Wednesday, May 21, 2008

"Those are some expensive coloring books, son"

With gratitude to David C Sutherland III, RIP
With gratitude to D.A.Trampier
With gratitude to David C Sutherland III, RIP.  I always felt sad for the kobold on the left, about to get hacked by Mr. Ant Shield.  Click through to look at his widdle puppy face.
With gratitude to Russ Nicholson
With gratitude to Jim Holloway. 'He has pale blue hair and grayish skin...' reads the description.  I believe the shade I used was periwinkle.
With gratitude to Jim Holloway.
With gratitude to Russ Nicholson. I forgot to color the wizard's robe.

I think the frogemoth and Fraz-Urb'luu are by Jim Holloway, but they aren't signed. Could someone confirm that?

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5 comments:

trollsmyth said...

Damn. Somebody knows their way around a set of colored pencils. That's some excellent work, especially the heroes vs. kobolds one.

- Brian

Max said...

Thanks Brian.

Wouldja believe all of those were colored with markers, crayons and a bit of ball point pen? I wish I'd use pencil -- the bleedthrough from the markers was rough on my books!

James Maliszewski said...

Those are indeed by Holloway, as he illustrated every single creature in the Monster Manual II. It's little wonder that I consider that book the last gasp of the old school.

Damn.

Sham aka Dave said...

I've never seen anything like this. I'm surprised actually, because it seems quite natural now, in retrospect, to color in all those pictures. Good stuff!

I actually used to make little captions under much of the AD&D art. Stupid one-liners from when I was 13.

trollsmyth said...

James,
Those are indeed by Holloway, as he illustrated every single creature in the Monster Manual II.

MMII has an amazingly high level of consistency in style and quality across the entire book, so I can believe Mr. Holloway did all the art. But my copy also lists interior art credits for Harry Quinn, Dave Sutherland, and Larry Elmore.

Still, both of those look very, very much like Holloway's work, so I could easily be convinced he did them.

- Brian