This illustration was commissioned by Wizards of the Coast for their Dungeons and Dragons - Monster Manual Book 4, which is out this month.I was quite pleased with my invention of a flying snake. A creature that although fantasy is hopefully based on believable reality. I took inspiration from the frill on a cobra's neck and extended it down the body.I am usually given a description to illustrate but for this project they let the artists design the monsters and then wrote the text around them. We were just given a vague brief like evil plant or lizard creature. It was really cool to work like this. I created 9 monsters for this book. You can see more in my DA gallery or on my web site [link]