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I’ve been looking at old games from the 90s before the widespread introduction of 3D graphics, it was a time of hand drawn backgrounds and sprites.
Amongst those, the illustrations created by Jim Sachs for Defender of the Crown standout.
I already had one or two of them already, but hit a treasure trove on the Amiga Graphics Archive site.
I’ve included some upscaled images from the archive for your viewing pleasure below.
When I think of JRPGs and the like of Final Fantasy one artist always springs to my mind,
It’s such a distinctive art-style, which I remembering coming across on the book covers for Moorcocks, The Eternal Champion series in the 90s.
Here are a number of his more well known works.
Rodney Matthews really encapsulates the ’70s Fantasy vibe for me, with his distinctive spindly elongated art style. Here’s a few images, which illustrate that style.
I really should do something with this site, so with that in mind have some wallpapers.
To start with let’s go with a Fantasy classic, Middle-Earth.
