I love this stuff. It take me back to when I used to play DnD. Good times, man..thank you-sincerely. I really do love this stuff.

Fiend Folio's interesting. It had some great ideas and monsters who became classics, and a whole load of weird, stupid and just plain silly beasties.
Very cool art, too.

Really an awesome book, more as a source of inspiration than directly providing things you could use. I just wish they'd had Russ Nicholson do more of the illustrations.

Have you ever tried drawing undead anthros?

Not yet. Aside from some gnoll stuff.

Me gusta :-3

While I never got to play D&D with more than my imagination and all those RPG-ing rule books and magazines and multi-sided dice, this picture (and others you have created) re-awakens my RPG-ing hunger (like  zidders above).

Really admire how you have somehow managed to render these characters as more than “just standing there”. *applause*

Thanks!

I've been feeling lately that a feeling of depth and three dimensionality is what really makes drawings stand out, so I want to do something, anything, to build dimensionality. Movement, a head turn, a slightly turned or higher or lower angle view, anything to build a sense of depth and space, looks better to me.

In this picture, the right-hand character really caught my attention with his slightly bend back upper torso, the turn and slight to-the-side angle of his head and that little spread of his fingers on the hilt of the sword.

In the left-hand character, the turn of the head and the mask-like shadow cast by the visor of his helmet with the whiteness of his jaw &teeth grab the eye.

Of course I should not need to mention your fantastic attention to detail with his armor -- especially the clever design of his knee protector on his grieve and the black of his cloak that you used to make his left hand stand out so well.

Each character can stand on his own as an artistic accomplishment, together … just wow!

Thank you!

And seriously, having a line of action winds up being so damn useful for characterization - the thing you're pointing out with the bend to the warrior's upper body. I'm trying to do better about these things.

Chap on the left looks like a Haunt from Thief!

I've never played Thief - were the Haunts all armored undead things?

They were!

They were undead revenants of Hammerites. They used swords instead of hammers, presumably because the Hammer being the holy symbol of the pseudo christian sect it would burn them.

They had deliciously creepy audio, which is worth looking up.