A Conan man-ape. In fact, the Conan man-ape, Thak. Frank Frazetta painted him most iconically, but this is a good character portrait take on him too.
Classic old school "near future" science fiction art of a space station and its traffic. In real life, docking with a space station is a big deal, but in this type of art there's always all kinds of traffic coming and going as if space stations were like gas stations in space or something.
A couple more of these kinds of cheerful views of the future, which sadly has given way to the dystopian nightmare that faces us today for a variety of reasons, mostly poor decisions made by us in terms of who to trust and what to believe about reality. In any case...
I know that Valhalla is out now, but this concept art from the ancient Greek Assassin's Creed game is really cool, and I tend to really like the classical Greco-Roman vibe. It's also one that I often forget to include sufficiently, but the reality is that Western Civilization is built on three pillars, and the Greco-Roman cultural tradition, if not necessarily genetic inheritance, is absolutely one of those three pillars.
Some WAR fantasy art; a sea serpect and a sorcerers in a little boat.
I'm not really into cosplay, although I know that I have a cousin--or maybe even two--who are into the whole 501st stuff. That said, this unique Mandalorian outfit is really, really cool.
More Greek Assassin's creed screenshots.
Some good old-fashioned pulp artwork. Why the girls don't have any clothes on is a mystery to me, but y'know. That's often part of the vibe for this kind of artwork.
I'm not sure who the artist is here, but this is a great Conan piece. Very classic, Frazetta-inspired technique. Even the girl kinda has that "Frazetta girl" face a little bit.
Another interesting piece of old space opera art.
Vae victis! Barbarian chieftains taking their spoils, in this case, also including Roman girls as slaves.
Speaking of which, here's another Roman and Celtic post-battlefield bit of art. I'm not sure, but that might even be Julius Caesar and Vercingetorix themselves.
I've long had a strange fascination for the "savage humanoids" and seen them as poorly and thoughtlessly underutilized. So seeing them presented as actual characters rather than merely mooks has always been fascinating to me.
A yeti fighting snow leopards. What's not to love?
The Kings of South America; Smilodon populator, the largest cat that ever lived. (The North American species was about lion-sized; this was nearly freakin' bear-sized.)
A more interesting and fantastical takeon the coloration of a sabertooth.
Part of Warhammer's ghoul-kings armies. I'm actually not sure exactly what I think about the big hump on their backs and the bone-spines, but it does make them look extra gnarly, I guess.
A vampire that has lost all control and become a feral monster, something that I've also adopted for DH5, but which has analogs in folklore all over the place. I don't know how that thing is supposed to fly with those wings, or what even keeps the one bone attached to the other given that it protrudes out from the flesh, but whatever. Warhammer art is overly stylized and gnarly sometimes.
A more typical vampire artwork, although not a typical vampire character in some ways.
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