client has approved the pencil drawing ( much like all my other commissioned ART pieces ), I then scanned my drawing and colored it in Photoshop. Other than the fact that I am not too good with Photoshop ( old artist ), I really like that my pencil strokes show through the digitally colored piece.

The combination of my rough pencil strokes and the smooth transitions of digital painting, gives my piece a HYBRID Digital and traditional ART feel to it.

This will be a series of three ( 3 ) ART pieces for LABMASU. Next piece would be a Viking guy with a harpoon. Excited to produce the third piece, as it will be a battle between this creature and the Viking guy!

Anyways, thanks as always for dropping by! Until next post guys! CIAO!

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Will do Character Designs for LABMASU soon!

LABMASU is a new  company who produces scenario based games with cards and miniatures. They just gave me the opportunity to DESIGN a couple of characters for them. I will need to design them for 3D printing and would also need to produce some illustrations for the rule book and cards.

I have done a couple of character design work for my day job, but you don't get much credit when doing it for your day job ( as usual ). I also sketch various characters out of imagination once in a while, but have yet to do something that would have my name in game cards and booklets!

This is totally insane stuff as I am not drawing something established or designed already, but I will actually be responsible for the birth of new characters for a game! LABMASU will be sending me the descriptions for the characters soon, and I will have to produce sketches of them from my imagination.

Totally excited for this project! Albeit I am juggling various drawing and painting projects atm. Looking forward to sharing to you some of my initial character design sketches at my Instagram, Facebook and Twitter accounts very soon!

Thanks as always for dropping by! Until next post guys! CIAO!

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