By sheer volume, who created the most D&D Art?

[GreyOne]

For me it's Holloway. A work horse for awesome art.

 

[GuardianLurker]

Over all editions? Are we including Dragon and Dungeon? Do we care that Dungeon and Dragon were both published by Paizo before their demise?

Because D&D's been around long enough that a number of the early (OD&D, B/X, 1 & 2) contenders will have retired and been lost to the new generation. Even a number of the mid-edition (3.x, 4e) contenders might have retired at this point.

 

[GreyOne]

Over all editions? Are we including Dragon and Dungeon? Do we care that Dungeon and Dragon were both published by Paizo before their demise?

Because D&D's been around long enough that a number of the early (OD&D, B/X, 1 & 2) contenders will have retired and been lost to the new generation. Even a number of the mid-edition (3.x, 4e) contenders might have retired at this point.

Yeah, I was thinking the older stuff since I posted in this forum but any edition is fine I guess.

 

[aco175]

Here is a nice site I noticed talking about these 5. Clyde Caldwell, Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Keith Parkinson and Daniel R Horne as some of the most featured in pre 3e days. There are some great samples of their art as well. I recognize the art from Daniel Horne, but he is not one I ever think of, sadly.

I'm thinking the real answer is one of the comic book artists that makes 6 pictures per page and 32 pages per comic times 100 comics in the series.

 

[GuardianLurker]

I forgot about the comic books. I was thinking it would be limited to the official DnD publisher materials, and as far as I know the DnD/FR comics were not published by TSR/WotC, but by Marvel(? I think). There also the problem of what constitutes a "piece of art" for a comic book. Given that artists generally sell pages, and not panels, the count would be much lower. But would probably still swamp the tally.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

By sheer volume, probably whoever made an official D&D sculpture.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Do we count whomever designed the sculpt for the 4e bugbear? Because AFAICT there are millions of those.

 

[cbwjm]

I've no idea of the actual answer, but I wouldn't be surprised if those artists whose style was used for a setting are up near the top. I guess there were artists who also filled early edition rules books, like the artist who did most (all?) the art in the Rules Cyclopedia.

 

[Distracted DM]

Would Wayne Reynolds be on the top 5? top 10? Do we include Pathfinder art? I know the more classic folks got quite a head start

 

[cbwjm]

Would Wayne Reynolds be on the top 5? top 10? Do we include Pathfinder art? I know the more classic folks got quite a head start

I feel like he should be in there, he was the iconic artist for pathfinder which is a branch of DnD.