Tim Mcburnie is a comicbook artist/author based in Adelaide Australia. He frequently does freelance concept design and illustration for games and animation.
Hey I'm doing all the art (yes all, every icon, logo, box design, book cover, EVERY card) For this Kickstarter.
It's a fairly simple and fast playing tabletop card and dice game. Where you get to play as an Intergalactic Bounty Hunter and compete with your friends for bounty!
The campaign ends June 19th 2013. If you are interested in this kind of game or know people who are then please share it around, the more backing we get the better the game will become. the more art I will get to draw, and so on and so on :)
Some of the higher Pledge tiers offer original sketches and signed art prints too. There are limmited numbers of these and I'll be making sure the results for any original art is of high quality.
Anyway.... here is some art I have done for the pitch so far:
Here are some images from my new project; an adaptation of Pinocchio written by David Chauvel (david-chauvel.blogspot.com ) and to be published with Editions Delcourt.
David has written a great direct adaptation from the original book by Carlo Colodi and it's a pleasure to work on on of his scripts finally.
Did this last last year as a painting exercise; focusing on using a flat brush without opacity and putting in values directly.
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Doing all the backgrounds on Ara really let me get some painting mileage. I find the more I learn to create form without lines the more it actually helps my ability to represent things in line when I need to.
Here are a few more pages from Ara Tome 1. Mostly from later in the book where I felt the art was starting to come together more.
Regarding an English version, as you can see I have the whole book in English ready to go and I'm working on how best to go about a western version. I suspect it will end up being distributed digitally instead of in print to start with, thus an English print edition will be a long way off. If you want to grab a physical copy in French but also want the English translation; send me an email (with some proof/claim, that you have the French edition) and I'll hook you up.
I think it is fair enough to admit defeat against this blog after 3 years between updates...but I'm going to give it another try :)
So...I have been working on this fantasy book over the last few years, and have had many adventures that may be cause for an excuse to not blog. But mostly I probably have a tendency to avoid, for lack of a better word, jinxing projects by talking about them endlessly ( or in this case, at all) before they are finished.
The book in question that has consumed me for the last 2 years is Ara.
The first book Ara Tome 1: Le Cercle de Pierre ‘A Circle of Stone’ is due out today (August 25th) in France. Published by Ankama Editions.
I'm asked a lot if there will be an English version. Eventually I’m sure there will be. It was written in English and I have the pages ready to go. It remains to convince publishers to let it be so. I am keen to put it out digitally if I can, but that's another story altogether.
There is a 28 page preview in French and English up on this site, for those who wish to at least get a taste of the story. It is 102 pages all up.
Most of the concept art I did for the book (which is included at the end in an 8 page sketchbook) is already up online in my gallery. I'll post the rest soon. as well as some more development and process work. If anyone has a question about the process or development let me know and I'll do my best to answer on here.
If anyone living outside of France wants to get a copy I can recommend Amazon France. I have bought plenty of stuff from there in the past. I think you can maybe log in with your amazon.com username too (?). If you order a few items the shipping ends up pretty reasonable (which with the huge range of great French comics out there won't be hard once you get looking!)
Many thanks to my good friend David Chauvel who helped out with the project a lot. He Translated and adapted the book into French and helped greatly (even greatly is a huge understatement) finding a publisher.
I'm very happy with the job Ankama Editions has done. The book printed nicely and has a good finish. I especially like the paper they use (very geeky I know...but the paper matters to me).
Obviously the book is my first experience as a writer, and only my second as an artist; so there were many things to learn along the way. But I feel good about the final result.
Many apologies to all my readers in France, my French is not good enough yet to make much sense. I hope you can navigate this site ok.
Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 10:32PM ;)
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