Who Would Illustrate Your Setting?

[DMAC]

I'd love to sink my teeth into designing the look of a setting from the ground up one of these days...

Todd Lockwood, Tony DiTerlizzi, and Sam Wood can be my "wingmen".

 

[s/LaSH]

For my Dungeon Damage setting: Me, I've been working at it for two years already. Maybe I'd ask for H. R. Giger's help at some point, though. (Yes, that's an Ominous Hint.)

For my Twilight setting, still under development: Brom and Luis Royo - Brom for characters, Royo for weirdly textured ruins. Hm. For all that I like Elmore and Greg Land, there's nothing in that world that I'd want them doing.

 

[Jaws]

Dave McKean of Sandman covers fame.


Peace and smiles

j.

 

[Agemegos]

His historical pictures, most done with Osprey these days it seems, are simply phenomenal. I'm not 100% convinced that he's the best for fantasy, though. His LotR stuff done for I.C.E. (granted, a long time ago) are OK, but not incredible.

Granted. But I choose MacBride because I want an illustrator, not a decorator. It is all very well to have an artist who paints vanilla fantasy if you have a fantasy that looks like vanilla fantasy. If everyone already knows what the things are and how the garments are worn then you pick the artist who paints the most stylish curliques onto the over-sized swords. But I have a setting in which the clothes are different and the armour is different and the clothes are worn differently and I want an illustrator who will show the readers what I am talking about. So I'll get some armourers to make the weapons and armour and some drapers to make the clothing and some builders to build the bbuildings and some Malays and Indonesians to wear all the stuff and I'll get MacBride to paint painting that show how those things work and what they look like. I won't have the men with the bulgingest muscles and the women with the perkiest breasts and heroes you can tell are heroes because of their uncomfortable poses and impractical [lack of] armour. You won't be able to tell that thehero is a hero because of the way his cloak billows. It might not look like fantasy. But I want to defy genres expectations. And I want illustrations, not just pretty pictures.

 

[Robbert Raets]

And you could have any artist, under threat of death (or alternately, for a big bag of money) illustrate your campaign setting, who would it be?

If those were the means of coercion, I'd get Todd Lockwood, Quinton Hoover and possibly Talon Dunning.

Or maybe I need to specify who'd do which chapters.....