A while ago, I came across this Twitter thread, in which Tony Diterlizzi shared some unpublished* pieces from his stint working on the 2nd edition AD&D Monstrous Manual. I've been meaning to share this, but kept forgetting. Some favourites:
Diterlizzi's art was a huge inspiration to me as a child, I think chiefly because it did not seem to be working too hard to be edgy or dark as most fantasy/SF illustrations then did (and to a large extent still do), Even when depicting horrible monsters, his pieces seem somehow optimistic. That minotaur at the bottom, for instance, strikes me as fundamentally a nice guy. This is refreshing.
Another share: at the blog The Yakmen Cometh talks about an art exhibition he went to and shared some images from it that are very Yoon-Suin:
*Some of the pieces did appear in the index/appendices after having inexplicably been replaced in the respective entries in the main text by vastly inferior illustrations.
"Imagine if the Minotaur was really into Brutalism" (from the Yakmen Cometh post) - what a wonderful description of the Barbican!
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