Category Archives: Commission

D&D Feywild Commission

Here’s a piece I did recently featuring a couple of D&D characters confronting a Mind Flayer in the Feywild! Why is there a Mind Flayer in the Feywild? To be honest, I don’t know, but it can’t be anything good!

This was a fun piece to work on. My first time drawing the Feywild. It’s fun to do that overgrown nature thing, with the strange colors, and the big mushrooms and whatnot. I’m not sure I captured it completely how I imagined it, but it’s a start! This piece was also the culmination of my experiments with a more “painted” coloring style, vs. the “airbrush cuts” typical of comic book coloring that I usually use. I like the look, and I thought it would be a more efficient way to handle all of the vegetation, but it ended up being more time-consuming than usual. Currently, I’ve gone back to the basics for the time being.

 

Blasting Out of Avernus in a Howler-drawn Carriage, Pursued by Biker Duergar and Infernal Machines!

Here’s a commission I finished recently for a Descent Into Avernus D&D campaign. The party is fleeing from an army of biker Duergar and Infernal Machines, in (and on) a carriage pulled by a Howler that’s been fed a growth potion. Just really fun stuff all around!

Here’s a very challenging D&D piece I completed recently. The commissioner was a DM running two campaigns for two parties respectively, and he wanted both in the same scene, but with wildly different backgrounds — the desert sandstorm of White Plume Mountain, and the underground tunnels of Forge of Fury — with the DM conjuring a dragon in front of both parties. What’s more, he also wanted two additional versions with just one party and the DM. That required some additional drawing, as well as a lot of planning and experimentation with my coloring process especially, to separate it all out in the end. So like I said, a big challenge! But a very welcome one, which made this piece very interesting to work on.

Here’s a really fun D&D commission I did a couple months back. The commissioner’s group was putting their regular game on hold for a Halloween session where their characters would encounter a fantasy version of a stereotypical Italian restaurant — a CANNIBAL Italian restaurant, run by the evil Tony Linguine and his staff of drunken goblins — and the PCs are on the menu (literally)!

Thanks for looking, and if you want to see more, you can check out my website at http://www.brandonpalas.com!

Children of the Blood Star

Here’s a recent commission — a poster for a D&D campaign called Children of the Blood Star. The heroes (the titular children, I assume) stand in front of the campaign’s main city, a flurry of red lanterns rising into the air, with the evil Zolph looming in the background above them. His broken skull contains The Void. The titular Blood Star can be seen over his shoulder.

I love doing these poster-style commissions! I’m not exactly a graphic designer, but these heavy metal-ish hand-drawn titles are a blast.

Here’s a cool Curse of Strahd commission I recently had the chance to do. It was commissioned to commemorate the end of the campaign, and immortalizes the triumphs and epic fails of the party, such as taking over a town, punching your way out of a shambling mound, accidentally burning down a windmill with a bunch of kids inside, accidentally drowning a bunch of ravens who were actually people, accidentally blowing up a wagon, and taking advice from a talking sword.  And of course, Strahd himself looms over the whole thing.

Artistically, it was a big challenge to fit this many characters, with this many bits of “business”, onto the page in some kind of coherent composition, all while giving each character the “screen time” they deserve. I think it ultimately came out very nicely, but it took a lot of messing around to get it there!