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Line Art: Joe NgColors: Espen Grundetjern
Fantasy illustration for Dungeon Magazine #144, accompanying an article called 'Muster of Morach Tor'.
From the art director's notes:
This illustration shows a soggy wooden pier, five feet wide, protruding into a marsh. In places, the pier has holes or missing timbers. The pier is quite long, extending off to the left. To the right, the pier abruptly ends, jutting out over the marsh. Two side piers protrude from the left side of the pier before ending abruptly or hanging into the swampy water. In the background, we see thick fog obscuring the swampy trees and several half-visible ruined buildings. From some of the pier’s pilings hang weird fetishes made of bones and dried lizards, and from a few others hang battered lanterns.
The focus of the illustration are two adventurers, a male human fighter dressed in full plate armor and wielding a greatsword and a female elf wizard dressed in red robes and wielding a glowing magic staff. They crouch in battle-ready stance as several lizardfolk clamber up onto the piers around them, dripping swampwater and wielding clubs of wood with animal jawbones lashed to them. In the water below the pier thrashes a crocodile, and scuttling around on the pier and buildings and trees are lots and lots of small lizards of all types.
The illustration takes place in the late afternoon, but with the dense fog it looks gloomy.
Dungeon Magazine copyright © Paizo Publishing
Image copyright © UDON Entertainment
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Comments: 63
Bazil3282 [2016-06-21 10:00:44 +0000 UTC]
Those lizardfolk in the background are like "oooh, CANNED MEAT!".
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Nechromicon [2015-07-25 03:18:25 +0000 UTC]
Guy looks like a warhammer Knight, but the whole scene is awesome!
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reiq [2007-03-21 01:12:51 +0000 UTC]
to be honest I prefer the lineart It seems that this color version had lost a lot of details. I know that changing the lineart color is cool but this is too much for the piece.
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mrbob0822 [2007-02-12 18:36:27 +0000 UTC]
His armor is delicious... visually delicious...
The whole piece is amazing. I'm especially partial to the coloring.
Incredible work.
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wulfnstein [2007-02-09 17:32:37 +0000 UTC]
Wauw, this looks awesome, the power and colors are great!
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WesXComiX [2007-02-05 16:39:30 +0000 UTC]
It is hard to give more than one word comments to a pic like this, so i am just going to have to say, Wow that is epic!!
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Orbb-Tessai [2007-02-05 03:20:44 +0000 UTC]
I love your lighting. And it's as if everything has the soft touch effect on it, very beautiful.
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pagolas [2007-02-04 19:24:33 +0000 UTC]
good colors but i think some coloers would have done abetter job
drawing as usual is a killer
but i think guys like seane,zurdom or danimation would have just killed this picture and made it so much better
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Coffinstorm [2007-02-04 17:03:50 +0000 UTC]
Damn this is pretty epic. Love the colours and the fog of the marsh, nice work!
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T-SLA [2007-02-04 16:56:29 +0000 UTC]
I've just seen pencils because I watch *NgBoy too...
I dislike the colour version. I think colorist did a great job, but he didn't join well with so good pencils, or client didn't want to see lines.. I hate this kind of clients >__<
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clevelandexpress [2007-02-04 16:50:27 +0000 UTC]
Wow! This is really impressive.
Everyhting about this really works, those swap guys look about ready to have a strip torn off them.
Nice touch with the little lizard hiding behind the knight's foot, adds a bit of humor into the drawing without taking anything away from the impending action that will ensue.
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Thom1965 [2007-02-04 15:07:58 +0000 UTC]
Really beautiful .. she seems a bit .. uh, beefy, for a female elf wizard but that's neither here nor there. It's still amazing
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theOrC [2007-02-04 12:29:43 +0000 UTC]
This is awesome... Absolutely amazing...
except the elf wizard looks a bit big/chubby/male-ish
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tiirikka [2007-02-04 07:07:51 +0000 UTC]
I may be looney, but this made me think some picture in warhammer gamebooks. O.o' I don't remember which one. I love the colors, they are gorgeus, I specially love that lizzie which is climbing up infront of that sword man. That lizzie has additude, man. xD
... but still, the remind my about warhammer skinks. O.o Too much warhammer I guess. Very gorgeus picture.
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Hekoo [2007-02-04 03:12:40 +0000 UTC]
Impressive colouring
If i can say something i find a little bit odd the way the warrior holds the sword. judging by the look of the hand, the sword should be a little upwards.
Anyway this looks awesome, just a little of constructive criticism
Keep rockin!
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lotuskunk [2007-02-03 23:23:29 +0000 UTC]
wow... thats some crazy coloring! of course the lineart is just as amazing!
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Faytes-Decision [2007-02-03 23:10:25 +0000 UTC]
The quality of the work produced is amazing. It's definitely a treat for the eyes.
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shaneandhisdog [2007-02-03 21:10:13 +0000 UTC]
Love the way you've used the time of day to enhance the atmosphere.
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ThorsAssassin [2007-02-03 20:58:23 +0000 UTC]
wow!
The lineart was on point but the color just does wonders for it! Very cool!
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AlexanderDario [2007-02-03 20:05:42 +0000 UTC]
very beautiful!!!
I hope you will post more and more fantasy works
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