Interview with Erol Otus at Tor.com

[MerricB]

Here you go:

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Erol Otus talks about his art style, some of his early work for TSR, and the fate of some of the original D&D paintings.

Cheers!

 

[howandwhy99]

Thanks for posting this.

 

[Piratecat]

Excellent! Thank you. I described a scene the other day when we were gaming as "the monster swirls out of the cup as if it were an Erol Otus painting."

 

[MerricB]

Excellent! Thank you. I described a scene the other day when we were gaming as "the monster swirls out of the cup as if it were an Erol Otus painting."

That's a very cool way of describing it... alas, that several of my younger players wouldn't understand the description!

I'm very sad to hear that Erol doesn't know where the originals of most of the early TSR painting are any more, and that some may have actually been junked.

 

[Henrix]

Nice!

 

[Plane Sailing]

Who would have guessed that the Remorhaz existed because of an illustration by Erol Otus!

 

[Hellzon]

Who would have guessed that the Remorhaz existed because of an illustration by Erol Otus!

I can totally imagine an Otus Remorhaz.

Also, he drew stuff for Star Control 2 (AKA The Ur-Quan Masters)? Nifty!

 

[Piratecat]

Star Control 2 is one of my favorite video games. That's great.