Let’s face it, one way or another your game of Hell for Leather is going to get gory. I mean blood is going to be pumping and limbs will be used as weapons. It’s all fun and games until some one gets hurt.. Scratch that. ONCE someone gets hurt.. especially if that someone is you.

This week’s image will be used to illustrate one of the many ways your character suffers in Hell for Leather. When you slip up there’s a bunch of ways you can be punished, my favourite being when you get a TRAUMA. This is not a mishap or a wound that can accumulate into something grander, this is something that’s going to make the rest of your character’s life miserable. It’s your moment to shine—where you get to be as brutally bloodthirsty as you like!

In this example the character has tried to confront a guard and disarm him. He decides he has messed up and got wounded in the struggle:

The guard shouts “Hey you, you little shit, come out where I can see you?” I start to go into a rage, mouthing off obscenities. “You wanna say that to my face you ape-faced mother—” CRACK! A steel baton shatters my cheek. I feel the blood spilling out of my mouth like warm tea and I collapse to the floor blacking out.

I knew I wanted to get a bloody mess into this image. Something utterly cruel and violent. I started with a simple sketch to get my composition. It was important to get a lot of movement early on. Once I’d picked my final composition I worked on getting the face to be kind of half way between intense pain and knocked out. I pushed the expression as far as possible and then splashed some blood about.

If you like splashing blood then come back next week for some more Art of Hell for Leather. J Out.

I’m back with some freshly dried art work for Cobweb Games flagship title “Hell for Leather”, the game where Murder = Extra Dice. More… »

There’s a shiny new Challenge Target!

If you click the image below, it will bring you to the Hell for Leather page where you can download the high-res PDFs in assorted colours. Ooooh, assorted.

Welcome to the second part of Cobweb Art, Jason Hickey’s weekly look at the art behind the games.

Nail Girl as promised. The brief was to sex things up with all the trashiness that you would expect from this pulp masterpiece. We talked about pushing things as far as possible and in the end had a proposal which involved a car crash and a sexy woman with her breasts pressed up like two large air bags against the windscreen mid collision..

Needless to say that idea was left to brew and we stuck with our second choice.. A sexy builder/librarian woman shooting a nail/staple gun into some poor unfortunate male’s face/neck. Ok.. I drifted a little off topic and decided to leave her in post-coital contemplation after gunning down the nearest male.

Watch the “magical” process unfold before your eyes. Also note that while the woman is clearly the centre piece it is worth admiring the bloody sketchy mess that I left in the back ground.

Please leave comments and suggestions of more art work you’d like to see in game. If you’re suggestions are inspiring enough they might make it in to the final print!