Favorite D&D Artwork (All Editions...)

[Jimlock]

Ok... One of the main reason's we've fallen for this game is the artwork...

We 've all spent time looking at the great paintings, teleporting ourselves in the magnificent universes our very characters populate... If it's wasn't for the artwork, D&D would not have been the same in many ways, and certainly not as popular...

In this thread, each forum member can post his favorite D&D painting and tell us why he likes it (if he wants)...

It can come from OD&D, 4th ed... and anything between...

Remember ONLY ONE image per poster!

...discussion is of course allowed...

 

[Jimlock]

2nd edition PHB, first page.

No fancy stuff... no chain mail bikinis... just a good old medieval D&D party with its loot...
The hanged dragon is great!

If i could count all the minutes i've starred at this one during my early gaming career... they would probably add up to hours!

 

[Dandu]

The one from the 3.5 PHB where it looks like Lidda's giving...

 

[kitcik]

Call me old school...

 

[Jimlock]

The one from the 3.5 PHB where it looks like Lidda's giving...

The one where the scroll blows... up?

Call me old school...

When did being old school (especially in D&D!) became a bad thing?

Old artwork is great... not only is there something ancient/old about it... but was also done through more

"classical" painting techniques/methods. In general, I love modern and disdain classic... but with D&D its different...

 

[anest1s]

I prefer this one

She looks like she took some hits in the face...every time I look at this picture I think "Rogues wont stop that easily" or something along that lines

I really didn't like some pictures used within the Tome of Battle...I think that they had one artists kid to make them, in windows paint or something like that....excluding them, I like most pictures in every D&D 3.5 edition book.

 

[MadLuke]

Sturm is all the way my favourite character and his heroic death is the apotheosis of the principle of sacrifice. I could tell a lot about it but I prefer to stay focused about the picture: the hole in his chest is well done, his legs correctly random placed, the blood on his face and so on. Laurana also is well maiden with the snow covering all the landscape.

Bye, MadLuke.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

It's kind of silly, but the absolute most evocative image in all of D&D for me is this one:

Of all the pics I've run across, this is the one that strikes the most revulsion and fear into my heart when I see it. *shiver* This sick and twisted image is the one that hooked me into D&D way back when.

 

[Jimlock]

This sick and twisted image is the one that hooked me into D&D way back when.

Is this 1e?

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

One of my favorite monsters of all time, because it causes most players to shudder, than Seriously rethink what they are about to do.

This next one is a collage of official D&D images expanded & assembled by an individual, Zen97. His Deviantart page is here: http://zen79.deviantart.com/art/The-Planescape-Multiverse-35619350?q=boost%3Apopular%20the%20planescape%20multiverse&qo=0

The first time I saw this, I fully realized that in the D&D world, the adventures literally could never end...