Banner Saga Art Test

So I'm wrapping things up here at Longbow over the next couple weeks, and looking for new things, which led me to the Banner Saga Art Test. For those of you who don't know Banner Saga, it's a fantastic Nordic-themed 2D animated turn-based strategy game that I've loved for a long time. They're working on Banner Saga 2 and are looking for artists, so I decided to give it a shot. You can see the concept that they gave us to work with if you click the link above, and below is my version of it. I didn't get as much done as I wanted to, as I ran out of time, but I hope you guys like it anyway :)

If you hadn't had a chance to play the game, check it out!

Brand new website!

Hey everybody! I'll still be posting things to the blog here occasionally, but I've got a brand new website over at www.brittnewstead.com that will be serving as my portfolio from now on, and will be updating that much more frequently. So go take a look!

Some more arts

Continuing the art dump from last post!

Character Evolution

 

The evolution of a character! These are some concepts I did for a game concept that we were toying with here at Longbow a while back. I can’t say more than that, but I got permission to go ahead and share them with you. :) I have a few more other things to share later, but I like a lot of her concept work.

Hegemony Rome: Mercenaries DLC

The Mercenaries DLC for Hegemony Rome just launched today, so here are the concept art pieces I did for each unit.

First up, The Garamante Spearmen. A unit from modern day southwestern Lybia, the Garamantes were a Berber people of Northern Africa. One of the reasons we included them in Rome was to help diversify the units. Not a lot to play with on this one - almost all my research turned up the same images for what they wore.

Second, The Iberian Swordsmen. These are troops from modern-day Spain, which at the time had a few different cultures, including the Iberians, who would later be conglomerated into the roman province Hispania. These were really fun - lots of variation though it was hard to peg down specifics for the time period. Their sword - the Falcata - is beautiful, and very specific to this area, and now I want one.

Next up, the Dacian Swordsmen. Dacia was an ancient nation of Northern Thracians that changed in size and shape over it's history, and was conquered by Rome later, but was generally located in the area of Romania and Moldova now. They used a thin, curved sword called a Falx - the one you see here is a one-handed version, but they also had a longer two handed version that was bad ass. I really liked their scale mail and distinctive helmets.

The Sarmatian Lancer! In our game we gave him more of a spear than a lance (due to animation difficulties) but in reality they would fight with lances between 3 or 4 meters long! They were generally used to run down and utterly destroy infantry. Instead of a lance I've pictured him here with their traditional banner, which were completely awesome and kind of look like dragon heads. In reality, the horses of the time period were quite a bit shorter/stockier/fuzzier but we tend to see non-modern horses as 'wrong', so I kept with a small modern horse.

Thracian Peltasts! Those of you who played Hegemony: Wars of Ancient Greece should recognize these guys - Peltasts were skirmishers and light infantry for Ancient Grecian - and Thracian - armies. They also have amusing hats.

Here's the quick sketch I did for the Suione's ships - basically the precurser to the later viking long ships. There is almost no physical example of them extant today, but they are described in contemporary reports and the carvings you can see that I included above. The top have of the image are my references, the bottom the sketch that I did. I included the ref of the ships that they were using several hundred years after this - but at the time of our game, they didn't have the distinctive mast and sail.

That's it! Hope you enjoyed.

Hegemony Rome Bannermen DLC

Can finally release some of the concepts I did for the Hegemony Rome: Rise of Caesar Bannermen DLC that I did months ago, as the DLC just released today! So above is the German Bannerman, below are the bannermen for the Gauls and the Britons.

She Doesn't Know She's Small

 

"She Doesn’t Know She’s Small"

IMC 2014

I have a bunch of process pics that I’ll throw into a gif and toss up later. In memory of Pickle the Parrotlet.

Shivarra

Another painting I did for Todd Lockwood’s Smart Class - as part of the Art Director assignment. Our AD was a former AD on the World of Warcraft TCG, so that’s what the assignment was!

This one is a Shivarra demon and wow six arms are hard.

The Eagle

 

Hey Everyone! It's been a while, I've been hard at work on Hegemony: Rome, but in the meantime I've also been doing a class with Todd Lockwood for the SmART School! So, with the gracious permission of my employers at Longbow Games, I did a little painting for Rome as part of my course work, and here it is. c:

Hope you all enjoy! Rome is officially launching in Spring 2014 so keep an eye out for us. c:

More Hegemony Rome Concept Art

Concept art from Hegemony: Rome.

Naiad Design

The Naiad design I did kind-of-sort-of for the Art Order contest though I likely won't submit it. So basically Naiads are usually painted like hot naked ladies, which seemed a bit boring, so I designed it so that sitting in the river, from the shoulders up, the naiad would look completely human. But the deeper one got under the water....

Hegemony: Rome Cutscene Paintings

Three cut scene paintings for our upcoming title, Hegemony: Rome! You can read a bit more about them over on our company forums, here!  c:

Hegemony Rome : Briton Loading Screen

Got the go ahead to release this painting, so here it is! The second loading screen, featuring the Britons and their chariot! This also happens to be the painting I was working on at the Illustration Master Class last year!

Other cool news is that Hegemony: Gold has finally been released on Steam! Check it out, if you are so inclined! The price has also dropped, too.

Hegemony Rome: German Loading Screen

This was released a bit ago so I'm posting it up here. My painting of some germanic warriors!

Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar

Yay!

So I can finally release my first image for the game I've been working on the last year, Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar!

Hopefully over the next few months I'll be able to show everyone a lot more art from it, so keep an eye out here.

So, if you saw my post made exactly a month ago, you might recognise this follow up! This painting was done as a demo painting here at the Longbow Games booth in Toronto for FanExpo, for our game Hegemony: Gold. You can check it out on the new site here : http://www.longbowgames.com/hegemony/ (there is a free demo and everything :) )

This painting is based around a confrontation between a Spartan and an Athenian.

While I painted this we also recorded the whole process, which has been sped up into a nice little video that you can find here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbChjyPvAX4 I even have a commentary track where I ramble about how I paint. :) Hope you enjoy!

"Hegemony: Gold" Gen Con Painting Demo

The Longbow Team (myself included) took a long drive to go join Gen Con last weekend down in Indianapolis, Indiana. While we were there, I did a painting demo for our game Hegemony: Gold (which you can buy over on our site). The theme for the painting demo was the Sacred Band of Thebes, which are probably my favourite group of ancient greek dudes. You can read more about them here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Sacred_Band_of_Thebes

So here's the painting as well as a time-lapse video of the painting process.

Have lots of work to show you guys, but you'll still have to wait a while I'm afraid. :) Enjoy this for now!

"Hegemony: Gold" Icons

Been working at Longbow Games for a month and a half now, and I can finally show you some work, as it will be released with an upcoming patch for Hegemony: Gold!

I've also created a thread specifically for my Hegemony work over at the Longbow Games Forums, which has a little bit more description of each image and who they are, what they are used for, etc. So go there for more info. :]

In the meantime, drawings!

Snow Leopard Lady

We're doing a pin-up book to raise money for WWF over at Not Your Father's Pin-up, and I got all excited about it and did this sketch today. :P

Happy 1st Birthday, Not Your Father's Pin-Up!

A year ago a few friends and I started a pin-up blog, and it's doing pretty damn well so far. :]

Happy Birthday, Not Your Father's Pin-Up!