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Sat Mar 27, 2010 6:59 am
Erol Otus
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Just wanted to get every one's opinion on his artwork. I love his work. Takes me back when i was a kid looking at the cover of The lost caverns of tsojcanth ( had to look up the wording on that one  ) and castle amber and thinking WOW.
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Sat Mar 27, 2010 8:07 am
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His artwork, to me, has more appeal as nostalgic than as good. I have always been a fan of more realistic artwork. I will never say he is bad...he just has his own style.
DnD, I think, benefited from his surreal work.
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Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:00 am
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Chaotic pretty much said it for me. 
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Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:01 pm
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chaotic: I know what you mean about Erol Otus being nostalgic rather than good. I've tried to parody his art before and it isn't easy. His color palette is something earthy-pastel that defies me. If I could sit in while one D&D artist worked, it would be him.
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Sun Mar 28, 2010 7:42 am
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I think it was pretty daring in the gaming industry to take on an artist with his style. I'm not crazy about most of his b&w work, but his color work is just incredible, especially the stuff he's been putting out over the last few years for companies like Goodman.
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Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:19 pm
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I know this is an older post, but couldn't resist responding. Loved his work when I was twelve and still love it(37).
Elf KIng B&W ink: If you look at the hilt of the sword You will notice DK. It looks alot like the Dead Kennedies (punk band) logo. Does anybody know of any other possible band references or Names of people in his art work. There is also a fighter with bracers stamped with HCO(acid?). I'm not a chemist.
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Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:01 am
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I remember the works well from when I first started playing in the early 1980s (1981+). It always brings back the nostalgia of those early games, and for that reason I am very fond of them. However, as many have also said, I can't say that they fire my imagination much now, as the style lacks the 'realistic' element which I like in my gaming nowadays.
Still a class act of its time though!
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Otis is very nostalgic for me, mainly due to him having done the covers of the Basic and Expert Sets which were the first D&D products I ever owned. I really like his ultra clean and unique style too though.
I will forever view him as the "Father of Snail Mail"(mail represented as curly-ques in his art), and the "Father of Sand Mail"(mail represented using pointillism). 
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Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:54 pm
Erol Otus nostalgia
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| smillan_31 wrote: |
| I'm not crazy about most of his b&w work, but his color work is just incredible, especially the stuff he's been putting out over the last few years for companies like Goodman. |
Absolutely ... I think that the stuff from Goodman is really neat, and it's cool that the Dungeon Crawl Classics line has his artwork on it. The first time I saw it, I could see some slight differences that have made it into his style over the years, but the moment I saw it, I looked at my roommate and said, "Good Lord, but this looks nearly like Erol Otus ... someone has done a near perfect job of copying his style." ... and then I looked at the credits and was amazed to find it was him!
As has been repeatedly said, I think that it's more a fact of nostalgia than anything. But, it's like the fact that I want to own a 1963 Austin Healy Bug-eyed Sprite. It's not that it's really fast, or suped up ... it's just cool because of the way it looks. Nostalgia is a wonderful thing.
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