http://www.diterlizzi.com/- The Official Website!
Planescape: Torment Artwork- Artwork from the every popular Planescape Computer Game
Planescape: Torment Concept Art- More Artwork from Torment!
Modron Fan Art- This the best drawing of a Modron I've ever seen!
Ultimate Fanstasy and SF Gallery- This is a great online gallery of various Fantasy and Sci-Fi Artist's, including much of DiTerlizzi's work
Maps of Sigil- Pretty Self-Explanatory
Sporeboy! Planescape Fan Art- This great artist with the nickname of Sporeboy! has a collection of Planescape Fan Art
Carceri Exiles- A Fan Site to DiTerlizzi! More DiTerlizzi Artwork!
Heatherwind Planescape Fan Art- More Planescape Fan Art
The Sensoriums- A Planescape Gallery, however it is riddiled with Ads. Although it's a really good gallery, it unfortunately has some erotic art
so watch out.Vicki Hood- More Planescape Fan Art!
Alright, that should entertain you!
ripvanwormers links:
Ken Lipka's Planescape Fiction Archive/Artist's Corner
Noah Stacey's elfwood gallery and his deviant art gallery. I like his crazy cityscapes. He's also got stuff at Ken Lipka's site.
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law's Mythology Gallery. Maybe a bit too precious, but creative and undoubtedly mythological.
Visionary Art in France. Visionary art from France. Also other breathtaking surreal art hosted on the site.
Mimir art gallery.
Tom Baxa. He's painted or inked a number of Planescape monsters here and there. He illustrated the old Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix, but I think he's improved as an artist dramatically since then.
Randy K. Post. He did some Planescape covers and illustrated much of Dead Gods.
Adam Rex. He did much of the later interior art after DiTerlizzi left. He painted the color parts of Dead Gods, and my favorite monster illustrations in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Volume III and the 3e Monster Manual.
Robh Ruppel. Lots of cover art, and he co-illustrated the comic book inside Hellbound.
Gerald Brom. He did the cover of The Inner Planes. His art is great inspiration for Doomguard and Dustmen.
Anthony Waters No real Planescape connection, but Dana Knutson is his art director and he paints elementals and angels of death.
Brian Despain. He did some art in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium III. That was pretty shoddy, but the art on his site is really good and interesting in a quirky way, the way I like it.
Douglas Carrel. Fantastically weird creatures.
Scott Fischer. Monsters, humanoids, and Asmodeus.
Dave Allsop. Darker and weirder than anything I've linked to so far. Or, at least more weirdly dark.
Claudio Pozas. His Planewalker character design.
Can't forget Brian Froud. One of DiTerlizzi's forefathers.
Giovanni Piranesi Check out the images labeled "Carceri" - they're what David Cook was looking at when he was dreaming up Sigil.
Various links I haven't looked through
Planewalker.com's Artist Alley (can't believe I forgot this one)
Caries-Caeli. He's recently started posting in the Planewalker forums.
Chris Appelhans. You can see his early work in the Mimir's art gallery. Now he's mature and professional and does a lot of dark surreal urban fantasy.
I knew there was a bunch of webcomics I considered to be interestingly Planescapey in style or substance, but I couldn't remember late last night which ones they were.
Pihakwa. The Shepherds of Googie are the best fiends ever.
Kangarou. Manga-style adventures in parallel worlds and nightmare regions of madness and the mind. With demons that look like evil toys.
Fallen. Fallen angel, Chinese gods.
Copper. Fantastic cartoon dreamscapes, mostly upper planar but with some darker regions.
Pipingrad. Look at the sketchbook. I can imagine ghost dog's creepy little blobs skittering around Sigil.
Serenity Rose. One of the character designers for Invader Zim. Look at the snarlies gallery.
There are others, but my bookmarks are horribly misorganized.
Also: Noncomics.
Rob Thomas. Demons and undead and such.
more Piranesi. More surreal architectural cages and prisons.
David Mitchell. Sigil in graphite. He posts in this forum.
Erol Otus (Otus was a 1st edition illustrator; he's got a wild, cartoonish style that I think is pretty interesting)
Charlotte 'Vilinathraxes' Korssell. She draws yugoloths.
Original Post:
I've probably looked everywhere there is to look, but I want to see an online gallery of planescape art.
I'm looking for a gallery containing all or almost all of the original planescape art found in the old 2e books. I've looked everywhere, Diterlizzi's website, brom's website, rk post, I am the Mimir, Planewalker, and a bunch of fansites. I'm started to get the idea that there isn't a website with most of the old Planescape artwork.
There probably isn't a complete Planescape Online Art Gallery, but if there is, I'd be delighted if someone could direct me too it.
Thanks,
DiTerlizzi totally rules!
Still, even then he was a brilliant designer and a compelling illustrator, rightfully much-loved for his Planescape work. Of course he made some mistakes - there's a page on his website that makes fun of some of his worst ones - but he isn't, and never was, a terrible artist.
I don't know about a definitve site for DT's work. I know he does have his own website (I don't have the link but am sure its google-able). His work (non-PS) has also appeared in at least one of the Spectrum anthologies of Fantasy/Sci-Fi art.
-Eric Gorman
His work (non-PS) has also appeared in at least one of the Spectrum anthologies of Fantasy/Sci-Fi art.
Practically all of them, or at least that's what it seems like to me when I browse the books in the store.
I still haven't been able to find the dream PS Art site yet, but I've ammased quite a legion of Planescape Art, although it's scattered around a dozen or so different sites. I suppose I should be content with what I have- I do have quite a bit of the original PS Art at my fingertips, I just dont HAVE IT ALL
!If any one wants the Planescape Art sites I found, I'd gladly point them to them.
Heh, I'd love to own some of the originals* to have on my wall. However it's almost singularly rare to see more than one or two to hit the market every year, and it never seems to be any of the ones that I'm keen to try to make a bid for.
I actually ended up blowing most of my tax return a year ago to buy one of the PS MCIII originals from Jeff Miracola, very spiffy.
*Some of the DiTerlizzi originals of Shemmy/A'kin, or the Rob Ruppel cover for 'Faces of Sigil', the two 'loths playing chess in 'Planes of Conflict', or a few panels from the comic in Hellbound. I figure all of them were bought fairly early on by PS fans and likely won't hit the market 'cept for rarely.
I figure all of them were bought fairly early on by PS fans and likely won't hit the market 'cept for rarely.
On the bright side, the people who had money to buy original art when Planescape was in print will probably die before you. It is only a matter of time before some widow/widower says, "Finally, I can sell off that picture of the dog with the vines on its head! (S)he did say it was a collectible."
Of course that assumes that you don't mind tearstains on it.
On the bright side, the people who had money to buy original art when Planescape was in print will probably die before you. It is only a matter of time before some widow/widower says, "Finally, I can sell off that picture of the dog with the vines on its head! (S)he did say it was a collectible."
Of course that assumes that you don't mind tearstains on it.
True.
Of course you could always buy the PDFs and then do snapshots of the images in those
Oh, but that costs money! There dirt cheap as PDF's now, but STILL! I'm a miser and I'm proud :D
http://www.diterlizzi.com/- The Official Website!
Planescape: Torment Artwork- Artwork from the every popular Planescape Computer Game
Planescape: Torment Concept Art- More Artwork from Torment!
Modron Fan Art- This the best drawing of a Modron I've ever seen!
Ultimate Fanstasy and SF Gallery- This is a great online gallery of various Fantasy and Sci-Fi Artist's, including much of DiTerlizzi's work
Maps of Sigil- Pretty Self-Explanatory
Sporeboy! Planescape Fan Art- This great artist with the nickname of Sporeboy! has a collection of Planescape Fan Art
Carceri Exiles- A Fan Site to DiTerlizzi! More DiTerlizzi Artwork!
Heatherwind Planescape Fan Art- More Planescape Fan Art
The Sensoriums- A Planescape Gallery, however it is riddiled with Ads. Although it's a really good gallery, it unfortunately has some erotic art
so watch out.Vicki Hood- More Planescape Fan Art!
Alright, that should entertain you!
Also check out Vicki Hood's site (my favorite is the devourer; her mephit series and her picture of Graz'zt are also fun).
If you guys no off any good Planscape Art sites, tell me and I'll add them to the list.
Noah Stacey's elfwood gallery and his deviant art gallery. I like his crazy cityscapes. He's also got stuff at Ken Lipka's site.
Stephanie Pui-Mun Law's Mythology Gallery. Maybe a bit too precious, but creative and undoubtedly mythological.
Visionary Art in France. Visionary art from France. Also other breathtaking surreal art hosted on the site.
Mimir art gallery.
Tom Baxa. He's painted or inked a number of Planescape monsters here and there. He illustrated the old Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix, but I think he's improved as an artist dramatically since then.
Randy K. Post. He did some Planescape covers and illustrated much of Dead Gods.
Adam Rex. He did much of the later interior art after DiTerlizzi left. He painted the color parts of Dead Gods, and my favorite monster illustrations in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Volume III and the 3e Monster Manual.
Robh Ruppel. Lots of cover art, and he co-illustrated the comic book inside Hellbound.
Gerald Brom. He did the cover of The Inner Planes. His art is great inspiration for Doomguard and Dustmen.
Anthony Waters No real Planescape connection, but Dana Knutson is his art director and he paints elementals and angels of death.
Brian Despain. He did some art in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium III. That was pretty shoddy, but the art on his site is really good and interesting in a quirky way, the way I like it.
Douglas Carrel. Fantastically weird creatures.
Scott Fischer. Monsters, humanoids, and Asmodeus.
Dave Allsop. Darker and weirder than anything I've linked to so far. Or, at least more weirdly dark.
Claudio Pozas. His Planewalker character design.
Can't forget Brian Froud. One of DiTerlizzi's forefathers.
Giovanni Piranesi Check out the images labeled "Carceri" - they're what David Cook was looking at when he was dreaming up Sigil.
Various links I haven't looked through
Caries-Caeli. He's recently started posting in the Planewalker forums.
Chris Appelhans. You can see his early work in the Mimir's art gallery. Now he's mature and professional and does a lot of dark surreal urban fantasy.
Pihakwa. The Shepherds of Googie are the best fiends ever.
Kangarou. Manga-style adventures in parallel worlds and nightmare regions of madness and the mind. With demons that look like evil toys.
Fallen. Fallen angel, Chinese gods.
Copper. Fantastic cartoon dreamscapes, mostly upper planar but with some darker regions.
Pipingrad. Look at the sketchbook. I can imagine ghost dog's creepy little blobs skittering around Sigil.
Serenity Rose. One of the character designers for Invader Zim. Look at the snarlies gallery.
There are others, but my bookmarks are horribly misorganized.
Also: Noncomics.
Rob Thomas. Demons and undead and such.
more Piranesi. More surreal architectural cages and prisons.
David Mitchell. Sigil in graphite. He posts in this forum.
Erol Otus (Otus was a 1st edition illustrator; he's got a wild, cartoonish style that I think is pretty interesting)
Wow Good Job, ripvanworner, I'll add those to the list.
I moving all the links up to the first post for ease.
He is a terrible artist. Much of what he does looks so sloppy... For comparision, look at his Balor (which is decent) versus his wretched scribbling of a Pit Fiend. ;) That Pit Fiend would'nt even give a halfling nightmares. :P
DiTerlizzi rules completely and I'll defend his honor with my last dying breath. :D
I'm not sure which Pit Fiend you're referring to. If it's in the 2nd edition MM, I'd have to say that I don't think that DiTerlizzi did all the artwork in that book, and if he did that particular drawing, it's obviously not something he put any time or effort into.
i always enjoyed his loose and exaggerated style, there's something to be said about the rough and fluid feeling of a sketch vs. a finished painting. in the end it's like asking "what came first, the chicken or the egg." both can be incredible to look at in their own right.
if any of you have picked up "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You" you'll know without a doubt that he is a very accomplished artist.