D&D General [ART THREAD]Your Personal Favorite D&D Art For a Monster

[dave2008]

Until the Lockwood redesign, this was my favorite red dragon art (by Bill Willingham):

 

[Mannahnin]

That Gargoyle looks like Bill Willingham art. Or rather, the stunned knight has a Williingham-esquely drawn face. The signature seems to say "WH '80", so maybe that is WillingHam?

Wade Hampton, I think. Artist credits from page X1, as well as a Willingham illustration with his signature.

 

[Stormonu]

Until the Lockwood redesign, this was my favorite red dragon art (by Bill Willingham):

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Yeah, although I didn't realize until just now that it's a reinterpretation of the Holmes cover (with the fighter & wizard on the right) with Morgan Ironwolf and the dwarf added in. (There's also been speculation in the past that the dwarf is on the dragon's side, not the adventurers).

As for Erol Otus, I used to really dislike his art, but I've warmed to it over the years. My favorite of his has to be the Kobold spearing the snake in the Moldvay basic book.

I have a special spot for DiTerlizzi, as he did the artwork for my adventure in Dungeon


When I saw this first piece, it blew me away; it made a rather minor location/item into a real showpiece.

This one cracks me up, because it is so dead on for how I imagined this NPC, Pugo the Taskmaster (especially the "red nose")

Also, Diesel as a cartographer is so often overlooked, but if it was not for his rendition of Castle Ravenloft, that adventure would not have been half as cool. I'm ecstatic that he did the maps for my adventure.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Until the Lockwood redesign, this was my favorite red dragon art (by Bill Willingham):

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I love Willingham. So much, that when I first got my Ipad and started digital coloring, the first illustration I used to practice was this one

 

[Voadam]

eah, although I didn't realize until just now that it's a reinterpretation of the Holmes cover (with the fighter & wizard on the right) with Morgan Ironwolf and the dwarf added in. (There's also been speculation in the past that the dwarf is on the dragon's side, not the adventurers).

The elf is not Morgan Ironwolf.

 

[Stormonu]

The elf is not Morgan Ironwolf.

Doh! That's right, Morgan was human after all!

 

[sabrinathecat]

My favorite are was the 2nd edition Invisible stalker: and empty square. Someone actually got art credit for that!

 

[Reynard]

(I don't like Erol Otus works either).

 

[Reynard]

Until the Lockwood redesign, this was my favorite red dragon art (by Bill Willingham):

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I am.generally ambivalent about Willingham's D&D stuff, but this is a great piece.

 

[cbwjm]

I'm not an Erol Otus fan either, but his art did capture the weirdness of early DnD.