Sunday 21 October 2012

Back to scribbling...

I've spent far too long away from two things I like: namely, drawing and D&D. My artwork nowadays is created digitally, which tends to be about labour-saving, rather than working away at the coalface. Or the drawing board. So I decided to combine the two. I'm a little rusty on both subjects, but here goes...

What is it? Answers on a postcard please...

One of the things I've always liked about D&D (at least, the 1st Edition AD&D version I started on way back in 1982) is that it has some pretty odd stuff in it. The homage-to-Tolkien themes didn't really sink in at the time, and still don't. Let's face it, the Tolkien stuff isn't half as weird as the mind that invented something as odd as a Carrion Crawler...

Speaking of which, here's my take on a few bits of one:


Not that it's a final version of anything. If one sticks to the 'cephalopod meets cutworm' description from the (1980) version of the Monster Manual I have, I think it needs to be more like a nautilus. Still, early days...