16 tips to master board game art

Alan Wen speaks to three concept artists about the varied and iterative processes that make up one of the most misunderstood crafts in the game industry

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Setting the stage Tanya Combrinck discovers how artists build tone and weave emotion into narratives

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Discover the process masterful battle artist Thomas Elliott followed to create an epic shot for Doom: The Dark Ages

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives