Monday, March 26, 2018

(Belated) Friday Art Attack

Whoops!  I got busy and never did the Friday Art Attack on Friday after all.  The weekend was even busier.  Here it is, only a little bit late.


Two versions of the Ice Temple from the Frozen Shadows map for Temple Run 2.  Temple Run is a bit boring, which makes it a decent time-killer app for when you're sitting there in the dentist office waiting room, or something like that, but it doesn't get much beyond that.

Apparently there was a comic book based on the game.  That might have been doable.  The concept is, of course, Raiders of the Lost Ark, but the execution is relatively shallow, as befits the type of game that it is.


From the comic book Fall of Cthulhu, and turned into one of those Demotivator type memes.


Sniper rangers.  If only, D&D.  If only.


Michael Whelan's cover art for A Princess of Mars.  I always thought his green men looked too thin and spindly and Dejah Thoris didn't look very red, but whatever.  That's because the first time I read it, I had the Frank Frzetta cover and interior illustrations.  Of course, Frazetta made the red men even less red; they were just straight up white people.


Today's Wayne Reynolds.  A blue dragon from some Paizo adventure or other.


An aboleth; one of D&D's most overtly Lovecraftian original creations.


Some more Waynbe Reynolds, from the Abyssal Plague novel trilogy.  Which, actually, isn't all that bad for D&D fiction.  Mostly because two of the three novels were written by Don Bassingthwaite, who's probably among the most talented novelists doing D&D work.  James Wyatt does the middle volume, and it's not bad either.

The preface novel by Bill Slaviscek, on the other hand, is terrible.


Some deviant art spaceship designs.  This has a military corvette, or possibly frigate, kind of look to it.


Well, another Wayne Reynolds.  The original Eberron mural.


Familiars; a bat, a toad, big centipede, and a quasit—which if you're not already familiar with the concept of a quasit, it's the demonic equivalent of an imp, which D&D has decided is a devil.  And, of course, contrary to pretty much every source ever, D&D has decided that devils and demons (and daemons) are significantly different types of beings.


I'm not quite sure what is happening here, but it has a kind of Quori vibe going on.  How's that for an esoteric D&D reference?

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