Drawings from Palladium Books
The following are scanned in pictures I've drawn back in the mid 1990's that were from a company called "Palladium Books" who published RPG books.
Horseman of ApocalpseI drew this from the picture in Palladium Book's Rifts World Book 4: Africa. The top left inscription is the "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and their Netherbeasts: Death and Bones, War and Carnage, Pestilence and Raid, Famine and Cyno" This was one of the first pictures I started to draw on an A3 sized paper. I drew this piece back when I was at school and I remember specifically drawing this at the back of the kitchen in my parent's Take-Away. The pictures of the four hoursemen are separate in the book and I combined them into this drawing. I started with drawing Death from head downwards as normally anyone would. To fit War into the picture, I drew his beast first and had difficulty drawing War from body up to the head. I just picked a position and started to draw the remaining two horsemen.
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Equestrian Power ArmourThis drawing was from a picture in Palladium Books Rifts World Book 2: Atlantis. This piece has been scanned and slightly cleaned up. I love this picture because of my love for mechanical type creations. From memory, this is not a giant robot, but a Power Armour that is worn. The wearer then steps out of the horse section of the Equestrian PA.
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MechanoidsThis drawing was from a picture in Palladium Books Rifts Source Book 2: The Mechanoids - Mechanoid Brute Type II and Mechanoid Thinman. This was the second piece I drew on an A3. I made the mistake of not planning ahead as I drew the base of the background on the left first. When I worked across to the right, I realised that it was too close to the feet of the crouching Thinman. So the perspective is slightly wrong as he is not suppose to look like he is crouched up against the wall.
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Triax Super Heavy TankThis drawing was from a picture in Palladium Books Rifts World Book 5: Triax. This was the third or fourth piece I drew on an A3 sized paper. I love the design of this tank because it separates into several smaller tanks when needed. I always loved anything that can separate or transform.
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VRRDS MikadoThis drawing was from a picture in Palladium Books Mutants in Space. This is a heavy assault robot that is Known as the "Little Emperor". A pilot can directly sit inside it or control it via the VRRDS (Virtual Reality Robot Defence System). VRRDS enables the pilot to control and direct the robot counterpart without being inside it, but feels, hear and see as the robot, entering a world of virtual reality of what the robots sees.
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Sand SkimmerThis drawing was from a picture in Palladium Books Rifts World Book 2: Atlantis. This vehicle advantage over any other is its shielding and resistance to blowing sand. Thousand of tiny robots the size of mites or lice constantly clean and protect vulnerable parts of the vehicle. The tiny bots sound like the lost nanotechnology of Earth before the coming of the Rifts and would seem to support the speculation that the vehicle is pre-rift in origin.
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Kreewarr Carapace
This drawing was from a picture in Palladium Books Rifts World Book 2: Atlantis. A powerful soldier drone of the Metztla. An incredibly powerful, fast and deadly creature will usually fight to the death, particularly when defending the queen or the hive community. Like all Metztla, they are are spirited and merciless. Each range from 6 to 19 m tall and about 137 m long. The Kreewarr Carpace is blind, relying entirely on its sensors lobes concealed under plates of the head and its psionic powers. It can indefinitely live on land or under water with gills and lungs. the mouth is huge and powerful that enables it to swallow an automobile. The cannon is part of the creature, living like an arm of a human. The cannon can fire electromagnetic energy pulse indefinitely. The creature also has a chemical spray, which shoots out from the two large plates on its back to create a mist that is debilitating to humans and most mortal life forms.
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Lady of the LakeThis drawing was from a picture in Palladium Books Rifts World Book 3: England. This piece has been cleaned up slightly after being scanned. I normally avoid drawing humans because this is my weakness. Faces, body structure, arms, legs. I feel proud that I managed to draw the face so well, but I still feel I need to improve my skill on the arms, hands and feet. The worse part of this piece is her left arm and hand.
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