Cold Engines is part of a set of illustrations I made for Horizon Games back in March.
The game is called Traveller, and after a successful Kickstarter campaign it’s estimated to be delivered in July 2017.

Working on the project has been huge fun, although, as it always happens, when I get commissions I get them all at the same time (most of which I won’t be able to share for a long time), and I now remember March as a blur of drawings, concepts, and nights spent on my Cintiq working while Watching Netflix on my secondary monitor.
Still, as I said, I had great fun with this, and the people I worked with were great.

I’m quite happy about this illustration in particular, as I had never drawn an Asian face before, oddly enough, and I think it ended up being not so bad.
I also think the perspective and the lines of the cockpit worked nicely together, so all in all this time I’m not complaining about the result when I look at it a month after it has been completed.
(Note to self, those kind of reds DO NOT translate well in CMYK!).

Only bump along the road was about me being a dumb idiot, and delivering the illustration with a screen reading ENGINE NON-REPONSIVE.
I still don’t know how I managed to mess that up.
Oh well.

Anyway, there are a few more illustrations I made for the project, which I’ll post in the coming days.

by Paolo Puggioni