#theartofharsh

What: Digital inked piece over a sketch provided by the client. Who: New Haven Games for Myth & Magic How: This piece was made in Photoshop. I both love and hate it. Seriously. It was a major pain

What: Meet Amelia, a villain illustrated back in 2017 in Photoshop using "digital inks". Who: Amelia is another piece created for New Haven Games' Myth & Magic line. Her brief was pretty

What: The desert marihd is a large mutated double-stinger scorpion. They can grow to massive sizes, and stealthily dominate the desert dunes, crag lands, and wildernesses of T'nah. Some have even been

What: Long story short, I salvaged a failed tabletop game company and made it my own. That included picking up two successfully funded, but unfulfilled Kickstarters, which I am fulfilling out of pocket

What: This cover art was recently finished for the first in a series of books following the adventures of Alabaster "Al" Dangermond, by author Jason VanHorn. This is the second novel cover I

What: Working off yesterday's post (if you missed it you can see it here), this image is a group shot of all the characters I created for the credits of the short film by Rey. This was a log of fun to

What: An Austin, TX area film maker contracted me late last year to create a series of illustrations for his short film about an underground pinata fighting ring. The concept was absurd, but his enthusiasm

Who: This is another piece for New Haven Games' Myth & Magic. One of the half page digital ink illustrations, in fact. It was done about 18-20 months ago (roughly). What: This half page digital ink

Who: I know this piece was commissioned by EN Publishing. What happened to it after I turned it in is beyond me. I can't find it anywhere. The piece I turned in around the same time is easy to find in

Every once in a while I'll get a request to illustrate someone's tabletop RPG character, or even a creature for a GM to highlight as a visual aid for their players. With the advent of Kickstarter (and

Who: Not too long ago, I did some black & white work for New Haven Games' Myth & Magic series. I think they were all for the Game Master's book, but I'm not positive. What: The job hit my sweet

Hey all! Ok, here we go! What: This guy was called The Quartermaster. Who: He was created for Purple Duck Games for a Legendary Classes product. I believe Purple Duck Games products are all Pathfinder

Hey Steemit! I'm still new here and still finding my way. I'm guessing most of you have no clue who I am or what I do. So I thought I'd create some posts to shed more light on that. Generally speaking,

This image was a doodle turned warm-up sketch turned finished piece made with micron and copic markers. Working out of my sketchbook with pens and markers really brings me back to the early days of the

For the past year I've dedicated most of my social media eMarketing energy to Instagram. I still use Facebook and Twitter frequently, but my primary focus has been Instagram because I'm an artist/illustrator

(Apologies for the "double post" - I'm still getting used to Steemit and I'm testing how things work.) Please see the previous post for the cover and first two pages of this story. ...and sadly

Please see the previous post for the cover and first two pages of this story. ...and sadly that's as far as it ever got. The next few pages introduce the last member of the team, and then the adventure

A few years back I partnered with a sponsor to create a webcomic inspired by some classic team books, such as the JLA, the Avengers, and a bit more specifically, the oldschool New Warriors. We didn't get

The concept art image here is of an idea I am anxious to pursue later this year. Harsh Realities tabletop games uses Sixcess 2nd Edition, which is a powerful modular universal generic game system. I'm

Hey all, nice to be here on Steemit with you all. My name is Scott Harshbarger, or just Harsh if you like. I am an artist and illustrator who has become a graphic designer, writer, and game designer/publisher.