The Moonglade Saga

A cover I drew for a D&D campaign — The Moonglade Saga.

The whole thing is built in two greens and a black, which forced every decision to be about shape and weight rather than colour. The party stands at the bottom — a bearded man, two hooded figures, a rogue with a knife, a horned spellcaster with a staff — small against what looms over them.

Behind them the forest closes in: a wall of pines, a great pale moon, and three towering masked things rising out of the treeline. One wears antlers and bares its teeth; the others watch with blank, glowing eyes. The roots in the foreground spill out of the frame toward the viewer, like the glade is reaching for you.

It's a party-versus-the-woods composition — heroes lit from within, dwarfed by the place they've walked into. Which is, more or less, the campaign.