“An unexpected arrival…”

A piece for a DMsGuild product I’m working on. One of my all time favourite creatures from across the monster guides in D&D… The Astral Dreadnaught, this one using the amazing work from Mordekainen’s by (I think) Sidharth Chaturvedi as a model/guide…

The full image for a double page spread…

The foreground figures, I was particularly happy with the woman on the right, and the head of the guy running away. You can make out the figures on the balcony a little better here.

More shocked market traders.

The lightning shrouded creature, as I imagine how it might be as it pushes unnaturally through a portal from the astral to the material plane…

Tightening up the creature…

Basic colour and lighting sketch….

The thumbnail I worked over…