BOOKS: The Monster Manual (part 1.2)
I realized that many readers may no longer have the aforementioned AD&D Monster Manual, don’t remember the art, or simply have never seen it. So, just to give an idea of how groovy it was, here are a few scans of some of my fav images from this book by artist David A. Trampier.
…of course, these images are © TSR/WotC/Hasbro.
It was a surreal moment for me to be able to get the opportunity to render some of these classic monsters for 1994’s Monstrous Manual, but I’ll yammer about that in the next post.
July 10th, 2007 at 3:21 am
i could write this exact same blog entry except replace “David A Trampier and DAT” with “Tony Diterlizzi” - which i actuall thought said:
DIT
ERL
1221
and always wonder what the “1221″ meant…
also, your old mole painting from 1995 is AMAZING!
July 11th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I am so glad I found your blog. I am a big fan of yours and also an illustrator and graduate of The Ringling College of Art and Design. The movie looks very cool, keep up the great work.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:22 pm
o i just hafta say i love D&D gaming of any kind
ya i no im a girl and im “not supposed 2 be” a D&D gamer but im not ur normal girl. im a constant observer of monsters and monster manuals for that manner weather it is a D&D manual with all the specifics or just a plain old book for the fun of it and doesnt have alignment and such. so i am wat a lot of ppl thaink of as insane but i no im not. just different :p