Hiddenworlds: Portals to Adventure pts. 1 and 2.

These are a bit different than the previous Hidden Worlds image. These are rough, sketchy, energetic, and less refined. They were done on very small pieces of paper (specifically, in my small sketchbook that I usually carry with me), and were colored quickly in photoshop. So, these are more like sketches than fully hammered out illustrations.

They're meant to evoke the roughness and limitations seen in the style of old adventure games and dungeon crawlers.

Here is the first. The second is below the break.

This was inspired by a few specific buildings. As you can see, it uses a VERY limited color palette, which was part of the concept from the very beginning.

Head below the break for the next one!

I wanted to do something with Ionic style Greek columns. The idea of them protruding from a snowfield is an image that stuck in my mind, and I liked the idea of them being a very unusual color.

These take a lot of cues from a thread I saw a while back, filled with screencaps from old visual novels and dungeon crawlers. Most of them were for Japanese gaming computers. This thread also led to my current obsession with vintage Japanese computing and the associated games.

Another major source of inspiration for this was the old Macventure games. Specifically, their NES ports. Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and the Uninvited. Below is a set of Screnshots from Shadowgate.

So, perhaps you can see the connection.

There are at least two more of these in the works. They just need to be colored. These have actually been finished for a while now, but I had been putting off making a blog post featuring them.

Anyway, there's not much more to say about these images. There are a few more things that inspired them, but those connections/foundations are very esoteric, and of interest to no one but myself.

Anyway, stay tuned for more stuff, including a commission comic I'm working on for someone, and more Ask Asylum Twilight entries!