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For a lot of old school AD&D fans, that Fiend Folio cover is one of the most haunting images of the early 1980s.
It’s got a very different feel from the TSR house style…almost more British fantasy illustration than classic Lake Geneva TSR.
Painted by artist Emmanuel, whose surname remains a mystery to this day.
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Jun 10
You can’t land rockets, it’s impossible.
Cars can’t drive themselves, it’s impossible.
Satellites can’t radiate enough heat, it’s impossible.
Jun 10
You know the reason your Stanley or Hydroflask is so good at keeping your water cold is because there's a vacuum inside the walls of the thermos.
Heat can't conduct in a vaccum. And "radiated" heat is ineffective at the temperatures processors operate at.
This satellite will be like plugging in your gaming PC without a CPU cooler. It'll be dead in minutes.
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Jun 10
David C. Sutherland III really set the art direction of early D&D. What a fortunate and unique position to be in. The original Monster Manual cover is eclectic in the way D&D itself was and continues to be.
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Jun 10
A super high resolution of this DMG image was released online by Wizards some time ago to sell posters. Enjoy.
Early D&D products were built on the backs of Gary Gygax’s writing, and David C Sutherland III’s art.
This is the full painting for the 1979 D&D Dungeon Master’s Guide. The scene depicts adventurers in the City of Brass on the Elemental Plane of Fire, confronting a giant Efreet.
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Jun 10
(Note this version is slightly sharper and less cropped on the right.)
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A super high resolution of this image was released online by Wizards some time ago to sell posters. Enjoy.
Along with Dave Sutherland, David A “Tramp” Trampier helped build the AD&D fantasy foundation with his art.
The original AD&D Players Handbook cover, seen here as the full painting, is such a remarkable piece.
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Jun 9
I liked Project Hail Mary quite a bit, but astrophage is basically just midichlorians with fancier science mumbo jumbo.
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Jun 7
I posted this color sketch a while back and took some time to refine it. I wouldn't call it finished, but this is about as far as I like to take paintings these days. More than this, it starts losing its freshness. Liquitex acrylic gouache on watercolor paper.
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Jun 5
Ages ago I did this illustration for an obscure indie RPG. Just found it while digging through some archives and thought I should color it. What do you think?
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Jun 6
This is the RPG "Underworld." A good idea for a setting: urban fantasy in the tunnels below New York City. rpggeek.com/rpgitem/45312/un…
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Thomas Denmark retweeted
Jun 3
We spent fifty years teaching artists that beauty is “cheesy” and sincerity is “cringe.” Now we wonder why all our art is ugly and meaningless.
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Should have been like the classic Kung Fu TV show with David Carradine. But no, we got Obi-Wimp-Kenobi.
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Jun 1
The more I think of this (and I try not to anymore). Take Samurai movies like The Twilight Samurai, The Steel Edge of Revenge, and any Kurosawa movie you want. Cross it with the Kung Fu TV show format and slather it in Star Wars art.
That would do Obi-Wan justice.
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Jun 1
Any Kurosawa movie except Seven Samurai. It's a masterpiece, but we've seen that story redone so many times.
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May 29
No argument still holds that The Last Jedi is the greatest Star Wars movie ever made. It is clearly, unquestionably the point that the franchise was dealt a fatal blow.
Sadly, Mandalorian & Grogu is actually pretty good. But the fans are gone.
May 28
For all the people constantly defending the destruction of one of the worlds biggest brands, it's probably time to hang it up.
When a Star Wars film gets passed opening week by a movie made for 750k... It's dead. The brand is dead.
Good job Kathleen Kennedy & Friends.
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May 23
So the Mandalorian and Grogu was a good movie. It’s a lot of fun and full of things old Star Wars fans should appreciate. Kids will love it too. You should go see it.
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May 20
This got me. There are a lot of innovations here I associate with 19th-century academic painters.
One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century photograph or even a hyper-realistic AI generation.
The skin texture, the eyes, the subtle sheen on the black fabric, make it feel almost disturbingly modern.
Yet this painting, created over 460 years ago, barely registers in the mainstream conversation about great art.
It deserves far more recognition.
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