Friday, March 02, 2018

Friday Art Attack

Well, I never got around to doing last week's Friday Art Attack.  Here's this week's.

 I can't remember what this is from.  Starfinder, maybe?  D20 Future?


Dagon, as he appeared late in the 3e era in Dragon Magazine.


Panthers and a barbarian, and a fire behind him, and a giant planet in the sky.  As unlikely as all this seems, it still makes for a cool visual.


Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath.  These get loads of differing interpretations, but this one has among the most classical "Lovecraftian" looks to it, really.


Speaking of which, this is a really creepy interpretation of Ungoliant when Morgoth's balrogs came to chase her off.  I do kind of like this creepy human-armed interpretation as opposed to merely being a big spider.  Big spiders are fine, but Ungoliant was some kind of singular monstrosity.


I'm a big fan of civilized apes and man-apes in my fantasy.  This is concept art for Planet of the Apes, but honestly—where else are you going to get images of that kind of thing?


Following Star Wars, imagery that looked an awful lot like Star Wars really took over science fiction art in a big way.  I have a science book that I loved as a kid and found a copy of in a used book store that was printed in the late 70s as a reprint; The New Challenge of the Stars. Patrick Moore was the author and David Hardy the artist.  And, of course, the new cover art was delta shaped spaceships not unlike Star Destroyers going to war against a big round space station that looked like a shinier Death Star, shooting lasers.


Classic good vs. Evil.  Get rid of that stylized sun and give them red crosses, and you have the crusades.


Art from some Leigh Bracket Mars story collection.  I've always liked this image. 


Speaking of ruins of greater and grander civilizations still lingering in a world turned to barbarism...
I don't know when the derro turned dark-skinned like the duergar and drow, but apparently they have.


Speaking of drow... here's a necromancer raising dwarven zombies and stuff.
This has a weird The Ring kind of vibe to it.  No doubt, exactly as its meant to.


Aaaannnddd.... some Arrakis to end the day's art selection off.

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