Jon Schindehette just posted a story on ArtOrder by artist Tony DiTerlizzi titled "How I Made it".
It's a great little story about how Tony got his first job for D&D and TSR. I just had to post about it because as a kid I basically learned to draw from a book he illustrated for D&D called the Monstrous Compendium Annual: Volume One. Tony did all the interior work and every piece is simple awesome. Particularly, the dragons really got me fired up and I probably copied just about every image in the book in my sketchbooks at the time. I still have the book and although it is starting to yellow a bit, it still sits at the top of my bookshelf. We must not forget our roots. Here are a few pictures of the book, and Tony's website.
Thanks to Jon and Tony for the great article over at the ArtOrder
3 comments:
right on.
That is amazing and so awesome that you still have them. When I was a kid, about 11 or 12, I traded one of my friends my D&D books for his collection of Magic: The Gathering cards. I was moving on to different things. In retrospect, I wish I never traded them all away.
Kudos to you for holding onto them ;)
Man I still have all my Magic Cards too, stored away somewhere... back from the days between second edition and ice age. Safe to say I am a pack rat and hang onto everything.
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