Discover magical game art with Hades II and more in ImagineFX issue 242

Discover new ways to design characters with impact and harness the power of colour within your art inside ImagineFX issue 242, which is out now.

In our latest issue, we've teamed up with Supergiant Games to showcase concept art for its hit indie sequel Hades II. We also have insights from art director Jen Zee, who reveals her thought process for creating character designs inspired by Greek mythology.

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Elsewhere, Andrew Palyanov explains how he combines 2D and 3D techniques to paint a foreboding fantasy castle, and environment specialist Enoch Driscoll reveals how you can develop drama quickly in a scene featuring multiple characters. Plus, comic artist Uko Smith takes us around his traditional and digital studio setup, and we reveal our top picks from the latest ImagineFX Art Challenge featuring the theme Character Redesign.

To get a taste of what to expect, just take a look at our lead features below.

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Standing up to AI threats

As social media platforms continue to scrape online content to train their AI models, pro artists talk to us about the impact this is having on their livelihood and discuss what can be done to counter it.

15 tips to shape your character designs

Concept artist and illustrator Hardy Fowler shares his advice on how you can consistently create interesting figures using effective shape principles and colour.

The shape of Destiny

We celebrate the 10-year anniversary of online sci-fi series Destiny by going behind the scenes of its highly anticipated expansion The Final Shape, bringing you key art and concepts from the Bungie team along with weapon and creature designs.

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Artist interview: Ben Mauro

Halo Infinite artist Ben Mauro guides us through his long career, giving insight into finding creative inspiration and talking about his new HUXLEY comic series.

Draw a scene in graphite

Nik Henderson explains his approach to creating an unusual aircraft interior by mixing graphite techniques with anthropomorphic concepts.

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Daniel is Art Editor of ImagineFX magazine. He has over two decades of magazine publishing experience and has worked on a multitude of publications including MBUK, Official PlayStation Magazine, PSW, PC Gamer and Guitar Techniques. When Daniel is not designing pages or finding the best artists for ImagineFX, you can find him trying to be like Spider-Man at his local climbing wall, thrashing his heart out on Zwift or headbanging at a loud gig.