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Fantasy pictures from my sketchbook.

Fantasy, Sketchbook pages, Sunken World

More Sunken World non-humans

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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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Sunken World Non-human Races
Dark fantasy, Fantasy, Sketchbook pages

Demon Designs 3

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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.
Centaur demon

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Fantasy, Sketchbook pages

Demon Designs 2

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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!).
Soldier demon designs

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Fantasy, Sketchbook pages, Twilight World

Planar Alchemist gear

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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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