Creating a Qualtiy Color Art Library of Every 3.5 SRD Monster

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I have a few projects in mind that require monster art.  One of them is my current “Monster Stand-Ins” Kickstarter project.

But then I thought there are probably a bunch of other small publishers, blog writers, electronic game publishers, etc., who could also benefit from a large collection of monster art.  So I thought it made sense to Kickstart that specific task as well.

The initial goal is worthwhile, but not huge and difficult: 100 monster images covering over 50 different creatures. (In some cases we do 4 versions of common creatures, in other cases we do 2 versions, and other creatures are rarer so I only plan to do 1 of each of those.)

But even better, if we meet the initial goal, we’ll keep putting the money toward more art and grow the collection. Wouldn’t it be crazy/fun to do all the monsters in the 3.5 SRD? (We’re not biased toward 3.5; Its simply an easy baseline on which to settle.)

There are two sets of rewards: a less expensive set intended for web/electronic (non-PDF) publishing (on-line games, “apps”, blogs, general website graphics) and another set meant for PDF and print publishing. The latter will have mostly 1/4 page @ 300dpi size graphics, but at least 10% and likely 20% will be full page. The print/pdf versions could always be scaled down to sizes appropriate for web/electronic use.

I think/hope this is a great way for other blog writers to inexpensively add more art to their posts, allow other small publishers to improve the quality of their art or shift their budgets to more custom art by using this collection, etc.

Here is the project page: Monster Stock Art Kickstarter

The other Kickstarter project is: Monster Stand Ins

3 Comments on “Creating a Qualtiy Color Art Library of Every 3.5 SRD Monster”

  1. This is an awesome project and I would love to jump in on it. Is it possible to get both the color and black and white versions of these monsters in the instances that we will be printing in black and white?

  2. What are you expecting for black and white? I would/could happily and easily convert the originals to greyscale (although that’s nothing you couldn’t do yourself.) Is there something more that that?

  3. Greyscale would be fine (which I could do on my own) I just wasn’t sure if you happened to have line art of the originals. If not that is understandable.