Digby Lambert

Illustration - BA (Hons)

School of Design

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Queering the Dice How gender and Sexuality impact play in Dungeons and Dragons.pdf (810.91 KB)

Atmospheric illustration of a hooded figure grasping a white orb, inside the hood are many green eyes instead of a body. Designed as a card for the card game 'Werewolf'

Bio

I’m very passionate about queer, gaming and nerd culture. I have been immersed in it all my life which makes me very interested in creating content for it and being in its circles. Over this year my focus has been on developing a body of work rooted firmly in fantasy settings, building characters and worlds, but also creating a visual language for promoting myself.

My work is characterised by its warm, traditional fantasy feel. Though my illustrative style is adaptable, the use of a digital medium, soft brushes and a focus on finer details and texture are consistent throughout. Inclusivity is something I enjoy focusing on, as I believe that a more diverse future is vital for the gaming industry as seen in my dissertation about the importance of representation of gender and sexuality, and its impact on how we play games.

Toxic Werewolf

Werewolf game Seer card, Featuring a mysterious hooded figure holding a white orb. Inside their hood instead of a face are many toxic green eyes

Werewolf game Blank card, featuring a space to write additional roles and a werewolf howling at the moon

Werewolf game Townsfolk card, featuring a group of 5 Feminine figures all holding various weapons. They are stern, and prepared to defend their home.

Werewolf game Nermal card, featuring a nervous werewolf clutching at a bright white orb, toxic goo drips from above

Werewolf game Drunk card, featuring a drunken figure propped against a building with drink in hand, Green eyes of a werewolf watch on in the distance

Werewolf game blank card, with blank spaces for rules to be written in and an image of a town in the distance

Werewolf game Werewolf card, featuring two werewolves encircling a moon, toxic green goo dripping from their mouths

Werewolf game card back, featuring recurring veg and fruit motifs surrounding a bright moon, two werewolfs with green goo dripping from their mouths creep round the circle

Werewolf game additional card, featuring contact links and QR code

Illustrations are painted digitally and spliced with gouache textures.

The redesign was intended to create a deck of cards that's as visually exciting as it is fun to play with. After researching different options I decided it would be themed around toxicity, as the game’s key focus is rooting out threats from within I enjoyed the slightly different take on showing it. It ended up inspiring the colour pallet, with the lime green taken from radioactive imagery and the wine red from plums, which are toxic to dogs. Motifs of fruit and veg that are poisonous to dogs are present across the cards related to the townsfolk, whereas the werewolf related cards feature more of the toxic ooze, creating a visual divide between the two teams.

Image of all werewolf cards printed as a card deck, with box and rule cards

The Chaos Hearts make an announcement

Short animation of the Chaos Hearts announcing their relationship to their adventuring party.

Frames are painted digitally on Adobe Photoshop, and formatted for animation with Wondershare Democreator

Though I’d experimented with animation a lot over the summer in the form of simple GIFs this project was my first attempt at a larger scale animation. It features a short section of dialogue from one of my Dungeons and Dragons games.

The intent along with practising animation was to explore character movement and personality, and my ability to show character relationships through body language and interaction in motion.

A single page comic strip of caspar, a brown haired elven woman getting the courage to leave the house by taking their cat along

A single page comic strip of Mr soup the cat asking for something that scares him being removed

Caspar, Cats and Anxiety

Illustrations are painted with acrylic paint then assembled digitally.

The concept for these illustrations came from exploratory research, knowing I wanted my project to be related to cats in some way- I just started researching, finding the theme of anxiety and then the inspiration for comics along the way.

The work was therapeutic in the end, allowing me to get stuck into a topic I love (cats) and that is important to my body of work as well as explore and work through the anxiety I live with through my illustrations.

The illustrations feature Caspar (one of my Dungeons & Dragons characters) and Mr Soup (Her familiar) as a focus, as both have featured throughout my works over the past year, and have become recurring characters in my overall branding. The comics are intended to become a long running series over time exploring living with anxiety in a more hopeful way.