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Watercolor D&D Monsters Part 5 - Tressym

Tressyms are believed to be the creation of wizard experimentation. They're described as more intelligent than the average house cat, but not quite human level intelligent. This one however, on account of being orange, only gets two brain cells. Still more intelligent than it's orange cat cousins.

I'm sorry this one took so long. I had another completed painting I just wasn't happy with. So I completely started over from scratch.

Watercolor D&D Monsters Part 4 - Beholder

Look, it’s him. It’s Mr. DND himself! There is no monster more synonymous with dungeons and dragons than the Beholder. This guy was a real challenge. Whereas every other monster has very clearly defined features, the Beholder has its big eye, it’s 10 little eyes, it’s big ol’ mouth, and that’s about it. Since Beholders are reality benders and reproduce by manifesting their dreams into reality, a Beholder’s features can vary wildly. Which on the one hand is very cool because it opens up a lot of creativity. But on the other hand, can be a challenge hanging such a blank canvas to work with. I had some vague ideas of where I wanted to take him, but all the details were just hashed out as I went. I originally wanted him to be a rusty-red color, but just didn’t like how it was looking when I applied the paint, so I scrapped it and made him green instead. Below is a timelapse of the sketching and painting process.

Watercolor D&D Monsters Part 3 - Flumph

I got a LOT of requests to paint a Flumph in my style, so here he is. I actually didn’t know a lot about Flumphs before I did this, I never used them in a campaign before. I just knew them from their weird art in the 5e monster manual. But having done a ton of research for this painting, I see why people love them so much now. A really leaned into the jellyfish inspiration, reimagining their spikes as stingers. I also gave them a more alien, snail-like eye stalk to lean into why surface dwellers would be so uncomfortable around them.

Time lapse of my Myconid 🍄

Watercolor D&D Monsters Part 2 - Myconid Sprout

Watercolor D&D Monsters Part 1 - Owlbear

I've seen some bad superhero movies and this is absolutely not one of them. I've seen people unironically comparing this to Thor: Love and Thunder. Like, did we watch the same movie??

What becomes of the broken hearted?

Hal Jordan in the DCU is 60 years old, he's much older than most of the other heroes. Including Superman.

We know that in 2025, Superman is 30 years old based on the opening text. We don't know when exactly Hal became Green Lantern, but based on trailer footage, it seems like it's been at least 30+ years.

What are the chances that Hal Jordan has been to Krypton?

I think sometimes fans discuss the destruction of Krypton like it's ancient history, but it just happened 30 years ago. In this universe, Krypton was destroyed in the 1995. That's the same year TOY STORY was released.