A 2-D detour

Well, the painting and gaming has been a little slow so far this year, but I finally finished up a little side project I had sitting on the back burner. A couple of years back, I did some art for a timeline on alternatehistory.com which features some fictional Australian civilizations. This is a sort of companion piece, featuring one of the civilizations which did not get an illustration the first time around: the Bungudjimay kingdom of Daluming on the eastern coast. Since they're about to become relevant in the story again, I figured this was a good time to finish this up:

For interested parties, more information can be found here: Part I and Part II.

Working in two dimensions

It's not often, but every once in a while I get the urge to do some drawing. This time, the catalyst was a work called Lands of Red and Gold, over at alternatehistory.com, which imagines a world where Australia developed agriculture and native urbanized civilizations of its own. After reading through all this, I got to imagining what some of the people might look like, particularly the soldiers of the various cultures. (Well, I am a wargamer, after all. (That reminds me, I should look around and see if anyone has sketched out DBA army lists for the Aururian civilizations yet...))

Anyway, this is the resulting product--I drew the people by hand, then scanned the drawings and colored them in using GIMP.

(And now, with that out of my system, I can get back to painting chariots...)