Brutal, bombastic, and horrifying

Jason tells us how this brief from an adult RPG became a baroque bloodbath

This was the last image I produced for the Lamentations of the Flame Princess – a brutal, bombastic and horrifying role-playing game set around the time of the English Civil War. The brief was simple and visceral. The violent, bloodsplattered musketeer Alice would single-handedly take on an entire Spanishterico, with the soldiers in her path enduring a number of horrible wounds.

1 thumbnailing I pulled some reference of Spanish tericos and their soldiers, and began thumbnailing. I always thumbnail in pencil first, and usually I try to be clean about it, but this was a special case. The scene is so chaotic, with so many moving...