A to Z of D&D Monsters continued!

F is for Fire Elemental!

G is for Gnoll!

Continuing my series of trying to illustrate 26 different classic monsters from the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game.

Fire elementals featured in my D&D campaign recently. The party had to fight them in the hold of a ship, where every movement the fire elementals took set something on fire.

Gnolls have always been a favourite random monster of mine, ever since battling through hordes of the halberd-wielding hyena-men in Baldur's Gate.

Ewww...

E is for Elf!

I wanted to do a bit of a non-traditional elf for my A to Z of Monsters project. So, here is my grizzled mercenary elf lady.

D is for Dragon!

C is for Carrion Crawler!

B is for Beholder!

A is for Aboleth!

New D&D drawings!

I''ve just recently returned to an old hobby of roleplaying. Since I just finished up a massive project that has taken all my free time for the last couple of months, I wanted to throw myself into some new art projects, and decided to illustrate a couple of scenes that are coming up for the players in my little roleplaying campaign.

Illustrating friends' D&D characters was kind of how I got interested in doing fantasy art. D&D players always have such a complete vision of their own characters, which made it easy to get a really detailed description to base an illustration on. I did countless orcish barbarians, comely crusaders and malicious elven wizards back then...

Animals and stuff

I just photographed a bunch of stuff from my sketchbook from the last few months. 

Concept for a skateboard that didn't get picked up. I'm going to do something similar for myself anyway though. 

Bad ass Imperial Stormtrooper, complete with looted lightsabers, rebel pistol and hip flask. 

Done on my mini-honeymoon. It's a finch. 

Planned drawing for friends who run the glorious Black Bear Lodge in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane. Not sure what else to do with it yet. 

For Nelika - Bertram the Chrononaut

Inspired by a visit to an awesome little shop in Thornbury called "The Manufactory". They sell all sorts of fun stuff, including some hand-made steampunk goggles, headphones, aviator caps etc. Needless to say, we immediately began a lay-buy account. 

Oni skateboard WIP

This is a Work In Progress of the latest skateboard I'm working on. You can see the scale from the ruler. The figure is supposed to be a Japanese demon, or oni.

I've just finished the first capsule of ink for my brush pen, only three left! I will experiment with refilling the empty one with india ink.

Great Destiny Man

An old favourite returns. Great Destiny Man is an wandering ronin from Edo-period Japan, much like Itto Ogami from Lone Wolf and Cub, but where Itto is noble and tragic, GDM is basically just wrong. Seriously insane, his skewed take on bushido leads him to enter violent encounters with everyone he meets.

Great Destiny Man's adventures have been recorded for posterity here.

Oni

Another new design for Psycho Skateboards. Also done with a Pentel brush pen and Faber Castell PITT pens. It's supposed to be a Japanese Oni.

Here is a mockup showing how (I hope) it will appear on the board.

Samurai Pen

I got a cool new brush pen from Jetpens in the mail this week. It is a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen as recommended by the inaccurately named Pants On Pete.

The colours are done with Faber Castel PITT markers. The detail at the bottom of the image is supposed to show gloved hands drawing a sword.