(Belated) Friday Art Attack

Although I've been back in town for... almost a week now (a week late tonight, technically) I'm still kind of on the wrong foot with a bunch of stuff going on, and I didn't even realize until today that I missed my Friday Art Attack.  Sigh.

Anyway, here it is.  It's neither the first nor is it likely to be the last time that I've hit it late.

This could be an example of a Shadow Sword, maybe, originally from DARK•HERITAGE but in the Appendix of FANTASY HACK.

A Conan character, from the Mongoose Game.

While I do really like Wayne Reynolds sorta comic book vibe, sometimes I have no idea what his characters are supposed to actually be.  This piece of art was some 4e something or other.  To be fair, I didn't know what was going on with 4e most of the time anyway.

Speaking of 4e, here's some gnoll art.

I believe this giant wall on Mars is a piece of Destiny art, although I might be wrong.

This, on the other hand, is a much more iconic sword & sorcery type of story.  Why don't more people use chariots in their sword & sorcery?  It's supposed to deliberately echo sword & sandal, after all.

Nothing like an alternate Robocop model.

While this was supposed to be some kind of Barsoom piece, Mars (and therefore Barsoom) only has two moons, not three.  That red woman (Thuvia or Dejah Thoris, I think) is a little too white and not red enough, I think, too.  She looks more like a Spaniard or an Italian than a martian.

Let's not forget the space opera and gigantic space stations.

I've deliberately tried to allow a lot more classic influence; i.e. Greek and Roman mythology and culture.  Not so much that I have any overtly Greco-Roman areas (although actually I now do in the TIMISCHBURG setting, at least), but there's loads of room for classicism in any modern fantasy, and there SHOULD be too.

The gratuitous trashiness of the Starman covers always makes me laugh.  This is what happens, I suppose, when 1970s Mexicans make a fake Flash Gordon.

After Star Wars came out, loads of fake Death Stars appeared in science fiction art.  Presumably some even came first.  

Another good piece of Destiny art.  Destiny looks a lot like what I want AD ASTRA to look like.

A totally new design on the owlbear.  Which, let's face it, always was a silly concept to begin with.

There's nothing that says cosmopolitan like the Mayflower in port with a Chinese junk.  Artwork for Paizo's Absalom.