want to buy a turn undead? :P

I guess you can say; there's a little skeleton in all of us.

Seriously awesome piece there. :D

Thank you!

Always with the fighting and the skeletons!
they have to outweigh the skeletons four to one!

Simply awesome

Thanks!

Let's see you "sleep' your way out of this one!

They look like they're in bit of a trouble, there. Wonder what's behind the doorway; flames?

Mood lighting, obviously.

Nice poses on that battle scene.
Skeletons...loveable cannon fodder. I forget - aren't they more fragile zombies that can use weapons? My D&D is rusty.

Sort of! In most editions out there skeletons aren't as tough as zombies, but because they're skeletal, most weapons do less damage to them. So the two wind up being about equal levels of threat.

Interesting. I've always found skeletons to be a personal choice between the two. I mean, kill the brain, kill a zombie, but a skeleton doesn't have that vulnerability. Plus, it seems a tad smarter, having weapons an all. Skeletons are creeper I think - zombies function like humans (abet more resilient due to death), but who knows how a skeleton makes decisions, senses or even moves.

It ambles forward, in grim parody of life, the only sound you hear is the subtle rattle of bones as its lifeless, dead eye sockets track your every movement...and I'll stop now before I get carried away. Heh.

Going beyond rules;

I think they both hit horror vibes. An animated skeleton is a once-human really obviously made into nothing but a robot - it can make some really limited decisions, and parry and strike are fairly basic, but that's it. A zombie is really obviously a once human made into basically a robot.

But from the art perspective, skeletons are weirdly more appealing than zombies. Skeletons are these big, dramatic shapes, instead of having to figure out how to draw someone still fairly fleshed but obviously dead (and then there's the question of how rotting is rotting - do you want your zombies to be fairly dessicated guys, where there's a chance they won't read as dead, or do you want them to be all dangling intestines and disintegrating faces, in which case pretty much anything else you might want to draw is losing ground to shock value). I figured skeletons were a great choice for here because their uniformity isn't very distracting, which goes with the focus being the adventurers fighting in this really three-dimensional place. And then after I start on things like that, of course, I realize just how involved drawing skeletons can be!

I never thought of things like that. Good points.
I think zombies are just shock value, really - and good meat shields. Though I think you're right; skeletons are less distracting to the eye. As much as I look at the picture, my eye is always drawn to the adventurers. Good job on that one.