Cory Trego-Erdner

@corytregoerdner.bsky.social

Senior concept artist seeking remote full time, contract, and freelance work. https://www.artstation.com/corytregoerdner

I just had to reinstall spotify mobile this morning, and it also made this change to when I try to add songs to a playlist. Since I am my RPG group's DJ, I add hundreds of songs to dozens of playlists all the time, and now they are in a random order.

Cory Trego-Erdner@corytregoerdner.bsky.social · 6d ago

Recently (for me at least) Artstation changed collections so that they are no longer organized alphabetically, but in order of last updated. I absolutely despise this change.

Browsing the trending topics and seeing all the "if you do [extremely commonplace thing], you are complicit" posts, and friends, having taken a step away from social media these last few years, I can't tell you how nice it's been not to see that shit.

I've gotten to the point now that I've posted most of my back catalogue of work that I can still stand to look at, so I'm going to slow my roll for a bit as I start posting my current work and ongoing projects. Thanks for liking and sharing my stuff so far!

I'm going to keep on rolling with one more Monster of the Week monster, a reinterpretation of the Giwakwa of Abenaki legend. I made the creature blind, but its eye sockets had grown into giant sound-sensitive membranes to make up for its lack of sight. More actual lore on the Giwakwa in a reply.

An illustration of a creature in a dark space. The creature looks like a monstrous quadrupedal human with long limbs. It has no eyes, and its eye sockets are huge and dish-shaped, and it uses them to help hear its victims.

Hayyoth, the main monster from a Monster of the Week mini-campaign I ran back in 2021. I consider this one of my very best creature designs. And again, Monster of the Week is a banger of a TTRPG system, and you should give it a try!

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A sketch I did of the Van Meter visitor, a cryptid reported in Van Meter, Iowa in the early 1900s. Described as a gargoyle, or perhaps a pterodactyl, which used its beak to climb like a parrot, was apparently immune to gunfire, and perhaps most oddly, with a glowing horn on its head.

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Rolling Blackout, a prologue comic I made for a session of Monster of the Week I ran several years ago. This mystery centered around a living blob of experimental GMO fertilizer that traveled through the sewers and destroyed power lines so that it could hunt in the dark.

One page comic of a utility worker investigating a destroyed transformer on a power line. Meanwhile, a creepy blob monster, never shown clearly, emerges from a nearby storm drain, and attacks and eats the worker.

Doodles and Dragons. Some heavily redesigned D&D dragons for my old campaign. The first one is Ladon, a highly redesigned bronze dragon, and the mount/guardian of the BBEG. Next is a gold dragon, which I made look like a Brachiosaurus. The last is a random gharial green dragon.

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A quartet of villainous characters from the Dungeons and Dragons 5e book, Descent into Avernus. I wasn't stoked when I got normal human characters instead of monsters, so I compensated by painting them as hard as I could, and they became some of my favorite pieces I ever did for D&D.

A skinny and unwell man in aristocratic fantasy clothing inspects a sinister puzzle box artifact.A huge brutish man with a half burned face wields a club.A dapper but villainous man in dark aristocratic fantasy clothing holds a dagger behind his back.A stern older woman in aristocratic fantasy clothing. She is brawny, and pulls up her sleeve from her clenched fist.