{"id":3343,"date":"2021-03-15T13:41:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2021-03-15T13:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T12:43:18","slug":"colony-87-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/2021\/03\/colony-87-rides-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Colony 87 rides again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last year, I sent this page to Karl at Crooked Dice Games as he’d asked for ideas for jetbikes and beasts with their riders. Following this he asked me to work up the guy on the dino-bird (amongst others) at the bottom left.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s the refinment of the designs. I had a good look at ostrich riders in the middle east for the position of the rider and ostriches themselves. I based the riders’ hats a little on the late John Mollo’s costume designs for the Rebels on Hoth from The Empire Strikes Back (1977) and I looked at comics genius Alex Raymond’s Frigia Lancers (from his 1930’s comic Flash Gordon) for inspiration too.<\/p>\n

John Mollo on Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

Alex Raymond on Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nI worked it up in Manga (Clip) Studio and Painter with a bit of Photoshop as well. The outrider has an option for hands without a his laser rifle (he’s whittling a Chirroc bird from a piece of wood) and there are a few alternative heads.<\/p>\n

A link to the post on Crooked Dice Games’ facebook page:<\/p>\n

Crooked Dice Games on facebook<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Last year, I sent this page to Karl at Crooked Dice Games as he’d asked for ideas for jetbikes and beasts with their riders. Following this he asked me to work up the guy on the dino-bird (amongst others) at the bottom left. Here’s the refinment of the designs. I had a good look at … Continue reading Colony 87 rides again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,12,4],"tags":[366,461,292,18],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concept-art","category-science-fiction","category-sketchbook-pages","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\/3343","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.willbeck.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}