Tome of Adversaries

Media Lab Books / Topix Media · 11 artworks

The brief

A Daggerheart-compatible bestiary

We worked with Media Lab and author James Ellis to design and illustrate 120 adversaries for Tome of Adversaries. We also created the cover art, giving readers their first glimpse of the creatures waiting inside.

Designing a bestiary of this size gave us room to explore how much a creature can tell you at a glance. We used silhouette, posture, and anatomy to give each adversary its own character and suggest how it might move or behave in an encounter. Across all 120 illustrations, our challenge was to keep that sense of discovery from one page to the next while giving the book a consistent look.

Art direction / Art lead

Kit Ho (AD), Johnathan Chong (AD), Liew Yen Hwa (Lead)

Scope

Creature & Character Design / Interior Illustration / Cover Illustration / Art Production Management

Artwork