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Post by tyrion on Jun 18, 2021 17:24:31 GMT
Sleeping orc Prisoner Rest ye here
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kieran
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Post by kieran on Jun 18, 2021 17:57:58 GMT
Very cool - where does that come from?
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Post by drmanhattan on Jun 18, 2021 21:04:18 GMT
if i correctly interpreted prisoner as wildman then
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sylas
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Post by sylas on Jun 18, 2021 21:41:20 GMT
I'm surprised barely anyone has voted for the Zombies. While not the best portrayed of the undead, evokes a great deal of intrigue and fascination, especially with the accompanying prose. The piece as a whole is somewhat eerie, not because you regain consciousness in a room of Zombies, but because the Zombies are ignoring you. Judging by their weapons, they are clearly ready for battle but instead they merely stand staring upwards, as though awaiting orders, until you make a move which causes them to react to your presence. The corpse leaning against the wall is also strange. Who is this previous adventurer, and how did it die in a standing position? It all creates a wonderfully compelling scene that carries much imagination for a relatively simple depiction of a common encounter.
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Post by Peter on Jun 19, 2021 5:20:02 GMT
I would have voted for most of the illustrations in the book if I could have, for the type of reasons you give. Many of them stimulate the imagination and invite you to speculate on how the portrayed situation came about.
That is why it remains one of my favourite books. It has its flaws (e.g. no plot) but the artwork suggests there is a whole world waiting to be discovered.
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Post by bloodbeasthandler on Jun 19, 2021 6:00:09 GMT
I would have voted for most of the illustrations in the book if I could have, for the type of reasons you give. Many of them stimulate the imagination and invite you to speculate on how the portrayed situation came about. That is why it remains one of my favourite books. It has its flaws (e.g. no plot) but the artwork suggests there is a whole world waiting to be discovered. That's it. If the illustrations had been split up and shared out into different groups containing other books' illustrations we might have seen this proved. As it was, we [only] had 3 votes. On a different day I might have voted for Sleeping Orc, Drunken Orcs, the Dragon or the Zombies - the latter for exactly the reasons Sylas says.
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Post by drmanhattan on Jun 19, 2021 10:15:47 GMT
Yep, I too quickly realized just how many amazing illustrations there were, and almost all of them I could directly connect to very many memories and emotions from days gone by. It might have been easier to pick out 3 that didn't evoke strong memories, though I might still have struggled.
I think I always found the rats a bit off, somehow they look "too real" like everyday rats, despite the size, so I suppose there was no magic with those, and no striking pose like them snarling out of the page
the mosaic floor I think at the size and scale, the floor pattern doesnt really pop as much as it might at a larger format
the spider probably similar reason to the rats (I guess bats would have been in the same group), too close to real life monsters somehow not quite fantasy exaggerated enough.
But this is literally trying vainly to pick "least favourite pics" and I still think all of those are great and I remember them all fondly
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Post by zxcvbn on Jun 19, 2021 13:20:17 GMT
Always liked the spider, the snakebox for being the first non-fantasy creature we see, and the tools as it was just so different to what you normally get shown.
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Post by drmanhattan on Jun 19, 2021 14:58:50 GMT
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Post by arekkusu on Jun 20, 2021 0:17:40 GMT
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