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Tiamat, The Dragon Queen

Tiamat, The Dragon Queen

Tiamat is the insanely powerful five headed dragon goddess from the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, and one of the only named dragons I have ever drawn. 

Arguably...

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Ice Dragon Variants

Ice Dragon Variants

I nearly forgot to post these today, opps!

Here are the variants for the Ice Dragon! Not a huge amount of differences here but fun to have and use for games in case you are running multiple dragons and need different colours without much work XD

Over the last few days I've been workin...

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Ice Dragon

Ice Dragon

Hello everyone!

Another dragon finished up today :)

As we were doing the dragons we did notice that we were kind of doing them in pairs, leaf/sand, demon/angel, lava and now an Ice Dragon!

This is the second to last dragon we will be doing for Smaugust this year, so you will be ...

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Lava Dragon Variants

Lava Dragon Variants

Moar dragon variants!

Yep, not much to say about these ones, they are some nice colours for a bit of variety!

We only have 2 dragons left to go this year for Smaugust now! :D

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Lava Dragon

Lava Dragon

Im back!

KTech has been running the show for about a week and half while I was taking a little break. I was not in a great place for a little while and even though I was still doing a bit of work I needed some time to get away from social media and try and relax.

In any case, today I ...

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Angel Dragon Variants

Angel Dragon Variants

 Hey everyone! KTech again with the next variant pack, this time for the Angel Dragon!

There’s a slightly transparent version in this one that I really love, which will work perfectly as a spirit/ghostly dragon :)

We have a couple more dragons coming up before the end of the mo...

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Angel Dragon

Angel Dragon

 Hello everyone! KTech again. Here's the next smaugust dragon, the Angel Dragon. :)

I wasn't 100% happy with the sketch work for this one. It went through a lot of chopping and changing so Caeora did an absolutely amazing job reworking the parts I couldn't get to look right and made an...

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Demon Dragon Variants

Demon Dragon Variants

Hello everyone! KTech here again this time with the variant versions of the Demon Dragon! 

Also I'd like to say a big thank you for all the support from all of you with this Smaugust project. It's been great seeing all the lovely feedback and hearing how much you're enjoying these drag...

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Demon Dragon

Demon Dragon

Hello Everyone! :) KTech here bringing you our next Smagust dragon, the Demon dragon!

I did quite a few sketches for this one early on that got completely scrapped because I just wasn't happy with how the face looked. I realised after a couple of attempts, the horns looked far more demonic ...

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Sand Dragon Variants

Sand Dragon Variants

Hello everybody! KTech here bringing you the variant versions for the Smaugust Sand Dragon including, a more red version to fit deep rocky canyons, a grey version to fit more temperate climates or vast salt flats, and a darker version for a more spooky black sand setting.


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Sand Dragon

Sand Dragon

Hello everyone! KTech again with the next dragon Caeora and I have made for Smaugust, the Sand Dragon! this one took a little more teamwork to get the face just right, but we got there in the end and made something were both happy with! :)

Personally, I'm really enjoying the challenge of tr...

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Leaf Dragon Variants

Leaf Dragon Variants

Hello all! KTech here again  

Here are a few awesome little variants of the Leaf Dragon which may fit some more magical or corrupted settings, red blue and yellow versions that are somewhat based on seasons and you can find them in the downloads below! 

We're working on a co...

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Leaf Dragon

Leaf Dragon

Hey everybody! KTech here with a Dragon me and Caeora have worked on together, and were both super happy with the results! 

Caeora recently put a smaugust list up on twitter that we’re ...

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Creature Packs: CR 3

Creature Packs: CR 3

Hey everybody! KTech here again with the next pack of creature tokens!

The UK has been hit with a heatwave recently and we've had a week and a half or so of 30c+ days,which has caused abit of a slow down at the moment! (The UK is not designed for this kinda weather. There's no Air Con. we'r...

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Kickstarter Question

Yes, I am thinking about running my own kickstarter!

Now, I should first, before doing anything else, ask people what they would expect and whether it's a good idea in the first place. I'm very interested in what people think so please make sure you vote in the poll below and leave a commen...

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Crooked Hill (Variants)

Crooked Hill (Variants)

Hello everyone!

Today I spent some time putting together some different variants of the Crooked Hill map and released them for use by all my Veteran tier supporters and above! 

In total, with the day, night and rain versions with all the different colours, the total number of map...

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Crooked Hill

Crooked Hill

Hello everyone!

Another battlemap finished up today, a dark spooky (very angry looking) mystical tree on top of a wind blown hill and this one is absolutely massive. Well it's a big one for our current zoom level and amount of detail anyway! 

Once again, like with the last battle...

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9 Fantasy Cartography Videos

9 Fantasy Cartography Videos

Hello everyone!

This July 2020 I recorded 9 Videos on my Youtube channel that have covered the majority of the basic concepts for fantasy map making!

These videos cover everything you might want to know when you are starting out on your mapmaking journey, from setting things up, to dr...

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Behind the Scenes: Practicing Concept Art Maps

Behind the Scenes: Practicing Concept Art Maps

Today's post is a little different and goes into a bit of the behind the scene work that i've been doing recently to improve my battle map creation process! 

 I'm a little hesitant to show these off because they are so rough but.. I think its also worth it!  

In the ima...

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Fallen Ent

Fallen Ent

Another battle map today all finished up for a wonderfully atmospheric encounter with a long forgotten guardian of the forest!

And I didn't do the line art for this map, KTech did! 

And she did an absolutely wonderful job, so much so in fact, I was so excited to colour it and I t...

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Complete Pack: CR 2 (Part 2)

Complete Pack: CR 2 (Part 2)

Hey all! KTech again with the next lot of recolours! :D

I had a lot of issues with photoshop not co-operating with me on this one, there was a lot of random artifacting that I couldn't quite work out where it was coming from, but I got there in the end and I'm really happy with how they cam...

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Lhodos: Northern Kingdoms COLOUR!

Lhodos: Northern Kingdoms COLOUR!

A ton of people wanted me to colour the previous map that I posted. I received some lovely comments and it was such a lovely map to work on that I decided that I should listen and keep going..

And here it is! The Lhodos Northern Kingdoms map all done in glorious colour :) 

Techni...

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Lhodos: Northern Kingdoms

Lhodos: Northern Kingdoms

Finished up the map of Lhodos: Northern Kingdoms today and this is now one of my new favourites! 

This is actually a remake or rather a zoomed in region of a map I did years ago called Lhodos, you can see what that was like below :P 

I think i've improved a little since then...

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Mythic Age Creatures

Mythic Age Creatures

After doing the mythic age assets, both KTech and I really wanted to do some classical monsters from greek myth as well! 

We knew that some of these would be covered in the MM series that we are doing but we also thought we could do unique mythical versions and this is what we came up ...

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Simple Dungeon Room

Simple Dungeon Room

I've spent some time recently getting back to basics, doing some concept pieces and trying to distill my process down into manageable chunks and I might share some of the results of that if people are interested but one of the results of that process was the creation of some simple tiles.  View Post

Creature Packs: CR 2 (Part 2)

Creature Packs: CR 2 (Part 2)

KTech back with the other half of CR 2! :D

A small change with this pack, I haven't included versions with shadow because after a little talk with Caeora, we agreed they are not as necessary. That said, if you did use the shadow versions, let us know and I'll add them back in! :)

As t...

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Caeora's Cartography Creation Pack

Caeora's Cartography Creation Pack

A bunch of people have asked me about this and have been very excited to get their hands on the brushes and tools that I use to make maps! 

Well, here they are :) 

There are a bunch of things in this pack that can help you start a map, from a region or world map to a battlem...

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Quick Update on Sales Tax

I've mentioned this to people a few times on streams and in conversations but I have not talked about the new sales tax for certain states in the US on Patreon that will be going into effect tomorrow.

Why?

Because my patreon is mainly based upon supporting me as a creator, and support...

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Mythic Age Assets

Mythic Age Assets

I really need to start setting limits on the scope of these things XD

This pack contains nearly 150 assets and is nearly 3x the size of the Dark Lord Assets pack released recently :) 

For anyone not aware, Wizards of the Coast is releasing a setting book called The Mythic Odyssey...

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Sneak Peek: Theros Assets

Sneak Peek: Theros Assets

Just a quick post today, to show off what I've been working on recently! 

The Mythic Odysseys of Theros has come out recently and this is my take on the mythic adventure aesthetic, with an emphasis on roman and greek styles. Ive also tried to make them a little more fantasy themed and ...

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