Who Would Illustrate Your Setting?

[Gareman]

I was doing this for a while with a comic book artist named Doug Anderson. I would give him an important visual for the campaign, such as a city overview or the outside of a complex where the adventure would take place, and he would provide me a water color and digital copy. These were shown to the players and eventually ended up on my wall.

At the time he only charged $35 for this service, but he's better established now and doesn't take new work.

Check out:
http://www.bariaur.com/dusttodust/images/turtle6.jpg
http://www.bariaur.com/dusttodust/images/titleart.jpg
http://www.bariaur.com/dusttodust/images/zigguratlores.jpg

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Colleen Doran for interior art. Cover art by Kevin Maguire, in the style of Justice League #1, but featuring the ten player character races in my campaign world.

 

[RangerWickett]

Hmm. Some Michaelangelo. A bit of Bernini. Probably DiTerlizzi and Rebecca Guay. And I'd give a shout out to some of the people who originally set my taste in illustration: Mark Tedin and Anson Maddocks. They're great for surreal stuff.

 

[Torm]

As World Emperor, I would have all the people responsible for the art in all the props and books included with the old Infocom computer games. I would also have brought in the people who did the art for the Swordquest comics that were packed in with the Atari 2600 games. And I would have Douglas Adams and Isaac Asimov revived and brought together with David Weber and David Feintuch and the writers on the aforementioned Infocom games to be my writing and editorial staff.

I would have them all well paid and cared for, and I would do this out of my own comparatively reasonable Emperor's pay. I don't feel like 150 million dollars for my starting year and 10 million a year after is too much to ask, all things considered. We pay more than that for a single jet in some cases - and the reforms I would make would be worth a lot more than one jet. I would describe some of it, but that gets too political, probably, so.....

I will mention that I would also go ahead and have that group put together the Imperial Educational Materials for schools - able to call upon whomever else they needed for information, of course.

 

[Henry]

Larry Elmore would never have to worry about his family's financial future for the rest of his life. Screw the campaign setting - all State-sponsored artwork would be Elmore, with state-subsidized art training schools teaching his art style - Elmore 101, 102, 203, 304, 404, 405 and 510 to their students, in preparation for the day that Elmore passes away, so that new generations of artists in his style can keep the dream alive...


Oh, yes, where was I? If I had to pick an artist, I'd pick Elmore.

 

[blackshirt5]

Chris Villanueva

Pimpage of my friend's artwork. My homebrew is meant to have a high-powered, comic book feel anyway.

 

[Impeesa]

Most definitely Samwise Didier.

--Impeesa--

 

[diaglo]

tom wham

 

[S'mon]

For mny Borderlands campaign, I think my dream would be Ian McCaig, who illustrated the original Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. Other British artists like Jim Burns & Chris Achilleos would be good too. The guys who were in White Dwarf in the '80s.

 

[Desdichado]

Doug Chiang of Star Wars concept art fame, and Brom. Maybe Sam Wood too.