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Drawing the Monster Manual #1: Hellhound

I’m starting a series where I roll a random monsters from the D&D Monster Manual to draw, with an eye toward providing printable paper minis once I’ve got a big enough selection. Hopefully I can eventually do the whole thing! Here’s a Hellhound. I haven’t had the pleasure of running one of these guys yet, but my main group just hit level 3, so it might be time to throw a bad doggie at them!

Traveling D&D Party

 

Hoo boy, this one was a challenge! A lot of characters, a lot of character details, a lot of “business”, like the water genasi warlock pilfering a magical D30 from the dragonborn paladin’s pouch.  Just a lot of stuff to fit into in the image. Very challenging, but worth it, because I think it came out very nicely, and the clients were very pleased.  Most of the D&D party commissions I do are either an action scene of some kind, or a “group photo” where everyone just poses and looks cool. And those are great! But it was a nice change of pace to depict a quiet moment of travel, so often glossed over in our games as well as in our art!

Here’s an extended family portrait commission! I’ve never done a single illustration with so many full figures before, much less one where every figure was a likeness of a real person (or dog!) Very challenging, but very fun and rewarding.