Monday, October 5, 2009
Game Of Kings Artist Interview: Scott Robinson
Could you start by telling us a little about yourself ? Do you have a “day” job?
A little about myself?
Well, yep, I’ve definitely got a day job, I’m a full time graphic designed and illustrator and I run my own little design studio in the evenings. That’s a fair few hours dedicated to designing per day, but it’s the only thing I’ve ever been relatively proficient at. I’m also 100% addicted to coffee, I think those 2 things are related though..
Which artists influence or inspire you?
Oh, far too many to mention really, I’m really in love with art/design, so anyone that can provoke a response from me gets my admiration.
At the heart of things though, It’s all about skate-art for me really. Artists Like Vance Courtland Johnson, Andy Jenkins, Sean Cliver, Neil Blender, A.Hourtley, the Mighty Jim Phillips just to scratch the surfaces. Then there’s people like Jeff Soto & Nate Van Dyke, both of whom I’m currently fascinated with. THEN.. there’s all my comic book heroes, Jack Kirby, Mark Silvestri, Romita’s both junior and senior… there’s just so many people I admire out there.
On top of that, there’s all these people I’ve found here at Redbubble that I’ve had to add to that list too. There’s some truly gifted art ninja’s amongst us here.
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Sunday, September 6, 2009
The White pawn - I get by with a little help from my friends.
A special insight to the proces by Scott Robinson,
I thought I`d share a little of the backstory that went along with the recently released WhitePawn from the GameofKings
This piece truly was a collaborative effort, as you`ll soon see.
It satrted out looking like this.. this was my primary idea, a brutish looking behomoth.
This is still at sketch stage obviously.., nothing fancy. But the idea`s there.
I put it to my fellow collaborators, and released there was a couple of things left a little lacking. After reading through Danny`s backstory for the charector, I thought he needed a little more destructive force.
The actual group forum post was this.. “
Started the inking, and had a bit of a re-think about the front hand. I re-read Danny`s descprition, and the idea of grafts really struck a chord with me.
So I just sketched up, ( really, really roughly, as you`ll see) this front hand. I`m thinking of making it a mace. I drew it seperate to the rest of the drawing, so it`s not by any means the perfect position, but it could look cool if I drew it right.. I don`t like the spikes though, I think I`ll just go with crushing ball type of thing, Steel stub on his hand, chains, and a big crushing ball…”
So, with the help of the team, I came to this point