Just to prove I’ve not been idle recently here is a section of the first panel of my (third) comic strip. These are centaur demons on the battle lines.
Dark fantasy and horror sketches and drawings
Just to prove I’ve not been idle recently here is a section of the first panel of my (third) comic strip. These are centaur demons on the battle lines.
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.
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!).
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.
This was an idea I had a few years ago and hadn’t really done it justice the first time around. Essentially I’d re-create Grant Wood’s famous American Gothic painting with Lavinia, Old Wizard and Wilbur Whately from H. P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror. The finished picture is in my gallery here:
These are characters I’ve designed for a H.P. Lovecraft themed picture(or series of pictures) I’m was working on but have had to stop to finish some other artwork.
These are the heroes of course. All the 1920’s clothing is as accurate as I can get from my reference materials. Fonts are by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical society.
The next 2 pages are designs for the Cthulhu cult themselves, from cult thugs to the Magus himself. Fonts by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.