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Erol Otus Alma Mater RPG Artwork (NSFW)

Started by Kellri, September 09, 2008, 08:38:47 AM

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ColonelHardisson

#30
September 11, 2008, 11:14:02 AM
Quote from: JimLotFP;246760Isn't "creepy" Otus' whole schtick to begin with?

A more recent Otus piece...


Note that I used the word "creepier." His D&D work is creepy, just not to the degree this stuff is.
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#31
September 11, 2008, 12:20:55 PM
Koltar, I'll give you $1 if you change your avatar. Like, you're dressed up in fantasy garb in a game store. It hurts me where I pee, man. Please? It's a whole $1. You can buy 1/2 a pack of gum or something.

I'm still bothered by the look on the handjob chick's face. It's daemonic. But not in the "You'll like this" Slaanesh sorta way...

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#32
September 11, 2008, 03:29:43 PM
Quote from: GrimJesta;246878I'm still bothered by the look on the handjob chick's face. It's daemonic. But not in the "You'll like this" Slaanesh sorta way...

-=Grim=-

That is pretty creepy, but in high school would it have really mattered what she was doing with her face :)
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GrayPumpkin

#33
September 11, 2008, 04:16:14 PM
Yeah don't care for this art myself, love his work on DnD but this is not only ugly but amateurish in execution.
 

arminius

#35
September 11, 2008, 06:53:55 PM
If you want to know more about the game, I got some info back in this thread.

Koltar

#36
September 11, 2008, 11:27:06 PM
Quote from: GrimJesta;246878Koltar, I'll give you $1 if you change your avatar. Like, you're dressed up in fantasy garb in a game store. It hurts me where I pee, man. Please? It's a whole $1. You can buy 1/2 a pack of gum or something.


-=Grim=-


Actually that pic was taken at the local Renaissance fair about 5 years ago.


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Ed in tuxedo?


Ed at work in the store?


Koltar & Dr. Rotwang?


Ed & Tehana?

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TheShadow

#37
September 12, 2008, 05:47:46 AM
Quote from: GrayPumpkin;246954Yeah don't care for this art myself, love his work on DnD but this is not only ugly but amateurish in execution.

Yes, but the ugliness is kind of the point, and the amateurishness is beside the point. At work is the 70s zine/punk aesthetic you more often see in British art.
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JamesV

#38
September 12, 2008, 07:46:17 AM
If the art was meant to portray High School as a bad trip that lasts 6 years then he nailed it. But I gotta agree that the weird he gives to his pieces transfers better to fantasy than reality.
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#39
September 12, 2008, 07:50:53 AM
Quote from: The_Shadow;247121Yes, but the ugliness is kind of the point, and the amateurishness is beside the point. At work is the 70s zine/punk aesthetic you more often see in British art.

Good point. This game was from the cusp of the change in perception about rpgs from being an underground thing to a mainstream one. I think this stuff really informs Otus' TSR work, and reveals him to be a genuine surrealist rather than just an rpg stylist. Those twisty tendrils of steam are seen everywhere in his Cthulhuoid D&D art. When rising from the meal tray in Lunchroom Dweeb they look positively alive and menacing - an acidhead's worst nightmare. Same goes for the look on the Handjob Girl's face. You see the same leering visage on earlier Drow priestesses and Top Secret spymasters. On the face of a teenager making out it's weirdly subversive, even today.
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#40
September 12, 2008, 08:46:19 AM
Quote"...weirdly subversive..."

And bluntly satirical too, as for example the fat hobbit nerds on the front cover, one in his "Do it in a dungeon" tee, the other in a post-beatdown sprawl.  And, of course, the undead tweaker Kellri's made into an avatar.
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#41
September 12, 2008, 09:07:23 AM
Quote from: JimLotFP;246760Isn't "creepy" Otus' whole schtick to begin with?

Pretty much.

His Cthulhu mythos pics in the much sought after edition of DDG are just the sort of things Otus is cut out to do.

This artwork... er, yeah. No.
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#42
September 12, 2008, 11:08:59 AM
Much as the artwork of Liz Danforth and Rob Carver shaped my perceptions of T & T, the work of Erol Otus shaped my perceptions of D & D.

D & D after Otus seemed so generic and flavorless.
 

arminius

#43
September 12, 2008, 01:02:06 PM
Does anyone here enjoy Gahan Wilson's art?

KrakaJak

#44
September 12, 2008, 01:53:47 PM
I dig it.
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