How to plan and paint vibrant video game poster art: Duncan Fregredo shares his pro workflow

Game art has a legacy of coercing comic and fantasy artists into its world to create box and key art. Some of the best video game box art has been created by comic artists and illustrators, including the best of Atari's iconic advertising art.

When I ask Duncan Fregredo, who's renowned for his collaborations with Mike Mignola on Hellboy, why he jumped at the opportunity to work on upcoming video game Revenge of the Savage Planet for its poster art, he says it's because he "loves video games" and saw the poster project as "hovering somewhere between a cover or box art" that, for him, recalled the 16-bit era of Psygnosis covers by Roger Dean.

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Editor, Digital Arts & 3D

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.