The Elf Fortress

Title:	The Elf Fortress
Genre:	Fantasy
Mediums:	Photoshop
For Sale:	NFS
Views:	4953
Posted:	5/14/2014
Status:	Unpublished

Projects: Illuistration: [Knight Errant Games]: Heroes' Tears RPG [AEG] Romance of the Nine Empires, Legend of the Five Rings [Fantasy Flight Games] KeyForge, L5R, Lord of the Rings LCG, Call of Cthulhu TCG, Star Wars RPG, Arkham Horror LCG, A Game of Thrones LCG, Runebound. Art Direction: [Fantasy Flight Games]: Keyforge, Arkham Horror LCG, Star Wars: Armada, Star Wars: X-wing 2.0, Starwars: Legion, Star Wars RPG, Genesys, Legend of the Five Rings card game, and Legend of the Five Rings RPG (Mask of the Oni)

Location: United States

This was interior art done for the table top RPG " Heroes' Tears" . It' s pretty common for the art direction of Heroes' Tears to be excessively complex. In this case it was a bit over the top, and we actually had to cut elements. The scene needed to show an elf fortress made of living trees, a burned down suspension bridge extending over a mile wide river with gnome shanty towns living on the remaining section, a gnome village beneath the fortress, a market place outside of the fortress, a port for boats coming in off the river, dwarves trading on the opposite shore, and somebody smuggling goods onto the bridge. We eventually decided to avoid the specific character interactions, and zoom out to show the structures.