Welcome to the Open Space Fantasy webpage. You'll find here, day after day, the layers of an art series aimed at naive and symbolic graphics. These drawings make use of the less glamorous geometric shapes streamlined through professional engineering tools to render imaginative, pure fantasy scenes and characters. It's like playing with office boards, pens and papers and shaping them into whatever dream takes you away from your open space desk: a nod and a tip to this sort of musing trance that takes us amidst busy days and generates the most stupendous ideas from a rubber and a ruler. It's definitely pop art, but pop art devised about the Old School fantasy values and the escaping fact.

TREES OF YUGOLOTH

ARMY LIST I: ANCIENT ISRAËL

This counter sheet is the first in the Army List series. It stands for the armies of a mythical ancient Israël led by King David himself. Those of you familiar with wargames will recognize a few features of classical old-school wargame counters, but I leave in the shade the sort of game one could possibly play with these. Sometimes, when you delve deep enough in the gaming archeology or the attic, you stumble upon symbols, references and items that leave you confused, wondering about the sort of fantasy that could make use of them. Sometimes, you don't find out, but you try to copy or to create it from a scratch. Sometimes, you don't, but you can't help the strange symbols to pour in your own inventions. This is exactly the sensation the Army List series aims to convey. Was there a game using these in a distant past? What was it like? How did it feel? Find out.

CRIPPLED MOGHOL LOVER

FREDERICK II, ROMAN EMPEROR

This is Emperor Frederick II as he rode through the German Roman Empire with his arabian guards, courtesans, savants and war elephant. The Teutonic knights follow in his wake. The original picture is almost 3 feet long but you get close-ups below if you want to see what's in it.

JESTERS & COURTESANS

This is close-up of FREDERICK II, ROMAN EMPEROR. It shows the Emperor's arabian courtesans and his court jesters and lute player. The lute player is playing right now, and the jester is juggling with six red balls.

TEUTONIC KNIGHTS

This is a close up of FREDERICK II, ROMAN EMPEROR. It shows the Teutonic knights at the end of the imperial procession.

CLOSE-UP: THE EMPEROR

This is a close-up of FRIEDERICK II, ROMAN EMPEROR. It shows the Emperor himself.

MUTABOR

When the Caliph laughed, he turned into a stork bird and never quite recovered. The event has angered him as well, thus explaining his fierce eye and arrow cutlass.

ARABIAN KNIGHTS