I haven’t seen the finished cards yet, but hopefully they’ll send me a couple of decks. What was it like to recreate the Tarokka deck and have you seen an actual set of those cards yet? But I went off Richard’s lead and that’s what it ended up being. When I was doing my little bit of research, it might have some symbolism. How did the Ampersand image evolve for this issue’s cover?Ī brilliant art director, illustrator, and concept guy, Richard Whitters, who I worked with on the Tarokka deck, came up with the idea of the raven holding the key. Working on D&D has been a little hit and miss throughout my career, and I think the only cover I did before this one was a beholder for Dungeon magazine.
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And then they tried me out on half-page and quarter-page spots in the modules, and a couple of full pages. Around that time I got my first couple of gigs in water-based media, so you’ll see some inks that are, admittedly, fairly embarrassing at this point in my career, in the early magazines. It was for Dragon magazine, back when Paizo printed the magazines. Your D&D work stretches back quite a way and continues today, including a painting in the fifth edition Dungeon Master’s Guide. I got to see it through college because a buddy of mine had all these modules around.” “Whereas we didn’t play Ravenloft specifically,” he remembers. He talks about “the great Jeff Easley covers” and his sadness at having “missed out on the Clyde Caldwell covers and the Stephen Fabian deck of Tarokka cards.”
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Having dropped Dungeons & Dragons to focus on trying to be a musician, he picked it back up in college and “mostly played second edition and some of the 2.5 manuals that Todd Lockwood illustrated.”īeing an artist, he namechecks other cover artists in the same way most other players would reference writers. He first began playing in high school, using the original Gary Gygax manuals that had only been out for a couple of years, in the game’s pre-TSR days. Lukacs has a long history with D&D, both as a fan and an illustrator. But now I realize why they didn’t go for that idea, as we’re seeing so much of Strahd as things are being released.” Chuck Lukacs That was the initial concept, where the Ampersand would be shown in the surface of the moon,” he tells Dragon+. “Originally I wanted to do a version of Strahd from Ravenloft. This issue’s reimagining of the Dungeons & Dragons Ampersand is a powerful image, but, as artist Chuck Lukacs reveals, it was almost a very different vision. The moon hanging full to illuminate the key’s unusual design. Dragon+ cover artist Chuck Lukacs shares his pride at creating Ravenloft’s Tarokka deck, which now sadly ages him a year every time the cards are dealt!Ī watercolor raven perched on a graveyard fence post.
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