Dune CCG Art

Baliset

Here is a blast from the past of some of the cards I did for the Dune CCG in the 90s.

As has probably been chronicled before by other artists from the project, we at first were directed to make it look like the movie and then later were told not to in later sets.
I could not find the cards to of my favorite paintings for the sets and did more of them than I thought. I hope I can find the rest. Many of the original art scans are on long forgotten zip drive cartridges(I DO NOT miss those)…

Of course it is crazy to find anything you did 18 or so years ago. (And I do hundreds of illustrations a year, do the math and imagine an episode of Hoarders and you get the idea of how many books, cards, paintings etc. I have…)

It is funny to look at them now. I would probably make some different design decisions. Many of the illustrations look like they take place in a hotel (perhaps an art deco Hilton in desperate need of a remodel?) and I like to think I would make better composition choices now…

FUN FACT: The model for this illustration was in my Industrial Design class at UC and is a designer at Hasbro. He also is in some  on my D & D art and a couple other games.