EDIT: uhhhh. What happened to all of my art?
EDIT 2: Ok. I've tried repasting them into the spoilers a bunch of times. No dice. So...well...
I dunno what to tell ya...go Google-Images up Jeff Dee, Bill Willingham and Larry Elmore.
From the very beginning, Jeff Dee and Bill Willingham really got my imagination sparking.
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Willingham
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Of course, the artist in me was completely awestruck by the "realism" of Larry Elmore's images. I spent hours and hours, weeks and weeks of time trying to get my humanoids/characters to look as good as his...getting the folds of cloaks, the detailing on leathers and armor, laces and pouches and the sheen on metal "just right." Now...eh, I suppose I have my own style/look for drawing characters...much more comic-booky than Elmore, maybe harkening back to Dee and Willingham, actually, now that I'm looking at them all together. But Elmore's images were a wonderful "mentor" for me growing up.
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The cleric that spawned my (and I'm sure many other's) first cleric character...
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