I started this project with a couple of goals in mind. One was to improve my drawing skills. I think that is happening. The second is just to engage in and complete a project related to gaming. So far for this project I've created a VB5 program to randomly generate the Hordlings, and wrote a program to randomly generate cool names for each Hordling and now I'm drawing each one according to each description generated. I don't always follow every bit of the description, and sometimes I change the details to suit what I feel like doing with the picture, but so far the project is ticking along nicely and at Hordling# 38 I am a little more than 1/3rd of the way through. It takes me about 15 - 20 minutes for each pencil sketch, and then, depending on how much detail I want to add, another 15 - 40 minutes to ink each one. I usually do about 4 at a time and take 2 - 3 hours to get them done. I find the time for each one gets faster on the pencils side, and faster for the inking of the less-detailed drawings, but I am increasingly tempted to add more detail as I go along. When I am finished the 100 drawings I am going to put them together in a book, probably writing them up with OSRIC rules and/or one of the OD&D clone rules. I'm thinking of publishing it through DTRPG or Lulu but we'll see. In the meantime here's numbers 35 - 38.

 

 I decided to color this guy because with all the black lines in the scales of the head, the hair of the mane, and the feathers, the head was getting kind of lost. 54 years old and I still can't keep my colours between the lines.

Really pleased with Ranorak. For one thing I finally looked up what insect wings really look like rather than relying on my hazy old memories. My attempts to draw them from my head has produced some pretty bizare results on previous hordlings ( not that that's a bad thing, hordlings are supposed to look bizarre, I think.)

BTW two great reference books I'm using are: