Still Scary: Doom Monsters
Doom's monsters likely haven't scare you in well over a decade, not since Quake's zombie rottweilers and gigantic, blood-stained Shamblers took over your nightmares in the mid-90s.
These pieces from Brandon Duncan, though, are a reminder that those monsters still lurk in the dark recesses of your memory, ready to pop out when you least expect it and send you running backwards out of a room while firing your shotgun with no regard for aim or your limited ammo.
Duncan says the Doom series was "a huge inspiration" to him, and you can see it in many of his illustrations. He drew from his teenage memories of the game's monsters scaring the crap out of him to create this "Doom Bestiary" set:
Comments
Doom 3's Demons were crap compared to the original designs
Posted by: TheWatcher | October 23, 2009 2:29 AM
Yeah original doom was way scarier - artworks alright but not epic
Posted by: PB | October 23, 2009 5:09 AM
It looks like these drawings were filter-raped to hell and back.
Posted by: D_J | October 23, 2009 4:47 PM
Hey there, thanks to Eric for the blog about my works first of all!
And to D_J, I don't use filters at all in my work. I am anti-filter :) I create all my textures and everything myself without any sort of stock material. Just a scanner a scanner and a digital camera...
Thanks for looking!
P.S. - I did these for fun as a personal project simply because Doom changed my life and I wanted to put my own spin on the way the sprites look. I never expected it to be published on a blog! Haha...but that's cool as hell. Adios.
Posted by: Brandon Duncan | October 24, 2009 12:50 PM
Is there anywhere I can download high res versions of these, they are awesome!
Posted by: Enclave | October 25, 2009 12:50 AM
wow, i think these are awesome. the cacodemon is my favorite, i would kill to get an actual wall painting of that.
Posted by: Kyle | October 25, 2009 4:15 AM
You can purchase prints of these on my DeviantArt page:
http://corporatedemon.deviantart.com/prints/
Thanks for looking :)
Posted by: Brandon Duncan | October 25, 2009 11:51 AM
Disagree with Watcher, the Doom3 demons are way scarier and menacing then the original Doom ones. The originals looked a bit cartoony and somehow juvenile, as if they came straight from a 1980s Heavy Metal album cover. But I still like them of course.
Posted by: Kessler | October 28, 2009 11:12 AM