In some of the older D&D books from the golden days of TSR (namely “1st edition” Advanced D&D), The few incredible images rendered by masters like Erol Otus are surrounded on all sides by what can best be described as “almost art.” It's either strange
The art created by 1970’s and 80’s artist Patrick Nagel has been a massive influence in the scene. His overwhelmingly popular art continues to resonate throughout the New Retro Wave area, as some modern artists and mediums of art allude to his classic vibrant style.
How insane is this??!! Jeronimo Gomez created a masterpiece entitled "A Dark Jedi and a Renegade Princess" depicting Luke Skywalker, along with R2-D2 and C-3P0, with a lovely cyberpunk Blade Runner twist.
Florian Renner's Retrowave video spanned a lot of inspiration and heavily impacted color schemes/ visuals for artists creating in the scene. Arslan Safiullin channels Florians' vision with an incredible revamp of the Ferrari Testarossa sports car.
