{"id":3202,"date":"2020-02-06T13:33:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T12:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=3202"},"modified":"2025-01-10T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T12:34:34","slug":"the-rise-of-colony-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2020\/02\/the-rise-of-colony-87\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rise of Colony 87"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I realised I haven’t shared all my Colony 87 designs with people who look at my website so now I shall remedy that!<\/p>

Here we have a pair of socialites. My client Jon Boyce (former owner of Colony 87) after looking at my initial sketchbook pages (which can be seen on my Facebook page) decided he didn’t want the retro 1930’s Blade Runner look and wanted more of a looser, layered look with one of the characters wearing the kind of hat you could see in a Moebius (Jean Giraud) drawing.<\/p> \n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n

When Crooked Dice took over from Jon we resurrected an idea of Jon’s for a Alien Pet merchant. My first sketches were heavily influenced by the sleazy snake-seller in Blade Runner. Returning to this idea I thought he could be wearinge a frame (similar to that on by the Colony 87 water carrier) in which the merchant could carry his creatures. Here’s the final concept:<\/p><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span>\nCrooked Dice Games’ range of Colony 87 miniatures can be found here:\n

Colony 87 characters and creatures from Crooked Dice Games<\/a><\/p>\n

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I realised I haven’t shared all my Colony 87 designs with people who look at my website so now I shall remedy that! Here we have a pair of socialites. My client Jon Boyce (former owner of Colony 87) after looking at my initial sketchbook pages (which can be seen on my Facebook page) decided … Continue reading The Rise of Colony 87<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,12],"tags":[366,461,292,18],"class_list":["post-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-art","category-science-fiction","tag-colony-87","tag-crooked-dice-games","tag-miniatures-concepts","tag-sf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3678,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions\/3678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}