So if you got the job art-directing D&D 5e for WoTC, what would it look like? My answer below.
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| 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual Owlbear |
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| 5E Dungeons and Dragons: Kenku |
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| 5th Edition Umber Hulk |
Art by
Heiko Mueller
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| 5th Edition Wilderness Survival Guide |
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| Lolth D&D 5e Deities and Demigods |
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| D&D 5e Dungeoneers Survival Guide |
Art by
Camille Rose Garcia
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| 5e Monster Manual treant |
Art by
http://www.jeffsoto.com/
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| 5th Edition D&D Gryphen |
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| Displacer Beast / Manticore |
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| 5th Edition D&D Lolth! |
Art by
Ben Newman
I often wonder why D&D and
pop-surrealism haven't cross-bred into a new and wonderous garden of illustrated game.
Somewhere, in all our minds the Dungeon lurks as a subconscious mirror of our dreams and fears, delving like lucid dreamers for riches and insight, populated by half-imagined, half-borrowed archetypes glimpsed in fever-states from childhood terrors and solving weird incalculable puzzles.
There are exits towards:
hi-fructose /
juxtapoz /
nobrow
Very nice find!
ReplyDeleteI've seen a compilation of "Hi-fructose" artists before (maybe with that title). It does seem like there is a lot of awesome fantasy art out there in the "real art" world, beyond the comicbook/manga stuff WotC commissions, and it's a shame it gets overlooked.
Actually, I'd love a whole Monster Manual done up like that.
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