Although not exactly the Paizo version of Conan, this character from the Iron Gods adventure path (IIRC) certainly looks close enough.
Another great fantasy landscape; a kind of hyper-dramatic Yosemite Valley with lots of fog.
I love this kind of classic stuff...
A "young" wizard with his raven familiar.
Liches are always bad news.
Wayne Reynolds gives us fire giants striding through a lava lake. Muspelheim, eat yer heart out!
I don't find very many "new" images of Nagash anymore, so this was nice to come across when I did. By the way, did you realize that Nagash is at least one transliteration of the Hebrew word for Serpent? Nagash, then, is actually Satan.
Some concept art for a putative Alien V, or Alien:Xeno as it was also called, which would have been directed by Neill Blomkamp. It got stuck in some kind of "development hell" and never materialized.
Some early art associated with Leigh Brackett's Mars. I think that's supposed to be from The People of the Talisman associated with a French version of the story. By the way, because you can probably pick it up used in tons of locations really cheap and easy, you totally should pick up the double-book, as it's usually printed, which includes The Secret of Sinharat and The People of the Talisman. While it shows its very obvious Edgar Rice Burroughs influences—both from Tarzan and from Barsoom—it's written in a completely different tone, and is just really well done. If you can get ahold of them, the original versions of those stories are good too, and show some interesting differences—a kind of last vs. penultimate draft kind of thing, as if reading a novel where the author had only the first half of someone else's work and a very sketchy outline of the second half and he wrote it himself. Queen of the Martian Catacombs is the Planet Stories title (and kind of an inaccurate one at that) and Black Amazon of Mars respectively.
In general, the expanded and revised versions are better, but after you read them, finding the originals and comparing and contrasting is interesting.
Finding text of the old Planet Stories magazines online shouldn't be too hard. They were both published in Planet Stories, in Summer 1949 and March 1951 respectively. Both stories rated the cover art.
Retrofuturistic home on the Moon, or something.
Mermaids and sharks. It's sometimes debatable which is more dangerous...
The larger animal is the extant pronghorn. The smaller one is an extinct relative that was running around North America 10,000 years ago, or maybe less. I really miss the North American megafauna that is extinct, although maybe I'd be a lot less willing to go hiking by myself if short-faced bears, mammoths, sabertooths and more were likely to be found in the wilderness...
Some ghost-army art from the new Warhammer setting, Age of Sigmar.
This post-apoc art showing soldiers in radiation or gas suits and one in a tripod not unlike that used in the original War of the Worlds or John Christopher's early YA science fiction series The Tripods.
By the way, when I first joined the Boy Scouts way back in the mid 80s, my parents got me a subscription to Boys' Life and it was serializing the novels back then as a one-page per issue comic strip. Good times. Sadly, they were well into the third book by the time I got started, so I never really got the gist of the plot very well.
An early Cretaceous North American ceratopsid Aquilops which is more derived than Psittacosaurus but less so than almost all of the neoceratopsids.
What Spider-man maybe really should have looked like...
An Amazon falconer with an Archaeopteryx as her falcon.
Classic space opera pirate ship. You can tell because of the skull and crossbones, see...
Two similar interpretations of Ares, the Greek god of war, one from Marvel comics, and the other by Wayne Reynolds for the third edition version of Deities & Demigods.
Arkhan the Black, Nagash's most loyal and trusted retainer.
Synthwave and cyberpunk. A match made in heaven, certainly.
I believe this asteroid base (or maybe it's Mars' moon Phobos) is from the Destiny series of video games. But it's a pretty classic asteroid mining facility in appearance. Reminds me a lot of the old 1981 Sean Connery western-in-space movie Outland.
According to Herodotus, this is actually what Atlantis looked like in its heyday. Some people—I mean weirdo Graham Hancock type people—think that the Richat structure, the "Eye of the Sahara" in Mauritania is the ruins of this Atlantis, although it is of course almost certainly merely an eroded geologic dome and a totally natural structure that just happens to have some unusual features.
Although curious, the location actually kinda works. However, sinking in the ocean, and having the ocean retreat and leaving you in the desert are, of course, the exact opposite problem, so it's a kinda strange idea even for that crowd.
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