post 10/10 fantasy art

>>95863308 (OP)

>>95863308 (OP)

>>95863308 (OP)
Good thread OP

>>95863308 (OP)

>>95864439
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>>95865060
OP said 10/10 fantasy art my dudes, try harder.

>>95864439
i love dark sun

>>95865106
Post one, faggot.

>>95865181
Me too anon.
Me too.

>>95865319
I love but at the same time it looks so damn stupid

>>95865106
>complains
>doesn't contribute
Many such cases.

>>95865338
Hell yeah it does brother
It's sick as hell

>>95865352
Is WHFB Conan huge or are his companions just tiny?

>>95863308 (OP)

>>95865370
I tried to like this book, but I got filtered by the lengthy passages of the world's ecology and how its astronomical position affected its weather.

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>>95865635
The Hero's Journey server is fun, but it's not a serious long-term balanced and polished kind of project. Aporia is a fucking MORON and I have no idea why Cata allows himself to be so enslaved. His talents are completely wasted by that narcissistic clown.
So play a no-twinking run if you're gonna start there.

>>95866294
The adventures that feature Lord Soth are pretty lame, but man the character himself just oozes personality and aura.

I like dorfs.

>>95866352
presentation and gravitas can take you a long way

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>>95865343
I used to have this as a poster from an issue of Nintendo Power.

>>95866412
Ian Miller is a great artist, very evocative.

>>95867396
>puckee slop
>10/10

>>95865599
Foreshortening.

>>95864458
who is tailoring these wizzard robes

>>95865765
teh hell is this from??

>>95868264
Artist's website, silly.

>>95868224
Top men, anon.

Top.

Men.

>>95868224
The chap being dissolved. He fucked up the cross stitching on the Grand Wizards sleeves.

Clyde Caldwall is the fucking GOAT. It pains me that we will never ever get a fantasy movie based on what he and the other goated pre-1990s fantasy artists envisioned the genre to be. At least not until AIslop becomes a thing.

>>95868104
This actually inspired me to write up CYOA plot
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Any of you connoisseurs know of any relatively high production media (films and series) similar to the stuff posted here?
I've seen stuff like game of thrones, the Peter Jackson lord of the rings movies (who hasn't?) and stuff like the heavy metal film, legend, record of lodoss war, berserk, flash gordon, the Schwarzenegger conan movies, highlander, etc. I've also read a bunch of books like the chronicles of amber. I've played some games like baldurs gate and planescape torment too.
I'm talking, stuff like >>95868826 >>95869488 >>95868104
The pre-1990's fantasy aesthetics in particular just feel so proper and, well, fantastical. I've seen a bunch of shows parody what could be potentially unironic singular experiences. I also enjoy stuff like sci-fi getting thrown into the mix, but nevermind that. It just feels to me like "fantasy" never got its fair shake in the audio-visual department, despite how many writers and artists (and even musicians) have dabbled in it.

>>95865816
walking through the woods collecting this winters jam ingredients when you encounter a group of liberals
roll initiative

>>95866129
>nice armor, tincan

>>95869609
Well the iconics are iconic for a reason. So best stuff is often already commonly known.
Otherwise the pre-1990 fantasy aesthetic is hard to pin down. There's a lot of material and it varies widely in style and quality.
There are some older European and Russian films that are quite nice and not as commonly known. I remember watching lots of Soviet and GDR picturizations of fairy tales as a child. They varied wildly in quality, but some of them were pretty cool.

>>95869548
A shame James Stokoe will never finish Orc Stain, but Orphan and the Five Beasts is great.

>>95869414
Idk but this dudes art just screams “also draws guro” to me

>>95869609
anon, you slipped a piece of AI-Slop boosted modern art into your cadre of art.

>>95865599
Anon, we've been over this.
WHFB Conan's companions are not small, they're far away.

>>95868826
For me it's Jeff Easley. (Verification not required.)

>>95870938
Easley is my vision of dnd , insanely saturated high Fantasy

>>95870574
I used to follow him on Twitter, he almost exclusively draws big titty girls eating big food

Trudvang has some of my favourite depictions of dwarves and trolls

(ok, this one is nostalgia)

>>95871137
>AoS

>>95871144
you best believe it

>>95871198
>AoS
Dios mio

>>95865663
i love this one, who is the artist?
>Paul B

>>95871275
and don't you forget it

>>95863308 (OP)
pretty much all Boris Vallejo
I remember some old zombie posters in somewhat similar style

>>95865635
I like that the giants actually look giant.

>>95871110
who did this one? cant make out the signature

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>>95869414
Nah. Weeb stuff just doesn't fit.

>>95871436
depends on the Weeb art desu

>>95871436
you fool

>>95871436

>>95863308 (OP)

>final battle between Tyrion and Malekith, with Alith Anar preparing to take his final shot.

I will die on the hill that this is peak warhammer art.

>>95869548
Isn't this the comic series where they use penises as money? The dude in the green pants on the right even have some dicks hanging off his belt.

>>95871307
Paul Bonner

>>95871658
>Isn't this the comic series where they use penises as money?
Yeah, that's the on,e it's called Orc Stei,n and it's unfinished, and I don't think the artist has any plans to continue it

>>95864458
Do you think this is for a ritual or something or is this like what they do instead of watching Seinfeld

>>95870092
Dragonlance deserved such a better movie than it got.

>>95865663
There is a specific way fantasy artists used to paint trees and forests before digital illustration was the norm. There's a certain darkness and wildness to it, almost like *ahem* the artists had actually visited deep woods themselves and taken notes. Forests in my country look like the ones in this pic, and I always envisioned stories like Hobbit, etc. with woods like these.

>>95868135
I LOVE this. If my current character dies I'm using this as a portrait.

>>95871436
I staunchly disagree

>>95871847
happy little trees

>>95865816
What would be the best course of action in this situation as a peasant?
Offer food? Or would the plain berries be an insult to this fairy court?

>>95871408
AURA BATTRA!

>>95872277
Generally the offering is ceremonial and meant as a sign of good will. Given your status as a poor berry farmer those berries to one such as yourself would be a considerable sacrifice and thus more valuable than a king throwing a few gold coins.

>>95871144
Nah nah, it’s good now.

>>95872745
>[citation needed]

>>95865343
ruined by the 3 quirky losers

>>95871495
>>95871858
>disagreeing
>posting the least weeb looking japanese art

>>95871468
this one is weeb and cool though

>>95869377
>>95869414
garbage

>>95865891
Poul Anderson is definitely towards the harder side of sci fi. He loves his spec evo, characters are usually scientists and will frequently expound on scientific principles as understood at the time, or if they don't do that they'll THINK that they WANT to and you'll get to read it anyway. It can get pretty dry, but there's a certain charm to it too. It's an interesting universe.

And for the anime fans this one has a bubbly just-out-of-college girl who falls madly in in love with a schlubby middle aged scientist, whose wife just kind of accepts getting cucked and lets him do it. And later on he beats up a military officer in his prime because something something trained with space centaurs

>>95873889
Let's not pretend you'd accept any citation given. Do your own research.

>>95871495
I don't know what the word is for giant looming planets in the sky but I fucking love the aesthetic.

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>>95871495
Genuinely so awe-inspiring and beautiful. I miss art that looked like this

>>95871847
Pual bonner still does work so it's not like it's a Lost skill(yet)

>>95874529
I did. It wasn't good.

>>95875642
I like his Mutant Chronicles stuff.

>>95869609
We are currently in a dark age of fantasy and art in general, so no unfortunately you've seen it all. There USED to be a lot of great art attached to very old and simplistic games which you probably haven't played, but there is simply nothing like that today made with modern technology.

But we do have some stuff, Fromsoftware video games for example are a worthy successor to what fantasy should be. They have their own style, but its fundamental quality and energy is the closest there is to old fantasy.

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>>95871112
that's just his eating fe...I mean phase. The previous takehime weapons and other fantasy art were well liked here.

>>95873397

Jesus, these hobbits look bad.

Man, I remember being a young boy/teen in the 90s seeing stuff like this on book covers, the occasional magazine or poster or rpg rulebook or manual. It captured the imagination like nothing else ever since...
Video games felt like a natural progression, the vibe was there at the time, but the tech wasn't quite there yet to fully capture it.

I remember dreaming excitedly what games would be like in the future, when we would finally be able to immerse ourselves in fantasy on the level promised by this artwork.

How naive i was. Hoping for a future that would never come.
How ignorant of the horrors of standardized western art education, SEA plastic CG sweatshop and the general irrelevance of art through oversaturation.

>>95868713
kek

>>95877717
dude Fromsoft games are doing dark high fantasy better than basically anything before.

And there are big budget western fantasy RPGS, their only problem is that the western RPG fanbase is overrun by horny nerds so the games have to cater to that.

>>95878040
Horny nerds were an integral part of the fantasy genre, back when the first monkeys on shrooms added big tiddy fertility goddesses and hot warrior chicks to their mythology.

>>95865705
is this Sleeping beauty?
Loved the backgrounds in that movie

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>>95877683
They look too much like children

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>>95875425
I mention this a lot in video game threads but it really makes me sad that by the time video games became graphically capable of representing their art work, their art work devolved to a depressing state.

>>95878040
>Fromsoft games are doing dark high fantasy better than basically anything before.
This would be true if literally every thing they have ever made didn't look mangy and diseased. It could work for certain parts of a setting, or even a whole setting if they were going for the darkest of grimderp, but everything they make looks ugly. Their artists just can't escape the asian curse of overdesigning every concept; but instead of belts, frills, and zippers they're westaboos so it's rust, shit, and tattered cloth.

>>95878795

Nah, for me they should look more children, with better proportions (hands and heads)

>>95879535
greedy boat-hoarding fuckers had it coming

>>95879477
You have clearly never played one of their games and only saw it through trailers or something

>>95879639
Shit gets me every time.
>These boats were made by ourselves, and our wives, and our children. We will never make their like again. Would you have us suffer the same misfortune as your own?
>Yes. Now get out of my way or I will commit the second slaying in Valinor.
Then the Teleri actually held Feanor back until his sons arrived, and they thought the Teleri were the aggressors. Then he ditched the other Noldor he duped into leaving Valinor, forcing them to cross the grinding ice. And then he fucking burned the ships just to stop people from backing out. The cherry on top was he couldn't even survive his first confrontation with Morgoth. The Noldor suffered thousands of years barred from literal paradise because of one elf's meltdown who died shortly after landing in Middle-Earth. There exists no other elf more retarded or based than Feanor.

>>95871408
WARP DIGIVOLVE TOOOOO.....

>>95879518
Great taste

>>95880072
This thing.

>>95864458
damn that'skino

Love myself some dragons and shiet.

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>>95880197
Thomas Cole and other classical artists created art that is truly awesome yet thoroughly grounded in reality that modern artists struggle to match no matter how fantastic the subject.

I think the oathmark art is pretty neat.

>>95880572
Agreed.

>>95872745
LOL

>>95871319
Aaaaand it's gay

>>95879601
Idk man, when i read those books i always thought they'd look more like funny mousy men, sort of like a more appealing looking king charles but with big hairy feet

>>95879477
I agree with you on the whole "cant escape muh grimderp" but i disagree with you on their designes beinf completely bad, in Elden Ring i thought there were a lot of simpler yet still appealing designs

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>>95880572
>>95880579
>>95880589

Anyone have a QRD on Oathmark? I've seen it around a few times but it just seems more like a not-lotr/older WHFB trad fantasy wargame?

>>95868607
Amazing album too btw

>>95863308 (OP)

>>95882099
>Druedain
>Trolls
Anon those are humans, albeit a literal plot device race of humans Tolkien introduced so he could get the riders to Pellinor fields in time.

I fuckin love em, dwarf height, hates elves, hairy, and have weird supernatural powers like divination and super math lol.

>>95882119
>Elves
I meant orcs, they dislike Orcs.

Tbf they are meant to be medieval wildmen, so yeah they sort of are trolly.

>>95882099

>>95863308 (OP)
For me it's Angus Mcbride

>>95863308 (OP)
Do we have any William Stout chads here?

>>95876181
>you are wrong prove otherwise

murica says fuck you bitch

>>95882152
swag dragon ear rings

I really like Frostgrave's art, it feels very pulp fantasy without showing much skin (since people are dressed for the cold)

>>95881834
I play it. It's fun.
Qrd is its a simple rules wargame where you build a fantasy kingdom and fight other kingdoms.
Kingdoms are made from territories players choose when they create their kingdom. Each game takes place in one of your "territories" a neutral unclaimed land or an opponents. Territories provide players with a pool of troops to recruit, occupied territories have penalties to troops coming from them.
Rules for battle irk some people. Troop movement is alot more relaxed then some other games. Troops can do free maneuvers like about face, pivots and wheels before moving. Combat is simple and easy to do all the calculations for target numbers in your head. Dice are capped at 5 with a minimum of 1, which some people hate but it makes the game quicker IMO. Spellcasting/spellcasters are useful to very useful but mostly won't win the game by itself. Activation system is an alternating activation. You activate one unit and then your opponent does until all units are activated. Commander units allow you to activate several units at once within their command sphere.
Unit balance isn't great, ranged units are just.... superior. Some monsters don't feel like the powerhouse they should per their point cost. Unless rolls are really unlucky catapults will do alot of work compared to their point cost. Defensive scenarios from the books typically favor the defender by alot.
Most of the balance issues can be addressed by just having you and your opponent agreeing not to abuse them. (Elf player not making a ranged only army)
The games big selling point is the kingdom aspect. Recording battle, the events that happened during them and incorporating that into your kingdoms history is really engaging. For instance I lost a game where my dwarven prince (Thran Redbeard) was slain in a skirmish with elven raiders. The next game i just leaned into the roleplay and brought an elite force of higher point cost dwarven troops. Led to a much more engaging game.

>>95881834
Also the "offical" setting is closer to book lotr. Very early medieval or "darkage" vibe to it. Very little official models have anything heavier then chain mail.

>>95882133

>>95878715
Yes. Eyvind Earle was so based, that Disney built a permanent mausoleum around his works.
>>95876974
full on retard opinion.

>>95882738
>>95882749
Damn, this shit sounds cool, and i love dark age/early medieval setting. Think i might try it.

>>95882183
Sorry I don't like your trash setting. Please don't make it your identity.

>>95871319
Was this made by AI?

>>95883344
But anon you’ve made it your identity.

>>95865705
My foremost enmelanated compatriot

>>95871468
sauce?

>>95871858
sauce? searching "quinta essentia" and elaborations on it returns only nonsense.

>>95884033
NTA, but Yuuki Nobuteru. It's in the filename.

>>95884066
Can't share a link due to anti-piracy jannies, but I'd try searching for "QVINTA ESSENTIA Yoneda Hitoshi Artbook" and using duckduckgo instead of google.

>>95884068
>>95884078
Multa bene

>>95884099
You are welcome. In future, I also suggest trying SauceNAO, their image search is solid as long as source of the image isn't twitter or the image isn't black and white.

>>95878040
>FROMslop
>at all capturing the majesty of classic fantasy art
Embarrassing.

>>95879666
>You have clearly never played one of their games
And he's entirely right not to have, Satan. Get the gook cock out of your mouth and head back to r*ddit

>>95868104
I wish I could be this cool

>>95882152
I know him mostly from his old dinosaur art. amazing stuff

>>95878040
Darksucks and eldensuck have gay modern jap "fantasy" art styles and direction. It dosen't look good.

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>>95884066
You fucking iliterate weab, jesus.

>>95885694
Go back to /v/ retarded slopbrain

>>95883101
Postmodernist abstract garbage image + retarded take on souls, gross

>>95872073
Thoughts on this lich?

>>95869548
>5
even the plants are horny

>>95871790
"god dman it jerrry what did i tell you about farting in church.
go wait outside till I finish liturgizing"

>>95871319
I want to see more art like this, a writhing mass of flesh, all in motion to drag down the heavens.

bump

>>95865106
This is 10/10 you bitchless faggot

>>95887033
>Postmodernist abstract garbage image
Retarded beyond belief

New Thread: >>95897233

>>95897121
Shut your whore mouth!

>>95865268
THE ORB

>>95887033
Don't use words you don't understand

>>95869377
This image was clearly drawn by someone who doesn't know how hot the surface of a car can get during the daytime, and by the garb they are wearing this must take place in the summertime. The desert summer is not comfy at all.

>>95898221
Should be at night or late sunset.

>>95868264
Cover art for The Infinity Clarinet by HR Bartheim

>>95898221
>implying cute teen witches wouldn't cast Cool Thighs before lounging on their car

>>95898221
>The desert summer is not comfy at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdFwhhH2x7I

>>95864458
>bunch of male wizards watching a guy be molested by tentacles
buncha fags

>>95897899
Time to ponder it.

>>95898495
>male wizards
I they might as well be all female, their clothes are wide and loose enough they could be hiding boobs, and I don't really see facial hair

>>95868607
>Ashbury mentioned
Didn't know /tg/ was chill like that.

>>95871274
?Ultraviolet Grasslands
Why did this project flop so bad? I was genuinely stoked for it.

>>95879477
All their games are basically set in post apocalptic settings. So, at least it does make sense in game terms.

>>95904247
What do you mean by "flop"?
Asking because I really don't know, I've seen it recommended it several times around.