Modron Art

*sings* "...There was mowing metal madnes a programed to destroy..."

Ahem..., sorry about that. It is once again time for yet another "Artist comment" in wich I explain creative procces for these pictures. Essentialy, I love modrons. They are something that makes planescape memorable. I mean modrons are something that jumps right into someone's mind when they think about planesape. But alas, some of modrons were bit under developed so this just my humble vision of them. BDW I am pleased how I made "rusty metal" effect.

Duodrone - Main idea behind this one is that I took basic monodrone shape and I split it in two halves. If you look closely you will notice some elements from previous "incarnation".

Triodrone - main inspirations for this one where: "xorn" and "modron grafts" from Dragon magazine. So this triodrone has mouth on one top (like xorns do), and attached glider wings on its legs.

Quadrone - quadrons are something of trade marked symbol of Planescape that we all know and love, so messing with TD's design would be something like blasphemy. So I just put a robe (or "dress" if you like) on this rouge to make it more uniqe.

Pentadrone - they have allways described pentadrones as mechanical starfish so I have gone into extreme when I drew this one. If you look closely you will notce folded sword blades. I imagine that they balance on one arm/leg (or even levitate) when thy deliver their 5 attacks.

Hexon - I allways thougt that modrons become more complex (and more alien looking) as they go higher in their castes. You know clockwork are replaced by electronic components and basic metals by ceramics. Anyway face for hexon was inspired by thos white, grinning, mass produced,evengelions from same anime. (you know, those that canibalise Asuka).

Octon - Well, actually I never realy liked old "walking fridge" design. But recently there was Hellraiser movie on TV and I just thougtht to myself: "hey, that "Leviathan" shape (octohaedar I think) would be good for octon. Thats all modron lovers I gotta go, but fear not, more modron maddnes is on the way. Untill then enjoy.

(Edit: hmm, a line seems to have gone missing!) 

Modron grafts?  Those sound interesting. What are they, a sort of cyberware for players to purchase? If they sound interesting, I might hop over and purchase a pdf of the relevant Dragon -- what issue did they appear in?

Wow! If you drew a hundred of these pictures, I couldn't get tired of looking at them. This is what I wish all modrons looked like: alien, unapproachable, and whimsically intricate.

 Please, please, please, don't stop here.

Funny that you mention Evangelion in your inspiration for the Hexon (also, my favorite of your pictures here). I get an Evaneglion vibe from modrons. Every time I hear the NGE characters talking about sine waves and synchronization figures and  A.T. field levels I think about modrons going to war, harnessing numbers and axioms to accomplish their goals.

One of my favouriteshas become an anime tentacle monster.It's really fine but I didn't expect it. Anyway, all the gratitude for this picture goes to Squaff. -> again. I have to start doing my own art...