Artwork for your D&D game

[Klaus]

I have a big collection of fantasy artwork that I keep on my hard drive; a lot of it cribbed from the WotC art galleries and the Paizo blog; most of the rest of it from various online galleries, usually maintained by fantasy artists themselves. I find this stuff really really good for use in my games, and I sometimes design action set-pieces around a good piece of artwork so I can show the piece to the players. It's especially cool in my Pbp game.

Anyone else do this?

Also: anyone know where I can find a picture of Cary Nord's Hounds of Marduk or Hyperboreans from the Conan comic book while you're at it? I could totally use those if I could find a good image of them somewhere.

What issues were they in?

 

[Desdichado]

I dunno; I have the trade paperbacks.

The Hyperboreans were in the first trade paperback, the issue after the retelling of Frost Giant's Daughter, and the Hounds of Marduk were in either the same episode, or the episode right before (or both) as the Tower of the Elephant.

I could probably snap a quick picture of them myself, since I have the books, but I was hoping someone had already done it, cropped all the other stuff, or found the original artwork or something.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I have tons of artwork for my games, both as inspiration for designing stuff as a DM and to show to my players. I for example when giving out, the "basic knowledge on the setting" papers there will be artwork interspersed.

I do drawings myself (though currently in a rut), so will use art as inspiration there as well. One thing I love doing is drawing the whole party together, thus why I am very adamant about having a good description of each PC.

One artistic element I have noticed when designing a setting, campaign, PC, etc. Is I love having a colour theme. For example:

-Vodou/Louisiana one: reds, browns, greens, and blacks are common.

-Spirit-Punk one: white, blues, purples, black and grey are common.

 

[Shemeska]

I've got a bunch of artwork I've commissioned for various PCs and NPCs in my campaign. Most recently I've had one artist gradually doing portraits of most of the campaign villains from the past few years of that and the prior campaign.

Examples:
Vorasha the Ophidian - yugoloth sorta thing... the mom was heavily drinking, don't ask

Trelmarixian the Black - yugoloth thing... mom was drinking even more at the time

Nisha - iconic campaign tiefling

Artist for all of those three is Azelyn / April Madera