Showing posts with label Dungeon magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dungeon magazine. Show all posts

April 12, 2013

More recent work - monsters, Monsters, and more MONSTERS

A lot of my monsters have come out recently and I thought I would share them all in one post. I will start things off with my contributions to the March issues of Dungeon and Dragon magazines. I got to do a portrait of the deadly Ogre mercenary Lubash as well as redesign and illustrate an entire army of Mephits...

Lubash the Ogre - The Village of Hommlet
© 2013 Wizards of the Coast


Air, Dust, and Earth Mephits
© 2013 Wizards of the Coast

  Mist, Steam, and Water Mephits
© 2013 Wizards of the Coast

  Fire, Ice, and Magma Mephits
© 2013 Wizards of the Coast

Heading now to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. The mighty Icetromper joins the ranks of the ever growing Star Wars card game by Fantasy Flight Games...

Icetromper
© 2013 Fantasy Flight Games

Lastly, I have for you a set of four Marvel Comic aliens that I redesigned for the very awesome The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe REDUXE Edition (OHOTMU Reduxe) blog. The blog's goal is to redesign and celebrate 1000 plus entries in the Handbook to the Marvel Universe. I started off my contribution to the project with these four aliens. You can see a side by side comparison here, Alien Races - Horusians to Judans...

Interdites Redesign - © 2013 Christopher Burdett

Horusians Redesign - © 2013 Christopher Burdett

Hujah Redesign - © 2013 Christopher Burdett

Judans Redesign - © 2013 Christopher Burdett

RAWR!

May 1, 2012

Far Realm Fiends

I had one more Dungeons & Dragons piece released in April. Also in issue 201 of Dungeon magazine I contributed the art for an article titled, Far Realm Fiends. It depicts a giant nightmare creature called the Doom Hulk and a trap that warps time and space...

Doom Hulk and Geometric Impossibility
© 2012 Wizards of the Coast

Here is a step by step for the painting, it came together really quickly and I pretty much knew what I was going for from the thumbnail stage...

Doom Hulk and Geometric Impossibility - Process
© 2012 Wizards of the Coast

I was working on this piece at the same time I was working on the Scaladars that appeared in my last post here. A really fun pair of piece to work on. Never can pass on the chance to create something new for D&D. This also has some personal moody redemption brain garbage tied to it that I might share at some point... but really, does it have anything the paint...? :P

RAWR!

April 23, 2012

Halls of Undermountain

Halls of Undermountain, the newest adventure supplement for Dungeons & Dragons, was released last week and I had three pieces in the book. In addition to this release there was an accompanying article in Dungeon magazine last week, Trobriand's Machinations, that expanded on the threats of Undermountain and I had one piece in there as well. Bring on the monsters...

Wroot the Goblin
© 2012 Wizards of the Coast

 Snake Curse
© 2012 Wizards of the Coast

 Darktentacles
© 2012 Wizards of the Coast

Scaladars
© 2012 Wizards of the Coast
 
I had a ton of fun with all of these and wish I could have taken on more since the local and situations offered up so many fun possibilities. I have a special place in my art heart for D&D so I relish anytime I get to work on a D&D project. Being able to design new monsters for the D&D universe is just an added bonus. Though I have contributed to both Dungeon and Dragon magazines in the past few years it has been three years since I got to contribute to a bound D&D book, so these pieces were of special significance to me. Thanks goes out to Kate Irwin for getting me involved in all of this monster fill fun and for offering up great direction!