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Friday
Mar152013

Kerberos Productions: Liir 

Hey everyone! Here are a few more illustrations that I did for Kerberos Productions. This time I did the Liir,  a highly intelligent cetacean race that communicate via the tentacles on their face. These guys have a lot of back story, but I just stuck with the basics.

Thanks for looking and I hope everyone enjoys!

Wednesday
Mar132013

Tutorial in 2D Artist magazine

Interested in seeing how I go about creating a creature based on exaggerating human anatomy?
Well, head on over to 3D Total to download the latest issue of 2D Artist Magazine.

This is the first of a three part series on creature anatomy. Part one focuses on exaggerating human anatomy, part two is about blending human and animal anatomy, and finally part three deals with creating an unique creature from scratch!

I had a lot of fun with these tutorials, so I encourage you to download the issue and hopefully some of my tips will help you with your own work!

Now check out Mr. Ogre's rock hard abs!

-Vinod

www.vinodrams.blogspot.com

Tuesday
Mar122013

Another Alien

Tuesday
Mar122013

Ginger Lophorn

Monday
Mar112013

Kerberos Productions: Morrigi

Here is some more recent work that I did for Kerberos Productions. I developed scientific illustrations for their species the Morrigi, a  bird-like dragon with eight appendages (one pair of arms, two pairs of legs, and one pair of wings) and a snake-like body.

Thanks for looking and I hope you all enjoy!

 

Saturday
Mar092013

gila guy

Thursday
Mar072013

recent stuff

 

Thursday
Mar072013

Granox Print

11"Inch Granox Limited Edition print by Annex-Labs - very pleased on how this turned out - check out website for more info - http://www.annex-labs.com/

Later

FOo

Tuesday
Mar052013

Snows of Summer

I've got some new work that was just released. I painted a few creatures for Paizo's Pathfinder: The Snows of Summer. These were my favorites out of the bunch: 

More coming soon! :) 

Tuesday
Mar052013

The Hobbit: On the Doorstep

Back in August I had three Smaug pieces released as part of the Gen Con 2012 Battle of Lake-Town deck. That is the funny thing about production and release schedules... Months before I ever painted those Smaugs I was asked to design and illustrate Smaug for the second of two Hobbit themed expansions to the Lord of the Rings card game. Now, finally, that expansion and the first of my Smaug pieces have been released. While the Battle of Lake-Town set gave me a chance to revisit and build upon my Smaug design here is how it came out in the original two cards that I created...

Both pieces are © 2013 Fantasy Flight Games

RAWR!

Monday
Mar042013

Creature news!


Here are a few of the creatures I've made in the last months to promote my Monsters By Email subscription, which I'm happy to tell you, is now LIVE!

I have mentioned it here a couple of times before, so should you want further information, please visit the site.

And now to the art:

 

 

 




 

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/Thanks!

Thursday
Feb282013

Mumoku no Oni

Torn Asunder, the newest expansion for the Legends of the Five Rings card game is out and I had one card in the set, the mighty Mumoku no Oni. I was asked to come up with something that could destroy an entire province and this is what I came up with, my very own Kaiju...

 

© 2013 Alderac Entertainment Group

RAWR!

Tuesday
Feb262013

The Carrion King

I was asked to design and illustrate the lord of all Myconids, the Carrion King, for an article appearing in the February issue of Dragon Magazine, issue #420. As always it is a huge thrill to get to design something new and monstrous for Dungeons & Dragons. Here is how it turned out...

 

© 2013 Wizards of the Coast

RAWR!

Monday
Feb252013

Beetle Lord

 

Samurai Kaiju theme - 
inspired by some little beetle dudes and lobsters

Saturday
Feb232013

Crested Alien 

Something new from my last Livestream session: 

 and some sketchie fun: 

You can click on these to see them larger. Thanks!