Illustrations & Graphics for games
I designed this spaceship board for Extraction, a sci-fi survival board game where every corridor and room counts. I crafted the layout to be colorful and intuitive, helping players quickly navigate areas, find objectives, and spot hazards. Each zone is uniquely coded with colors and icons to enhance gameplay flow, while keeping that classic starship feel to draw players into the experience.
Explore the details and let your imagination take off! 🚀🎲💥
#BoardGameArt #SciFiSpaceship #GameMapDesign”
I’m excited to share my latest illustration: a detailed map of the enchanting world of Drintera®, created for Shewstone Publishing! ( https://shewstone.com/ )
I painted the map with careful attention to the writers’ indications and their hex-based sketch map. My goal was to blend a sense of realism with the classic RPG aesthetic and conventions, making sure that each hex presents a unique biome and/or highlights a single significant location.
I even designed a custom frame to align with the Drintera® logo, enhancing its fit for the page layout.
From the publisher: “Drintera® is a fantasy realm inspired by heroic mythology and the whimsical dream logic of myths. Adventurers here are not just characters; they are exceptional beings seeking achievement and glory.”
Dive into the world of Drintera® and let your imagination roam!
Inside underground caves, lies the ancient fulcrum, where all energy lines converge and where you can feel the weight of the whole world on your soul…
My box cover for the boardgame “Tiletum”, by Simone Luciani and Daniele Tascini, published by Board&Dice: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/351913/tiletum
My personal tribute to my favorite movie: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, Il Brutto e il Cattivo in italian), of SERGIO LEONE.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood as the Good (or Blondie)
Lee Van Cleef as the Bad (Angel Eye, Sentenza in italian, translated Sentence, a much better name for the character)
Eli Wallach as the Ugly (Tuco)
My preferred Quote:
You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.
Enjoy my personal interpretation of the ending scene duel, the “triello” (triduel? Dunno the english translation for it).
This is one of the pieces I did for Monte Cook Games for Numenera – Technology Compendium: Sir Arthour’s Guide to the Numenera (www.montecookgames.com/newest-… )
The piece is without background since it’s an illustration for the pages of the manual.
I will show more pieces in the next days, now go buy the guide if you are a Numenera fan! 
© Monte Cook Games
A piece I drew fast (4 hours initially) for a Portuguese professor that has done an article on my work for boardgames and asked if I could do a piece on Portugal. So I draw the Tower of Belem (with reference, both because It was not pratical to draw it without, and because I was full of other works and so I had to do the piece in a hurry), and a marauding dragon on it: it was a long time I wanted to do a piece on dragons.
In the end, I retook it for another 2-3 hours of corrections to correct the left wing and refine a bit more the dragon (since I had not the time to detail the dragon initially).
Anyway, enjoy it, I had fun painting my first dragon, and while I’m satisfied on how his head comed out, I will surely do better the next time!
This is one of a lot of illustrations I’m doing for Numenera and The Strange. I’ve been given permission to show a couple of them. For the rest, wait for the products to be out
For the upcoming book of Numenera: Sir Arthur’s Compendium. See Numenera RPG site here: www.numenera.com/
Copyright by Monte Cook Games (www.montecookgames.com/)
The State hospital for the criminally insane.
This is 1 of 18 tiles for a new boardgame for a client with a 1920′, Lovecraft inspired horror theme.
The publisher is Twilight Creations Inc: www.twilightcreationsinc.com/
Another piece for a new project for a boardgame editor. The setting is ancient Rome’s borderland life.
This is the board I painted for “Wild – the boardgame”, for the Ghenos Games publishing.
It’s a game based on the official television show “Wild – Oltrenatura” (all rights are reserved by Ghenos and Mediaset).
I had much fun in painting the various different savage ambients.
I used a mix of matte painting and brushes for the various parts, while the scoreboard were first created in illustrator, and then “finished” in photoshop.
There are several little details in the painting, I’m not leaving a 100% dimensions image here, but I’ve uploaded it big enough to see some of them I hope.
If you are interested in the game, is a family game (bilingual: english and italian) about collecting animals and exploring savage natural regions of the world: Kenya, Namibia, Alaska and Columbia.
You can buy it from ghenos games website: www.ghenosgames.com
Behold the Leviathan, mighty demoniac destroyer of armies…
Leviathan finished presentation painting for Eagle-Gryphon Games new boardgame (Copyright by them!).
A miniature statue will be out with the game!
Small teaser of one of my pieces for upcoming Monte Cook Games “The Ninth World Guidebook” book. (www.numenera.com/)
© Monte Cook Games
When I was a child,
And did not know the in or out,
I turned my wandering eyes toward
The sun, as if beyond it there were
An ear to hear my lament,
A heart like mine,
To take pity on the afflicted.
Who helped me
Against the Titans’ mischief?
Who delivered me from Death,
From Slavery?
Did you not accomplish it all yourself,
Holy, burning Heart?
And glowed, young and good,
Deceived, your thanks for salvation
To the sleeping one above?
I should honour you? For what?
Have you softened the sufferings,
Ever, of the burdened?
Have you stilled the tears,
Ever, of the anguished?
Was I not forged as a Man
By almighty Time
And the eternal Fate,
My masters and yours?
Do you somehow imagine
I should hate life,
Flee to the desert,
Because not every
Flowering dream may bloom?
Here I sit, forming people
In my image;
A race, to be like me,
To suffer, to weep,
To enjoy and delight themselves,
And to mock you –
As I do!
Goethe
Cards Layout, icons creation, and illustration of an amphiteater for the “Provincia Romana” boardgame (Giochi Uniti, author: Pierluigi Frumusa)
Illegal Distillery from 1920 prohibitionism era. A bunch of happy, while slightly illegal, people.
1 of 7 game cards illustrations for “Capo dei Capi”, a new boardgame by Stephen Finn ( www.doctorfinns.com ) about 1920 New York gang wars
The style asked by the client was to be a mix between realistic and painterly, while staying in an “Art Decò” palette and overall feeling, to recreate the feeling of the ’20.
The “Magician” card illustration for the boardgame “Wraiths and Redcaps”, inspired to the old Ghost&Goblins©.
Game by Duncan Wright! More coming for the kickstarter!
I was asked to get a realistic/gritty feeling, while retaining a BIT of the “cartoon” or painterly look of the videogame.
This is one of a set of illustrations I’m making for a new racing boardgame.
They will be used mainly in the cards depicting the different events and strategies you can use in the game.
The theme asked to me by the editor is F1 of the ’80 and ’90 years, with a “computer game” gusto and a enough realism. Of course the cars are inspired by the colors of famous cars of that period, but I’ve used a lot of interpretation on them, since It’s not even simple to find correct references.
In most images I had to move the forward tires more apart from the body of the car, because the editor thinked they seemed to compressed. I think it was a perspective perception, but anyway, the effect is nice anyway and the car seems coming to the observer more, so let’s stay so.
Copyright me and Gotha Games, the editor of the game
Photoshop only.
