Illustration of gnomish inventors (Dragonlance fandom) busy with clockworks machines. Commissioned by the Dragonlance Nexus as internal illustration for the adventure manual “The Journals of Kaz the Minotaur – The lost colony” featuring a novel by Richard Knaak and a D&D 5th ed adventure.
Gnomes of Krynn are famous for their incredible minds, and the tradition of being unparallel inventors. Only, sometimes while they aim at a specific goal, they create something different.
“The Journals of Kaz the Minotaur” by Richard Knaak is a special project, which includes both a novel and an adventure for DnD 5th edition, where you can play an adventurer in first person and find yourself involved in the story.
About the Dragonlance Nexus: https://dragonlancenexus.com/
Work in progress pics
If you ever wonder what these devices are (in my head):
- The big umbrella is designed after one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s creation. Of course the gnomes didn’t create it as an umbrella, but it’s a hat… It’s a big hat, so that it can cover multiple heads at the same time.
- The lizard-thing instead is a notebook: you can carve your notes on its back, and the thing will follow you around so that you always have your notes with you.
- The stove-thing is a pocket knife. Same concept: if your pockets are full, how do you carry around the knife? It’s much better if the knife can follow, walking, wherever you go.
- The flying thingy was supposed to be the the transmission chain of a new object called a bicycle, but since the idea was to make the bicycle fly, in the end only the chains and the saddle fly but … sitting on it is uncomfortable.
Art process video: coming soon
📕 Commissioned as internal illustration for the manual “The Journals of Kaz the Minotaur – The Lost Colony” – BUY NOW on DM Guild
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Created on: 15/08/2023, published on 15/09/2023
Last page edit: 18/12/2023
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