Engraved Fantasy Bestiary PNG Collection

Thirty-two original fantasy bestiary illustrations in a copperplate engraving style. Each creature is drawn in one dark-brown ink with precise contours, fine hatching and cross-hatching. The full-body figures have transparent backgrounds and transparent spaces between the ink strokes.

The collection includes eight classic creatures, from dragon and griffin to sphinx and Cerberus; eight reptilian and hybrid creatures, including a five-headed hydra and a two-headed amphisbaena; eight aquatic creatures, including kraken, hippocampus, mermaid and island turtle; and eight land creatures and guardians, from minotaur and centaur to dryad and gargoyle. These are original interpretations rather than reproductions of historical plates or existing game and film characters.

Download all 32 numbered PNG files in one ZIP archive or choose individual creatures. Landscape files are 1536 x 1024 pixels, portrait files are 1024 x 1536 pixels and square files are 1254 x 1254 pixels. Use the illustrations in fantasy invitations, story layouts, bestiary pages, posters and digital compositions. Humanoid figures have simple clothing or natural armor.

  • A dark-brown engraved dragon with four legs, two membranous wings and a curled tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved griffin with an eagle head, two feathered wings, eagle forelegs and lion hindquarters.
  • A dark-brown engraved unicorn standing with one spiral horn, four hooves and a flowing mane.
  • A dark-brown engraved Pegasus standing with four horse legs and two spread feathered wings.
  • A dark-brown engraved phoenix with two raised wings, a feathered crest and a long ornamental tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved chimera with lion and goat heads, four legs and a snake-headed tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved sphinx with a human head, seated lion body, two wings and a draped chest covering.
  • A dark-brown engraved Cerberus with three dog heads, four legs and one tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved manticore with a human face, lion body and arched scorpion tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved wyvern standing on two legs with two membranous wings and one curled tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved crowned basilisk with one raised serpent head and a coiled scaly body.
  • A dark-brown engraved cockatrice with a rooster head, two bird legs, feathered wings and a reptilian tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved hydra with five distinct closed-mouth heads, five necks, four legs and one tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved amphisbaena with a head at each end of one continuous serpentine body.
  • A dark-brown engraved wingless lindworm with two legs and a long curved reptilian body.
  • A dark-brown engraved feathered serpent with one head, dorsal plumage and a curved snake body.
  • A dark-brown engraved kraken with an octopus-like mantle, two eyes and eight curling arms.
  • A dark-brown engraved hippocampus with a horse head, chest and two forelegs joined to a fish tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved kelpie as a standing water horse with four legs and a wet flowing mane.
  • A dark-brown engraved mermaid with a covered torso, two arms and a curved fish tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved triton with natural scale armor, two arms and one fish tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved sea serpent with one raised head and a long body curved in shallow loops.
  • A dark-brown engraved leviathan resembling an armored fish with layered scales, fins and a broad tail.
  • A dark-brown engraved giant turtle with four flippers and a small rocky island with trees on its shell.
  • A dark-brown engraved minotaur with a bull head, two horns, two arms, two legs and a simple tunic.
  • A dark-brown engraved centaur with a clothed human torso and two arms joined to a four-legged horse body.
  • A dark-brown engraved faun with curved horns, two arms, goat legs and a simple belted tunic.
  • A dark-brown engraved troll standing with two arms, two legs and simple clothing.
  • A dark-brown engraved cyclops with one central eye, two arms, two legs, a tunic and trousers.
  • A dark-brown engraved stone golem with a coherent block-built head, two arms and two legs.
  • A dark-brown engraved dryad with bark skin, leafy hair and natural leaf covering over the chest and pelvis.
  • A dark-brown engraved gargoyle crouching with two arms, two legs and two raised stone wings.

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