Here’s my update from my 2007 sketchbook of the mutant pirates I designed. I thought they seemed to be adapted for fighting in the air (extra hands and suchlike).
Category Archives: Fantasy
Fantasy pictures from my sketchbook.
More Sunken World non-humans
Here are two bounty hunter or mercenary characters I’ve been drawing on an off for years and I decided they’d fit nicely into the Sunken World environment. On the left is a race I’m currently calling Raktos; spikey-headed people with a sinister reputation for sorcery which is sometimes justified. The other is an Yrdin; a troglodytic race whose cavernous dwellings were flooded when the world was inundated with water from the invading Thulhids.
You can see my thought process from my earlier page where I’m doodling these old characters. I don’t think I’ll use the armadillo men this time but I may get back to the red goblins.
Updated 2012 with names derived from Jeremy Unitt’s ideas!
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Demon Designs 3
Here’s my idea for the Demon cavalry; rather than having demonic knights(I may design some later, reading that does sound cool!) I thought they should use centaur-like Demons.
I had to keep the image away from Games Workshop Dragon-Ogres and Zoats, and Blizzard’s Pit Lords or Diablo 3’s Siegebreaker Assault Beasts. So I had a look at the Terror Dogs from Ghostbusters, crossed them with alligators/crocodiles and with an image in my head of a huge monstrous beast charging into the lines of shiny-armoured, spear-wielding humans I think I got there!
This was done straight onto the computer again in Painter X.
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Demon Designs 2
More demon designs, this time drawn directly onto the computer (I usually start with a physical sketch). These are the foot-soldiers; enthusiastic cannon fodder for the demon legions. All the troops start their existence as a larval demon (the correct rituals, feeding and sacrifices create different troop types).
My brother had the idea for the demon spawn; failed, malformed demons from who usually get eaten or very occasionally adopted as mascots. Somewhat like the wormy creatures that emerged from The Trapdoor (an old UK TV stop-motion cartoon show, have a look if you’ve not heard of it!).
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Demon designs 1
This is a page of demons for a comic strip (perhaps a web-comic?). First we have a variety of warped demon Warlocks with long fingernails to weave their magic and weird cowls that remind me of rickshaws. Then we have a nasty looking Overseer who uses his whip to send the demon berserkers into a frenzy.
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Pirate Freaks
Here’s an old image of some freaky mutant pirates I designed years ago (as I am drawing piratical things at the moment). They’re chaotic mutants (the turbaned headed mutant is based on an Heironymus Bosch painting if I recall and Orb from Quake 3!).
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Planar Alchemist gear
I’m working on a few things right now (not paid work alas!); one of which is a composition involving various monsters and a Planar Alchemist. Here are a couple of pages (A5 and A3) of designs for the archaic re-breather and dimensional-hopping devices. The device is partly based on the Antikythera mechanism; as an historical example of an ancient computer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Here are the larger drawings:
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Planar Alchemist designs
These are some designs for a planar alchemist; someone who uses alchemy to open portals between dimensions. 
And here are some pictures of the alchemical symbols that he would have on his robe. I tried to create a vaguely logical approach to these designs to add an element of authenticity.
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Twilight world fight
These are the first ideas I had for a fight scene picture. It will be set in my Twilight World; a world with a perpetual stormy sky and lots of ruins. I thought this a suitable location for a fantasy picture. This monster is a larger version of the toad-like demons in an illustration I did:
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Kraken and Thulhids
A few sketches of the instigators of the floods that inundated the Sunken World – the Thulhids (a working name); tentacle-faced Cthulhoid demon beings. Their lands became uninhabitable (maybe after a demonic war) so they opened a portal into another Earth and flooded it.
