tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13204020094128899612024-03-14T18:00:36.764+00:00A D O G S B L O G GChris May - Freelance Sculptordogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-1253329537600160422019-11-13T18:00:00.001+00:002019-11-13T18:11:58.126+00:00The Hobbit Sketchbook by Alan Lee<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uHYHiSatesw" width="459"></iframe><br />
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Got my copy signed by Alan Lee in Waterstones today, highly recommend purchasing this and the Lord of the Rings Sketchbook if you are a Tolkien fan. Alan was very gracious and took photos with everyone and he even signed my new sketchbook and complimented my Dwarf sketch.<br />
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<br />dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-44701612350714033482016-06-06T22:44:00.000+01:002016-06-14T23:12:34.980+01:00UK Games Expo 2016 Birmingham NEC- 10th Anniversary!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, a year has come and gone since my last blog post report on the UK Games Expo - Britains largest and of course, best, board gaming convention. Its great to see the show constantly expanding and improving, this is my 4th event and every year the organisers have always responded to guest feedback. Attendance totaled 12500 unique visitors this year, a 40% increase!! Just as well it was in the NEC!! A big thank you to the organisers and volunteers for making the weekend so great!!<br />
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2016 sees some welcome changes - the addition of the NEC Hall 1 to the rooms at the Hilton Metropole. We all had space to breathe this year, the Hilton was definately getting cramped! All the usual things were going on - demo games of new products, games still in Kickstarter stage, games to playtest, open gaming areas with the <a href="http://www.thirstymeeples.co.uk/">Thirsty Meeples</a> Board Game Library, the bring and buy, RPG gaming, tournaments, face painting, a family zone for the children, seminars, the trade hall (of course!), cosplay, competitions and celebrity guests.<br />
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So, I'll do my usual little overview of good and bad stuff before I go on with the photos and my own weekend. So if you have never been to this event before, by the time you've read this, you should be rearing to go for 2017.<br />
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I managed to take some videos this time around, including one with the 6th Doctor Who, Colin Baker, talking with John Robertson and an arm wrestling match at the Dr Who quiz. Also artist Ralph Horsley gets interviewed and artist James Hayball talks a little about making it in the industry.<br />
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This year we had a few <b>new </b>things going on.......<br />
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Firstly a ticket price reduction. £25 for the whole expo was a bargain! I always attend on the Friday and the ticketing and organisation for the opening of the day was flawless.<br />
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Elliot from <a href="http://www.quirkative.com/">Quirkative</a> Games was running "Orctions" throughout the weekend along with a reverse auction style product table with a large selection of games for sale which got cheaper as time passed, all the way down to £1 per item by the end of the show on Sunday! I hope to see these guys back doing the same next year, two great ideas for expo events I think!!<br />
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Food stands were plentiful with various world cuisine and a bus bar at the front of the Hilton (see last years report for more on that) in addition to the Hotels and the NEC's own facilities. A few new stands turned up inside the convention hall too. There was a hot dog and burger van, ICE CREAM (in caps for a reason!) Cornish pasties and a bar. So the catering far surpassed last year and everyone's stomachs were well looked after. For next year, I'm thinking a candy station with marshmallow and chocolate fondue fountain. Oh, and a gingerbread witches cottage,...hmmmmm gingerbread witches cottage.......<br />
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A main stage area is a necessity, this year we got one! Activities were held here over all three days. We saw some Viking weapon demonstrations, Cosplay parades - great for photo opportunities, Dr Who radio plays and award ceremonies. The stage was a good idea, there just needs to be more seating for next year.<br />
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If you have attended previous events you may well have seen some fantastic displays of Viking weapons and armour in the Hilton Lobby. This year they got bolder and raided the NEC Hall 1 stage. These guys would have been arrested by NEC security if they started plundering the Trade Hall or setting fire to stuff, so they set about killing each other instead with a fierce combat demonstration. Bits were literally flying off. My money was always on the big one with the fearsome beard.<br />
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So yeah, some good new things at the event I enjoyed very much this year. I'm sure there's more to come in the future to!<br />
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Time to get mean, mad, bad and sad! I moaned about it last year and I'm going to moan about it this year too. SPACE at the Bring & Buy. Despite the organisation and speed of checking in and buying games improving every year, space is still a problem. We are in the NEC Hall 1 and <b><i>still</i></b>, there are queues stretching to Scotland to get in. There was a large amount of unused space of Hall 1 boarded off that should have been utilized here to make the aisles wider, everyone was squeezing past each other and it felt like you were on the Tube in a London rush hour. I really hope this problem can be tackled next year - I'm not prepared to queue personally, but I don't think there should be a need for anyone to have to. In the end, I didnt really bother to look around it properly this year due to that.<br />
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That's all. So not bad at all really!!<br />
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Ohhhhhh....ugly. Those car parking prices. U_G_L_Y. It was free in the NEC car park before. Now they've cottoned on and it's time for them to hold you upside down and shake every last drop of change the traders gave you to pay for your parking. £18 got you parking for the weekend.<br />
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As an artist, I can really appreciate the skill the cosplayers have for costume making and prop building for their favourite characters. Its a real labour of love and every year I come there are always people in great costumes. Over the last few years attending UK games expo there has always been a cosplay attendance. This year with Vijay from <a href="http://thanetcosplay.com/">Thanet Cosplay</a> this attendance has exploded with a cosplay zone, make and repair area, displays and the opportunity to green screen photos.<br />
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The costume groups represented at UK Games Expo this year were <a href="http://www.galacticknights.co.uk/">Galactic Knights</a>, Who's Company, Independent Charity Cosplayers, The Vikings and <a href="http://thanetcosplay.com/">Thanet & Eastbourne Cosplay.</a> Three years ago I featured a picture of Vijay in a UK Games Expo report blog post. That photo set in place a whole chain of events that led to her being cosplay coordinator for a number of events in the UK. Among these are Play Margate, Wyntercon and of course UK Games Expo. Very pleased for Vijay's success!<br />
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On the main stage we have seen performances from clockwork dandy noodles who is representing the UK at the EGX European Cosplay Championships. Sophi from No Limit Cosplay who gave a wonderful rendition of Remilia, Floki from Punks Dead Cosplay and Drewett Cosplay, a radio play from Who's Company and the Charity Daleks.<br />
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There were two panel seminars one featuring the newest cosplay materials worbla Eva and thermal plastics in armour making and the other a general introduction to cosplay. I missed the armour making one unfortunately. Hopefully they will do another next year and I can book myself in! All of the cosplay team at UK Games Expo were keen to get across the message that everyone is welcome to join in and get dressed up on a big or small scale and it doesn't need to cost a fortune. So next year head along and get dressed up!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Uruk wanted to eat my camera, but I said "No way it's far too precioussss to me."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No Smoking! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lara Croft showing off her guns</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This lady blew bubbles all over me. I didn't mind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Listen!" I said, "I can stand here all day, 5 feet in front of you, and you still miss."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cosplayers were able to come up individually onto the stage for a moment so everyone could get photos</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"JUST £3 A MONTH OR THE DAL-EKS WILL DESSTROY ALL HUU_MANS!!!"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jarrod's probably up to no good....</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is there a Dr. in the house?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This poor guy is still waiting to be taken back home by Bill & Ted. Excellent.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not a happy bunny</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Put Zee Camera down or I will empty 15 roundz into your belly and cut off your head!"</td></tr>
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The Cosplay Corner had some interesting displays and lots of props. These steampunk objects are from <a href="http://www.mostlycuriousgames.co.uk/">Mostly Curious Games</a> and created by Mark Goodman, a steampunk artist. Head on over to his site and there are more steampunk inspired objects to be found. </div>
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Not much to be said other than buy, buy, buy and haggle. Don't forget to haggle. All the usual traders were here along with stands I hadn't seen before. Its not just games of course. Plenty of accessories, minis, gamer wear etc. You can spend a long time looking around here. Here's a few photos....</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ahh nice quills. Bought 15 raven feathers from china for £3.95 all in, I'm gonna make my own haha. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">cheap...cheap. I was holding a bathroom door today in fact whilst DIYing. Where's Hodor when you need him?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This chap was gonna give me a deal because I've spent so much on rennovating our house. But you don't have to be doing DIY to get a discount, whatever your financial situation this guy will make a deal with YOU!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geek Game tables. You cant get cooler than that. They had the simple to the luxurious gamer furniture.</td></tr>
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Grublin Games have their Kickstarter campaign for their new game, Perfect Heist <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1811420414/perfect-crime-a-cooperative-heist-game-for-2-5-pla">HERE</a>.<br />
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Yes, they have them. Wotan Games had a great big double decker bus and were running a bug hunt game collecting stamps for playing games with traders etc.<br />
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I love miniatures. Who doesn't, if you're a gamer. Here's some photos from the boothes of some of the sculptors and companies who I was most impressed with at this years event.<br />
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Alex from Warploque Miniatures was working on some figures for his ArcWorlde games next release "Troubles In the North". The current release "Battle For Troll Bridge" was represented by a fantastic model of a game set up.<br />
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The most impressive sculpts I saw were by <a href="http://www.savageforgedminis.com/">Savage Forged Minis</a> who had a fantastic little display range which I photographed for your viewing pleasure. The work is by sculptor Dennis Zarnowski.<br />
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Always plenty laid on in the form of seminars, guests and celebrity guests. I attended only a few this year...<br />
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So we've had lots of photos. Time for a couple of videos. I must apologise in advance for the sound hiss from the crowd outside the seminar area. Its only a little camera! First up is the resolution of a tied Dr Who quiz via an arm wrestling contest. Then we have the interview of Colin Baker by comedian John Robertson. I got most of it but my camera kind of run out of memory. So excuse the schoolboy error, I wasn't planning to do video this year.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">The Dark Room</span></b><br />
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The Dark Room is a ticketed event featuring John Robertsons famous viral internet game, which luckily for you is embedded below (I hope). Try it out and have some fun, it probably won't work on your mobile though I'm afraid. I didn't attend the show this year, but I will next year for sure!<br />
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I've always been a big fan of Ralph's work, I love the colour, the angles and the drama in many of his pieces. There is often a story going on! I possess 5 originals of Ralphs art myself including the board art of Talisman Revised 4th Edition and they take pride of place in my own studio. Here are a couple of his works and my two favourites. One from the box art of the Firelands expansion for Talisman and the other, a magazine piece I believe, "The Broken Gauntlet" .<br />
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Hi Ralph, thanks for taking the time to answer my questions! I hope they serve to help people looking to get into the industry or just love doing art.<br />
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<b>1) Reading the interview with you inside this years event programme, </b><b>you said you are a self taught artist. How hard did you find doing </b><b>this and what methods did you find most useful to constantly improve </b><b>and develop?</b><br />
<i>Yes, I am self taught. I studied art until the age of 18, but didn't then seek to pursue a career in art until I was 21. My studying was then somewhat haphazard. I was ignorant as to how poor my skill set really was. This was a mixed blessing. On one hand it meant that I did actually embark on the journey, and wasn't put off at the start, but also meant that my approach was somewhat unstructured. Key was that I spent as much time as possible actually producing artwork, a lot of which was for amateur, or semi-pro publication, which helped teach me to work from a brief, and to work on subjects I may have otherwise been wary to tackle. When producing our own work it can be very easy to stay within one's comfort zone, but that means you don't learn either - draw hands, horses and multiple figures! I did read what I could get my hands on about technique ( this was pre-internet days). This was especially useful in areas like perspective and anatomy. I also made sure I enrolled on figure drawing courses. In general I tried to emulate the art and artists I particularly admired.</i><br />
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<b>2) Do you think self teaching puts one at a disadvantage compared to </b><b>other artists who are attending college and university courses full </b><b>time and what advice would you give to help along those doing this at </b><b>the moment?</b><br />
<i>The disadvantage is that you need to create your own structured study plan. In retrospect this is something I could have been more focused on. However these days there is far more information available. The internet is an amazing tool, and it has made self study a great deal easier. Additionally when attending college you have set aside those 3 plus years specifically for that purpose, and are supported by a college to do just that, having the discipline and focus is harder when you are doing it solo.</i><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3) What other artists work served as an inspiration to you when you </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">teaching yourself and early on in your career?</span></b><br />
<i>I grew up playing D&D. That was a great inspiration for what I wanted to do, and naturally the artist's who created for that game, and others, were the ones I sought to emulate. Additionally there were many fantasy/SF art books I could find, which is how I discovered Patrick Woodruffe and Brian Froud. I read Conan and came across Frazetta that way. I also listened to a lot of rock, and was particular struck by a lot of the album covers. Off the top of my head I can think of Ian McCaig's Broadsword and the beast - Jethro Tull, and Drew Struzan's- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. Plus I read UK comics, especially the precursor to 2000AD which was Action. I guess I was a bit of sponge for anything even vaguely fantasy- I though Bosch was great!</i><br />
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<b>4) I have seen some of your posts on Facebook that feature some armour </b><b>and weapons. Do you ever use life models for your commissions and real </b><b>prop reference in your paintings or photographic reference? How </b><b>important is working with life models or outside for landscape</b><br />
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<i>Yes, I do have props and reference resources. I do use them, and will pose for selfies, or occasionally rope in other people to be photographed. Working from life is very useful, even essential, but I also made a decision a long time ago that I didn't want to go for a photo-realistic look, and have deliberately developed a more graphical approach.</i></div>
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<b>5) What are the biggest hurdles for someone who is in the process of </b><b>teaching themselves to paint and perhaps break into the industry?</b><br />
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<i>Once you have achieved a professional quality on your work then you should be able to break-in. the tough part is getting there, and that requires learning to be as objective about your own work as possible, and comparing yourself with the best.</i></div>
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<b>6) How hard was it for you to break into the industry and do you think </b><b>the nature of the internet and social media makes it easier for the </b><b>artists today to get noticed and score a break?</b><br />
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<i>When I started everything was done through the postal service, that made it practically impossible to break into the US market. It also meant I was very isolated. I didn't know any other artists for a long time.</i></div>
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<b>7) Typically how long do you spend preparing rough sketches and </b><b>thumbnails before you send them to the art director?</b></div>
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I work on thumbnails for an hour or two before working up a sketch for the AD. The latter depends on complexity and size. Cover art will take a couple of days.</div>
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<b>8) Do you find it frustrating if a rough you favoured and looked</b><br />
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<i>Learning to accept an AD's decision is part of the job. I may have favourite compositional thumbnails rejected in favour of ones I'm less keen on, but you have to trust that the AD knows what they want from the brief. What they are looking for to go on their product can be subtlely different from what I think will make a cool picture. They might want to focus to be on a different character, or mood etc. Ultimately a commission is there to provide an AD with what they want, and I need to work to achieve that, not just satisfy my own artistic inclinations.</i><br />
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<b>9) Are there any big differences between working in the publishing </b><b>industry and the gaming industry?</b><br />
<i>Not really. Personally I don't see the distinction. It is all publishing and making the product look as good as possible.</i><br />
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<b>10) And are there any big differences in the way you have to work </b><b>between the big companies like Games Workshop, Wizards of the Coast </b><b>and so on?</b><br />
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<i>The working processes are almost identical. The differences lie in reflecting their product's look and style.</i></div>
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<b>11) In Sunday's Art seminar you talked about how the companies define </b><b>their brand by drawing in a particular style and try to create an </b><b>original look for their characters and races and how easy it can be to </b><b>instantly recognize a brand without any text or logos around it. Is it</b><br />
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<i>This comes with experience. The better my skill set the easier it is to adapt that. But yes, working with a new client and product line can be challenging, but ultimately you want to demonstrate to a client that you understand what they are looking for and can produce that. You want to become a safe pair of hands, someone they will keep coming back to as they know you will deliver.</i></div>
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<b>12) If you were forced to name 3 artists who have inspired you most,</b><br />
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<i>Patrick Woodruffe, Todd Lockwood, Frank Frazetta.</i><br />
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<b>13) You've done some fantastic work on Magic the Gathering and World </b><b>of Warcraft amongst others. What are your favourite cards that you </b><b>have illustrated?</b><br />
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<i>Favourites can come and go. falling in and out of love with my work in an ongoing saga!</i></div>
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<b>14) I'm a very slow painter, slower than treacle dripping down a 100' </b><b>wall. How long does it normally take to paint a large and complex </b><b>piece? Is it a struggle to balance detail and quality with speed to </b><b>meet deadlines?</b><br />
<i>I try to never compromise my work based on pay rate or deadline. Once I accept a job, a job has been accepted, I try and treat it the same as any other. However all the work is paid at a piece rate, so time is a consideration, usually that just means working longer hours. It can take a couple of weeks, or maybe more, for a complex piece.</i><br />
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<b>15) Whats the largest painting you have ever produced?</b><br />
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<i>A piece of board art 48" x 34" - though I am currently working on a piece now that is composed of nine paintings which fit together to make one image. Each painting is approx 19" x 25". Total size = 57" x 75".</i></div>
<b>16) What project past or present would you really love to have worked on?</b><br />
<i>The original AD&D book covers.</i><br />
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<b>17) Have you done any work in the video game field?</b><br />
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<b>18) I know you have a Kickstarter project on the go at the moment. </b><b>Could you please tell everyone all about that?</b></div>
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It is going to be my first self published art book. it will consist of a selection of my favourite paintings from my personal project - Wildborn. These are a series of landscape paintings that all contain a Dragon in there somewhere. I am aiming for the highest production values I can achieve. Check it out here</div>
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<a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralphhorsley/wildborn-dragons-in-their-natural-habitat-the-art">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ralphhorsley/wildborn-dragons-in-their-natural-habitat-the-art</a><br />
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<b>19) Can we expect to see anymore Kickstarters from youself in the future?</b><br />
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<i>As this is proving to a success then yes, that is likely, but I am also aware that everyone and their dog is doing a Kickstarter, and therefore wouldn't want to overdo it!</i></div>
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<b>20) Will you be coming back to future UK Games expo's?</b><br />
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<i>Yes. It was a great show, and I'd love to come back.</i></div>
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<b>What are your favourite brands of paints and papers?</b><br />
<i>Daler Rowney - Georgian brush series</i><br />
<i>Pro Arte - Prolene brushes.</i><br />
<i>Liquitex acrylics</i><br />
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<b>Favourite band?</b><br />
<i>Giant Sand</i><br />
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<b>Favourite boardgame?</b><br />
<i>Great Campaigns of the ACW series</i><br />
<i>Carcassonne</i><br />
<i>Stone Age</i><br />
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<i>More into armour - high gothic Milanese.</i><br />
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Thanks very much again Ralph, I'm sure everyone will be looking forward to seeing you hopefully next year!<br />
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Another artist at the Expo was James Hayball who very kindly agreed to expand on his seminar talk with this article. Thanks James!!<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">How to Get Started as a Fantasy Illustrator</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Fantasy illustration is a massive part of the gaming industry, yet there are still a lot of people that are lost on how to 'get into' the industry. I was one of those kids.<br />What I'm about to talk about is not the 'best' or 'only way' to get employment as a fantasy illustrator, nor is it completely revolutionary. I'm merely passing on what I was taught and told to you, hopefully some of it will help.<br />When I decided I wanted to be a fantasy artist, I had one major hurdle. My art sucked. Badly. So over the next few years, trying everyday, I painted and watched as many Youtube process videos as I could from any fantasy artist I could get my hands on. I would really advise this to any person just starting in art. It will be a hard road and you will be creating some bad art for a while BUT I guarantee if you really want to do this for a living and you stick at it, the progress you make on every painting you do will be enough to keep you plugging through.<br />The goal of these hard couple of years is to of course get your work to a level where it matches existing published work. When you have your work to about this level you can then look to start contacting people. I will get to that later though. So how do you know when your art is as good as published work truely?<br />Simple, you need to be brutally honest with yourself, not negative and beating yourself up after every piece. Just honest as you go though the grinding of getting your level up. You will get there. Ask close family or friends there opinion on your work as you go through. People that are going to give you an honest answer. Not random Facebook or Deviant Art 'friends'. Just because someone has 100 likes on a painting does not necessarily mean it is really good. I had a brutal girlfriend who even though may of mentally broke me at times did not hold anything back, good and bad when criticising my work. It really helped.<br />Once you believe your work is approaching a level that you deem to be getting 'professional' then it is time to start showing your work to the right people. How do you do this? You email the relevant companies you would like to work for, you can always find art submission emails on websites, However you need to tailor your portfolio to what they like. Don't fill a portfolio full of black and white paintings of spaceships if you want to try and work on World of Warcraft for example. Look at the subject matter the franchise uses, study closely the lighting and colours they use and start producing artwork following that, of course adding your own idea of subject. Also companies appreciate if you can put an interesting twist on there established art style. Nothing too crazy! just too stand out :)<br />I hope some this helps in your journey to getting started as a fantasy Illustrator.</span>
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Something bad or funny nearly always happens on our gamers group road trips to the UK Games Expo. We've had one numpty leave his jacket at the hotel, walk around without it all day, get 45 minutes down the road and then expect us to drive back for it. We've had keys left in the car overnight etc. This year Kyle went to Wembley and the coach dropped him off in Plymouth where we were going to pick him up. Only trouble was, we were picking him up at 11.00am and the coach dropped him off at 5.00am. Next stop after Plymouth was Penzance and Kyle lives 20 miles past the bridge. With no money he slept in the doorway and got thrown a fiver from a passing stranger. Nice one Kyle. Anyway we did the usual retro game trips. Stopping off to pick up the discs for some games that had been posted out to my mate as just empty boxes. After a good nights sleep and doing my best impression of Adam Sandlers Little Nicky we left for the convention.<br />
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RichKingRetro is an infamous bring 'n' buyer. We get this every year and still we carry just as much stuff back as he sells. Will it ever end??? The weekend for me is a fairly even mix of activities. I like to do a bit of everything and have a good look around, getting photos for this blog and doing the seminars. I didn't have much money to spend this year on goodies so only came away with a small haul. I did get to finish a game of Orctions with its creator and was fortunate enough to destroy everyone in the gladiatorial arena. Last year Elliot had to do the orction and so had to cut us short. I played a lot of Side Quest, a game by Steve Venezia which I helped do some of the art on. So it was an extra special treat to get to see my art in a fully produced card game which was great. Here are the cards I did.....<br />
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Bit of a tedious drive home but all the traffic and tailbacks were on the other side of the road muwahahah. We did pass some idiot who was full on asleep at the wheel with his head resting on the palm of his hand. Just as I turned to watch him his eyes flicked open and his head popped up like a rabbit caught in headlights. Man, get us out of there! When he got home Rich realised he had made the unfortunate error of forgetting one of his bags. It only had some old unwanted bring n buy stuff in, oh and his GoPro camera.....doh. Fortunately this was handed in.<br />
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I had a great time and enjoyed the whole event. It was great to listen to Colin Baker and John Robertson was a ball of energy and very entertaining. Obviously I will be back next year to do it all again. Many thanks to those who posed for photos for me!!<br />
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<br />dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-60199010988987650802015-06-01T17:47:00.002+01:002015-06-04T15:50:19.793+01:00UK Games Expo 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Well, another UK Games Expo Event has come and gone and what a weekend! I had a great time as I'm sure everyone else did and as I have done reports for the previous two years of this event, I thought I'd continue the tradition and write a report of the 2015 event, the best one yet!<br />
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The first thing I noticed when I arrived was that this years event seemed to have a dramatically increased attendance and has most definitely outgrown the Hilton. I was quite glad when I read that next years expo will be held at NEC Hall 1 and the Hilton Metropole. The trade hall will be inside the NEC which should make getting your loot a more comfortable experience! Seminars and other 9am -5pm activities will also be held here. Open gaming, tournaments and RPG's will be at the Hilton Metropole to allow more space for people to run games into the small hours. This is all welcome news indeed!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Imperial Stormtroopers guarded the entrance to the Expo to make sure no rebel scum got in.</td></tr>
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The Friday is always less hectic, but it was still busier than last year. With the welcome addition of an open trade hall at 2pm. Open gaming is what I like to do on the Friday and the game library was operated by <a href="http://www.thirstymeeples.co.uk/">Thirsty Meeples Gaming Cafe</a> staff. For a small refundable deposit of £10 you could take away one game to play, bring it back and get another one. They did a great job and it was nicely organised with a good selection of games right next to the open gaming area. The hall was large but it did annoy me that the tournaments were using up a lot of that space to the point where we struggled to get gaming space on the Saturday. There was an additional large marquee area outside but even that was full of tournaments and we couldn't find space. In the end we played on the grass outside until space was available. Certainly not ideal though.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dale, busy changing the rules of his special ability and cheating</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Student Bodies - great zombie game.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim and Chris Nicholls giving two damage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chaos Ball by Coolminiornot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An afro Rich Baker would approve of.</td></tr>
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The Expo hosted all the usual events; seminars, a family friendly game zone, cosplay, LARP, cinema, entertainment events, a playtest area, bring 'n' buy, special guests and much more. Parking was free, The food this year was a slightly different affair. Instead of the Hilton providing the catering, a food festival was held outside the front of the hotel. I was very impressed with the selection and there was even a red double decker bus, with an open top seating area, serving as a bar which was very cool! The selection of food was good with the likes of Becky's Bhajis, Big Daddies Diner serving great hot dogs, Spectacular Goat making fresh pizza, a meat grill, pan-asian cuisine and even a waffle caravan. There was also a cheap bar in the games room with snacks and other drinks available. Unfortunately I made a schoolboy error and bought a pint at the main bar...the fact that Boba Fett and Imperial Stormtroopers were walking about made me realise I was indeed drinking in a hive of scum and villainy. Especially villainy.<br />
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I must also make mention of the games programme. It was not just a map and information schedule like most programmes you are normally given at other events. It was more of a magazine with some very good articles and interviews, a great deal of effort was obviously put into this and all very nicely printed too.<br />
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This is part of the expo I think we all enjoy. It was good to see that everyone had put a lot of time and effort into their costumes. There were two remote control Daleks there this year, going around threatening to externimate every human on the Earth. My only worry is that next year there may be an increased number of Daleks and their controllers may attempt to take over the Earth. And if it only takes one Dalek to destroy the mighty Cybermen, well, we are done for.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Boba Fett busy disintergrating disobedient children</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guy is a long way from Mordor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whoa! Don't shoot, I'm not the droid your looking for! Luckily Lara Croft came out and this guy totally forgot me.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guys Joker outfit was brilliant.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rumble between a Jedi, the Joker, Cassandra Anderson and a Clone Trooper. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lara Croft. Didn't see her doing any handstands or somersaults though.</td></tr>
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I'm not sure what cosplay groups were there, but drop me a message and I will put the links up here.<br />
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There was a jam packed seminar schedule this year; How to design scenarios for X-Wing, talks and discussions with games designer Eric Lang, "Representation in games matter", "Behind the games industries curtain", creating games for licensed properties, a sci-fi quiz and special guest, Udo Schidmt talking about the marketing of Carcassone and revealing forthcoming releases for the game Like STAR WARS CARCASSONE! No photography was allowed but Udo showed us the game tiles and demonstrated them.<br />
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I managed to attend two seminars but would have certainly liked to have gone to more; "Draw like a pro" and "Write like a pro" in particular. Both of these would make excellent annual seminars. There was no celebrity guest this year, which is a shame, but I did get to enjoy last years talk with Chris Barrie.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>My Weekend</u></b></span><br />
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My own experience was off to a bad start, Rich "Retroking" Baker was the designated driver. We had breakfast and went to the car.<br />
Rich: "Where's my keys? Sean, where's my keys? I gave them to you!"<br />
Sean "I dunno!"<br />
Me: *<i>facepalm</i><br />
Rich "I left them in the door and told you to lock up last night because you f***ers were being too slow."<br />
Sean: "I don't remember you saying that..."<br />
Rich: **************** ******* ** ****** ** ****<br />
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I used to love the Muppet Show when I was a kid but being part of a live show, I didn't like. Luckily someone had handed them in and we were finally off.<br />
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I won't go into any other antics of the weekend. Like four of us being in a family room making a racket and getting moaned at by staff, recording each others snoring, Rich's Sonic the Hedgehog duvet he brought along or going down for breakfast at 7.30am and being asked "Have you pre-booked?". No I haven't, it's included in the room price. Just stop talking and give me bacon! You're a Premier Inn not the Waldorf Astoria. There is more but I can't go into details...<br />
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Rich loves the bring 'n' buy and I'm surprised he's not been banned from it to be honest. Last year I felt like a mule heaving his games about. Felt like playing Buckaroo personally. And, err, this year wasn't actually that much different. Except mule duty got split three ways. I was steeled to quitting that role for the rest of the weekend though.<br />
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Got the weekend started at the board game library as none of us, err, actually brought games in for us to play, it was all for the bring n buy. Worst gamers <b><i>ever</i></b>. We had a go on a game called Abyss. It was pretty good, but a bit limited. It had <b><i>very</i></b> lovely box art though. Then we all headed over to the bring and buy room to check out the new set up....and I must say, I didn't like it. The games were more organised, the checking in system was computerised and looked much faster and more efficient, with barcoded labels being generated from everyones pre-entered details. But the narrow lanes meant it was difficult to take time to look at the games as people were all pressing by bashing you with their Canyon Extreme Hiking 80 litre backpack and walking off without saying a word. I had to leave as my temper was beginning to fray a "little".<br />
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At 2pm the trade hall was open and ready to rock. Previously the trade hall opened on the Saturday, so this was a welcome change. My loot list was small....Small World Realms and the card expansion, oh and X-Wing. That list kind of grew, although I didn't see Realms there, and I came back with X-Wing, a Star Wars Death Star playmat, <i><b>some</b></i> ships for X-Wing and Talisman "Deep Realms", designed by my friend (and hopefully designated driver (*wink) for Games Day 2015), Mr Jon New. Good job Jon, I see you have many cards in there that will mess up my normally flawless Talisman game.<br />
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This year I was pretty pleased I got to play some Kickstarter and demo games. First up was a dungeon crawler card game called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PlaySideQuest">SideQuest</a>, which was set up just outside the open gaming room. I really enjoyed this - quick, easy to learn and a much more portable game than Descent! After a chat with the game designer, I will in fact be helping out with some of the art in this game.<br />
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Another Kickstarted game I got invited to play was called Fell. I really love the concept of this game. Think Nintendo's Monster Hunter and that's the theme for this. We didn't get to see all the game as it was set up to play fast demo games, but the basic idea is that you set up a monster from a set of decks, torso, head, left and right leg and left and right arm, with each body part having its own attributes and special abilities. The aim of the game is to defeat the monster with a group of heroes. I can see a great potential for this game but I think miniatures would be a great addition. You can support the Fell Kickstarter campaign <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimejack/fell">here</a>.<br />
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The final demo game I played was "Orction!". I absolutely loved this and the game creator - Elliot Symonds who hosted it, was very entertaining to play against. This game was launching at the expo but I sadly ran out of money for games by the time I discovered it. The game was all about being an Orc Warlord buying and trading slaves to fight for glory. Elliot was very keen to point out that now orc slavery has died out, it's not a politically incorrect game to do. Each turn of the game gives you a lot of different options and of course the auctioneering, which is varied in itself. Unfortunately we couldn't finish the game, it's definately a good party night game and I will be ordering a copy after my wallet has recovered from this show. There is no point me trying to explain it further, so head on over to Quirkative's website and read more about it.......<a href="http://www.orctions.co.uk/">here</a>.<br />
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Elliot also held an auction of Kickstarter games and unwanted Christmas presents his brother had given him which was a bit of fun. I would definately recommend a visit to the Quirkative stand if you see these guys next year!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>ArcWorlde</u></b></span><br />
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I was pleasantly surprised to see the Warploque Miniatures game, ArcWorlde, had a stand at the expo. I've seen this companie's miniatures before online and it was really good to see the mini's in the flesh at last. The game is the work of Alex Huntley, whose sculptural work I have seen over at Coolminiornot over the course of many years. I think it's really cool to see someone go from posting pictures of their hobby work online when they are young, to having a stand at a show this big and be doing it a professional level. I love stuff like that. You can visit Alex's website and find out more about ArcWorlde and its amazing miniatures <a href="http://www.warploqueminiatures.com/">here</a> or visit their <a href="http://www.facebook.com/warploqueminiatures">Facebook page</a>. Or do both.<br />
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And so another Expo came to close with a Cosplay parade and the award ceremony for the games released in 2015 and that was it for another year. Well done to all the staff involved with the organisation and running of the event, it is going from strength to strength and I'm already looking forward to next year!<br />
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The UK Games Expo 2014 was held over the weekend of May 30th - 1st June at Birmingham's Hilton Metropole Hotel near the NEC. I attended and had a great time last year, so this year I was obviously going to be drawing some comparisons.<br />
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I travelled to the event from Cornwall (home of <a href="http://www.grublin.com/">Grublin Games</a>, /plug) with two friends. Not a bad trip up, but plagued by endless roadwork sections with 50mph limits and no roadworks actually going on. There is a rule I believe about "Not touching a black mans stereo" but when that black man is playing One Direction and laughing like a maniac, you have to be a rulebreaker...Shame I didn't have a hammer. We stayed at the Premier Inn not far from the venue and it was a great hotel. Recommended. I was quick to commandeer the King Size bed while the other two losers got the single beds. Happy days.<br />
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The parking was annoying. We got told to use some distant North carpark which was free and there would be a shuttle bus. We did this, but a sign said the bus was not running!! So we found a much closer car park for free as well. Guests at the Hilton attending the event received a discount on the parking also. Very commendable! It certainly felt like a bigger event than last year! There were a lot more people attending and the venue's air conditioning struggled in some of the smaller rooms, particularly where the seminars were being held. MANY cider breaks were needed! If you want to play new games and meet lots of people in the process, this is <b><i>the</i></b> event to attend for sure.<br />
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The food court was a major issue last year, with people having to sit on the floor and eat. This year was much better with plenty of dining tables and...<b>chairs</b>!! Proper cutlery was also provided and the hall was always open. Food prices were much the same as last year and drinks were discounted with beer at a reasonable price and actually cheaper than my local! The menu was very similiar to last year, not a problem for me and I thought the quality of the food was good provided you ate when it was freshly put out. The staff were friendly and the service was very good I thought. The only issue was Saturday night at the main bar which was seriously under staffed with a long waiting time.<br />
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The event was well laid out, better than last year, cosplayers in the foyer, lots of free gaming space, trade space and tournament space. I don't think any complaints can be made about the arrangement of everything. So to the organisers, a big thank you for making things better than last year!<br />
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The Friday was open gaming, Bring and Buy sale and a few tournaments. For us - Pandemic the Cure dice game . Whilst I hadn't signed up for this I watched with interest and it was certainly a fun looking game. My friends team did well and were in the final, but unfortunately lost....<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Game setup, Nice and simple with some cards that you can buy to add effects and bonuses.</td></tr>
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The Bring and Buy sale this year was quite crazy. Whilst Friday was busy, it was certainly possible to drop your games in and have a good browse. Saturday and Sunday however, had people queuing out of the door! Very busy indeed. I picked up a few bargains, Discworld GURPs being my favourite purchase for a mere £5. The Bring and Buy sale charges a 10% commission which gets donated to the Addenbrookes Charitable Trust, Heartline and Cancer research UK. Some very worthy causes.<br />
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After a hard days gaming and routing through the Bring and Buy I was ready for some cider.<br />
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<b><u>SATURDAY 31st MAY</u></b><br />
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The show in it's entirety was open today and my own day was going to be mainly seminars - most importantly Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's seminar, the guys who got me into all this stuff! The traders hall had a vast selection of games and associated products, both secondhand and brand new of course. The show has it all going on today, tournaments for Catan, Warmachine and other games, RPG gaming in 7 of the hotels rooms, Playtesting for new games still at prototype stage, a kids games room. There is lots to do for everyone and I'm not sure I could think of anything it's missing to be honest.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.galacticknights.co.uk/">Galactic Knights</a> Cosplayers were there, collecting for charity and posing for pictures. Some great quality costumes and even a remote controlled dalek going around exterminating everyone. And even a mysterious blue police box had appeared from nowhere this morning...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was 09.27am when I took this picture. Is that not too early to be hunting for Jedi?</td></tr>
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Too many traders to list here but good to see a lot of home grown products from art to dice bags to homegrown games, it's not all large, world dominating games companies products in here!!<br />
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One example of this is Cornish games company, Grublin. They had a very successful <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1811420414/cornish-smuggler">Kickstarter campaign</a> for their game "Cornish Smuggler". The game has done well and was released at Essen last year. They now have something else in the pipeline, a new Kickstarter for a new game - <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1811420414/waggle-dance">Waggle Dance</a>, so please check it out and show some love for the indie guys out there, wherever they may be!<br />
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Dice games are becoming popular in our games club. Luchador is a wrestling themed one which currently has a Kickstarter going for its second edition. Check it out <b><a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/backspindle/luchador-mexican-wrestling-dice">HERE</a>.</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When I took this picture the room went funny and eerie music started to play in my head - "La La--La La...." I suddenly felt very small and all the toys started to walk towards me - SCARY......or I drank too much cider.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This old boy was awesome. He was taking out everyone pulling that suitcase around and smashing it into them. Me, my mate. Get in his way - BOOM! Down you go sucker.<br />
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There was an interesting and day filled schedule for seminars. These were held in two rooms over the two days and covered many topics from running Kickstarters to games design, women in games, music, art, the future of RPG's. An impressive list with highlights, for me at least being a talk by Chris Barrie of Red Dwarf and Brittas Empire fame and a talk on the early days of Games Workshop with Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone.<br />
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Chris Barrie was very amusing to listen to, unfortunately I got no pictures, as I forgot to charge my batter...I mean, something wrong with camera and stupid technology, etc. He talked about his career, did some impressions, talked about production process of Red Dwarf and took questions. He even hung out at the bar in the evening and talked with everyone.<br />
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Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone are two of my favourite games industry personalities. They brought D&D to the UK, produced the Fighting Fantasy game books and created Games Workshop. Steve and Ian showed a series of old photos and gave a talk about the early days of the company and their careers since. They announced plans for some resin kits of characters and monsters from the Fighting Fantasy series designed for painters. This project is still in the pipeline but some of the figures were shown to the audience. Steve and Ian also did a book signing after the talk and I got some of my stuff scribbled on and had a quick chat with Ian Livingstone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A proper catalogue with a proper price.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iain McCaig is an awesome artist. One of the first logo designs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is TALISMAN!! Bob Harris shows his prototype game to Steve and Ian. I am the proud owner of the original art for the 4th Revised Edition Talisman board. And NO, it's not for sale!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I hope they were joking when they said this was Japanese cover art for Death Trap Dungeon.....</td></tr>
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There was plenty of space for people to bring their own games in and play with anyone and everyone. But there were also demo games set up near the trade area for people to come along and have a go at. Too many to list them all, so I took a few photos of games in progress. If you don't have many games of your own then these demo games are great. A games library is also in operation where you can sign out games from the collection of the expo organisation and go and play.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arena, wasn't keen on this game, but I did like the idea and the little characters were pretty cool!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cthulu Dice. I didn't join in this one as I had already played it more than enough over the previous week.</td></tr>
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So that was pretty much it. I took part in a Dominion tournament on the Sunday. A little disorganised to begin with as they had only sourced one copy of the game! But thankfully it got sorted out fairly swiftly and we were able to get on with it. Personally, I think we could have done without the break and just run it and finished it after lunch. Starting it at 1 or 1.30pm would have been better. I didn't do well, getting a 4th, 2nd, 2nd (1 point off first) in my games, but I did enjoy playing and it was nice meeting new people!<br />
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Also got a chance to catch up with some people I met last year. We had an interesting game of Talisman late into the night where I was totally robbed and mercilessly hounded by dark sorcery. Thats my excuse anyway!! Looking forward to next years already. If you haven't been to this event before and are a gamer, I would recommend you come next year!<br />
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<br />dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-43931271170200598922013-11-26T01:07:00.001+00:002013-11-26T01:07:47.514+00:00Random Painting I Like No.2Came across this awesome Frank Frazetta piece. I really like the fantastic colours and composition. Great picture. I will be rounding up some sculpts of Frazettas work for a blog entry soon. Definately worth investigating and seeing what the talented sculptors have done with his work. I have seen the Death Dealer and a Conan piece. Anyway, enjoy the 2D art for the moment!<br />
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Oh yeah - WARNING! SOME NUDITY. Yeah, I bet you are really upset and shocked etc....dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-88364417258065713982013-10-31T15:12:00.002+00:002013-10-31T15:13:48.486+00:00All Hallows Eve is Upon Us!!! Muwahahahahaha<i> </i>I always get excited over the Halloween period. The reason being, my all time favourite sculptor, Ray Villafane is at his busiest time of year, producing some of the most awesome pumpkins you will see. He puts on shows, demos, lessons and has books out and tool sets available for you to have a crack yourself. If you are near any of the events he has put on, I envy you! Check out his <a href="http://villafanestudios.com/">website</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VillafaneStudios">Facebook page</a>. And in the meantime, sit back and check out some of his work below!!<br />
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<br />dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-43337975850768790342013-10-30T22:39:00.002+00:002013-10-30T22:39:35.639+00:00Talisman Digital Edition Is Coming!I am a MASSIVE fan of the boardgame Talisman. It's brilliant. Very much luck based but most definately a fun adventure where your fortunes go up and down and with a little bit of strategy you can help things a long. Most enjoyable when a crowd of 6 mates are enjoined around a table with beer and snacks and music blaring in the background!!!<br />
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Fantasy Flight games re-released the boardgame some years ago, after Games Workshop Black Industries sold the license. And a sterling job they have done, with many expansions- old and new released to date and more to come in the future.<br />
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The Talisman universe has recently expanded to include the Digital Realm and is now available to purchase on the Steam Platform for PC. It is currently Early Access, and everyone is helping to iron out bugs, put in their suggestions and getting ready for the imminent online update due over the course of the next couple of weeks. It has received a new update today that fixes some AI problems and adds in the Death mechanic from the Reaper expansion as a Halloween treat! The full Reaper expansion will be available properly from the day of official release.<br />
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With the arrival of Talisman Online Multiplayer games finally becoming an imminent reality Mr Jon New, webmaster of Talisman Island and No.1 Talisman fan in the world, and I have created a Facebook Community to create a more friendly envirmoment for chatting and arranging games. As time goes on and more expansions are released, inter continental games will become longer and more problematic. No worries, with our community just create a post, find some friends and arrange a time and date in a more gentlmanly manner. Most online games have some percentage of its users acting like children. We are aiming to eliminate all that. Of course, every good game has some small amount of trash talking etc. I love it personally, but everything is done in the spirit of fun. I hope we can achieve this aim. Perhaps even arrange some small tournaments. Click the banner link to head over to the Facebook community page, click like, post your Steam username and get ready to go online....<br />
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You can read a little about it on the authors blog page here....<br />
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Nearly time to celebrate the Day of the Dead or the Night of the Living Dead or All Hallows Evening, whichever your preference may be. The doors between worlds has definately started to widen and evil beasts have slipped through the gateway and disappeared into the night...I'm sure you will agree that these creations by Pumpkin King Mr Ray Villafane are most surely not of this world...</div>
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Ray and his team of talented sculptors, who include the likes of Trevor Grove, Andy Bergholtz and Alfred Parades have got events and appearances planned throughout October, they have already done some shows during September, so I am a little late in posting this really. You can check out their studio website <a href="http://villafanestudios.com/">HERE</a> to find out all the details of what they are up to.<br />
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<br />dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-55506084491597954382013-07-17T10:38:00.000+01:002013-07-17T10:38:27.019+01:00The Sculptures of Kent KidwellJust came across some really nice stuff today by artist Kent Kidwell. Check these beauties out and enjoy. I think you'll agree that the Igor character is particularly cool!!!<br />
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You can visit Kents website <a href="http://warlordstudios.com/"><strong>HERE</strong> </a>and there is also a <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WarLordstudios2012">FACEBOOK</a></strong> page. Make sure you like it as there are plenty of painted examples of these sculptures below and other stuff of interest!<br />
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<br />dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-59175510924196542192013-07-08T12:07:00.001+01:002013-07-08T12:07:16.491+01:00Random Art I Like No.1 As this blog also serves as a kind of diary and record of art I love, I am going to do some random posts as I come across stuff I like. I was looking for reference on spacemen and came upon this picture. It just caught my eye and I enjoyed it. So this is Random Art Post No.1....<br />
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<br />dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-26937415357415723602013-07-02T23:28:00.000+01:002013-07-02T23:28:03.431+01:00Journey Boardgame By Marrow Productions<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our gaming group has a passion for boardgames of late. Magic The Gathering was what brought us together originally but we have expanded our interests beyond this now. We have Talisman, Relic, World of Warcraft, Mansions of Madness, Catan and many others besides being played every month. But with this post I would like to highlight a cool looking new boardgame due for release this year by Marrow Productions. It is based upon the Chinese classic "Journey to the West". A sort of Chinese Lord of the Rings if you will with its heroes battling demons along the road to recover scriptures. Of course, I would not be putting this on the blog if it did not have cool art and sculptures as part of the deal. And I am glad to report, sculptor Ray Wong is doing a mighty fine job creating the miniatures for the game, which are very high quality indeed. Rays work is based on concept art by Adrian Smith, who has been interviewed somewhere within this blog if you nose around.<br />
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The details on the game can be found on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marrow-Production/522020874501915?fref=ts">Facebook page</a>, click the "Like" button while you are there or follow it or whatever. It is a very promising looking project! I believe it will be featured on Kickstarter at some point. Here are a few photos, better versions are on the Facebook page. There you will find board art, character concepts, sculpts in progress, finished sculpts and some generic game art.<br />
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dfbdogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-38916207137277513152013-06-28T22:55:00.001+01:002013-06-28T22:55:18.563+01:00Kings of the GoblinsI've just started painting some water colour goblins, just a few small portraits copied from Adrian Smiths Illuminations art book (now sold out! Sorry if you missed it, don't lose out next time!). Now I am still learning to master these fangled water colours, so I decided to kick back with a coffee and do some Googling of some more skillfully painted goblins. Here is my first find as a quick post. I will be compiling a more thorough post over the course of the weekend. Have to get up early in the morning so enjoy this illustration for now, by <a href="http://ryanvogler.deviantart.com/">RYAN VOGLER</a> click the link to head on over to his Deviantart page.<br />
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dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-79954308869981365292013-06-26T00:01:00.002+01:002013-06-26T00:01:26.656+01:00Gary Lipincott GoblinWell, finally finished my version of this Gary Lipincott piece. I changed the horns on the character to a helmet. Kind of reminds me of a Froudian goblin from Jim Hensons "Labyrinth" movie. It's watercolour - my third completed piece. I am enjoying the medium and hope to one day achieve some degree of success at it.<br />
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dfbdogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-56460569757486702612013-06-25T23:54:00.002+01:002013-06-25T23:54:17.777+01:00The Complete ElmoreA few weeks ago I stumbled upon a Kickstarter campaign that I would have supported but was unfortunate enough to miss. If you will excuse the pun, I kicked myself harder than I have ever kicked myself before. The campaign in question was for an art book. An art book written by one of the first artists responsible for firing my imagination with wonderful visions for my gaming and responsible for my interest in fantasy art. This artist is Larry Elmore and his art book is a collected works from the span of his career called "The Complete Elmore". An art book that will look great on any fantasy gamers shelf. I have a good selection of art books, none however, are complete works. But with that said, the amazing artists whose books I have collected have not been in the business quite as long as Larry or have just not produced such a book that I have seen. I do hope to see plenty more "complete works of..." in the future.<br />
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If you are a hardcore RPG gamer reading this it is quite likely that you will have seen the basic red boxed Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set. You know, the one with the gold dragon on the front fighting the barbarian warrior using a sword and shielding himself. Here, this.....<br />
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Larry is also well known for his work on Dragon Lance Chronicles as well as Dungeons & Dragons. A book series I absolutely loved in my now long gone youth. Well it seems like it anyway. I guess I am not that old really. But anyway, time for me to shut up for a minute and just feed your eyes a steady stream of Elmore artwork...<br />
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Well there we have a selection of it anyway. If you want to see all or at least most of Larry's art, then perhaps check out Larry's book "The Complete Elmore". Although the wonderful bargain Kickstarter price is no longer available, you can still purchase one of the few remaining copies Larry has leftover at regular retail price. Unfortunately my own financial circumstances prevent me from splashing out on it and I will be bitter about that until the end of my days. But bills, a house move, finding a new place to live and preventing myself from sitting in the street with a beggars bowl and an "Alms for the blind" sign drawn on the back of a Cornflake box, all conspire against me.<br />
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dfbdogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-84080660049338708362013-06-03T11:19:00.002+01:002013-06-03T16:20:33.793+01:00Rataxes - Rhino Warrior!!!This guy is absolutely brilliant and its painted by the super amazing Golden Demon winning Stefan Johnsson (SkelettetS on CMON). Stefan has achieved some lovely skintone in this piece below, using his favourite dark palette. If I could wring this piece from his hands and put it in a glass cabinet I would!! Definately cool. There is a lot of amazing work out, wish I could make sure I get everything I like on here, but that would be an impossible task. But a task I hope to start tackling properly again when my life returns to some semblance of normality. For now enjoy Rataxes, visit Stefan's gallery, vote - comment if you are CMON'er (and if you are not join - it's a great site with a lot of top minis being posted every week on the galleries!).<br />
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dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-90020691123982171212013-06-01T00:02:00.001+01:002013-06-03T12:56:22.233+01:00Pixies, Children and RocksI spent the day on Newquays Towan beach on Wednesday and Thursday, chilling and doing some drawing. I dont really crack out my sketchbook in public normally. But I thought its a good alternative to sitting around the house fed up with everything. So I shot down to see a friend and go to the beach as its only an hour away from where I live. Newquay, for those that don't live in the UK is a major surfing town in the country and popular seaside destination. Anyway, climbed onto some rocks to keep nosey passersby at bay. Pleased with myself that I could carry on drawing unobserved I did not count on ninja children traversing a few big dangerous jumps whilst their mother bellowed at them to get down lower to somewhere safe. Anyway, they came over to see what I was doing. They weren't old which was why I was worrying about the jumps they were doing. Anyway they came over and the youngest of the two, aged about 5 or 6 was very interested. So I asked him if he'd seen the Hobbit and he said yes which led him to a heap load of suggestions of things for me to draw. Whilst he was watching I let him have a go and showed him how to shade using a tortillion blending stump which he was well chuffed with after telling him to use a cotton bud he had to go home and it was time for some peace and quiet....came up with this Froud variation....<br />
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A great new product is soon to be released by a budding new company - Painting Buddha, run by hobby loving hoopy crazy man Mr Michael Bartels. He is running his company with a few twists and to get more idea about what all this guy is all about I recommend you read his blog. He has some giveaways and competitions running as well - so a chance for some cool free stuff! <a href="http://masterminis.blogspot.co.uk/">Visit the blog here!!!</a><br />
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Read all that? Good, 2 54mm minis and two instructional DVD's on how to paint these exact figures is a great idea and an amazing bargain. Both of these painters are at the top of their game and I will be having myself a set of these just for the painting DVD's - I have plenty of other figures to paint, I don't need more but I do need more instruction! I got a finalist place at the UK Golden Demon 2012, this has given me the necessary confidence boost to push myself further and say yes, it is possible to improve. Everyone can do it, no matter what level or standard you are there is always room to get better. I think this product is a well designed idea. The mini's look great, the chosen painters to do the tutorials are perfect but the DVD set still remains to be seen. No pressure Michael - we have every confidence in you!! Keep your eyes peeled on this product as it due to be released shortly. I will post again when it is actually available to buy!!</div>
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dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-71318894612493553582013-05-27T12:50:00.002+01:002013-05-27T17:55:08.269+01:00Sketchbooks, Goblins and FaeriesWell, despite a disastrous personal life over the last year and the foreseeable year ahead I have been able to start making a revival of my artistic endeavours. At the beginning of this year my nan died and being particularly close to her it hit me very hard. My stepfather has multiple cancers ripping through his body and we recently had the news that my younger brother also has a malignant tumour on his kidney. And last year my wife left me. Enthusiasm for anything = ZERO! Art is my biggest love of all my holidays, in it's many forms and it is of course what this blog is all about - the amazing works of people across the world. Particularly in the field of fantasy art.<br />
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Anyway, it is not often I have updated this blogs section for my own work so here are some sketches and a couple of water colours from a new painting "sketchbook" I got.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A drunk and grumpy Cornish Piskie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Frankie Says Relax...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Gary Lippincott copy, with a few changes.</td></tr>
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Here are some doodles from my sketchbook whilst we were playing the Munchkin card game at UK Games Expo...<br />
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These were drawn at the UK Games Expo at various opportune moments with a tiny stub of a pencil, so yeah they ain't brilliant lol. Some details were tidied after taking the pics to.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dr. frankenstein, why give me a head with a comb over?!?</td></tr>
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Anyway, some works are now back in progress just got to beat the bad things going on in life.<br />
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<br />dogfacedboyuk2http://www.blogger.com/profile/16496571177550314579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1320402009412889961.post-91838818202892846212013-05-27T01:32:00.000+01:002013-06-04T00:14:49.769+01:00UK Games Expo May 2013<div style="text-align: left;">
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After a long time with no updates I have a few things to share. My report and some photos on the UK Games Expo held on 24th - 26th May. This is the first board game convention I have attended and I was quite impressed with it I must say. You can read my experience of the expo below. It was held in Birmingham at the Hilton Metropole Hotel at the NEC and I would recommend this event to anyone with a passion or a budding interest in board games to attend next years event if you missed out this year.</div>
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The venue was well suited to the scale of the event and attending on Friday when it was a little quieter was definitely a good plan. We walked straight in got our tickets for the weekend and the tickets for the games we booked all within 5 minutes.<br />
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<b>Friday</b> - There were no trade stands available on the Friday, as they were setting everything up, but there was plenty on, with a room for free gaming and a good selection of board games to sign out and borrow if you did not bring anything yourself. We took Guilds of Cadwallon by Cool Mini Or Not, a nice quick game of tile capture. And we borrowed several games Dominion, a card based game which we all enjoyed and Super Munchkin , a tongue in cheek card game (even had time to do some <a href="http://doggysdoings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/sketchbooks-goblins-and-faeries.html">sketching </a>whilst scoring!)
as well as a World War II game and a couple of others. The selection was large enough to keep everyone without anything entertained. And if that wasn't enough there was a bring and buy sale which had an absolute ton of stuff to purchase at bargain prices if you didn't mind a bit of use on some of it (also some brand new items - Warhammer 40K 5th edition for £8 still shrunkwrapped for an example!) Plenty of old classics not readily available on todays market as well - Talisman 2nd Edition, Fantasy Warlord by Gary Chalk....the list goes on!<br />
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The event was made enjoyable by the general friendly nature of people there which is probably not surprising given the nature of the average gamer! We were learning to play a new game and within moments a passerby joined us and showed us how to play and later on we played another demo of the same game with some different expansions. Thanks to Ryan for that and congrats on winning the Cthulu RPG event! This is definitely the kind of event you could visit on your own and meet people, join in and get on with some gaming.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RichKingRetro getting annihilated by overwhelming numbers!</td></tr>
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<b>Saturday - </b>I was very much looking forward to the Talisman game I booked and was excited at the idea of playing against people outside our gaming group. Elliot Eastoe hosted the games assisted by Richard Soulsby, who ran the game I was in. Talisman is my favourite game full stop. So when I got off to a cracking start drawing a Unicorn as my first card and a Talisman as my second card and several other good cards like Pharoahs Crown, Solomons Crown, the Wolf Slayer and others I thought the game was going to go well for me. The characters in this game were the Spy (me), the Monk, the Necromancer (Richard), the Tinkerer played by a lady who had not played before, the Sorceress played by the ladies partner and the Grave Robber played by a chap from Denmark. It was a fun game with a lot more player versus player than I am used to. Luckily I played well as I could and it was only the dice that went against me in this game! I turned into a Lycanthrope, changed to good and got toaded by Richard (thanks Richard!) and my game got worse from there onwards!. The newbie got to the Crown of Command first and started killing us all off. Richard used <b>"my stolen" </b>Talisman to take on the Tinkerer and was killed despite being very powerful thanks to all <b>"my stolen</b>" items! Then from nowhere came the Grave robber and the Tinkerer was now too battered to defeat him in combat and thus the game was won...<br />
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It was a fun game, thanks to Richard for running it smoothly! The lady who had never played before liked it so much she wanted to buy it for the family. If you have never played Talisman before I can of course highly recommend it!!!! A solo version is available on Windows, Ipad, Iphone and Android devices with a multiplayer online version in development. It's called Talisman Prologue and is available from <a href="http://www.nomadgames.co.uk/">Nomad Games</a> who demonstrated the game at Games Workshops Games Day last year.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Super Spy character very early game..LOTS of goodies...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Game on...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">FIGHT!!! Fatality - HUHUHUHAAAA!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Please DON'T TOAD me Richard!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mads Thargaard - The Winner!!!</td></tr>
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One more late speed Talisman game finished the day off. We started at 9.30pm ish and I suggested a Battle Royale at 10.45pm if there was no winner by then. To compete in the Battle Royale you must possess a Talisman, so given we were not likely to get a full game in, this was the best option. I played the Monk, we had some custom characters in the mix - The Lich King, Zombie Warrior, Shapeshifter, the Orc Warlord. This game had the quickest kill I have ever seen in a game of Talisman. A 2nd round death for the Orc Warlord by the Lich King! Most amusing to watch the Despair on Mr Dan Boltons face!<br />
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The game really heated up at 10.42pm with everyone trying to hurry each other up with their turn. Two people had Talismans.......one of those people had it stolen by the Thief!! Mr Dan Boltons luck was bad in this game, a 2nd round death and a chance to fight in the final Battle Royale denied! Unlucky. The final fight was between the Shapeshifter and the Thief, but the Shapeshifter had too many lives and the combatants were equal in skills. A win for RichKingRetro....<br />
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<b>Sunday</b> - A slightly quieter day today. I attended a morning seminar with a speaker from Fantasy Flight Games talking about the design of the X-Wing game and Bloodbowl Team manager amongst some of his other games. This was interesting and later in the afternoon I went to another seminar - on board game design with a panel of 5 games designers talking with Q & A time in between. The seminars were an hour long and all were being videoed so you may be able to see them online somewhere. Seminars were put on throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday and there was also a movie shown late in the evening - Avengers Assemble.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RichKingRetro being exterminated and not even realising it!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice art.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This gets my vote for saddest RPG game/whatever EVER!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Games galore!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A character I sketched whilst scoring Munchkin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at the size of this D20! I could kill somebody with this!</td></tr>
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So a great event overall. Seminars, tournaments (including UK Catan Championship) for many games, shopping, bring and buy, a bit of cosplay <a href="http://www.galacticknights.co.uk/">(www.galacticknights.co.uk)</a> and some guest artists and actors. Well priced at £18 for the weekend and game events typically priced at around £6 to enter on average.<br />
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My only complaint would have been the dining facilities and car park charges. The expo had its own restaurant area with an average selection of food of a good standard - although the Sunday lunch was especially very good (roast beef dinner). The Friday and Saturday menu was typical fast food fare - burgers, chips, wedges, chilli, curry, chicken casserole and vegetarian options. However whilst the food quality was good and the beer was cheap (standard pub price!) there was nowhere to sit and only a few dining "stands" which were useless for the children. Most people had to eat their meals on the floor! That needs to be addressed for next year. Car parking was £18 for the day! Guests at the hotel pay considerably less though.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">£18 --- Boooooooooo!!!!<br />
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EDIT: Okay some people in the comments have pointed out that free or cheaper car parking was available for the event. Welcome news for next years trip but I am not sure how we missed it and ended up paying £36 for two days.<br />
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I had best plug <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/RICHKINGRETRO/videos?view=0">Richs Youtube Video Channel </a>as well as he has old boardgames available for those who may be interested as well as a lot of retro games. Get in touch with him and tell him Dogface sent you. I may be able to wangle a favour out of him one day...<br />
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See you at the <a href="http://www.ukgamesexpo.co.uk/">UK Games Expo</a> next year!</div>
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