This illustration was made for LeiriaCon 2010 first Roleplaying Meeting, organized and comissioned by my good friend João Mariano.

We started with the idea or tagline “You are the game” as food for the brainstorm.

After some rough sketches and ideas, the idea of several players becoming their characters around the game table started to mature.

From that idea came the first rough sketch to flesh out the composition in relation to the final poster design, to create an interesting silhouette for the overall composition and for each character.

After the overall shapes i started working in the secondary ones.

Time to start making it all more defined

Linework more or less final.

Then some revisions with João to make some points come across better.

Also fliped the image just to make sure everything was working, and i ended up liking it better, like this.

Setting the values, light sources, and underpainting.

Adding color, painting , defining shapes, shadows and highlights

The final painting, with some color tweaks.

After, i sent it to be applied by the designer to the poster.

And that’s it.

The LeiriaCon 2010 Rpg Poster Making Of by Luis Cavaco, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Portugal License.