Darius Hinks's Blog

I dragged myself away from White Lotus to do this quick painting of a wren. I find painting people sooo hard but, helpfully, wrens are just a ball with a beak, so it’s hard to go too wrong. Years ago, I started work on a children’s book about a wren and I’d like to come back to it at some point. In the meantime I’ll just keep painting the grumpy little scruffballs. (White Lotus is amazing...

Source

Waaay back in June of 2018, an editor called Hannah Hughes got in touch to ask if I’d be interested in writing a novel about a character called Gotrek Gurnisson. I had mixed feelings, to be honest. I’ve long been a fan of Bill King’s original Gotrek and Felix novels (Trollslayer was the first Warhammer novel I ever read) and I felt really honoured to be offered the gig, but I was also worried...

Source

Thanks to the good folk at Alanera Edizioni, I blagged an invite to this year’s Lucca Comics and Games festival. For those of you who’ve never heard of it, it’s an enormous pop culture carnival devoted to every aspect of geekdom – comics, miniatures, boardgames, roleplaying games, cosplay, computer games, fantasy art etc. and it’s all housed in the beautiful, medieval, walled city of Lucca in...

Source

I’ve not done any painting for a while but the other night the kids went to bed early and I had a spare hour so I thought I’d try another little portrait. Usually I do sketches and try to measure stuff out but this time I just slapped the paint down really fast and I think I prefer this picture to the ones I took more care over. I didn’t use any paint thinner and I like how thick and buttery the...

Source

Every time I finish writing a novel I have a day or two of clarity. I become aware of real things, like other people, the news, the world etc. It makes me feel a bit like a hedgehog, gummy eyed and confused, emerging from a pile of leaves. I always find it a bit disorientating, to be honest. I’m just wrapping up my eighteenth novel. My editor is checking through the second draft to see if there...

Source

Yep, the secret’s out: I’ve managed to hang onto Gotrek’s coat tails for a third novel. Soulslayer has just been announced over on the Warhammer Community site and it was the first time I’ve seen the glorious cover art. It’s by the ridiculously talented Anna Lakisova who also painted the Gitslayer art (see below). This is by far my favourite of the three Gotrek novels I’ve written.

Source

With winter closing in I’ve been spending my evenings in the warm, working on lots more paintings. I’ve been trying some more watercolour hares. I think their inherent scruffiness suites my messy painting style. I’m going to try and do more in this looser, scratchier style. The post Hare bear bunch appeared first on Darius Hinks.

Source

Hey kids. The start of this month marked the beginning of my fifth year as a full-time writer and I’m still not sure if I’m meant to hyphenate ‘full time’ or not. Answers on a postcard, please. Since the release of my last novel, Dominion, I’ve written another Age of Sigmar novel (due for release some time in the new year) another batch of short stories and I’m now halfway through another novel. I’...

Source

This month sees the relaunch of Games Workshop’s Age of Sigmar miniatures game. After offering sacrifices to the relevant deities I was given the chance to write a tie-in novel for the new edition, showing a ground-level view of the events described in the game. Dominion is the story of desperate crusaders, gargantuan predators and cruel, swamp-dwelling monsters. It’s exactly the kind of super...

Source

Despite 2020 playing silly buggers, I’ve managed to keep chipping away at the wordface this year. So, barring any major, global catastrophes (they never happen, do they?) I’ll have three new books published in 2021. One’s still under wraps but a couple have just been announced over on the GW site. It’s always exciting working on Warhammer fiction but these two are particularly special.

Source