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This is a project I started working on spontaneously.

When we think of roleplaying games, especially fantasy RPGs, there are some itmes that come to mind, and are commonly used.

So, I racked my brain to think of something and was, as a matter of fact, quite overwhelmed by the amount of items.

Hence, I thought of tackling them one topic after another.

Grunt Combat Items

Fantasy RPGs are filled with combat, and there are a lot of 'stock' characters that are quite disposable from perspective of players. They are adorned with the most basic gear.

I finished illustrating knife, short sword, basic shield, a simple helmet, and a water pouch for the soldier/grunt who has it handy on missions where travel is invovled.

I would be making them available as free cliparts at KalaaLog.com once I put some finishing touches. I am also thinking of making some illustrations of complex items for a fee - I have started work on these too.

This should turn out to be an interesting project.

I almost missed Martin's post on community building:

• Building A Community - Creating a logo
• Building A Community - Starting the design process

I suspect he will be going into an indepth design process for a forum, and there will be more articles to come.

Anyway, for CGPainting.com, I did the logo design.

After creating some rough sketches, I got down to the actual logo design using Inkscape. The brush like shape, and the earthly brown color gave the logo a traditional medium feel to it, and the geometric shapes for composing the 'CG' gave a digital vibe to it.

Martin, as I mentioned, goes into indepth detail of getting a custom logo designed. Having not much of a commercial outlook for CGPainting.com, I did not find it necessary to do so. I did not even want to stick to the default (boring) vBulletin skin, and thus I browsed through the vBulletin.org's gallery of themes, and settled for Blue Darkness.

I might invest some money at a future date depending on how the community picks up. Else, I do not find it necessary to invest into the design, when there are quite a lot of custom but free themes available.

You can check out the related article at KalaaLog.com.