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Spot illos for Dreadful Dungeons.
A Whip Spider, a monster I created for my D&D blog. You can read about it here.
Pencil drawings I made in 1986 or '87 as handouts for 'The Mauretania', an adventure for the Call of Cthulhu rpg (second edition - published in 'The Asylum & Other Tales'). I modified the adventure quite a bit, as published adventures usually need a bit of bodging. These were essentially images I handed to players when they experienced certain events within the adventure. I also used the same approach when running homebrew adventures.
A Beetle Stag. This is a D&D creature that I created for my blog and you can read about it here.
A Ragwing, a fungoid monster I created for my D&D blog. You can read about it here.
A Treacherous Pillar. This is a D&D monster I created for my blog, and you can read about it here.
A Shield Lord, a tomb guardian for D&D that I created for my blog. You can read about it here.
A Siege Spider. This is a D&D monster that I created for my blog, and you can read about it here.
A Weaver Dragon, a monster I created for my D&D blog. You can read about it here.
A Vulturebear - when Owlbears just aren't enough. This is a monster I created for my D&D blog and you can read about it here.
A Dragon Jelly, a D&D monster I created for my blog. You can read about it here.
Cave Elephant, a D&D creature I created for my blog. You can read about it here.
Sketch of a pig-faced orc.
A party of pig-faced orcs, some goblins and bugbear walk into a bar...
Some aerial vehicles for the Star Frontiers rpg, created as spot illos for the Frontier Explorer zine.
Cover artwork I created for Issue #27 of Frontier Explorer, a free zine for the Star Frontiers rpg. This was an homage to Larry Elmore's original box art for the rpg, this time using the setting's main baddies - the Sathar - as the subject.
This was also an earlyish attempt at a large digital painting. For me, it kinda works in places and generally was good practice.
Two spot illos commissioned for Old School Essentials. On the left, Strangleweed drags a hapless elf to her doom. On the right, a Cloak of Flying is used to make a hasty escape.
A Xorn snacks on some tasty treasure, despite the pesky dwarves. Spot illustration commissioned for Old School Essentials.
A Flail Snail. Spot illustration for Old School Essentials. This was the first illustration I was asked to create for OSE, which pleased me no end as the Flail Snail is one of my all-time favourite D&D monsters.
A Hiver messing around with some tech. Spot illo for the Star Frontiers zine Frontier Explorer (which occasionally featured Traveller rpg material).
Sketch of a goblin. I tend to see goblins in AD&D as being bat-like in face, so here I'm messing around with that concept.
I played Runequest quite a lot from 1985 to about '87, and always liked that it featured ducks as a playable race. I had a duck barbarian character called Koduck Instamantix.
'Crush your enemies eggs, see them rolling before you, and to hear the lamentation of the ducklings'.
Digital painting and an older pencil sketch of a Sathar, the bad guys from the Star Frontiers rpg setting.
Pig-faced orcs. This might be the cover for their next album. They haven't decided yet.
Spot illo of a Kelpie, for Warhorse Adventures.
Pencil drawings of sea dragons - D&D monsters I created for my blog. You can read about them here and here.
A Mooncat. Spot illo for the Karst rpg.
A Quillbeast. Spot illo for the Karst rpg.
Spot illo for the Casting The Runes rpg, which is inspired by the writing of M. R. James. The artwork was an attempt to mimic the style of illustrations from Edwardian period. This particular illo depicts the creature described in Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book.
'There was black and tattered drapery about it; the coarse hair covered it as in the drawing. The lower jaw was thin—what can I call it?—shallow, like a beast’s; teeth showed behind the black lips; there was no nose; the eyes, of a fiery yellow, against which the pupils showed black and intense, and the exulting hate and thirst to destroy life which shone there, were the most horrifying features in the whole vision. There was intelligence of a kind in them—intelligence beyond that of a beast, below that of a man.'