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"1 989 TSR, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


This book is protected under the copyright laws of the United States o f America. Any reproduction or other unauthorized use o f the material or artwork contained herein is prohibited without the f TSR, Inc. express written permission o Random House and its affiliate companies have worldwide distribution rights in the book trade for English language products of TSR, Inc. Distributed to the book and hobby trade In the United Kingdom by TSR, Ltd. Distributed to the toy and hobby trade by regional distributors. DUNGEONS a DRAGONS, ADVANCED DUNGEONS a DRAGONS, ADaD, FORGOTTEN REALMS, DRAGONLANCE, DRAGON and GEN CON are registered trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. The TSR logo and SUPER ENDLESS QUEST are trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. First printing: September 1989

Printed In the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 88-5 1 734 ISBN: 0-88038-605-3 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 TSR, Inc.

PO. Box 756


Lake Geneva, WI 53 147

TSR Ltd. 120 Church End, Cherry Hinton Cambridge CB I 3LB United Kingdom

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h e introduction to a n a r t b o o k should whet t h e appetite a n d tempt t h e palate, like hors doeuvres before t h e main meal. In that spirit, Im about to tell you s o m e of my own observations a b o u t t h e amazing, talented artists represented in this book, things they arent willing to tell o r havent recognized in themselves. As t h e managing editor of TSRs b o o k department, it has k e n my pleasure to work with e a c h of these artists over t h e years, a n d they have left m e almost as many personal impressions as their art has created for us all. omething about Clyde Caldwell reminds m e of a swashbuckler. I c a n see him in my minds e y e at t h e bow of a sailing ship, saber in hand, his brightly colored tunic wafting in t h e salty breeze. Yet his hands a r e not t h o s e of a pirate-they a r e fine-boned artists hands. He has a ready, distinctive laugh, a slow, southern drawl, a n d h e s e e m s to thrive o n popcorn a n d yogurt. The women in his paintings a r e t h e dreams of many men a n d cause depression a m o n g us women. We know that t h o s e women really exist somewhere because h e works from photographs of his models. I havent been able to s h a k e t h e image of Jeff Easley as a Middle-Eastern sultan since Clyde painted him into t h e cover of t h e novel, Red Sands. Or t h e image of Jeff with a bloody a x e wedged in his forehead-part o f his homemade Halloween costume of a couple of years ago. Hes a quiet, gentle man w h o s e e m s able to a b s o r b t h e c h a o s of TSRs art room a n d sum it all u p with s o m e incredibly witty observation. While interviewing TSRs staff artists for The Art of the DRAGONLANC@Saga, I tried to pry from him s o m e juicy tidbit about his painting entitled Lair of t h e Live Ones, which is t h e o n e with Raistlin standing near a pit, surrounded by all sorts of g o o p y eyeballs a n d slimy creatures. I said something pithy like, It looks as if you really got into this piece a n d had fun creating t h e s e weird creatures. Did you enjoy painting it? Jeff looked at t h e photocopy of t h e painting, glanced a w a y thoughtfully, stroked his thick, red beard once, a n d said in a deep, mock-serious voice, Yes, I did. That w a s it. I like to time my noon meal in t h e cafeteria to coincide with his, mainly to see what incredibly weird concoction h e c o m e s u p with from t h e nearby grocery store. Whatever it is, from sardines to chicken, its bound to be covered with liberal dashes of t h e hot sauce h e keeps near his drawing table. If you can picture it, Larry Elmore reminds m e of a cross between Larrys own sexy renditions of Tanis Half-Elven from t h e DRAGONLANC&@ saga a n d a slightly befuddled Yosemite Sam. Theres a genuine warmth a b o u t Larry that radiates to his co-workers a n d his fans; h e gives you t h e impression that h e doesnt t a k e himself o r his accomplishments too seriously, though h e is very serious a b o u t his art. Hes filled with funny stories, but my favorite is t h e o n e a b o u t his beloved hot rod burning u p just three feet beyond t h e jurisdiction of t h e local fire department. And dont let him tell you that that curly dark-haired woman in many of his paintings isnt his wife. He vehemently denies it, as does she, but t h e rest of us know better.

of Fred Fields has b e e n colored by two events. The person y impr w h o introduced u s n o t too long ago said, This is Fred Fields, o u r new artist. Doesnt h e have t h e blackest hair youve e v e r seen? So n o w every time I see him my e y e s settle o n his hair a n d I unconsciously think, Yeah, it is really black. The other event c a m e u p just yesterday, when Fred told m e that h e had been wanting to include a self-portrait in o n e of his pieces a n d hed managed it in t h e piece entitled Art Warriors. I secretly thought Fred was far nicer looking, not so severe a n d brutish, a n d t h a t t h e g u y in t h e painting looked m o r e like Lyle Alzado. But Fred entered t h e Unflappable Illustrators Hall of Fame during a meeting when we w e r e discussing t h e subject of his first b o o k cover for TSR. The art director a n d I, t h e two fastest talkers in t h e world, had discussed t h e look we had in mind for t h e c o v e r a n d were both excited by this shared vision. Speech speed set at 78, we slammed into Fred with o u r enthusiasm, knocked him to t h e floor with endless detail, a n d then jumped o n his lifeless form by announcing a n impossible deadline. While we caught o u r breath a n d waited for t h e protestations, Fred calmly lifted his eyebrows a n d said, I c a n do that, yes. Stunned, I retreated to my office, whereupon Fred arrived n o t two hours later with a sketch that proved h e had heard every w o r d wed said. So far, h e s e e m s to eat relatively normal food, but I suspect that extended e x p o s artists will s o o n c h a n g e that. Keith Parkinson h a s always looked m o r e like a n athlete than a n d I think its because of his hands. There a r e calluses o n them, n o t just paint beneath t h e nails, as if hes n o t afraid to use his hands f o r things other than art. Hes a very focused person w h o s e e m s to k n o w w h o h e is a n d where hes going with his lifea n d his work. And y e t in every mental image I have of Keith hes smiling, a n d his smile always leaves a twinkle behind in his eyes. The other thing that c o m e s to mind a b o u t Keith is his painting moods. Suddenly hell feel like doing a western scene, so hell search a n d search f o r a w a y to slip s o m e aspect of that into a n assignment. And then there was his gray period, when h e was using a lot of s o m b e r tones. I liked to tease him a n d a s k if t h e paint s t o r e had run a special o n gray paint a n d h e was trying to c u t costs.

onderfully quirky, yet amazingly focused, these artists h a v e succeeded in showing us just what t h e world of t h e ADVANCED DUNGEONS 8. DRAGONSO fantasy g a m e looks like. Their compelling work places t h e m a m o n g t h e finest in t h e fantasy a n d science fiction genres. But Im sure you already know that. And now, I h o p e youre all very hungry, because dinner is served. Mary Kirchoff Lake Geneva, Wisconsin 30 August 1989

o f opportunity to read, daydream, a n d


draw-I cant remember not drawing. My father w a s a printer, a n d o n e o f his co-workers w a s Sam Grainger, a commercial artist w h o did a r t for Marvel Comics o n t h e side. So every Friday afternoon my dad would bring h o m e comic b o o k s a n d read them to m e while I studied t h e colorful panels, especially The Batman. Afterward, Id do ink drawings o f super heroes a n d send them to work with my dad, w h o would get Sam to critique them. Around t h e age o f fourteen I discovered t h e adventure fantasies o f Edgar Rice Burroughs that sported t h e fantastic artwork of Frank Frazetta a n d Roy C. Krenkel. I read tons o f SF a n d fantasy literature a n d could conceive o f nothing m o r e satisfying than to illustrate for authors w h o s e works w e r e so fascinating to me. I w a s already in college studying a r t when I became aware o f fanzines, a n d for t h e next six years I did drawings a n d logo designs for many obscure publications. By this time I had decided t h a t fine art was not for me-I had set my sights o n a career in illustration. I had been submitting work to some o f t h e New York publishers a n d gathering a lot o f rejection slips when I got my first professional SF assignment from a small magazine called Unearth. An a r t a g e n t spotted my work there a n d helped m e get my foot in t h e door at s o m e o f t h e New York paperback publishers a n d at Heavy Metal Magazine.

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uring this time I began doing covers for DRAGON@ Magazine, and TSR asked me to join their art staff. I was amazed t o find a group of kindred sdrits-artists with similar outlooks and Interests-after having been so isolated

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"The Dark Queen," 1988

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laughed about the issue of Heavy Metal in which a really grotesque painting of mine was selected for the front cover (it wasnt very good), and Larrys very nice painting was relegated t o the back cover because it wasnt weird enough.

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focus my art on the characters. I love to take an authors character and flesh it out, make the character visually real for the reader. I remember having vivid images of characters and monsters after finishing a Burroughs story, but when I would go back to take notes for an illustration, I was often amazed at how little description was actually present. The author had given me that vision without getting bogged down in detail.

Waterdeep: 1989

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For me, filling in that detail as an illustrator helps me recapture those magical moments in my youth, when I first discovered fantasy.

"Unconquered," 1986

t all started in a 5,000-watt hospital near Nicholasville, Kentucky. I, like every other artist in every other personal reminiscence, started drawing at a n early age. My parents were, a n d remain, a constant s o u r c e of encouragement. I still h a v e a number of my old n o t e b o o k s from t h e ages of four a n d five, a n d strangely enough, m o s t of t h e subject matter revolved around g h o s t s a n d monsters a n d various other creepy-crawlies. So t h e die, such as it is, was cast at a n early age. I used to c u t monster-movie ads o u t of t h e paper a n d k e e p t h e m in a s h o e b o x (I still havent s e e n t h e m all, but Im getting there). A few other pertinent thrills from my .&rmative years include a local N stations -night movie series Terror in t h e Night, my first copies of Famous Monsters of Filmland, a n d Creepy Magazine. Creepy #2 was especially pivotal in t h a t it gave m e my first look at a Frazetta (capital letters) painting. And, also like so many other artists, it m a d e m e what I a m today. My interest in t h e fantastic w a n e d somewhat during my high-school years. I went into Murray State University with t h e v a g u e intention of becoming a n artist. But after a couple of years of classes t h a t consisted of doing left-handed gesture drawings in t h e d a r k while listening to Spanish guitar music, I b e g a n looking toward t h e future, having married fellow art major, Cynthia Edwards. I started contributing to s o m e Edgar Rice Burroughs fanzines just a b o u t t h e time Frazettas first a r t b o o k c a m e o u t , a n d suddenly t h e future I was looking at a few sentences ago b e c a m e clear to me.

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"Empires of the Sands," 1988

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"Wizard and Draaon." , ,,3

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"Astral Encounter." 1988

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"Griffon Flight," 1988

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finished college and managed to d o a bit of Freelancing, which included some covers for g o o d 01' Creepy Magazine, fun stuff, indeed.

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t the same time I held a number of "makeends-meet" jobs, which included working in a popcorn factory and an oil seal spring factory.

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ortunateiy, at some point, although its all a blur now, I became aware that TSR was looking to fill out its art staff. I applied, was accepted, and the rest, if not history. is at least public record.

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hen I was asked t o write something about myself for this book, I thought, Oh, no! What a m I going to say without boring all the readers? Most of the time, these things read like a job application, listing all universities attended, degrees received, and experience, and they drop as many names as possible. If you a r e interested in that list, please write to m e personally-I hope youre hiring at a bjillion dollars a year! Until then, I decided to answer questions that Im most often asked. The number o n e question is: How long does it take to do a painting? As much time as I can squeeze out o f a client. Usually, with my horrible scheduling, I allow myself two weeks; thats fourteen ddys, at twelve to sixteen hours per day! Then I collapse for twenty-four hours and start all over again. When I was a staff artist I had to do some paintings in three days, and those are the ones that stay around to haunt me. How long have you been painting? I started in college, and Ive been painting o n and off for fifteen years. There have been a few dry spells, the longest being when I was drafted into the army (itstough trying to paint and drive an APC at the same time). Did you go to school to learn how to paint? This is a trick question! I received a BFA degree from Western Kentucky University, but Im still learning. No o n e can learn to paint in four years, o r six years, o r sixty years, and thats the seductive side o f art for me. Perhaps the next painting will be a great one, or the next. . . . I see all the faults when I look at my art, and Im never completely satisfied.

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your hobbies? Im older than I think and older than I want t o be. Age treats me like airbrushes do. At thirty, my hair was ninety percent gray. Between there and forty, I worked my buns off and the years took their toll. Say it, Larry, say it! Okay, Im forty-one going on fourteen.

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o you use y w r own ideas, o r do publishers tell you what they want you t o paint?" Well, it's a n t t k of every$hing. solnetlmco I h a w totat beduin, and I general&think those are my better paintings. Most of the time. however. the a paintkrg Is

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ow comes the part where I say something profound, like "art flows from me like an endless creative river." Dream on. It's been a lot o f hard work and an uphill crawl. My art is just now getting t o the point where I can say, "Well, that painting is OK."

don't want my art to stagnate, so 1'11 continue t o crawl, I guess. And don't think for a moment that I don't appreciate all the comments and letters I get, good or bad; you keep me on the right track. Thanks a million!

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n 1974, at t h e age o f nine, I t o o k my first painting lesson. In 1988, at t h e age o f twenty-three, I painted my first DRAGON@ Magazine cover. Fortunately, my parents saw that I had s o m e talent at a young age and they were very supportive, encouraging, and gave m e direction. 1 grew up in Burlington, Kentucky, a n d took art classes for eight years from a Cerman-born artist, Anneleise Wharenburg, to whom I owe a great amount o f credit. In high school, I took a vocational class in commercial art. After graduation from high school, I enrolled in a two-year program at Central Academy o f Commercial Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated with honors. Three short weeks later, I accepted a position illustrating television storyboards for Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago, Illinois. During this time 1 was working o n a fantasy portfolio in my spare hours, never really thinking that I would o n e day do fantasy art f o r a living. Having had my fill o f advertising, I returned to Kentucky and freelanced for two years in Cincinnati. There I received my first fantasy art assignment from Ral Partha Miniatures Company, illustrating blister cards a n d box covers. Like a lot o f fantasy artists, I was influenced immensely by Boris Vallejo, Michael Whelen, and Frank Frazetta. I liken my first glance at a Frazetta book at t h e age ofsixteen to t h e monkeys touching t h e obelisk in t h e movie 200 1 :A Space
odyssey.

On June 5th, 1989, I was hired by TSR, f its Inc., and became t h e newest member o art staff. Home is now in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with my wife, Connie, my dog, Brandy, and my iguana, Fido.

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eople ask me whether I sometimes work from photos. The Ideas and rough sketches come from my imagination. Once I get the scene arranged roughly the way I want it, I find models and make photos t o help finetune the figures.

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There are often subtleties in photos that I may not have thought to put into an illustration. I usually follow the photo very closely, but sometimes those nuances may cause me to stray from it completely.

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hen t think o f t h e kind o f art I like, it creates a mood. It takes the viewer to a place-a real place o r a specific event. When I go outside to a lake, a woods, o r wherever, each specific place has its own feel. Trying to capture that and get that across to the viewer, to bring him to that spot through my art, is what I try to do. The more control I have over the content and f a piece o f art, the easier that is direction o to accomplish. Ive found that in addition to t h e actual f the painting also image itself, the size o makes a difference. BIG IS BETTER. On most projects now, 1 work larger than I previously did. The minimum size for my own art (as opposed to art for a publisher, which is usually smaller because o f time constraints), is 24 x 30, but Id really like to be in t h e r L x 5 range. Currently I work o n primed Masonite. I a m seriously considering going back to canvas o n board, though. Masonite is brittle, and t h e corners chip easily. Recently, I did a 30 x 40 painting o n Masonite for a major book publisher. En route to t h e publisher, t h e painting was somehow fo/decf in M f . What a deal, two paintings for the price o f one, eh? Needless to say, they werent amused, and neither was 1.1 had to physically and artistically return the two pieces into o n e painting. Oils a r e my medium o f choice now, primarily because dried colors stay true to their wet appearance. Occasionally, particularly if Im doing a n SF piece that involves airbrushing o r lots o f hard, straight edges, 111 use acrylics.

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"Riverwind And Goldmoon," 1987

friend o f mine once said this about my art: You make the fantastic mundane and the mundane fantastic. I think that sums it up very well. When a fantastic subject-a dragon, for example-is put in an ordinary background, such as a

snow scene, the dragons existence becomes more believable. No one would look twice if a polar bear were used in that scene, but because it i sa dragon. the mundane snow scene is transformed into an interesting, fantastic

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.ook At Those Jewels: 1985

This Must Be The Place,1986

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"Brains Flambe," 1989

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hen I left my staff artist position at TSR in f 1987 November o to pursue a freelance career, I thought I would h a v e m o r e time for my family a n d other interests. Boy, w a s I wrong! My work output h a s grown considerably, which is vital since t h e publishing field, for which t h e majority o f my art is d o n e

t h e s e days, is so competitive. hen I look back at a lot o f t h e work I did in f t h o s e first couple o years as a staff artist, it m a k e s my e y e s hurt. I like to think t h a t t h e quality o f my a r t is constantly improving, a n d I'm sure you'll notice a progression as well.

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Mines of Bloodstone, 1986

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"Dead Guy with Camels' 1987

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h e sheer volume of a r t n e e d e d by a company t h e size o f TSR makes it impossible to produce all of it in-house. Consequently, we work with a multitude of equally talented freelance artists w h o s e widely varying styles o p e n n e w artistic channels for us. Though all t h e s e gifted artists are n o t represented here, we have provided a tasty sampling. George Barrs forte is detail, a n d his quality is always superb. George lives in California. Denis Beauvais is a Canadian artist living in Ontario. H e h a s d o n e several covers for DRAGON@Magazine, providing us with what are considered to be some of o u r best in-flight battle scenes between dragons. Jeff Butler, former TSR staff illustrator, n o w freelances in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. H e is probably best known for his superhero artwork, but t h e range of his talents c a n be s e e n in his two paintings in t h e 1990 FORGOTTEN REALMS Calendar. David Dorman is a n accomplished comic book illustrator a n d hails from Florida. Stephen Fabian is o n e of o u r favorite black-and-white artists, a n d youll certainly see why. Stephen lives in New Jersey. Jim Holloway specializes in oriental-related art, a n d h e h a s recently completed a series of module covers in o u r Oriental Adventures product line. Jim lives in Fontana, Wisconsin. Husband a n d wife artist t e a m , John a n d Laura Lakey, enjoy building models to use as references. The d r a g o n o n Childs Play is sculpted from clay. They live in North Carolina. Erik Olson is o u r latest freelance find. Originally from Madison, Wisconsin, Erik n o w lives in California. Jack Pennington worl<s at a n ad a g e n c y in Detroit, Michigan. He enjoys doing fantasy a r t because it provides a pleasant break from his day-to-day work. And Valerie Valusek h a s b e e n doing freelance work for us for a b o u t five years. Her beautifully detailed black-and-white illustrations o f t e n h a v e hidden surprises, if you look closely enough. S h e lives in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

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"Tamsen Meets Chewppa," 1987, by John and Laura Lakey

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Elven Court, 1988, by Jack Pennington

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"Mage's Surprise," 1989, by Erik Olson

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"The Tarrasque," 1989, bv Jeff Butler

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- "Ronin Challenge," 1989, by Jim Hdloway

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Enter the realm of dragons, warriors, wizards and other wonders in this splendid collection of fantasy art.
The Art of the ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS@ Fantasy Game features the art of Clyde Caldwell, Jeff Easley, Larry Elmore, Fred Fields, Keith Parkinson, and many other well-known fantasy artists.

ISBN

0-88038-605-3

ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS is a registered trademark owned b y TSR, Inc. The TSR logo is a trademark owned b y TSR, Inc.

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