Promotional Illustration for Neojac Entertainment's fantasy mmo game Islands of War Sonecutter cove area. Featuring the Rising Woods technicians and guards who are a potion-making manufacturer/distributor. The addictive potions are ruining the townsfolk lives however, and so the bandit band the Reds rise to stop them.

For the brutish ogres I referenced enormously muscular clydesdale horses. For the slaves I referenced cats and weasels for their cunning and agility. I wanted to exemplify some of the greatest conquering cultures in history, so I combined inhospitably cold Viking elements with rigid roman structure/architecture. I think some Frazetta influence snuck in there as well. I found google sketchup to be a useful tool for planning out complex architectural forms and small complicated ones like interlocking gears.

I wanted to break into a bit more realism for this series, particularly when it comes to subtlety of narrative clues. I also experimented with a technique of rendering initially in greyscale, then applying colourization layers over top.

This piece was created for the Alberta Children's Hospital sports wall. I learned a valuable lesson about creating work for children while doing this project however; The final illustration was rejected due to suggestively violent elements. I made changes to it as requested, but in the end the violent overtones of the scene itself was deemed inappropriate for the hospital.