Warhammer 40K Anniversary Celebration Paintover

As I mentioned in my previous post, as a celebration of the 25th birthday of the Warhammer 40,000 game universe I have been creating a full colour paintover of one of my 5 original drawings which appeared in the first 40K rulebook back in 87 - not in an attempt to update this image to fit the present-day canon of that universe, but to re-present the original image in a new way. I had a lot of fun with it, so I hope you all like it!! The original appears below for comparison. (Click the images to see in their entirety)

Meet AYA

Just completed a character/cover design for a friend of mine's self-published SF book currently called "Tauran Warrior". Author Lucy Luton wrote this novel when she was just 14 and recently rediscovered it on a floppy disk she'd thought she'd lost! There is a version currently available here.

Aya, 16, is a Tauran warrior – trained since childhood to follow orders and kill without compunction. When she meets a rebel soldier from an enemy planet, she starts to question everything she has known.”

Fighting Fantasy pics in colour!

In my spare time I've been creating full colour versions of some of my old Fighting Fantasy Gamebook illustrations. The paragraphs I illustrated for the books had to be done in a short time and under the constraints of a clear, easily printed black and white pen style. Why stop there? I wanted to have some fun and develop some of these images further, especially after I got my lovely Wacom tablet. Here's a couple of recent ones: The Conjurer and Felice is from Spectral Stalkers, by Peter Darvill-Evans, my first Gamebook, and the Giant Behemoth is from Bloodbones by Jon Green, my most recent one.

FRAGMENTS Book Is Out

I've been working on this for ages and it's finally ready. You can now buy this collection of my illustration work! FRAGMENTS - The Art of Tony Hough Published via the Blurb website FRAGMENTS is a jumble of my fantasy, SF and horror work from over 20 years of illustration since I was first published by Games Workshop in the 1980s.

Same Blog, New Name!

My old blog accidentally became associated with the wrong email address and stupid Google wouldn't let me change it no matter what we tried. Eventually I got tired of filling in those stupid forms and getting the same useless response from Google's automated reply thing so I decided to delete and start again - what an annoyance!!!! Work continued on my book, which is named after this blog: Fragments - The Art of Tony Hough is  self-published via the Blurb website. I aimed to get it ready for the end of March and here it is!.

https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/1413789-fragments