Wild Hunt Studios

 

After quite some time of attempting to encourage and grow interest in the Patreon project, including altering the Patreon towards producing battlemaps and paper minis for tabletop and electronic gaming and such in order to broaden the project’s appeal, and yet still gaining no foothold in terms of interest or financial benefit, I have decided to end the experiment as having less value than the time being put into it.

The various items produced for my patrons are now unavailable to the general public and will remain so. For those of you who provided patronage, I thank you for your interest and support!

 

At the end of 2014, Wild Hunt Studios embarked on a new project, the creation of an illuminated manuscript titled Rose, Thorn, and Mist: Elves of the Bloodwood developed by way of patronage through the Patreon website. Patreon is based on the historical concept of patronage (very fitting, given the nature of this project!), allowing individuals to support artists and creators by pledging small donations in return for content — some artists are using Patreon for music, others for webcomics, maps, paintings, or even whole magazines.

At its heart, this project is a pseudo-travelogue about a grim enclave of elves, their forest homeland, and its history, based more on classic legends about the fey folk than on Tolkien’s own take on the same, done in an illuminated style of my own design. It is not specifically a game-related product and is not tied to any RPG system, but presents ideas that can be used for such, as well as enjoyed simply for pleasure and its aesthetics.

You can learn more about the project, and see the pages that have already been completed, by heading over to my Patreon page.

 

Fight On! issue #9 has just come out and bears a cover by Raven, “One Charge Left”. You can buy the magazine here and see the full illustration here.

 

Raven is honored to have taken Second Place in the Color category of the Erol Otis Art Challenge for his piece “One Charge Left”. There’s a teeny thumbnail on the winners thread you can strain your eyes on, but you’ll have to wait for it to grace the cover of Fight On! to see it in large form.

Be sure to check out the thread to see the other winners and runners-up (and check out the Fight On! magazine while you’re at it).

 

Pleased with the work already completed, Duncan Wright has extended the contract for illustrating his surreal-noir game. For sneaks at the illustrations already completed, take a look here.

Commission Status: not currently available.