Troll Mini

This was made in 2012 as a Dungeons & Dragons mini.  I think it was meant to be an orc, but I'm going with troll for now.

Beholder Cave Painting Stamp Object

The beholder didn't make it onto the cave painting collage.

Beholder and Achaierai Coloring Pages

Achaierai Paint Job / Shiny Evil Bird

This is a sculpture of a D&D monster called the Achaierai from 2012.  I painted the base and sprayed it with acrylic sealer and now it's a shiny evil bird.

Khargra Sculpture

The khargra is an obscure Dungeons & Dragons monster from the Elemental Plane of Earth.  They tunnel through stone and soil in schools.  This piece is from 2010.  I'm posting old stuff because I won't have anything new before I bisque fire next week.

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Chaggrin Sculpture

This is an old sculpture from 2010.  I updated the photography from the original post.  It depicts a Dungeons & Dragons monster, a type of elemental grue called a Chaggrin.

  What is a grue?

Purple Worm 5

This is the third and last of this series of Purple Worms.

It's fun to stalk a purple worm.

Purple Worm 4

Purple Worm 3

Bust of Ogrémoch

This is an interpretation of Ogrémoch, the Prince of Evil Earth Creatures from the AD&D Fiend Folio, one of my favorite sources for ideas. The Fiend Folio is a compilation of monster submissions to a British gaming magazine White Dwarf, credited to Lewis Pulcifer.

It originally had a lower body, but it collapsed.

I have always had an interest/obsession with diacritical marks.  This is the first time I've admitted that publicly.  I'm intrigued by the acute accent on the e in Ogrémach.  Is it like an umlaut in the name of a heavy metal band (e.g.  Deathtöngue) intended to create an aura of badassery?  I think it's more likely a reminder to pronounce the e and not to treat it as a silent letter as in the word ogre.

There is an opening on the back so that a (very small) candle could be placed inside.  I'm intending to use it as a jack-o-lantern at Halloween.

The door to the opening looks like a nipple, doesn't it?

Ogrémoch as illustrated in the Fiend Folio:

Giant Otter Miniatures

Last year, I was running Dungeons & Dragons Encounters in a local gaming store. Encounters is a series of adventures provided by the publisher with the intention of attracting new players/consumers to their product.  There was one point during this particular story, Beyond the Crystal Cave, in which the players had the opportunity to use giant otters as mounts.  I made the clay miniatures but they didn't get done in time for the game.  Over a year later, I finally got around to painting them.  Some are more otter-like than others.  One looked more like a tiger cub so I painted it as such.

The otters are designed to allow a D&D mini to be placed on top.  This is illustrated with my Kenku assassin.  It would probably work better with the standard plastic figures.

Chwidencha Pot

This is a hand-built slab/coil pot with a chwidencha on the lid.  A chwidencha is a Dungeons & Dragons monster resembling a spider with an abnormal abundance of legs.  I love the onomatopoeic name, the sound the thing makes as it scuttles across the stone floor towards you in some dank pit to paralyze and devour you.  The pot is uneven and asymmetrical.  The chwidencha is more spider-like than my last one, but I still haven't solved the problem of creating the illusion of sharp angles necessary to make the jointed legs of arthropods look natural.

Chwidencha Sculpture

This is a sculpture of a Dungeons & Dragons monster called the chwidencha.  It resembles a spider that is almost all legs.  I gave it a head because my tiers of spider legs weren't dense enough to obscure the inside and it made more sense for it to have a head under there somewhere.  This piece was practice for the Chwidencha Pot.  I like how the glazes came out, but it lacks the angularity that would make it look like a real arthropod.

The official illustration of a chwidencha from the 3rd Edition D&D Fiend Folio:

Eye of the Deep

This is an Eye of the Deep, an aquatic relation of the venerable beholder from Dungeons & Dragons.

An illustration of the Eye of the Deep from the First Edition AD&D Monster Manual.