Inspired partly by THIS thread on rpgnet, Ive decided to do a sketch of every monster in the D&D 2nd edition Monster Manual, with a few caveats:

I take a half-hour lunch at work, during which 10-15 minutes are spent eating, and the remainder of the time I draw. It is during this period that I'm going to be drawing a monster each day ( with a break on my days off). So 15-20 min a sketch, no more, and whatever the result I'm tossing online. This is to prevent the endeavour from becoming mired in my perfectionism.

These won't be doodles in the style of the aforementioned thread, rather sketched in the same default style I use during games. It's kinda of comic book by way of old fairy tale illustrations, or at least those are the primary influences, I make no claims in comparison of quality.

I'll be skipping the "normal" animals. I'm doing this for fun, w/o references, and I don't want to throw up any crappy sketches of a horse or dog.

Certain iconic monsters I'll be saving till the end, and put some extra time into. This includes Things like Beholders and the eponymous Dragons.

If an entry includes various " types" of a monster, I'll be picking one. Whichever I think will be theist interesting to draw.


And finally, I'm going to be going from the text description only, ignoring previous artistic interpretations of the monsters . I may extrapolate further from that starting point.

EDIT: I've decided to try and repair this thread, as best I can, after it was hobbled by my switching from Photobucket as a host for my drawings to Flickr (whose load time is just so less brain-spasm inducing)

So....starting from the top...

Aarakocra


Aboleth & Ankheg


Arcane


Argos


Aurumvorax

Here's a few character sketches I did during games as examples:

Neat. Your style is rather unique, which is a plus.

Quote from: Silverlion;681159Neat. Your style is rather unique, which is a plus.

What the man said. Very cool. Reminds me Magnola.

Looks great! A little Lone Wolf and Cub (Goseki Kojima):



A little Sim and Gerhard (more Gerhard than Sim):

Awesome idea

I'll echo the compliments to your style and subscribe.

Quote from: Benoist;681242What the man said. Very cool. Reminds me Magnola.

My first thought was Jim Holloway.

First up, Aarakocra. Bird men. Not much to say here, just a lot of feathers.

Two-for-Tuesday, here's an ABOLETH and an ANKHEG

Went Lovecraftian on the ABOLETH which is usually drawn as a big evil fish.

And for today's entry, here's an ARCANE. These are apparently blue giants from another dimension that show up st flea markets looking for magic items. I figure of that's the route one's going, no reason to hold back on the weird.


So we're up to date, tomorrow an Argos.

Wow, that is definitely an interesting take on the Aboleth.

Quote from: Silverlion;681159Neat. Your style is rather unique, which is a plus.

Quote from: Benoist;681242What the man said. Very cool. Reminds me Magnola.

Quote from: Mistwell;681261Looks great! A little Lone Wolf and Cub (Goseki Kojima):



A little Sim and Gerhard (more Gerhard than Sim):

Quote from: Piestrio;681262Awesome idea

I'll echo the compliments to your style and subscribe.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;681264My first thought was Jim Holloway.

Had to google him. I like his stuff, which I think I recognize from Hackmaster? His style is much cleaner than mine though, I think.

Quote from: TristramEvans;681375Had to google him. I like his stuff, which I think I recognize from Hackmaster? His style is much cleaner than mine though, I think.

Jim Holloway is most famous for his work at TSR during the 80s.  One of the most prolific artists they had, along with Jeff Dee, Trampier, Sutherland, Rosloff, and Otus.  In fact, Holloway was heralded because all of his people looked like they wore "real" armor instead of cheesecake nonsense.

Comparing your work to his is no insult  Not for me anyway, because it sparks good nostalgic memories.

Quote from: Sacrosanct;681376Jim Holloway is most famous for his work at TSR during the 80s.  One of the most prolific artists they had, along with Jeff Dee, Trampier, Sutherland, Rosloff, and Otus.  In fact, Holloway was heralded because all of his people looked like they wore "real" armor instead of cheesecake nonsense.

Comparing your work to his is no insult  Not for me anyway, because it sparks good nostalgic memories.

Oh no, I took it as a compliment, he just seems a bit more polished from what I've seen, which makes sense if he's been in the industry that long. My pencil work still errs towards sketchy.

Bonus: here's a sketch of a Wendigo I did for a recent Call of Cthulhu game