I found a great way to convert my charcoal drawings into anaglyph

I am the world -Anaglyph

Nothing Human Inside - Anaglyph

Middle eartth Collectible Card Game (MECCG) Unofficial new card

I have made artworks for the unofficial Dream cards expansions of Middle Earth Collectible Card Game this summer and I will illustrate some more in the near future.

If you don't know this amazing card game and love the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien I suggest you to take a look here.

If you know the game and have played or still play, you can take a look at the dream cards created by Thorsten the Traveller and Vastor Peredhil

The man in the interview below is one of the creators of MECCG, Rolemaster, MERP (MIddle-Earth Role Playing), and a co-founder of Iron Crown Enterprises.

Raudabern

Pencil on paper with digital paint colors/2022

character for the Dream card set of the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game (MECCG)

Ice-orc foragers

Digital paint/2023

Creature for the Dream card set of the Middle-earth Collectible Card Game (MECCG)

Planes of the face based on the Andrew Loomis method

The lack of angles in Andrew Loomis' books doesn't help people who like to draw understand better. So I decided to buy 3D models inspired by his explanatory drawings and I traced the renderings by hand.

If you draw and struggle with head shots, feel free to save these images and share them on the internet. I hope they help you as much as they help me draw the lights and shadows of the human head better.

Enjoy!

Artworks made especially for the game Imagine Role Playing.

These are some of the best creatures I did for the tabletop RPG Imagine: I started illustrating just with cross-hatching but after a few creatures I started to paint them digitally to add more life to them.

I would like to remake some of the The first ones I did but they are sent and approved as it so I’ll accept their flaws and move on.

Artworks made for HARP Beyond The Veil by ICE

OYEZ! OYEZ!

I can finally show the five artworks I did in 2020 for the new book Beyond The Veil of the Roleplaying game HARP From Iron Crown Enterprises.

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HALL OF SHAME OF MY MIDDLE-EARTH ROLEPLAYING CHARACTERS

This is the records of the deads and alives of my characters that I played and STILL play in MERP.

• Crumblepot: Scout (THIEF), Hobbit - lvl 3 (R.I.P)

  When Frodo, Sam, Merry & Pippin arrived at The Shire after the ring was destroyed, Crumblepot and others hobbits tried to stop them to enter and ruins the plan of Saruman. While fighting Frodo, Crumblepot was killed tramped by a pony ridden by a fellow hobbit who was going toward Frodo to crush him.

• Simonak: Warrior, Dwarf - lvl 1 (R.I.P)

  Simonak was brutally killed by orcs up the stairs of a wine cellar. Also before the combat, He was cursed by the Valar Ulmo because after exploring the wine cellar, he discovered a secret sacred place behind a big fake barrel and destroyed a statue of the altar for Ulmo.

• Aphadon: Ranger, Half Elf - Lvl 1

  Currently alive and don’t want to die.

“Life in Middle-Earth is not restful when you soak in the blood and sweat of orcs all days....”

— Balin, Lord of Moria

Oliphant Morn -Morë olori i Palantìr

Last week I finished the Artwork & the logo for the first album of Oliphant Morn; A great new Dungeon Synth project.

I inked for 4 hours if not more, little dots around the Palantir but in the final it was worth it. After all the inking done, I used digital screen tones for the light and shadows. Also, I would like to thanks my girlfriend for the help for making the illustration more good and beautiful.

Now my champions, put youself into bed and take some time to listen this beautiful dreaming music and enjoy your travel.

Come, travelers. And gaze trough the sinister and hypnotizing Palantír of Saruman. To see battles of uncertain fate and
desolate landscapes forgotten by time.

An Owl Oil painting - WORK IN PROGRESS

For only the third oil painting, I am really happy with the result so far.

This beautiful owl is my third oil painting. It is in work in progress until an unknown time. this week I will continue the wing.

So far I have painted 28 hours on the canvas. Each time I paint something new, I want to push it to the maximum that my skills can handle.

Each picture is a 3 hours session of painting.

My first oil painting - A grim mountain

I started my first oil painting course in september 2019 with the great painter Richard Morin

Before trying the oil painting, I would sometimes draw and ink a finishing illustration in black and white in 9x12 format. Oil painting cannot be rushed if you want something beautiful; It takes time ... Lots of time!

At first, I was not happy to have to touch up part of the painting in a week. I wanted something good, quickly. After a few lessons, I discovered that this "meditation" was good for me and my art in general.

Focusing on what I do and not wanting everything to be finished quickly adds quality to my creations. I see it with drawing, 3D and even in other areas of my life.

Oil painting, i love you.

Mathieu V.

Call Of Cthulhu: When fear of blood and murderous frenzy coexist.

Mi-go, a creature from the Cthulhu Mythos

My last game of Call of Cthulhu as a keeper was really fun. I initiated two of my old friends to play this wonderful game by Chaosium Inc.

For one of them, tabletop RPGs were a new thing. We had a great time together. It was a challenge to create a story really scary with people who are accustomed to horror & gore theme since young years.

One of the strong parts of the session was when my players saw a cultist very badly mutilated in a corner of a room, they loosed enough sanity points at the same time and had a bout of madness. The first player, Trevor by his character name, exploded in a spree of uncontrolled violence and destruction directed at the cultist, butchering him with a knife.

Marc, the second character, developed a fear of blood for 8 hours... When he saw the cultist mutilated, he started to run in terror and screaming while Trevor continued stabbing the remains of the poor cultist.

Zoog, a creature from the Cthulhu Mythos

After the insane violence fury that Trevor went through, he went after his terrorized friend Marc to try to calm him down, covered in blood head to toes and ignoring that his friend had developed a phobia of seeing bloodfor 8 hours! This scene was memorable and really special. My players and I really liked it.

Will their character die or become insane next time? We will find out next session.

Thank you Howard Phillip Lovecraft for creating an amazing mythos and thank you Chaosium Inc.

New home with a studio

Since the beginning of summer, my girlfriend has moved with me and we have installed our studio in a room. We can create each of our own art and thus inspire, encourage, ask and give criticism on our works.

When the magic happen…

Being both artists, we have arranged our studio with compartments for our artistic material, a metal wire on the wall to pin references and projects in progress. There is also a tripod for the camera if we want to record when we draw and paint. We may also add decorations on walls in the futur.

Some of my art tools

Principally I am an illustrator and I use most of the time black ink but recently I brought my first kit of watercolor and I am learning to mix color. My kit is really small so I can paint everywhere I want. last week I went to a museum and I painted old human skulls, and instincted birds. It was really fun and I will do this again soon, it is a great way to improve watercolor and study the models.

Also, in setember to october, I will start my oil painting courses in Montreal. I have brought a French Style Easel for painting outside landscapes and tweek them with a Fantasy flavor after in my studio. I can not wait to start learning how to paint with oil!

Imagines my black & white creatures painted with oil, they will become real nightmare.

The cultist, made with watercolor.