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This is the first piece I started on in my Generations project for Conceptual Illustration based on Role-Playing Games. We were instructed to just start drawing/painting without doing any preliminary work.
For this piece, I did just that. I taped off a section of illustration board and started painting in acrylic paint. I did shoot reference photos first because I knew what my subject matter was going to be. But I didn't know compositionally how it would turn out.
This piece is based on my first real introduction to table-top role-playing games. My brother Jon is roughly 9 years older than me. He was really into Dungeons and Dragons when he was a teen and young adult. He tried to get me to play the game with him a few times but I found it to be really boring and slow. It took a whole day just to create my character. So to liven the game up, he thought up the great idea of using my LEGOs to act out the scenes as we played the game. It was really fun that way. So in this piece you'll see several references to LEGOs such as the archer in the forground.
The other pieces you see in there are from a game that was somewhat inspired or based on D&D called HeroQuest. It's an RPG board game. The characters you see in here are the Chaos Warrior, mummies and orcs. Just like I explained in Bit 3 of my Generations series, HeroQuest is also a cooperative game and is NOT competitive. The other players in the game are on your side and you work together to get through the dungeon. I think I first played this game when I was about 10 or so and I LOVED it! It actually didn't belong to us. My brother had borrowed it from a friend and I got to have it for a while until we had to give it back. Sometime last year I was reminicing about the game and thought about seeing if I could buy it anywhere. Unfortunately the game is out of print but I was able to get a used game off of eBay for like $40. For those of you who are into Games Workshop games like Warhammer, HeroQuest is very much like Warhammer in the design of the characters and such. HeroQuest isthe game that started it all and is the predecessor of Warhammer.
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Submitted by: BogusRed
Posted: Feb 14, 2006 11:03 pm
Completed: Feb 14, 2006
Critiques (22)Galleries: Fantasy, Finished Work, Humor, Original Art
Keywords: orcs, orc, chaos warrior, gold, legos, lego, heroquest, generations bit 1
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 arkillianTotal Posts: 3088Feb 15, 2006 12:04 amAhhhhh- as soon as I saw that door I IMMEDIATLY thought of Hero's Quest!! Those peices are really good for doing DND games too- using them for landscape/furniture. I'm a Spycraft/DND fanatic- both D20 based rp games --- |
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There is definetly memorys here ^^ *feels old now Hero's Quest is out of print*![[emoticon]](http://www.paperdemon.com/images/forum/mysmilies/15pxyellow_pdwings.gif)
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 BogusRed (Reply)Total Posts: 2864Feb 15, 2006 11:23 pmI didn't think anyone else here had played the game. I love the furniture in the game. I'd actually like to go to a craft store sometime and buy additional miniature furnature (like the stuff used for doll houses) to use for Heroquest campaigns. I love the game so much. --- Help me squarsh bugs |
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arkillian (Reply)Total Posts: 3088Feb 16, 2006 1:41 amHon- I'm a 23 year old gamer- I have the EXPANSION packs. Oger horde is cool --- |
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What I loved was the peices too- I loved that you had a visual game. Not many games are like that. It took ages to do though. Closed/open doors were a pain. We use to make all of them open cause the adventurers use to serch all rooms anyways. HA! unless they were the chicken wizard that opened all the doors and ran off when the chaos warriors went after him!! We lost the Barbarian and dwarf to that ^^ It was sooooo funny!! ![[emoticon]](http://www.paperdemon.com/images/forum/mysmilies/15pxyellow_laugh.gif)
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BogusRed (Reply)Total Posts: 2864Feb 16, 2006 10:59 amhaha yeah they always run from chaos wariors. I only have one of the expansion packs so far. Have you visited the fan site on Heroquest? there are a whole bunch of downloads for the game and new characters and monsters: --- Help me squarsh bugs |
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arkillian (Reply)Total Posts: 3088Feb 17, 2006 2:29 pmNot yet ^^ --- |
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 MinimaidTotal Posts: 1929Feb 15, 2006 9:06 amHA! I totally used to do this with my brother. Ah, the memories. Lego is so awesome. We did different campaigns, but we definitely used lego for our characters. This is just so awesome, BogusRed. --- |
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BogusRed (Reply)Total Posts: 2864Feb 15, 2006 11:21 pmoh wow i didn't think anyone did that. It makes perfect sense though. You can build all sorts of different environments with the pieces and make your own character by taking the lego people apart and mixing pieces. Thanks for the fav and the comments Robin. --- Help me squarsh bugs |
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 Saiyangirl4everTotal Posts: 817Feb 15, 2006 9:23 amWow! This is awesome!And ...LEGO!!!!! --- There is no way to happiness.Happiness is the way. ~*~Thich Nhat Hanh~*~ |
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 LilimayhemTotal Posts: 1424Feb 15, 2006 9:26 amlol, lego does bring good memories! I love this, the light is awesome. It look as if theres a full moon and everything is glowing. Great work. --- Dont take life too seriously, you're gonna die anyway... |
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Lilimayhem (Reply)Total Posts: 1424Feb 17, 2006 9:01 amEither way you achieved the misty look greatly! I just love the way everything is outlined in white light. --- Dont take life too seriously, you're gonna die anyway... |
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 Jill V. -S.T.A.R.S.Total Posts: 2413Feb 15, 2006 3:30 pmThis is great! I love the dark tones in it. It kinda really reminds of that movie called toys with Robin williams. ever seen?? I love that movie. Anyways This is wonderful! --- Yes we can! |
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BogusRed (Reply)Total Posts: 2864Feb 15, 2006 11:16 pmThank you Jill. Yes I've seen that movie Toys but I don't remember a whole lot about it. I saw it when I was really young. I'll add it to my Netflix queue so I can see it again. --- Help me squarsh bugs |
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 Inuyashababe69Total Posts: 231Feb 16, 2006 11:50 amLEGOS!!!!! Awe that is sooo cute. It brings back alot of memories... *wispers* I still play with legos...lol! They are very fun..in fact our teacher gives them to us for free time...and im a senior in high school!!!! Hahaha it looks awesome though! --- |
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 Kat ScratchTotal Posts: 119Feb 18, 2006 12:08 pmIts an awsome pic --- |
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 KeenarnorTotal Posts: 2148Jul 24, 2006 8:44 pmWoooooow! That's really neat lookin. I liek the LEGO stuff too --- "...Then he used his fight money to buy two of every animal and put them on a boat and beat the crap out of them! And from that point forward any time a bunch of animals were together it's called a 'Zoo'!" |
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 War SquirrelTotal Posts: 298Apr 10, 2007 7:54 amThis should be in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. I absolutely love this, and I'm faving it right now! --- The greatest story ever written. FORMERLY HALO MODDER (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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War Squirrel (Reply)Total Posts: 298Apr 11, 2007 1:48 pmBut of course! --- The greatest story ever written. FORMERLY HALO MODDER (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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