Old School Inspirational Art Thread

[Tulpa Girl]

Tom Barber

 

[Doc Sammy]

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[AsenRG]

I just love those ravens, Tulpa Girl !
Don't even know why. I'm not such a fan of the Hitchcock movie, for example. But I like this picture, and that's it!

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

Love this Holloway piece I just saw on Twitter:

 

[Lofgeornost]

Love this Holloway piece I just saw on Twitter:


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Neat! Lady MacBeth attacks Shakespeare.

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[Voros]

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

I don't know if he's come up yet in this thread, but Eric Smith is one talented pen-and-ink artist who has been doing the interior work for my throwback horror RPG module. I love his character sketches.

 

[Giganotosaurus]

This guy on twitter just keeps posting awesome old school art:


Fair warning some of it is saucy.

 

[Baulderstone]

This guy on twitter just keeps posting awesome old school art:


Fair warning some of it is saucy.

Fortunately, most Pub regulars have a taste for the sauce.

 

[Giganotosaurus]

Fortunately, most Pub regulars have a taste for the sauce.

Is that Alfredo or Tartar?

 

[Baulderstone]

Is that Alfredo or Tartar?

Worcestershire.

 

[Moonglum]

Love this Holloway piece I just saw on Twitter:


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A great one! I just ran that encounter a couple of months ago.

 

[Giganotosaurus]

Is it the air or the armed and standing skeleton right in front of you?

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Worcestershire.

"It was the best of Shires..."

 

[Tulpa Girl]

 

[dragoner]

The original old school: John Martin

 

[Bilharzia]

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Moar: https://www.jeffreyalanlove.com/illustration

 

[Haiku Elvis]

I know I'm late to the party as this was originally posted 5 years ago but surely this picture contains everything any Sci-Fi story ever needs.
Strange new world's, clunky robots, naked women trapped in glass alien brain domes. All the classics.

 

[Marshal Lucky]

I found this site very inspirational -and the sketches are very useful for gaming:

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

Been loving this Fred Fields piece lately, really the kind of vibe I've been going for with my modules:

 

[Bilharzia]

The original old school: John Martin

I used "The Fall of Babylon" for a Xothique campaign

https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0034440/full/full/0/default.jpg

 

[Narmer]

First Edition Paperback. Inspiring.

 

[Giganotosaurus]

First Edition Paperback. Inspiring.

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Man that is the most deceptive cover ever. You pick it up because it looks like a Pulpy Sword and Sorcery Novel and instead get a fairy tale romance.

 

[Haiku Elvis]

First Edition Paperback. Inspiring.

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Buttercup is more .. erm.. "adventurous" than I remember.

More fond of snakes too apparently.

 

[Raleel]

This thread may be my favorite thread on the pub

 

[Acmegamer]

Man that is the most deceptive cover ever. You pick it up because it looks like a Pulpy Sword and Sorcery Novel and instead get a fairy tale romance.

Definitely. Ah to the days back when they just stuck on the cover whatever artwork they'd paid for.

 

[Yeti Spaghetti]

Jim Roslof from Timemaster's The Cleopatra Gambit:

 

[Necrozius]

First Edition Paperback. Inspiring.

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I adore this cover despite having absolutely nothing to do with the book. Anyone know who the artist is?

edit: pic tax

Spoiler: Nsfw

 

[Tulpa Girl]

Caspar David Freidich

 

[Haiku Elvis]

Caspar David Freidich

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I'm not big into painters but I do love me some Caspar David freidrich since I randomly saw an Open University program on him whilst avoiding going to bed some time back in the day.

This one always stuck in my mind.it maybe doesn't have the same moodiness of some of the others it shows a French soldier pausing at the edge of the hostile German Forrest in the height of the Napoleonic era. Possibly thinking he should have taken that job killing giant rats in the Inn's cellar instead.

 

[Voros]

Not OSR per se but a fantasy artist.

 

[Mankcam]

That’s the pathfinder book spot. There were a couple of 2e books on the side, but almost everything else was gone.

edit:

That PF2 cover art really just screams D&D, probably just as much or more so than the actual D&D 5E PHB cover (which doesn’t even have a dragon on it)

 

[Endless Flight]

That PF2 cover art really just screams D&D, probably just as much or more so than the actual D&D 5E PHB cover (which doesn’t even have a dragon on it)

That’s because Wayne Reynolds did the covers for 4E and Pathfinder. He is the Easley of this generation.

 

[TristramEvans]

 

[TristramEvans]

 

[TristramEvans]

 

[Lychee of the Exchequer]

[...]Wayne Reynolds did the covers for 4E and Pathfinder. He is the Easley of this generation.

Except Reynolds as one tenth the talent of Easley, and one twelth the mastery of his craft.

 

[TristramEvans]

Except Reynolds as one tenth the talent of Easley, and one twelth the mastery of his craft.

Damn, tell Reynolds how you really feel