Friday, June 16, 2023

Friday Art Attack

It's time that I start trying to revive this old series. I used to post art from my largish digital collection of images that I've found over the years, but I haven't done it in quite some time. In fact, in general, I feel like the last year or so has really wreaked havoc on my hobbies in many ways. My blog has faltered in progressing from where I was last summer, in series related to my game and what I'd like to have done with it. My novel writing ambitions are a joke after this many years with no progress, and even my map update is starting to become pathetic; I've been saying that I need to make a revised section map with a few added details since late last summer to accommodate the CHAOS IN WAYCHESTER campaign... and although that should only be a question of redrawing something that I already have, and therefore shouldn't have been challenging. But I've been talking about doing it since last July or August. To be fair to me, I've had a lot going on personally. I was laid off, and then started a new job (which has proven to be more time-consuming in the evening and stressful in some ways than my old job). I had a new grandson born. I had a daughter get married. I have a son about to propose (in theory. Hopefully in the next month or two) and therefore his girlfriend to meet. My wife has also been aggressively planning lots of stuff for us to do, including a whole ton of local hikes (I've often been probably inappropriately contemptuous of hikes in our state of residency as being nothing more than mere walks in the woods, as opposed to "real" hikes which are in the Rocky Mountains area of the west, or the American Southwest. All of this stuff has caused a lot of stress and anxiety in my life, which means that my free time, when I have it, which is less than what I was used to, is used more often than it used to be to merely "veg" (or however you would spell that). But, you eventually adjust to everything, and I'm starting to get motivated to kickstart my latent hobby efforts again.

Anyway, on with the art attack.

A "vargulf" I believe; a Warhammer feral vampire kind of creature.

The happy-go-lucky retrofuturism that we never, sadly, ever got in real life.

I'm not a huge fan of these 110 lbs pixie girls presented as action heroes, but I still have a lot of lingering art of them, because apparently my dislike of the trope is not universal.

Head study of a tiefling or something

Now; a 110 lbs. narcissistic Karen using sorcery to get her way; that I can see.

A mounted wight champion or something. Cool art.

Actually, cyborg enhanced pixie chick as action star is a little bit more believable.

Some WAR Greek mythology themed stuff.

Some WAR 4e iconic artwork


More 4e artwork, I believe. Of gnolls obviously.

The most iconic Conan man-ape of them all.

Not only is it a pixie action grrl, but she's Japanese too. Sigh. So nerdy. 

D&D ape demon

More cool retrofuturism.

A big spiky and toothy demon of some kind.

A catalog of the Morrison dinosaurs; among my favorite Mesozoic faunal assemblages.

This looks like a different scan of the same retrofuturist image as above. Huh.

At attempt to make a "strong female character" who is also a "pretty half-orc." With dreads, because as everybody knows, liberals think black people are orcs.


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