SPECIAL PLANETARY ROMANCE EDITION! Kinda, anyway. I've got a few more planetary romance type pictures in here than normal, which means that I'm probably actually not going to be able to relate them to my settings all that well—unless I add D&D S&P to the labels.
I really like the work of Ken Kelly. I mean, yeah—he's kind of a Frazetta imitator, but what's wrong with that? Frazetta was a genius, and Kelly's work is certainly credible! The title of this piece is "Mystery Castle" but I think the weird red zebra horze thingy and strange cats but not cats (maybe they're nimravids!) accompanying the blonde Conan, as well as that bizarre stripped moon that looks like it's literally just behind the castle are more mysterious than the castle itself.
As I've been going through the ISLES OF TERROR campaign, they've called several times for "dire tigers." I guess I know what one should look like...
Another Ken Kelly; the forces of the Noble Savage face that of the truly wild barbarian.
Yet another Ken Kelly; I think this one is a book cover from the old Robert Adams Horseclans novels.
OK, my last Ken Kelly. See how it's almost a caricature of a Frazetta, sometimes? The technique is very Frazetta, the probably gratuitous near-nudity, even the face of the princess looks an awful lot like the face of a lot of Frazetta gals. Plus; really—who ever worse raggedy loinclothes and bikinis like that? The vaguely dinosaurian (if you think of dinosaurs from the 70s) monster and all is not really quite as dynamic and exciting as something Frazetta would be likely to do, though. In fact, overall, the composition isn't as strong.
Even I occasionally get caught up in the mystique of a party of adventurers finding a ruin deep in the wilderness. Even though I'm mostly "over" the story of D&D.
Although all of my settings have a default Christian background and worldview, I've never really specified exactly what kind of Christian, and the old Catholic cathedrals and monasteries approach is not out of line with how some people believe in any of my settings.
Yes, that does include AD ASTRA, by the way.
Strange alien city by night. Planetary romance or space opera? Could be either.
Let's no forget that succubi are daemons. They may be pretty—when they want to be—but they are monsters that want to consume your soul.
No comments:
Post a Comment