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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 2:28 am Post subject: |
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Man, I've been really out of it this past week, and I forgot to make a post here. Well, I guess that just means you guys get two images this week. On my end we've got the Dryad and the Ghost, one a mostly peaceful spirit of the woodlands, the other vengeful souls who DON'T WANT YOU TO TAKE THEIR TREASURES WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING THERE
On Joe's end we have an Odopi, a multi-limbed mostrosity, stumbling off the edge of Mechanus, and the Atropal, the horrifying result of a stillborn god.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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More stuff this week, one of them being a fill on Daigle's request for a harpy. It's not quite SFW (some gore and boobs) and I'm not sure what the rules are for that, so I'm not gonna post the image here. Instead y'all can have the other image for the week, drawn by Joe, the vampire.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for fulfilling the harpy request! It looks awesome!
I really dig the style of all these illustrations. While they're not "typical fantasy" fare like you'd expect to see in a RPG book, I can't stop thinking that there's gotta be a perfect product for these. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Daigle wrote: |
Thanks for fulfilling the harpy request! It looks awesome!
I really dig the style of all these illustrations. While they're not "typical fantasy" fare like you'd expect to see in a RPG book, I can't stop thinking that there's gotta be a perfect product for these. |
We'd really really really love to do official artwork for a rpg, if any of them could would take us. We keep thinking of submitting stuff, but we're not really sure how to start, who to email, so on... We started doing the blog a little too late for that 4th Edition Player's Strategy Guide, which would've been perfect to submit to. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 4:00 am Post subject: |
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Busy busy again, so there's been a bit of a delay in our weekly drawings. Or a big delay. One of the two. Anyway, we've got two new images; one is the Velahkut, which is some weird abstract construct that serves the gods, from the Inevitable family of constructs. I've done something that doesn't qualify as a construct, but dang near should, the Topiary Guardian.
I'm thinking of doing a Displacer Beast soon. Most of the illustrations I've seen of them have a lot of Beast, but not enough Displacer. Figuring out how to draw that is turning out to be harder than I thought it'd be. |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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Still planning to do a displacer beast for the next post. I just figured out today an interesting way to draw it. I'm just hoping it works when it comes to drawing it.
In the meantime, have some other monsters. My submission for the week is the Kappa, brought to us by Japan and Oriental Adventures. These are mean but polite creatures that live in rivers. Their heads are filled with water instead of normal head matter, and they become weakened by the water becoming spilled. A surefire way to defeat a kappa is by bowing to it; it's natural politeness forces it to bow back, spilling the contents of its head.
The other creature of the week is the Battlebriar, a giant beast-shaped collection of thorns and branches crafted by druids because druids sometimes aren't just hippies. These ambling piles of vegetation often go AWOL, which is not so good.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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Creatures for the week are the Kraken and the Displacer Beast. The displacer beast's always been one of my favourites; I always like the feline creatures. But there's a disappointing lack of artwork of this creature that show it actually being all displacy. As I tried to figure out how the dilly to draw this creature I realized it was because drawing something that's already so bizarre and complicated AND making it have a double image is pretty dang hard.
So here yous go. Also, we're going to be having another guest week on the blog soon, since me and my fella are going to be leaving for vacation and we don't know how we'd be able to draw something and stick it up here on time (as if we're ever on time).
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| Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| I like the displacer beast. It makes me think of how the main character in Jacobs Ladder saw all the weird people with the shaky, blurry heads. |
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Hey you guys. Sorry about the lack of posts here. We've been away on Easter vacation for a couple of days and cross-posting on KQ slipped my mind.
Anyway, we did an Alcemical Golem (me) and a Grisgol (Joe). Not too happy with the Alchemical Golem, especially when I see it side-by-side with the Grisgol. We also had another guest week during the few days that we were gone on vacation; it features the following monsters:
-Banshee
-Wolf-In-Sheep's Clothing
-Ethereal Filcher
-Blackstone Gigant
-Bog Giant
-Kuo-Toa
-Crypt Thing
So now that we're back we decided to do some prestige classes, just to briefly take it away from monsters. Of course, they ended up doing double-duty as PCs we've played, so yeah. I did my human(ish) Alienist, Xylia Glass. Joe did a halfling Invisible Blade (I remember that character fondly, for he stabbed two gnolls to death with their own arrows).
Also, to any artists that might be reading this post, I started a new blog called Reference Reference, where I'm posting up my image library of inspirational and referential imagery.
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 7:10 am Post subject: |
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New monsters today, featuring the Wang-Liang and the Living Blasphemy, an evil spell that's achieved independence from its caster.
Also, Chad M, if you're reading this, I think your email account got hacked into. I just got some spam from it.
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 11:03 am Post subject: |
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Batch of monsters for you guys, since I've neglected to do any posting here. Joe hasn't been making any posts lately because he's been really busy with some other projects. So the monsters for the past few weeks are the Primal Air Elemental (epic-level monster), the Xac-Yij (sentient ball-octupus of acid) and the Mercane (interdimensional blue-skinned merchants).
We've been doing polls on Dungeons and Drawings (the top-right corner), to help me figure out which monster I should do next. You guys should vote too. The Mercane was the winner for last week (what type should I do next?) This week's poll is a little less obvious.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 11:01 am Post subject: |
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It's been a while since I've posted here. Thanks so sciborg2 for the compliment. We plan to keep going as long as possible (and we've almost hit our one year anniversary).
Joe's not been doing that much in Dungeons and Drawings lately due to him having a bazillion works to do. In the meantime, I've been drawing monsters according to the responses I've been getting on the polls I've been running. The creatures I did are as follows and the winners of their polls: the Domovoi (friendly monster), Kenku (urban monster), Yakfolk (high-fantasy diplomatic adventure) and Wendigo (North American monster).
With the Wendigo one, I tried to play with a little bit of an optical illusion, since Wendigos have an ability called Corner of the Eye. They can't be looked at directly when wind walking. I think it's neat.
Joe's contributed a monster this week: the Gloom, a sinister and silent assassin, and one of my favourite monsters from the Epic Level Handbook. I've also been working on a 3d model of a goblin, as inspired by a sketch I did like two years ago. The model's pretty much done, but the rigging's doing my head in.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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More creatures! This time its the Terror Bird (I can't remember what the answer to the poll was for this one) and the next one's the Necropolitan (the princess is dead!). No new goblin stuff to boast of, since I've been busy at work and still can't quite figure out the rigging.
Next week's a special week. One year anniversary of Dungeons & Drawings! Good times. Going to try to make sure Joe does something this week, especially since his non D&D workload seems like it's hit a little bit of a lull.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:09 am Post subject: |
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We need to get you guys in on the Dark Roads & Golden Hells project. Though Wolfgang has told us that we need more funding before we can commission new art, your perspective on how creatures/landscapes might look would serve the project well. Mention on your Blogs would be nice too if you'd do it.
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