Wayne Reynolds is the Best
Check out the winner of the "Wayne Reynolds Draws Your Character" contest over at EN World. Wayne is probably my favorite D&D artist ever, and certainly my favorite of the crop currently working on official D&D product. His work is really remarkable, and perfectly captures the D&D feel (and especially the Third Edition feel).
One of the things that makes Wayne such a great artist is that he genuinely loves D&D. I first became aware of him after my friend Sean Reynolds got him to do interiors in Slavers! a late-era Greyhawk book. I may have the lore wrong, but I think Wayne emailed Sean because he was a Greyhawk fan, and that was how he started his work on the game. The point is the man can draw, and he's got great taste.
And he's just turned in one of his most incredible paintings ever for the final installment of the Age of Worms Adventure Path. It serves as a perfect capstone to the series and a great follow-up to the first Age of Worms cover, Dungeon #124.
One of the things that makes Wayne such a great artist is that he genuinely loves D&D. I first became aware of him after my friend Sean Reynolds got him to do interiors in Slavers! a late-era Greyhawk book. I may have the lore wrong, but I think Wayne emailed Sean because he was a Greyhawk fan, and that was how he started his work on the game. The point is the man can draw, and he's got great taste.
And he's just turned in one of his most incredible paintings ever for the final installment of the Age of Worms Adventure Path. It serves as a perfect capstone to the series and a great follow-up to the first Age of Worms cover, Dungeon #124.
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Gasp. Gag. Sputter! That pic is cool! I am aghast though that I didn't hear about this contest. Grr. I am an avid Wayne Reynolds fan. I not only got him to sign me a copy of Dungeon 112 at Gencon I bought his original artwork of the 'Devoted Defender' Prestige Class for Sword and Fist.
Anyhoo, coincidentally I am doing a caption contest at my webcomic site with the same award in mind. A 'comicy' drawing of a character. It is no Reynolds though that's for sure!
*kicks self*
Hey, Mort, you need to put a link to your webpage in your Blogger profile!
Thanks for the link Erik!
One thing I'd like to say of Wayne's work is that he is constantly refining and improving his technique. i think the work he's producing today blows away even his impressive early D&D works.
Cheers!
Wow, is Age of Worms at a close already? Will there be a collected version, like Shackled City? I'd buy that in a heartbeat. Having picked up Shackled City and Dungeon Compendium 1, I'm very impressed...and hoping that DC1 was successful enough to warrant an eventual DC2+.
Didn't know I had a blogger profile! Done!
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