gaming-adjacent

Some gaming-adjacent art done back in 25 February 2013 as a 45-minute speedpaint.

My favorite Rust Monster. Circa 1970s toy chinasaur plastic figure which served as the inspiration for the D&D monster. I’d like to snag more of these someday.

The ugly, ugly Neo-Otyugh, a D&D monster toy from LJN toys. Bit of a bendy, actually, with wire embedded in the plastic for some posability (until the wire breaks).

I’m … fond of it. I suppose. It does look like it gives nice hugs.

This is the really deadly (and really ugly) Grell, another LJN-made D&D monster bendable toy which likely got little to no respect in the early 1980s.

There’s a lot going for it. Brains, tentacles, and … a beak. The Fiend Folio creature has these features, but the accompanying illustration is far better than the effect here, which is sort of brains-on-a-cracker with green extremities.

Second of that short-lived, incomplete series once attempted (back in 24 October 2011, this time) of Monster Manual monsters in watercolor: monsters of the alphabet. This is the bulette (pronounced boo'lay).

This was the first to use one of the old plastic chinasaur which served as the inspiration for the monster in D&D in the first place as a model for my watercolors. (I freehanded it from the attached specimen.)

Circa 1970s toy plastic figure (made in Hong Kong.)