This Week: WiP Wednesday — Dragon Magazine 86
Join Stan! as he develops another cartoon homage
When I had Bart Carroll on a guest back in Episode 66 I asked him if there were any pieces of game art that were particularly important in his gaming career. As a community manager at Wizards of the Coast for so many years, I figured there might be any number of products that he’d been particularly involved in promoting. But when he mentioned that image that first attracted him to D&D, and set up his whole career was Dennis Beauvais’s cover art for Dragon Magazine 86, I KNEW that was the piece I was going to draw.
This was the first of three or four chess-themed cover paintings that Beauvais did for the magazine. All of them are classics, as are so many others he did. I had great fun sketching out my interpretation of that painting and am really looking forward to refining it in this weeks show. I guarantee you this is not the last time I’ll be doing an homage to Beauvais. (My personal favorite is “The Bridge of Sorrows” from Dragon Magazine 92 … and I am FOR SURE going to do a cartoon homage to that one of these days!)
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