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Pete Barfield once again takes our minds to the distant world of Valon with some more cracking pieces of artwork.
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Artist's Bio A fan of gaming, history and drawing from an early age, Pete Barfield has played wargames and role-play games for most of his life, working from a large collection of rules books and a larger amount of lead figures - some painted, but most undercoated or bare metal. Meeting Mac Coxhead at a model shop in Northampton where he had entered a painting competition in the Flintloque category, Pete was shown how to play Flintloque, a lesson and subsequent hobby that he enjoyed, realising just how much Mac loved the genre of the game in the process. In his spare time, Pete always been a keen and talented artist, and for many years drew a variety of fantasy/sci-fi work for his own pleasure and gifts for friends. A chance introduction to Jon Tuffley of GZG gave Pete the opportunity to help illustrate Dirtside II and Stargrunts II. Pete claims that he never really pictured himself as an illustrator, just someone who could draw. Now 45 years old, Pete works for Her Britannic Majesty as a civil servant, a full time occupation that he has held for a number of years. Pete still draws and paints, mainly for himself, focusing more on historical themes currently. He still wargames and paints figures. Webmaster's Notes After his hugely popular submissions for both the 2008 and the 2009 advent calendars the above drawings were created exclusively for Orcs in the Webbe's 2010 Countdown to Christmas Advent Calendar and were first published on Sunday 5th December 2010. You can see Pete's previous work for Orcs in the Webbe here and here. Pete has a website, PanzerKaput, featuring examples of his work and he also writes a blog is called PanzerKaput’s Painted Review. Pete is going to be at 38Fest on 22-23 January 2011 in Dumfries as a guest of Solway Craft and Miniatures where he will be talking about his work and hopefully getting a couple of games in. If you're able to make it, drop by and say hello. You can find full details of Albanich 2011 and 38Fest at the Solway Games website here. As mentioned in his bio Pete has also illustrated wargames before and you can see his earlier work on both Dirtside II and Stargrunts II by visiting Ground Zero Games' downloads page where both rulesets are available as free downloads. |
