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wednesday of this week and continuing for the following several weeks i will be taking a break from the blog one must step away occasionally to try other things and experience new and different places fear naught i will return until then i will leave you with this monster that i have shared so many times before nom nom nom nom and yes i have used this image on the blog for over ten years how time flies that is all for another exciting week on the blog i will see you back here in a few weeks until then for more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website www christopherburdett com posted by christopher burdett at 9 30 am no comments labels blog break monster friday may 1 2026 revisiting the star spawn in 2009 i was hired to design a series of miniatures for fantasy flight games they were gearing up to make plastic minis of all of their arkham horror call of cthulhu monsters and i was at the right place at the right time to get the bulk of them it was a fun project with a lot of freedom for a grotesquely small amount of pay and then nothing it wouldn t be until 2011 12 for the monsters to finally be released as unpainted figures in board game sets and as fully painted premium minis by and large they all turned out great and i still look back at them favorably as it has been 17 years since i made the art and 15 years since they were eventually released i thought it would be nice to revisit some of them next up in alphabetical order we have the star spawn here is my design and the final miniature star spawn 12 x 9 pencil on paper 3 separate drawing s arkham horror monsters mansions of madness 2009 fantasy flight games the star spawn miniature and as an added bonus something i have never shared before here are the thumbnails that i created for this piece over the past 17 years i had forgotten how loose and sketchy these were star spawn thumbnails arkham horror monsters mansions of madness 2009 fantasy flight games that s all for another exciting week on the blog see you back here on monday until then for more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website www christopherburdett com posted by christopher burdett at 9 30 am no comments labels arkham horror monsters cthulhu drawing mansions of madness miniatures star spawn wednesday april 29 2026 revisiting the monsters xorn in 2010 sixteen years ago now i began a personal project to redesign most if not all of the monsters in the original dungeons dragons monster manual that original mm had a profound effect on me and led me to eventually work on the game while i was already working on the game when i began this project it did prove useful as i have redesigned many d d monsters in my career on the game in the end i completed over 100 drawings for the project and even had a gallery show featuring the work i thought it would be nice to look back at some of my favorites today brings us to the xorn enjoy xorn redesign 2010 2010 2026 christopher burdett that s another exciting wednesday on the blog see you back here on friday until then for more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website www christopherburdett com posted by christopher burdett at 9 30 am no comments labels drawing dungeons and dragons monsters xorn monday april 27 2026 tales from la that bit ain t right i have searched and searched for images to go along with this post and after a great deal of looking i have been unable to locate anything which is a shame because i think seeing the original designs would have helped with this but no matter for this post i quickly scribbled up something to help this story goes back to my time working in los angeles we were hired to work on a psa commercial focused on improving health please remember this this is supposed to be about improving people s health another detail to remember is that the two people making all the decisions on the production side of things are british picture what they say with the appropriate accent it is part of the adventure the big amazing new idea they had to help improve health was so new and so amazing that it took hours for them to try to explain it to me clearly so that i could understand and design it the best i can explain it is that they wanted us to physically make fat socks but not like that imagine someone is carrying more body weight than they want and they pull the unwanted fat off themselves like clothes but it s flesh and hollow just the outer ring or skin of fat because that is how our bodies totally work and all our body fat is along the surface feast your eyes upon this very quick sketch getting an idea for what kind of monstrosity they wanted us to make well to get to this point the point where i finally made something similar to what i have posted above it took hours hours with two british men and the shop supervisor sitting behind me as i sat at my computer and worked and they did helpful things like be super impatient repeat the same not explanation over and over like it was going to change anything and the cherry on top after every mark i made every choice i made after i did anything the peanut gallery responded in their accent with that bit ain t right for hours and i am not being hyperbolic or exaggerating it was maddening nothing i did was right and they most definitely could not tell me what to do differently or what they wanted it was fat sock and that bit ain t right and that is all i had to work off of even today that bit ain t right is seared into my memory well after a sisyphean design session we had something and the two not at all helpful men left long story short the things we made were horrible they made no sense looked dumb and no one understood what they were or what they were doing at the shoot it was bad bad bad to be honest i have no idea if the psa ever got made completed or aired but i cannot imagine for a second anyone watching it would understand it or take away from it that they should eat healthy and exercise or something whatever it was they were trying to depict and as a side note humans carry extra body fat for many different reasons many of which are outside the control of the individual so the idea that body weight was something that could simply be removed by sliding the fat off always felt callous disconnected and cruel but hey what do i know oh yeah i know that bit ain t right you know what i am saying they knew best and the fact that they were unable to quickly and easily explain their big idea to anyone else never registered as an issue good ole la that s all for another exciting monday on the blog see you back here wednesday until then for more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website www christopherburdett com posted by christopher burdett at 9 30 am no comments labels commercial los angles makeup effects tales from la friday april 24 2026 revisiting the serpent people in 2009 i was hired to design a series of miniatures for fantasy flight games they were gearing up to make plastic minis of all of their arkham horror call of cthulhu monsters and i was at the right place at the right time to get the bulk of them it was a fun project with a lot of freedom for a grotesquely small amount of pay and then nothing it wouldn t be until 2011 12 for the monsters to finally be released as unpainted figures in board game sets and as fully painted premium minis by and large they all turned out great and i still look back at them favorably as it has been 17 years since i made the art and 15 years since they were eventually released i thought it would be nice to revisit some of them next up in alphabetical order we have the serpent people here is my design and the final miniature serpent people 12 x 9 pencil on paper 3 separate drawing s arkham horror monsters mansions of madness 2009 fantasy flight games the serpent people miniature and as an added bonus something i have never shared before here are the thumbnails that i created for this piece over the past 17 years i had forgotten how loose and sketchy these were serpent people thumbnails arkham horror monsters mansions of madness 2009 fantasy flight games that s all for another exciting week on the blog see you back here on monday until then for more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website www christopherburdett com posted by christopher burdett at 9 30 am no comments labels arkham horror monsters cthulhu drawing mansions of madness miniatures serpent people wednesday april 22 2026 revisiting the monsters vampire in 2010 sixteen years ago now i began a personal project to redesign most if not all of the monsters in the original dungeons dragons monster manual that original mm had a profound effect on me and led me to eventually work on the game while i was already working on the game when i began this project it did prove useful as i have redesigned many d d monsters in my career on the game in the end i completed over 100 drawings for the project and even had a gallery show featuring the work i thought it would be nice to look back at some of my favorites today brings us to the vampire enjoy vampire redesign 2010 2010 2026 christopher burdett that s another exciting wednesday on the blog see you back here on friday until then for more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website www christopherburdett com posted by christopher burdett at 9 30 am no comments labels drawing dungeons and dragons monsters vampire monday april 20 2026 revisiting the alligraffe right about now sixteen years ago i was reintroducing myself to my clients and making a fresh start of things with my art well i should say that all the work to improve my skillsets and to become more serious about what i was making and doing began to manifest we have finally reached the final monday of sharing my contributions to the artorder mutation nation art challenge that jon schindehette ran sixteen years ago the final one i will be sharing is the unfinished alligraffe anglerphant 14 x 11 pencil on paper original not sure mutation nation challenge 2010 christopher burdett the focus of the challenge was to take two animals combine them and make a new crazy mutant i ended up designing four monsters and three became finished paintings these three paintings saw a major improvement in my painting skills my use of reference and baby steps into creating an environment for the monsters this is also when i officially announced i am only working on monsters moving forward these were well received and were 100 responcible for me once more working on projects with wotc the time and energy i put into these more than paid off and would mark the beginning of a new chapter in my art career i had always meant to finish this one but never did granted there is nothing stopping me from doing it now but things have progressed so much in the last sixteen years and my focus is elsewhere that s all for another exciting monday on the blog see you back here on wednesday until then for more samples of my work or to contact me regarding my availability head over to my website www christopherburdett com posted by christopher burdett at 9 30 am no comments labels alligraffe artorder jon schindehette monsters mutation nation painting older posts home subscribe to posts atom the grand bazaar of ethra van dalia monsters and merchants the grand bazaar of ethra vandalia is an illustrated novel collecting different stories and points of view that introduce you to a world of monsters links store magic the gathering prints and playmats mailing list website bluesky instagram youtube tumblr linkedin profile the grand bazaar of ethra vandalia blog about me christopher burdett christopher s career began in the special makeup effects industry he designed and created creatures for various television and film projects including buffy the 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