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BCGR April Art Progress
🕑 Added 2022-04-10 15:49:12 +0000 UTCNow that we've begun making progress towards getting new art, I'll show you which pages are the ones that will be getting said art.
First, the highest priority pages. These are the ones with the most notoriously large empty white spaces.
P48: Life, Fortune and Matter Skills.
P49: Phantasm and Phasing Skills.
P50: Portal and Probing Skills.
P51: Sight and Temperature Skills.
P158: Exemplar Themes
P159: Example Exemplar Themes.
P174: Faction Military Tests.
P175: Faction Wealth Tests.
P176: Faction Influence Tests.
P194: Solar Grid Energy, Religion, Law and Labor.
P218: Lifepath NPC Contact.
P229: Lifepath Personality Quirks Part 2.
These are the pages that really need the content, in my opinion, enough to make me create this Patreon. The rest would be nice to have, but are acceptable losses.
Speaking of, these are the medium priority pages. They don't have empty white spaces, but are single-column text pages that would greatly benefit from being two-column and having some art.
P75: Character Roleplaying Details.
P76: Character Creation Example.
P106: Mecha Personal Touch.
P107: Mecha Construction Example.
I'll be honest, I just want to have the example character and mecha illustrated. The other two pages are an opportunity to showcase odd character options or the process of mecha customization via art. But there's still more that could be done.
These are the longshots, but somewhat ironically they would make the coolest entries, if we were to make them. That's because they are the cover pages for all the book's chapters.
P6: Introduction Cover.
P15: Chapter 1 Cover.
P39: Chapter 2 Cover.
P77: Chapter 3 Cover.
P108: Chapter 4 Cover.
P145: Chapter 5 Cover.
P187: Chapter 6 Cover.
P231: Chapter 7 Cover.
The current cover pages are functional, but, golly, wouldn't it be nice to have full page art for them like the old BCG did, in the quality of BCGR? That's why I'm listing them. Because even if they might not be necessary, my designer eye can't help but go "Damn, this white text on a blue background really should be two mechs having a beam saber duel." I can only hope enough people feel the same way.
Onwards to the illustrations themselves! I already know what to do with most of them. In fact, as of this morning, I already have the first two of them, courtesy of Patreon backers. Here's the new look for pages 50 and 51 (that's the Portal, Phasing, Sight and Temperature skills)
When I saw these two pages next to each other and one of them had Portal in it, I knew what had to be done, which is why it was my first pick for new art. I want to illustrate the rest of the Miracles next, and from there we'll see how it goes. There might even be polls regarding what to prioritize or even what kind of illustration to have, we'll see!
Gimmick Out.
