The Geek League

In the next few blog posts I plan to go through a board game design. I'll see where it takes me and if it makes it to publication. I'll give you all the steps, my ins and outs, and we'll see how it goes.
Starting an Idea
With most projects I either start with an idea for a theme or a mechanic I want to try. For Sky Ships of Albrexis (working title) I started with a mechanic....

With all the art I've been doing lately, I've tried to apply some skill practice in my idle time.  I don't get much idle time, but since I don't smoke anymore, I've replaced my smoke breaks with doodle breaks.
Here are the first two Sketches a Week.
1.  Oh God, the Moon: First one is from a photo I found on a website.  I tweaked the proportions quite a bit, focused on the eyes and distorted the nose a bit more to get what could be the first seconds of a Werewolf transformation....

Ok.  Lately I've found my self buried to my useless nipples in work and things that require my time.  When I sit down to draw, it can be very hectic, and I find myself adding to the pressure that already exists.   I step away and go revel, yea, lanquish...

When I was in college, I had several insturctors tell me that I needed to stop using colored pencils...  That, no one made a living with that medium.
Bull.
I've returned to colored pencils with a fury.  Finding new favorite tools in Prismacolor's Col-Erase.  These pencils are awesome.  Not because you can erase them, though that is nice, but because they blend more like graphite pencils.  Traditional colored...