Joey ro

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The freelance fantasy artist rolls initiative as he sketches out new ideas for his latest TTRPG character creations

**FOG** **LURCHER** “Growing up as a fan of movies like John Carpenter’s The Thing and Ridley Scott’s Alien has helped fuel some of my monster designs for sure.”

**BUCKLER** “Similar to Dark Souls characters, I wanted this warrior to have armour that felt like mismatched odds and ends. The asymmetry came easier because of it.”

**GREATER DRAG** **FEEDER** “The original concept for the drag feeder came from a friend of mine. I worked on it a little further and pushed it to be more of an insectoid-human monstrosity to really tap into the creep factor we wanted for these guys.”

**THE** **DEFENDER** “I love to ink bludgeoning weapons. Pockmarked and battle-worn weaponry can tell a lot about a character. In this case, they seem to believe a good offence makes a good defence.”

**FARMER SKELLY** “Warrior skeletons have been a fun fallback of mine for some time. They initially began as quick sketches during a vacation, which have now grown into a collection of undead ‘resparked’ warriors that I keep adding to.”

**SWAMP** **SHAPE 1 & 2** “When I can, I like to work my poses as if the character was caught mid-step. In this case of a lumbering beast, I played with an initial shape, then duplicated and continued iterating until I felt I landed that heavy, slow, lu

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Imagine FX Magazine

21 November 2023

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