D&D General Plagiarised D&D art

Jadeite

Hero
While browsing Myth and Legends by Dorling Kindersley I came across a picture of Veles on page 142 that seemed familiar.

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So I mirrored and stretched it a bit. The overlay isn't perfect, but the picture was near the spine and I didn't want to damage the book. But it's still pretty obvious.
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EDIT for clarity: The D&D image is the original. The DK image is from 2009 or 2019, despite its look.
 
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Jadeite

Hero
Yep. There's a long tradition of this in the hobby. If you think that's bad, you should read up on the early days of TSR's D&D art and the comic books they plagiarized from.
In my opinion there's a small difference between a tiny publisher like TSR at the time publishing traced art and an industry giant like DK doing the same.
 





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