A Gargoyle

portrait of one of my D&D characters

Throne

D&D characters

The Battle of Neptune IV by Oliver Cuthbertson

Sketches of constructs made by the Imsee, alien squid whales. Their design is modeled after their creators and as such they are excellent swimmers

My most recent attempt at drawing this character, The Archon Aziza, from my fantasy setting The Last Seer

I'm no where close to be done with it but the basic colors are where they're supposed to be for the most part. Speaking of which i should really get around to posting the old lore I've got floating around on reddit onto here.

Also the peacock is apart of his body

WIP, for a design for robots, for my my setting Union Station. There's a human civilization which is ruled over by a network of AI and other intelligent machines, The Central Service Grid (CSG) and I wanted to make some high tech looking robots that were not android, as for one I don't really like overly human-like robots and two most robots are made by the CSG which generally values function over form most of the time.

I'm not entirely happy with the design, but i think its pointing in the right direction.

Panzer Dragoon Tarot Series

2. The Riders

The Rider or Riders are those who ride the Dragon. The Dragon cannot meet its true potential without a Rider and they are the ones at the center of a great quest. The Rider is an enigmatic figure whose origins are often left behind in history with the beasts they ride.

The Rider represents companionship, legacy, and guidance. Those who bare the Rider will find mentors in themselves and those who came before them.

This one took longer than I thought it would. I’m still iffy on the design but I think it gets the point across.

The Dram

A slight redesign of one of an older design, in color this time. These are the Dram, a mammal-like sophonts from an very earth like planet. On the left is a female and the right a male. They're the closets your going to get to a "humanoid" alien in the known galaxy.

Some bits on Biology

I call them mammal like but their not like placental mammals, they're really more akin to marsupials and monotremes in that young are hatched very underdeveloped and are nurtured in a pouch. While not depicted accurately here male dram are considerably larger than their female counterparts, and are around 2x times their size on average. They're feathers are display features which are used to express mood, and in mate selection. Oh and they're also venomous, they've got two fangs in their mandibles which in ancient times they'd use on their prey. They're aren't exactly immune to their own venom, but they are resistant to it.

The average global temperature on the dram home-world is considerably cooler than earth is while they are capable of regulating their own body temperature they do terribly in temps greater than 80 degrees fahrenheit, and often find room temp uncomfortable. When working in environments of other sophonts they tend to wear refrigerated chill suits.

Some bits on Culture

Dram family structures are similar to lions, so polygamy is the norm and their societies tend to be matriarchal. Their home-world is currently in its glacial maximum stage of their ice age so the northern hemisphere is largely covered in permanent ice sheets. Due to over industrialization by nations in the south their planet is unfortunately dealing with gradual global warming. The effects of which were much more intense and immediate due to their planets larger axial tilt than that of earth, so as you can imagine they're dealing with a lot of issues as a result. They were contacted by aliens , ~20 years ago and interacting with the wider galaxy has only added to their list of political and socio-economic problems.

In terms of tech, they're a little more advanced in some aspects and behind in others but they've got a comparable tech level to 21th century humans. (so us right now!) And they've already made crewed missions to other neighboring planets in their star system.

I really like the idea of the sort of role reversal, where instead of humans getting contacted by aliens its the other way around. Like I can imagine the dram equivalent of SETI discovering human ship or message and all the shenanigans that would cause. Would be a cool story i think.

just another batch of sketches, i haven't worked traditionally in a while, so have a messy doodle

Inktober 1 

Forgotten Giant

colored and sketched in krita inked with staedtler fineliners