Friday Art Attack

For some reason, I lost the thread of doing these Friday Art Attack posts. I revisited the tag last night, and decided that it's time that I got back in the saddle. I also realized that for whatever reason, I'd repeated a fair number of pieces, either because I hadn't always paid great attention to what I'd used before and because sometimes I have duplicates under different filenames of what is essentially (or even exactly) the same image. Anyway, here we go again.

Some good old fashioned retro science fiction. I love this kind of stuff and I think it's a travesty that this future was taken from us.

One of the things that Tolkien does very well that is sometimes overlooked in the fantasy field is the loving descriptions of the setting. Tolkien based Middle-earth on the Europe that he knew and loved and that love shows through in every aspect of the work.

Some poster Old Republic art. I recently totally lost the plot on playing this game. I haven't done more than an hour or two of playing in at least two weeks.

Some more Star Wars fan art; a Maulish type character.

With regards to the simple landscape I offered earlier, it often is enough to create an intimidation factor, which almost becomes its own character, in a sense. If it's done well. As a fan of outdoor recreation, especially hiking alone and stuff like that, I guess maybe I kind of naturally get it, because I have a similar love for the vast empty landscapes of the American West.

A pseudo-mythic kind of thing going on here; hekatonkheires or something, with ...what, Valkyries riding on flying Sleipnirs? That's a weird mish-mash of all kinds of mythology.

I always like to include a few age of pulp artworks, although this German translation of some Edmond Hamilton is an unusual choice. Not sure where I found this one anymore, to be honest.

This, on the other hand, is I suspect fairly well known, being some concept art for the first season of The Mandalorian.

I think this one stands without comment. It's just a gigantic status of strange and alien aspect and looks like some kind of object of idolatrous worship or something.

I don't believe this actually dates from the age of pulp, rather I think it's a deliberate neo-pulpist style.

Not sure what this is, but it might be the battle of Kadesh. Certainly it's an Egyptian chariot archer of some note fighting... somebody else. The bald guy is lacking much of distinguishing characteristics, but he could be a Hittite, I suppose.

If this isn't the quintessential Warhammer Blood Dragon vampire, I don't know what is. I don't know that that's actually the provenance of this art, but it fits the stereotype perfectly. Of course, my understanding is that New Warhammer doesn't have vampire bloodlines anymore. Not that I was a huge fan of Warhammer, but I thought their setting was one of their best things that they had going for them. Blowing it up completely and replacing it with a totally different setting always seemed like a real headscratcher of a move to me.

Some Luis Royo, just because.