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Character Art from D20 OGL 1.0 era Dragon Magazine

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She has a number Greyhawk 3E related supplements and MTG cards all with this terrific, bold ink work. She has comic book credits too, and I would describe these portraits as comic-y (complementary). If you're interested, maybe sign up for a workshop with her:

www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Clerics pt.2
Dragon Issue #283
Artist Justine Mara Anderson

In my previous post I listed the artist by her dead name by mistake (as it was credited in the original Dragon magazine article). I will use her correct name from here with apologies.

Justine is still active as an artist and instructor.
December 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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"...He draws on ten years of professional experience and has been published by TSR, DC, and Image."

-- Peter Whitley, Dragon Magazine Art Director
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Clerics pt.1
Dragon Issue #283
Artist Dennis Cramer

"Dennis's work should be immediately recognized by D&D fans. While being one of the friendliest (if not outright peculiar) people I know, he is also one of the most talented brush and ink artists to ever grace these pages...."
December 13, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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David did a lot of work on pulpy comics. It's a great style. I think all the heavy, inky shadows and lines bring a lot of drama to these faces.

No web presence outside Facebook. Artwork for Dragon Mag's "Elminster's Guide to the Realms" articles is all him so search those up for additional works.
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Drow pt 2
Dragon Issue #267
Artist David Day

I don't think a lot of these read as "Drow" exactly given that the stereotypical black skin and white hair seems to be mostly absent from these portraits. Still, a lot of character in these. All of them work for various flavors of disgruntled elf.
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"...After doing some research I realized that I wouldn't want to cross any of these folk in a dark cavern, but they certainly are great to draw (and play)!"

--David Day
A woman's face is shadowed by the hood of a patterned shawl. Her robe has a high neck. The blade of a kris knife can be seen. An elf man glares at the observer from beneath bushy eyebrows. His ears are pierced with many rings and rows of beaded necklaces circle his neck. He has an embroidered velvet cap on his head. A wiry, shirtless elf man plays the flute. His hair hangs to his shoulders. A metal armband is above his right elbow and a grass wristband is on his left wrist. The hilt of a sword peaks up from above his waist.
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Drow
Dragon Issue #267
Artist David Day

"This assignment on the drow has been a learning experience for me," claims David Day. "Of course, I had heard of Drizzt, the dark elf, but that was about as far as it went..."
A warrior elf with long hair looking back over her shoulder. Beads decorate her hair and she holds a scimitar and shield in her hands. Another blade in its scabbard can be seen on her back. A thin, wiry elf with long bedraggled hair snarls while holding a large horn in both hands. His chest is bare but a shawl is drapes around his elbows and droops below the shoulders. A smirking elf with pronounced cheekbones. His hair if pulled back in a ponytail. The hilt of a blade can be seen in front of his face and a mask shaped brooch pins his cloak. An elf woman with voluminous hair wear a jeweled circlet and holds a hand crossbow upward. She has large leather pauldrons and a low cut top.
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Sam doesn't have much of a web presence I could find, but Todd is on here @toddlockwoodart.bsky.social

Also ToddLockwood.com where you can see more of his great work. He and Sam both did art for Magic. Sam contributed to a lot of Green Ronin D20 books. Dudes were very "of the time" (complementary)
An elf cleric clutches a crescent moon shaped holy symbol in their right hand and eyes the observer warily. In their left hand they hold a staff or spear that is tipped with a matching crescent moon shape. They wear a scaly cloak over a cowl. A metal plate across the cowls hood protects their forehead. A rugged barbarian woman shoulders a metal tipped great club and looks aloof. An "X" shaped scar intersects in the center of her forehead and continues out towards both temples and both cheeks respectively. Her hair is short and messy on top with four long braids draping down around her shoulder and collar. She wears crude looking metal armor and studded "boob" plate over a ratty shirt. A human with large, dark eyes stares directly at the observer. They have matching black lines under each eye high on the cheek. They have a leather circlet with a single round jewel set in it at the center of the forehead and are wearing spiked leathers and a collar. Their hair is black with some white streaks and falls beyond shoulder length behind their back. Two small braids ending in rings hanging from her temples.
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Unlikely PCs pt.2
Dragon Issue #274
Artists Todd Lockwood, Sam Wood

This whole gallery feels very quintessential 3E, which makes sense given Todd and Sam were staff artists at WotC and worked on the initial art design for 3rd edition. Todd's work in particular is all over early 3E WotC Releases.
A gnome with bony, sharp features draws a sword from a scabbard on his back. His black hair is short and tussled. Twigs with leave stick out from it and behind his ears. His eyes are narrow beneath bushy brows and his goatee is shaped into several small points. He wears a heavy cloak over splint mail. A dwarf shoulders a heavy mace and smiles warmly. His beard is segmented into three sections with a small gap between chin and side burns. His upper lip is clean with mustache. He wears heavy looking studded armor and a helmet with a pattern resembling a Celtic knot above the forehead. An elf monk grips a pair of nunchaku in her wrapped hand. She has a short brown mullet and sharp patterns tattooed or painted around her brow, cheeks and neck. She wears a simple shirt and earring in her left ear. A dwarf rogue with small features looks sternly over her shoulder as she works to pick the lock on a wooden door. Her hair is in a tight but large bun on the back of her head. She is wearing a baggy robe with large spacious sleeves. A circle of what may be blades are held along the sleeve of an inner garment on her left hand.
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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"...I was particularly tickled by the notion of a half-orc bard. But then, a half-orc as anything other than a fighter or barbarian tends toward humorous..."

-- Todd Lockwood

It is very much a sign of the times that this was all considered so novel. Playing a dwarf sorcerer then felt subversive.
A square face elf with high cheek bones conjures a wisp of magical energy with her manicured hand. Their voluminous black hair is held back from their face by a hairband styled as two dragons facing each other above their forehead. A similar choker rings their neck and thin chains hang about their collar from the hairband. They have several piercings and around their eyes they have black markings from their temples down to their cheeks. A muscular elf warrior woman grips the haft of a polearm with both hands. Her hair is buzzed short save for a long ponytail that arches through several clips until it hangs loose and wild to her lower back. She has leather "gladiator" armor with a bladed arm guard on her left arm and a leather face mask that frames her face and drops down across her forehead and nose. A sword hilt can be seen hanging from her waist. A half-orc bard hold the head of a four stringed instrument and gives an aloof smile. He has a large, square jaw flanked by bushy side burns. He wears a studded leather skullcap with a neck protector that hangs to his embroidered shirt.
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Unlikely PCs pt.1
Dragon Issue #274
Artists Todd Lockwood, Sam Wood

"Third Edition D&D is all about breaking old molds, so we attempted to come up with combinations of character races and classes that wouldn’t have been possible or likely before..."
A dwarf with bushy eyebrows and round glasses lighting a cigar with a flame conjured on the tip of his thumb. He is bearded balding. His remaining hair is long with two braids ending in beads carved to look like laughing faces with their tongues out. He wears an elaborate shirt with embroidery and two chest pockets A hairy half-orc looks side eye at the observer from behind and open book in his hands. His eyebrows are bushy and his medium length hair has a strong widows peak and is pulled into a tight, short ponytail. He has a studded leather coat over a ruffled shirt and wears small reading spectacles. A man of indeterminate species with a stern expression and dark features stares warily at the observer. His face is painted with a triangle design across his forehead, cheeks and bridge of his nose. His long dark hair is pulled back and braided in several places, including two braids from his sideburns on each temple that are then tied together below his chin. He holds some sort of polearm across his shoulder and wears furs and a tooth necklace. A gnomish or half long woman sits cross legged atop a log with a finger to her temple. Her hair is a tall flat top and she has a sort of wavy spiral painted or tattooed on the cheek below her left eye. She is wearing corseted leather armor and leather boots that extend to her mid thigh. A short sword and quiver hang from her belt. A crossbow can be seen on the back. Perched on her right shoulder is a cawing raven.
November 29, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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The illustration on these are superb, and seem to be some of Ted Beargeon's earliest credited work. He went on to do a ton of excellent video game concept art, art. No Blue sky account I could find but you can see more of his work here:

itchynick.artstation.com

Or @itchynick on Instagram
A human man pursing his lips and squinting with concentration is playing Stairway to Heaven on a 4-stringed instrument (lute?). His hair is buzzed short save two long braided strands on each temple and he has a 5 o'clock shadow. He wears a patched shirt. The handle of an unseen weapon protrudes from behind his shoulder with a dragon head pommel. A bearded human or dwarf with a bulbous nose in a skullcap helm holds a drinking horn and looks side eye at the observer. The cap has two black crow wings bolted to its flank and two crow feet at its crown. He wears a crow skull amulet and a small drip of drink hangs from his lip. A man in a chain spangen helm holds a morning star horizontally in front of him and stares forward. His eyes are bright and his mustache extends in two fine points downward to his breast. The helmet has two runes and a pointed top. A high collar from his breastplate encircles the rear and sides of his neck.
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Swashbucklers pt.2
Dragon Issue #273
Artist Ted Beargeon

The swashbuckler gallery has some really great portraits. I don't know that they all read as "swashbuckler" but it doesn't really matter. A lot of the portrait articles/galleries have titles that only line up with a handful of their pieces.
A smiling woman with a round nose and face and full lips. She is wearing a striped head wrap over her hair that is billowing in the breeze. She has a star patterned wrap of some kind around her torso with a single armored shoulder pad showing. A spear can be seen behind her shoulder with an eye painted on its top. An elf in a black tricorn hat wearing a large coin as an earring and looking at something with faint disapproval. A head scarf sticks out from below the hat. He has a couple small scars on the lower part of a very square jaw. He is wearing a jacket with a large collar and a shark tooth necklace. A hooded old man with a white pointed beard smirks and raises an eyebrow. His bald head has a patch of liver spots showing. A brooch with dagger-like pin holds his cloak and he himself is holding a hilted dagger with the blade facing down.
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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"A swashbuckler swaggers confidently head-on into the face of adversity and overcomes all obstacles with style. A swashbuckling attitude can make the difference between success or failure in any campaign.”
A burly human or possible dwarven man with a thick, dark beard and septum ring. His hair is in a twin braid over his shoulder ending in a runic bead on his right braid and a skull bead on his left. He wears a simple hooded shirt and is looking inquisitively at the observer A handsome elf with a knowing half smile. Their light hair disappears behind their back save for a single long, skinny braid across the front of their neck. A bow and arrow can be seen behind their shoulder and they are pointing a single gloved finger upward toward something unseen. A stubbled and square jawed warrior wearing a roman centurion style helmet. It's wide, horse hair top is painted in a checker pattern. He appears to have on a breast plate with elongated shoulder guard on the left side. He can be seen holding the top of a shield with a crooked arrow design
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Swashbucklers pt.1
Dragon Issue #273
Artist Ted Beargeon

"The swashbuckler does not accept life as it is but wills it to be as it could or should be," writes Ted Beargeon. "The swashbuckling hero is not a whimpering victim prone to fits of self-pity."
A smirking human holding a bascinet helmet. He has a slicked back ponytail and scarring by his right eye. He is wearing a leather choker and metal shoulder guards over a linen collared shirt. A grinning, bearded dwarf (human?) with a somewhat bulbous nose raising a single eyebrow. He has light colored, shoulder length hair in a middle part. His shoulder armor is carved with runes and he has an axe over his shoulder with a goblin head relief on its head. A dark haired woman wearing a black feathers masquerade mask. She is wearing dark lipstick. The portrait is from the neck up, but also shown is her gloves hand wielding a rapier with an elaborate hilt. A jewel is set in its pommel.
November 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Love the majority of the portraits from Baker's gallery and used most of them at some point. Only a few truly questionable choices (that morningstar feels a bit like an after thought). Couldn't find any other credited work. Possible that he has a lot of uncredited stuff in all the early D20 OGL glut
A dark haired, squared jawed human (?) warrior with shoulder length hair tied in a bun. They are wearing leather armor and holding a short sword over his shoulder in a gloved hand. A dwarf (?) with what can best be described as nu-metal beard and hair (hair is pulled into two spikes pointed outward into spikes from a balding center. Beard is also separated into twin beaded lengths framing a long center point). He has a black leather vest and some visible chest hair. He is scowling at something unseen. Bass guitar not pictured. An elf with shoulder length black hair blowing in the wind. They have thin eyebrows and small eyes staring directly at the observer. They are wearing some sort of strapped top held by a center brooch below their neck. They are holding an odd looking morning star on a very short haft.
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Dark Heroes pt.2
Dragon Issue #276
Artist Gregory L. Baker

Artist Notes Continued:

“...They live hard and must always be ready to defend what is theirs. Perhaps this is why they take friendships so seriously. These dark heroes live by their principles, and are certainly willing to die for them.”
A warrior woman with shoulder length light colored hair parted in the middle. She has a wicked scar from her lower jaw to nose. She is wearing some sort of plate armor. A sword hilt is visible behind her right shoulder and part of the blade is showing. A man-at-arms with a studded spangen helmet and butt chin. He is wearing scale mail and smirking with a sideways glance An elf woman with a long ponytail. She has a stud earring and is welding two unremarkable parrying daggers
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Artist Notes by Gregory L. Baker

“These dark heroes are survivors, and it shows on their countenances," says artist Greg Baker. "They might appear to be mean, harsh, and even sinister, but appearances can be misleading."
An elf staring straight ahead with black eyes and white pupils. Their hair is long and frames their face. A large necklace and manicured hand are visible An orc with uneven shoulder length hair leaning on a cane. She (?) is wearing a patterned robe and necklace. A man in a leather jerkin holds a stalk or branch as a staff. Small branches with leaves are at its top. His hair is slicked back with a widows peak and he has stripes on his cheeks A wide eyed warrior with a butt chin and high cheek bones. They wear a jeweled helmet under a large hood.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Dark Heroes pt.1
Dragon Issue #276
Artist Gregory L. Baker
A grisly Orc in lacquered banded mail mail. His shoulder pads are decorated with two daggers. A heinous scar goes across his left eye. A square jawed half-elf (?) woman holding a set of pan pipes. She has a grim expression and some subtle jewelry A severe looking elf woman with a dark ponytail and long twin bangs. She is wearing low cut leather and a jeweled choker A hooded humanoid of indeterminate gender and species. They have a wide nose and face and dark, piercing eyes with white pupils. A single tuft of black hair shows from under the hood.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM