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

I loved his dragons. Also his Lord Soth is amazing but I am also searching for an old cover of a Forgotten Reams manual with a female vampire leaving a tavern. That was amazing in my opinion.
"Two for the Road," the cover to the AD&D City System supplement from 1988.

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There's some fantastically stylish art in the Fiend Folio you see nowhere else in D&D.

A couple of the ones that I still like (I think they're mostly by Russ Nicholson) :

Coffer Corpse
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Crypt Thing

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Dark Creeper
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Skeleton Warrior
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The very disturbing penanggalan
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Grell
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And, of course Githyanki
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(Is that fighter an early version of Regdar? He seems to get into situations over his head quite a bit...)
 

There's some fantastically stylish art in the Fiend Folio you see nowhere else in D&D.

A couple of the ones that I still like (I think they're mostly by Russ Nicholson) :

Coffer Corpse
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Crypt Thing

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Dark Creeper
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Skeleton Warrior
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The very disturbing penanggalan
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Grell
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And, of course Githyanki
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(Is that fighter an early version of Regdar? He seems to get into situations over his head quite a bit...)
This takes me back several decades. The first Fiend Folio? :)
 


The iconic belgoi from Dark Sun's AD&D Boxed Set by Brom, on the player/DM adventure guides, fits the setting as it lures you into your certain doom with its bell, all superposed by the desolate world and its twin moons.


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Trampier's lizard man from the old monster manual. There's something cool about what he does with black and white to make it look like it would leap from the page.

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Another Trampier art piece that was reused I think in future monster manuals. It's not a perfect Rakshasa (their palms are backwards), but it caught my eye each time I flipped pages. I finally realized it's because all the other monsters are drawn like they're going to attack you, and this guy is having a casual smoke. He's so badass he is going to enjoy his smoke before he decides what to do with you.

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Finally, Tom Wham's original MM beholder. Nowadays, they're angry at you and flashing big teeth and rays are shooting off. But for some reason, I see this image and it sticks with me more than any other. I think it's the alien way beholders were supposed to be. What are those eyes doing...why is it looking at me? Is it smiling at me, or is that just its face? What holds it up? WTF is this supposed to be? It's creepy and I can't figure out what it's thinking.

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