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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 1, 2020 3:05:42 GMT
Issue 14 of the newsletter for the Lone Wolf Club appeared in 1989 with a contest to draw a Lone Wolf monster.
The deadline for submissions was thirty-one years ago, but I just found out about the contest and I have been thinking about it a lot.
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 1, 2020 3:12:16 GMT
Let's talk about the template they give you. Look at the relationships of the boots, the sword and the frame.  I tried to figure out how to approach this with an artist's mannequin. The template puts you in a tough spot to get the proportions right in your picture.  |
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 1, 2020 3:17:42 GMT
The proportions make me think of this kobold from the D&D 2nd Edition Monstrous Compendium.
Even then, the frame is a little crowded.
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 1, 2020 3:23:42 GMT
Here are the winners from Issue 16 of the newsletter.
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 2, 2020 0:35:41 GMT
Here I am experimenting to see how much I need to stretch the anatomy of a basic humanoid to fit into the template.
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 16, 2020 2:42:58 GMT
I am fooling around with backgrounds for the monster.
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 18, 2020 0:05:41 GMT
Edit: I added a spider for him to react to. It's like a regular spider, but it can fly. Just imagine flying spiders. They hover in the air like moths, but they're completely silent. You might catch a glimpse of one from the corner of your eye, but otherwise you never know it's there until it plops down on your neck.
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 19, 2020 4:06:03 GMT
"The small, child-like creature holds a cutlass out in front of himself. The blade undulates with pale blue flame. Your sixth sense tells you he is using the cutlass to control the movements of the giant."
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 20, 2020 21:43:43 GMT
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 22, 2020 23:43:24 GMT
"The magic boots rest on a stone pedestal, but before you can claim them you must defeat their guardian in combat."
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 30, 2020 0:56:25 GMT
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Post by Rune Owl on Dec 30, 2020 19:46:58 GMT
I showed some of the earlier work to a friend, who immediately said the sword position would make sense if the person held it in both hands. I have to admit that's better and I just didn't see it before. I used a lot of reference material for this picture, but especially the work of John Buscema, who worked at Marvel in the 1960s and 1970s and did a lot of work on Conan the Barbarian.
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Post by moonblade on Jan 3, 2021 14:48:57 GMT
Lemme just say, the snake boots are hilarious.
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Post by Rune Owl on Jan 3, 2021 18:23:16 GMT
Lemme just say, the snake boots are hilarious.Thanks! Out of all the pictures I've drawn here so far, those were the most fun for me.
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Post by Rune Owl on Jan 3, 2021 18:29:55 GMT
"A powerful sense of evil radiates from the mime. He brandishes a club shaped like a fish and prepares to attack you. You look forward to stabbing him repeatedly."
The thing I like best about this picture is that the enormous shoes finally make sense.
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