Monster Manual II Art Gallery!

[Grazzt]

I think it was Roger Moore. (Is he still working for WotC?)

Roger Moore isn't/wasn't an artist for TSR. He was an editor (Dragon) and designer.

I don't recall who did the pic or was credited with the work, but it wasn't Moore.

 

[Hakkenshi]

Dunno about the Manticore, but the Displacer Beast was by Sam Wood. I think he has a thing for underfeeding his models...look at Vadania the druid in the PHB...

That Displacer Beast looked like it had never even SEEN food in its life.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Wood did both the manticore and the displacer beast. Both are great pics. The manticore especially brought some life back into a tired old monster.

 

[Desdichado]

Roger Moore isn't/wasn't an artist for TSR. He was an editor (Dragon) and designer.

I don't recall who did the pic or was credited with the work, but it wasn't Moore.

That's what he moonlighted as. In reality, he played James Bond in Hollywood.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I think my favourite creature artist is DiTerlizzi. I think he only got to do a couple of the 3e creatures, but I really liked his take on numerous 2e creatures.

 

[Hakkenshi]

I think my favourite creature artist is DiTerlizzi. I think he only got to do a couple of the 3e creatures, but I really liked his take on numerous 2e creatures.

The more exotic, the better in his case.

As for Sam Wood, I like his stuff most of the time, and the Manticore looks cool, but I really don't know about the Displacer Beast. It doesn't exactly bring to mind the panther-like creature I was used to imagining.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I generally like most of DiTerlizsi's art, with a couple of exceptions like his Taco Bell Chihuahua Glabrezu from the PSMCI as a notable example. One of his best so far has been the picture of the Female Cat Lord (she's certainly far more attractive than reflexis).

Wayne Reynolds has a distinctive art style among the D&D books, and I like his stuff a lot. Sam Wood has done a lot of good work, and is one of the key artist for 3e. I like a bunch of Rebecca Guay's work, but mainly more of her stuff that's appeared in White Wolf books.

Baxa and Brom are another of my favourites due to all their work in Dark Sun, which gave it that distinctive style. I don't like the style of traditional fantasy art, as it's become too old and stale for many of my tastes.

 

[BOZ]

I think my favourite creature artist is DiTerlizzi. I think he only got to do a couple of the 3e creatures, but I really liked his take on numerous 2e creatures.

let's hear it for tony d. what's he mostly doing nowadays? i think he's got to be one of the best color artists D&D was lucky enough to have (he certainly breathed life into the art of the monstrous manual, monstrous compendium annual 1, and especially planescape MCs 1 & 2).

 

[ColonelHardisson]

The more exotic, the better in his case.

As for Sam Wood, I like his stuff most of the time, and the Manticore looks cool, but I really don't know about the Displacer Beast. It doesn't exactly bring to mind the panther-like creature I was used to imagining.

I look at that displacer beast as being one with the fiendish template. I think the pics from the 1e Monster Manual, the 2e Monstrous Manual (by DiTerlizzi), or the one being eaten by blink dogs in the back of the 1e DMG looks like "regular" displacer beasts.

 

[BronzeDragon]

Wait a second. People actually LIKE Glen Angus?

I must be confusing the guy with someone else.

Wasn't it Glen Angus who did Apollo in D&Dg? And also the queer (to use a Lovecraftian word) Corellon Larethian?

Please tell me we are not talking about the same guy....

My favorite artists are probably Sam Wood, Tony DiTerlizzi, Todd Lockwood and Jeff Easley.

My least favorite one, note he is alone at the spot, is M. Kaluta.

When I bought Monsters of Faerûn, I almost had a heart attack. The Aballin! The Abishai! ARGHHHH....

The guy really can't seem to draw at all.