Interior Art (Patreon)

Today I'm showing off a few pieces of interior art (not yet color adjusted to Deviant's reds). I was able to commission art from two of the artists who worked on the Deviant core: Luis Sanz (pieces 1, 3, & 6) and Alex Sheikman (pieces 2, 4, and 5).

Something I've always enjoyed about Deviant and its art is that it leans towards the dramatic and serious but also betrays a bit of whimsy. In the core, for every shirtless guy looking at his scars in the mirror, his victim tied to a chair behind him, or hostage situation involving a Deviant's evil twin, or or creepy/weird Broken in a cage having its eggs harvested, there is an electric fish or cybernetic squirrel. It's far from one-to-one, but it's there. The Clades Companion has that amazing and deadly serious front cover and the creepy Manticore circus, but it also has Sasquatch gone fishing and Ashley. And although most of the art in The Devoted Companion is quite serious, even there, the front cover and the hostile takeover Power Point presentation are a bit tongue-in-cheek.

With Shallow Graves, I tried to keep up that tradition. The front cover features the corpse of a man who was drowned in his swimming pool and then dumped in a river. It includes a non-technological Invasive, a scene of violent mayhem, and a dramatic rescue (or possibly an abduction) of two Chimeric children. But it also includes a Summoner in a wheelchair being pushed through a public park by his war robot homunculus and a Renegade cohort doing chores, bringing in groceries, and cleaning an assault rifle (and whatever's in the stock pot probably isn't chili).