Chad Sell

My DnD players recently met a sinister spymaster known as The Shadow Marshal...AND they met his mousling assistant Nibberly who happily betrayed his master! 🤣 There were also steampunk mechs involved, and a tabaxi resistance fighter.

My DnD campaign has admittedly gotten a little weird. The players recently fought aboard a steampunk-y zeppelin, and this was its crew! Spoiler: they were all disintegrated when the players set off the arcane warhead the airship had been carrying! 😱

Some more character designs for NPCs from my DnD campaign!! I had an absolute blast with all of them. As you can probably tell, the story is going in some pretty wild and wacky directions. 😅

One of the trickiest character designs for my DnD campaign has been for the elemental giant of gravity, Moon! I wanted her to be extremely eerie, with numerous floating limbs and a distinctly arachnid flavor.

In my DnD campaign, the entire continent of Zumara is run by several different elemental giants, and these guys serve Cinder, the Fire Giant. Their society is super militaristic, but I still wanted to bring in a bit of silliness with their designs!

Bullywugs! I love these little DnD creatures so much, but by the time I introduced them into my campaign, my players were too strong for the basic versions of these guys. So I added in some bigger, badder variants to spice things up!

One of my favorite DnD character designs is Tempest, the elemental giant of water. I wanted to capture her fierceness, armored up with coral and shells. Plus, introducing her allowed me to bring Bullywugs into the mix, and I love my little frog guys!

Early on in my DnD campaign, the players encountered a scary hill giant and mostly managed to avoid her. But when she came back as an undead servant of necromancers, they weren't so lucky! I had a lot of fun using china markers for textures in this piece.

I love the wild directions you can go in with DnD character designs!! This is Cinder, an elemental giant of fire. He wears massive, metal armor, and he has an enormous lion's mane of fire. Because why not??

One of my favorite DnD designs is for Mother Mplop, matriarch of a small coastal village of snailfolk, Shellstack Cove. She was originally going to be a noncombatant, but she ended up dramatically killing the enemy leader with a very well timed magic missile! 🤣

Some more NPC designs for my DnD campaign! The first two guys work for the Undying Empire, my necromantic nation, and then the final guy is an injured druid who's been guiding my PCs on their journey.

I do my best!! 🤞

Thank you! I try to go for really fun settings and scenarios!! Next session, the PCs will be going aboard a zeppelin and (hopefully) stopping it before it drops a magical nuke!!

During a recent DnD session, my players were defending Shellstack Cove, a cute coastal town of snailfolk, from a bunch of merfolk riding a giant crab! It was one of the wilder missions we've done, but my players made it out alive! (barely!)

Thank you!!! 🐟

Three Merfolk designs for my DnD campaign! They were riding a giant crab when my players encountered them, and it was probably the toughest battle of the campaign so far!

This guy represents all the doubt and insecurity any artist can feel, and he must be overcome to reconnect with creativity. The Month of Monsters let me do just that–I’ve gotten to play around with tons of techniques old and new. And color, too!!

I only drew one monster of my own creation for my Month of Monsters, and that was the Dark Leviathan from Doodleville. Thanks for following along!

Thank you!!!!

I wasn't sure if I would finish the initial sketch, but once I settled on a simplified, geometric approach, it all clicked for me! It just took some time to piece it all together.

My final piece of Monster Train art for the month is Ekka, High Witch of the Luna Coven! I loved capturing the intricacy of her costume, even if I simplified it a bit. Happy Halloween!! 🎃 👻

I've really had a ton of fun playing with texture this month! The linework here is done with a Pilot G2 gel pen, and then most of the shading is done with Copic marker ink that I keep in a refillable brush pen. The gray textures are done with a gray Prismacolor pencil!

Weirdly enough, I haven't drawn many monsters from superhero comics this month, but I had fun sketching out the Abomination, Hulk’s Cold War counterpart. I love that his spiky, textured skin is paired with those adorable wing ears!

This was actually my second drawing of Trap Jaw for this series. The first one didn't quite work, and it put too much focus on his giant gun-arm. 😵‍💫

A beautiful ode to toxic masculinity, Trap Jaw is the best. Who wouldn’t kill for that jawline, am I right?

The original sketch of Karen was pretty simple, but then I spent way too long on all the background stuff! (You can see Hexadecimal's leg from earlier this month!)

Emil Ferris crashed onto the comics scene with her debut graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters. I love its main character Karen, a lonely wolf-girl trying to solve a murder in the darkest days of 1960s Chicago.

I stuck really closely to this original drawing. It was just tricky deciding on the final colors! Night scenes are tough.

I first got the full Bone collection in college and was blown away by the art and storytelling! @jeffsmithsbone.bsky.social is an absolute legend. His rat creatures are fun villains you meet early on, and I love them so, so much.