Time lapse - For Whom The Bell Gnolls

This hideous beast is finally as finished as it's going to get.

Free to good home, needs shots.

Dwarf

2 hour dorf

Orcs 1

Warforged Head Concepts

These black & white head designs kept me busy for several days. The original sketches in my sketchbook took mere minutes, but rendering them in Photoshop took me a while this time. The middle one on the top row is my favorite, since I imagined him wishing he were "alive" and crafting a molded metal mouth-piece to appear more human.

Warforged are golems crafted from metal, wood, and leather and magically given life in the Eberron D&D campaign setting. While they were produced in large numbers for the battlefields of the massive wars of the time, now that the kingdoms are at peace, their primary functions are much less in demand.  Each Warforged has its own personality and identity, and they were given their freedom and recognized as citizens after the wars ended.

I've been fascinated with the concept since I read about them on the Eberron wiki. By all rights, these dudes are immortal, and are able to customize their bodies themselves. The idea of these guys having individual identities and living among mankind is kind of interesting to me. Many of them have exiled themselves from humanity are are dwelling under the leadership of the mysterious Lord of Blades in the wastelands of the Mournland.

Illithid (aka Mind Flayer) Sketch

Learned how to make a new Photoshop brush tonight, and I like it much better than the one I was using in the past.

"I love my popped collar, brah..."

In Dungeons & Dragons lore, Illithids are deeply evil underground dwellers that use psionic attacks and mind control to enslave creatures and devour their brains. I find them pretty interesting and creepy.

However, I always wonder why they wear such elaborate and colorful robes when they live underground in the dark.  And their efforts to enslave and eradicate all other life on the planet hasn't stopped them from studying their fashion design and tailoring skills...good for 'dem!

BEHOLD...

...er...

I think it spotted you...

Here's a drawring from my sketchbook that I scanned and painted over.  Between this and a few other D&D monsters I've had rattling around in my head, they've been nagging at me pretty intensely to do some portraits.

I honestly don't know how anyone ever managed to defeat one of these hideous things back in the day.