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Wish falin was chubbier like she’s giving big girl energy to me 😔🤚🏽
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Illustrations by Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone from ‘Tales of the Greeks and Trojans’ by Roger Lancelyn Green. 1963 Purnell. Janet Grahame Johnstone (1928 – 1979) and Anne Grahame Johnstone (1928 – 1998) were twin sisters and British children’s book illustrators. The Johnstone sisters’ popularity took off in the early 1950s, when they were noticed by publishers and acquired a growing reputation as talented illustrators. They always worked together, passing drawings back and forth across their studio until both twins were satisfied with the final outcome. Janet specialized in animals and birds. Anne focused on the period costumes that so dominated their work. Because of their symbiotic collaboration, until the death of Janet in 1979, there was never a book illustrated under either one of their names alone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_and_Anne_Grahame_Johnstone
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Mighty Nein to finish the CR campaign group shots I've done!
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Finished the rest of my Salvagers kill team, the Cronin Salvage Company.
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Being a bionicle child, i feel second hand nostalgia everytime i peruse in warhammer stores and see all the colorful boxes at my disposal
I really think that in 10 years or so this will be a nostalgia thing to remember, how we went to the stores and just saw them there
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Different Worlds 31 (November, 1983). Steve Purcell’s first Different Worlds cover. A solid action scene. I noticed them AFTER I finished photographing the magazines, but this issue has some cool early Mike Mignola fantasy art — worth seeking out on your own. Consider it VRPG homework.
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LMAO THE "WOAH HEY" FROM MARCILLE HAPPY LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK
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somewhere far beyond: the webcomic!
hey all! I'm so happy someone suggested ComicFury, so Somewhere Far Beyond now has a webcomic host -> read it at somewherefarbeyond.thecomicseries.com
chapter one is still available as a PDF Download in my Ko-fi shop if that's more your thing!
it would mean a lot if y'all checked out my comic and shared it if you enjoy it, it's something i'm really proud of!
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Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials was well received and won a couple of awards (and a second edition, I think in ’87?). It took a little while for the sequel to emerge: Barlowe’s Guide to Fantasy hit shelves in 1996.
Even though I am not super widely read in either fantasy or science fiction, Barlowe’s fantasy book is the one I really vibe on. Maybe because it allows him to do stuff like Grendel from Beowulf and Gorice from The Worm Ouroboros. Wouldn’t have expected Gideon Winter, the antagonist from Peter Straub’s odd novel Floating Dragon to be included, but he was. Other surprises are the Psammead from Five Children and It and the Saw Horse from Oz.
One of the coolest things about these books is the fold-out size comparison charts. I love a good size-comparison (and again, this is a big feature of those Petersen’s Guides for Call of Cthulhu, and I am sure it came directly from here).
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Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials (1979) is a fun little book that looks at aliens from a variety of science fiction stories through the (slightly) in-universe framing of a field guide, complete with notes on ecology and biological functions.
Artist Wayne Barlowe’s selections are an interesting cross-section of the genre (I don’t recognize a lot of them, honestly) and his interpretations (of the ones I do recognize) always walk the fine line between capturing something essential that I pictured in my mind’s eye while also being surprising or unexpected in many ways. Among the beasties I did not photograph are the Overlords from Childhood’s End, the Puppeteers from Ringworld, the Izchel from Wrinkle in Time, the Masters from the Tripod books and Ursula Le Guin’s Athshean.
In a way, the Guide feels like an extension of the larger interest in fantastic art in the ‘70s, embodied most in the Gnomes, Fairies and Giants books. It, and its Fantasy companion (see tomorrow) certainly wouldn’t come out today, but for me, they’re just amazing. They gave Barlowe a whole book to draw monsters and aliens; monster and alien enthusiasts like me got a pile of rad illustrations to look at; and a stack of sci fi writers got low-key advertising for their works. Wins down the line.
Worth mentioning that this is likely a direct inspiration for Call of Cthulhu’s pair of Petersen’s Field Guides (Cthulhu Monsters and Dreamlands), right down to little nuances of layout formatting. I would bet that they were also on someone’s mind when the Ecology articles began to appear in Dragon Magazine (those started in ’83 with the Piercer).
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Decided to depict Frysk as a gladiator
It gives me so many ideas, what if she's like wrestler and has a persona and colorful suit, that be cool
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Just got this idea in mind for Karlach with a long skirt with the same vibes as her default armor.
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The faction with the least understanding of the reality of the universe naively and completely accidentally manifesting something innately good into existence despite not fully understanding it themselves? Yes please
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