A Daily Jaunt Through the Planes (Denizens of the Netherworld)
Yugoloths, baatezu, tanar’ri, devils, or Screwtape’s peeps…whatever you’d like to call’em, Planescape had A LOT of them. To be completely honest, I really enjoyed rendering those creepies – but again, I think I lacked the maturity as an illustrator to push their designs to the fullest potential.
The most obvious flaw in the PS illus. is that they are all perfect specimens. After eons of fighting off adventurers, good guys from Mt. Celestia, and each other – well, they would show the effects of such a battered existence, and I think these wounds would add greatly to their grotesqueness.
Of course, I looked at 15th century painter of all things nightmarish, Hieronymus Bosch for inspiration. But I think the best devils I have seen rendered are by alien painter/genius Wayne Barlowe. His work is great – his imagination is AMAZING!
Okay, enough reminiscing, I am off to bed. Hopefully no succubi will invade my dreams
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these past few posts have been so much fun. Its always so cool to see your thought process and sketches. gets me inspired to go draw!
I’m definitely seeing a bit of Barlowe’s “Inferno” works in that cambion sketch there.
I like the first skecth the most. The crawling creature on the bottum reminds me somewhat of a spiderwick troll.
Thanks for the cool post
I really enjoy Barlowe’s underworld as well; In fact, in point of weird coincidence, I threw “God’s Demon” into my bag to start reading on the train last night!