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Isolation Play - Brutal Game

by Blotch Traditional Artist

Posted 15 years ago

This is one of the interior illustrations for Kyell Gold's newest book Isolation Play. I did 11 interior illustrations for the book (plus the cover.) The interiors will be printed in greyscale, but I figured I'd still paint them since I like that kind of thing. ;]

The novel, Isolation Play, is a sequel to his book Out of Position and will be available this January. On that note--at 8pm Central Time tonight, Sofawolf Press will be selling the last 10 pre-order copies of the signed, numbered and limited edition hardback copies of Isolation Play. More information right here!

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Sombralion ~sombralion

Traditional Artist

15 years ago

Awesome as ever :D

kovu ~kovu

Watcher

15 years ago

i got my preorder hard back edition. Cant wait to get it> its signed too <3333

-Rwar- ~-rwar-

Writer

15 years ago

Ouch!
But great work :)

LittleMushu ~littlemushu

Photographer

15 years ago

awesome!

And i've already paid for my pre-order copy! :D gonna pick it up at FC! :P

TRAIN ~train

Watcher

15 years ago

Oh that's hurts. I do know.

Dreadfox ~dreadfox

Digital Artist

15 years ago

I can't wait to read that book. D:

blarginator ~blarginator

Watcher

15 years ago

You'd think that animals with tusks would be required to file them down or cap them or something for contact sports.

Track_Fox ~trackfox

Watcher

15 years ago

If you read the previous book it explained that if you have them you can use them, its part of the "uniform"

kalenidus ~kalenidus

Anthro Artist

15 years ago

Actually, one of the deer players was sanctioned for not having his antlers properly capped and stabbing one of the other players in the shoulder. Stabbed player was incapacitated, and I don't remember the full punishment for the deer, but Kyell does realize you can't have frigging sharp stabby points unchecked in a Full Contact sport, and thus wrote about measures taken. :|

November ~november

15 years ago

I'd assume the convention of gameplay is the same as in hockey: if your enforcer picks a fight on my best player, I'll put my enforcer on your best player. Similarly, if your guy with sharp antlers stabs my starting QB, I'll sic my guy with sharp tusks on yours. In a sense, it becomes a players-enforced league with unwritten rules.

Track_Fox ~trackfox

Watcher

15 years ago

Sounds like normal sports in general lol, or in taking football as an example, look at the o line and d lines. Biggest against biggest :P

MythicFox ~mythicfox

Writer

15 years ago

I imagine in the case of tusks, it's awkward to cap them without affecting the facemask and that anybody using a part of their snout against another player is either going to get what they deserve (given where those things connect to the face), doing it intentionally, or both.

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kalenidus ~kalenidus

Anthro Artist

15 years ago

Is that what it was in the book?

blarginator ~blarginator

Watcher

15 years ago

I'll admit I have not read the books. I guess it just strikes me as an obvious, unfair advantage. Make a whole team of warthogs/boars in the professional leagues and voila, you have a team that totally bodily fucks up any team you're up against. It's not like a tiger who can choose to keep his claws retracted.

November ~november

15 years ago

That's why you have free agents.

blarginator ~blarginator

Watcher

15 years ago

Could you enlighten me on what you mean by "free agent"? I know the rules of the game, but beyond that, the terminology escapes me.

Blotch ~blotch

Traditional Artist

15 years ago

On having a whole team of boars fucking up another team--eventually I think you'd run out of decent players as your whole team is benched for violent play. ;]

As I recall from reading the first book, teams will sometimes draft players based on species, either something large and brutish or something fast, like a cheetah, fox or coyote.
If you consider an attack on the field might be deliberate...well, then there's nothing stopping a tiger using his claws on another player or a wolf sinking in his teeth. I suspect something like a boar would know the direction it's tusks were headed.

Just my two cents! :]

blarginator ~blarginator

Watcher

15 years ago

True true. It just struck me as something I'd never really considered until I saw this picture.

Kalendil ~kalendil

15 years ago

there's a reason NHL teams don't use all goons...

blarginator ~blarginator

Watcher

15 years ago

Well, I mean in real life, you have fast people and big people and small people and slow people, etc., but you don't have "people with spikes sticking out of their face and helmet." I suppose a team full of Cheetahs would completely wreck a team full of boars, because the boars would never be able to tackle anyone, or a team full of monkeys that could pass the ball without flaw to the endzone, but it does strike me a very real concern that if you are a boar (or to go an extreme, an elephant), the likelihood of you brutally maiming an opposing player during a standard maneuver is exponentially higher.

blarginator ~blarginator

Watcher

15 years ago

Likewise, there would be penalties for someone grabbing an opponent's jersey and flinging them, or jamming your hand through their helmet and gouging their eyes, so I guess the way to solve the problem of, "Your team has big, sharp tusks," would be to penalize anyone who causes damage with said tusks.

Tristans Hoard ~tristanhawthorne

Esoteric Erotic Fictioneer

15 years ago

My initial reaction as well.

Nasido ~nasido

Scientist

15 years ago

Owwwwww >.<!
Great illustration :D love your art as always ^^ can't wait to read the book :3!

pandez ~pandez

Fursuiter

15 years ago

Damnnnnnnn ^_^

November ~november

15 years ago

Curiously, the fingers here are much more pronounced, a noticable change from the immense pawpad-esque fingers that you used to do. I also find it interesting that the ear holes are still in the side of the head versus the top where most ears seem to reside. Just an observation!

It's a shame that the interiors are grayscale. A color version of the hardcover would be amazing.

Sanmer ~sanmer

Mad Scientist

15 years ago

I pre-ordered one already!

Kyell ~kyell

Writer

15 years ago

I still love this one. Terrific job, as always, and the blood really jumps out in the color version. Great expressions, and the Millenport logo is terrific too. :D

n00b678 ~n00b678

Writer

15 years ago

Wish I had the money to get this, but as it is, I'm saving for a commission for a friend of mine. Another time perhaps :)

Captain Packrat ~captpackrat

Goat Photographer

15 years ago

Why are all three characters wearing different jersey designs? (I haven't read the previous book, so I don't know anything about this particular sport, but the uniform designs look like football. Maybe this is the WFL?)

MythicFox ~mythicfox

Writer

15 years ago

It's football. But look again; you're only clearly seeing the jersey on the bear and the tiger. He's coming up from behind the tiger's legs, so all you can really see is the helmet (which matches the bear's helmet).

Captain Packrat ~captpackrat

Goat Photographer

15 years ago

OH! OK, now it makes sense. I thought the orange part was the boar's shoulders, like he was lunging or falling forwards in front of the tiger (it kinda looks like shoulder pads). The "arm" makes more sense now too.

Korv ~ninjalion

The enemy.

15 years ago

Welcome to the big leagues rookie.

markwulfgar ~markwulfgar

Illustrator

15 years ago

i love the blood effect <3

wonghusky2 !wonghusky2

Anthro Artist

15 years ago

so awesome.

nuwisha55 ~nuwisha55

Watcher

15 years ago

Are you going to sell the colored images in a special promotion or something?

Blotch ~blotch

Traditional Artist

15 years ago

I don't think there's any official plans for the colored ones. Personally, I'll just be selling the originals and some color prints of a few illustrations. :]

EQQUS ~eqqus

Musclebeast

15 years ago

yay sangre!

-ZeroFox- ~-zerofox-

Watcher

15 years ago

Poor Fella

fuzzywazzy ~fuzzywazzy

Photographer

15 years ago

man I see fowl play. Personally have seen a boar tusk wound, so lets say that tiger is lucky.

Lolly-Pup ~lolly-pup

Writer

15 years ago

You know, Ive always wondered how furry sports would work. Like swimming for instance, it would be unfair for a swim team to have say 5 otter team members and one wolf VS say four wolves and two otters. The one with more aquatic furs would win hands down. Not expecting an answer lol just saying

SofaKingGood ~sofakinggood

Anthro Artist

15 years ago

All that carnage, and he's not even carrying the football.

Minniyar ~minniyar

Writer

15 years ago

That's the first thing I noticed--that there was no football in the scene, which seems odd. Given the tiger isn't even a ball carrier, there should be 2 yellow flags flying into the picture. One for Holding, and the other for Personal Foul: Unnecessary roughness

Dingomutt ~dingomutt

15 years ago

Owwww D:

destiny20 ~destiny20

Watcher

15 years ago

Blotch, I don't know how you do but you put alot of emphasis in the art you do, you make it feel real, like they are real you give them all the correct emotions as a real human being just, Bravo, Blotch, Bravo.

destiny20 ~destiny20

Watcher

15 years ago

And please don't tell me his artery was cut, because it looks like it did.

schrammeck ~schrammeck

Writer

15 years ago

i cant wait. i really want to see how dev's parents react to him coming out!

I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

uro ~uro

Landscaper

15 years ago

Can't wait for the second book!!

AMWULF ~amwulf

Anthro Artist

15 years ago

bloooods

SonicFox ~sonicfox

Writer

15 years ago

If only most games were this awesome.

sparf ~sparf

Writer

15 years ago

So, dev's jersey number... in one of the pics it reads as 57, in this one 75.

Just curious: backwards pic or deliberate?

Either way, awesome art as usual. :)

DarrylWolf ~darrylwolf

Anthro Artist

15 years ago

Animal football. I thought the Cortland Finnegan- Andre Johnson fight last Sunday was bad. Now imagine if they had the ability to flense each other with sharp claws.

Amras ~amras

Werewolf Extraordinaire!

15 years ago

The hardbound edition would only be worth it if Sofawolf employed a typesetter.
It's a shame the interior illustrations are all grayscale at print, this is brilliant.

NeapolitanHusky ~neapolitanhusky

Anthro Artist

15 years ago

You could always print color-versions of the inserts and include them in a "Special Edition" package along with the hardbound edition? Charge a little extra to make up for what it costs to print hardback and you still get to put the colored versions out on the market.