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<blockquote data-quote="ancientvaults" data-source="post: 5375414" data-attributes="member: 83400">I agree on most modern rpg art looking similar. Places like ConceptArt.Org used to have a few &quot;Wow!&quot; pieces years ago, now graphics tablets are cheap (I bought a big Wacom, that I have used for about twenty minutes, for around $250) and a lot of that art looks so similar it is sometimes difficult to tell illustrators apart. But that is just it, rpg art is, for the most part, illustration. When I put a &quot;D&amp;D-ism&quot; into something it might be because I am jammed in some little apartment in Tokyo, going insane in some sketchy house in Sumatra or just cutting myself off from everything in my studio in Idaho. I have played these games for so many years that if I paint a lich or a black dragon or four adventurers fighting off a rabid griffon, and it sells to someone trying to be trendy then I have the satisfaction of injecting a little D&amp;D into someone's life. I have had people find me who do play and that have asked if this or that was inspired by roleplaying. &nbsp;Hmmm, maybe. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="ancientvaults, post: 5375414, member: 83400"] I agree on most modern rpg art looking similar. Places like ConceptArt.Org used to have a few "Wow!" pieces years ago, now graphics tablets are cheap (I bought a big Wacom, that I have used for about twenty minutes, for around $250) and a lot of that art looks so similar it is sometimes difficult to tell illustrators apart. But that is just it, rpg art is, for the most part, illustration. When I put a "D&D-ism" into something it might be because I am jammed in some little apartment in Tokyo, going insane in some sketchy house in Sumatra or just cutting myself off from everything in my studio in Idaho. I have played these games for so many years that if I paint a lich or a black dragon or four adventurers fighting off a rabid griffon, and it sells to someone trying to be trendy then I have the satisfaction of injecting a little D&D into someone's life. I have had people find me who do play and that have asked if this or that was inspired by roleplaying. Hmmm, maybe. :) [/QUOTE]

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