My first full commission after leaving the studio I trained in. Pelican & Hare had a finished game about running a canal at night and a set of placeholder icons nobody liked. They wanted forty painted marks for lanterns, moths, sluice gates, cargo and weather, all legible on a stamped wooden token at 9mm.
I painted them at 60mm in gouache and then spent two weeks doing nothing but shrinking them and throwing away the ones that turned to mud. Twenty-six survived to print. The nine that failed taught me more than the twenty-six that worked, and I have kept them.
- Publisher
- Pelican & Hare
- Year
- 2019
- Players
- 1 to 4
- Illustrated
- Cover, 40 component icons, rulebook spots
- Editions
- English, German
Category
Component icons
Box cover. The first commission, and still the one I would keep.
Sixteen of the forty resource marks, at the size they ship.
The lock map. Painted at the very end, after the icons were signed off.
