![Blood Bowl inspired fantasy gaming artwork of a hot jacked vampire girl for gaming company Ye Olde Lasersmith by fantasy illustrator Dirk Hooper.](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/vampirebyDirk.jpg)
Late last year I did a series of fantasy gaming artwork in black and white illustrations for Ye Olde LaserSmith. These illustrations were for laser-etched gaming boxes to be used for the Blood Bowl game to hold figures and dice.
The series started with the Orc illustration, which hit me at the perfect time. I was looking for an opportunity to implement my new inking and rendering style and this gave me a great way to explore that.
![A Blood Bowl orc in a football game is created and illustrated by fantasy gaming artist Dirk Hooper.](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/HooperBloodBowl4Web-1024x1024.jpg)
I loved the opportunity to really push things and make a dynamic piece. It’s so different from the portrait work I do often.
The next piece I did was the “Pitch Vampire” piece above.
I was inspired to do the vampire/woman/fantasy/football mashup. This piece is much closer to the work I usually do, but then again, very different too. This turned out as one of my all-time favorite pieces of artwork, but it was a little too suggestive for the company, so I offered to just do another piece instead.
My idea of the next piece was a collaborative idea between the owner of the company and me. He really wanted to flip the Evil Dead poster on it’s head, by having an undead skeleton with a flaming head in that pose. I fell in love with the idea of putting a skeleton warrior in a full suit of armor and you can see the results here.
![Flaming head skeleton fantasy gaming artwork in a full suit of armor by fantasy artist Dirk Hooper.](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/skeletonnightDirk4web-1024x1024.jpg)
Finally, I did several small icon-style illustrations for functions on the boxes. This process was a blast too. They are not big illustrations but I like the energy with them.
![blast illustration by dirk hooper](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IconBlast-1024x1024.jpg)
![Dice art by Dirk Hooper](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IconDice-1024x1024.jpg)
![Dice illustration by Dirk Hooper](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IconDice2-1024x1024.jpg)
![Fantasy football for Blood Bowl art by Dirk Hooper](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IconFootball-1024x1024.jpg)
![Hourglass image by Dirk Hooper](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IconHourglass-1024x1024.jpg)
![Reserves icon for Blood Bowl by Dirk Hooper](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IconReserves-1024x1024.jpg)
![Skull illustration in pen and ink by Dirk Hooper](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IconSkull-1024x1024.jpg)
If you’d like to see how this all turned out, here are some photos of the box and how the final illustrations look when they are fully rendered.
![](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/269973404_454424412889574_256324293239310082_n-1024x616.jpg)
![](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/270232973_1202120086979754_2580646347877629463_n-1024x960.jpg)
![](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/269877730_659023585112642_4390206993846130024_n-1024x569.jpg)
![](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/269664105_3166049770330192_7028040609023304269_n-1024x646.jpg)
![](https://www.dirkhooper.com/fetish/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/270008906_938297886805114_104056526709894916_n-1024x581.jpg)
I had so much fun with this project because it allowed me to show what I’m capable of doing in a whole other arena, and it fulfilled some of my aspirations as a gaming illustrator that dates back to when I was a teenager and was playing Dungeons and Dragons.
If you have a fantasy art or gaming project like this you can commission artwork from me by visiting this page.
More on Ye Olde LaserSmith:
https://www.facebook.com/yeoldelasersmithllc
https://www.etsy.com/shop/YeOldeLasersmith