Kate Laird

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Lovecraft Book

Hey ya'll. Got another publication. Remember my Lovecraft creature? The little creepy rat man I did around halloween? Yeah well he's in a book now. On the back cover no less! And apparently in the top 5! So yay. Buy it now! Only for a limited time!

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1938730

Still waiting on my next sketch theater. Will post when it's up.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Gettin Faymiss

Oh hey. It's been a while. Take comfort in the fact that I've been busy. This will be a post full of links! First off, I did a Sketch Theater! So cool. Look:

watch:
http://www.sketchtheatre.com/?p=5843

Next, I've been published! They made a book out of the Discover a Muse Artorder challenge top entries. Buy it!
Czech it out:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1780018

They're going to make one out of the Lovecraft challenge too so keep and eye out.

Finally, a press release! This is a link to an article about the game I'm currently working on (doing characters and such). There's a picture with a line up of some of my early concepts for the game. Cool!

article:
http://www.musicrow.com/2010/11/music-mastermind-intros-unique-online-recording-tool/

I recently got hired by Wizards of the Coast for freelance stuff. Looks like that Dungeons and Dragons pin up really payed off. I'll be having work in an upcoming Dungeon Magazine so I'll be posting work as soon as I have work to show.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Tis the season

Well I've done another Art Order challenge. It seems only competition gets me up and working outside of my day job these days. Speaking of my day job. I don't think I've mentioned it up in here. I'm working at a company called Music Mastermind doing character design. We're creating a multi-platform music making game (think garage band meets guitar hero). It should be pretty sweet.

So here's the challenge. We had to visually interpret a creature from a H.P Lovecraft story. I chose Brown Jenkin.

Brown Jenkin, Mason's familiar, is "a small white-fanged furry thing", "no larger than a good-sized rat", which for years haunts the witch house and Arkham in general, "nuzzl[ing] people curiously in the black hours before dawn". The creature is described:

Witnesses said it had long hair and the shape of a rat, but that its sharp-toothed, bearded face was evilly human while its paws were like tiny human hands. It took messages betwixt old Keziah and the devil, and was nursed on the witch's blood, which it sucked like a vampire. Its voice was a kind of loathsome titter, and it could speak all languages.

He's a bit rough because I didn't have a whole lot of time for him. I might get back to him before the month is out.

Happy Halloween!!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Odin's Daughter

So, my last ArtOrder challenge (the gnome) got me 2nd place! Check it out:

ArtOrder: Fantasy Vixens, or the Pin-up Line-up

Here's another challenge for ArtOrder. This one is called "Discover a Muse". The task was to create an image based on the model, Veronika Kotlajic. My piece is called "Odin's Daughter". Wish me luck!

I had an immense amount of trouble getting the colors in the jpeg right. This was the closest I could get to the quality of the photoshop file.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Material Girl

Hello again.

This is another ArtOrder challenge. The task was to make a vintage pin up of one of the races from Dungeons and Dragons. I chose the gnome. I think most people would overlook them... especially in terms of sexiness.

I actually did some research on the race before I started. I never knew how complicated the backgrounds could be. I discovered that they planned out every aspect of their culture from birth, to courting, to religion... even to their pets (familiars). I found that gnomes are expert craftsmen with a keen interest in gemstones. Hence, my gnome is surrounded by raw rubies and a hefty pile of gold.

I kind of want to play D&D now. This will be my character.