The description doesn't do this justice. You get three excellent images for use in your publication. Three wizards - and they are suggesting you throw them $0.50 as this is a 'sample' pack.

As an independent published of RPG material - www.thegrinningfrog.com - with 12 crowdsourcing campaigns behind me in the #ttrpg space my needs are different to the casual user. I'd have really liked the licence to have been included in the download folder, the file names could reflect the credit I need to give when I use them commercially. Luckily, I have their licence from other products of theirs I have bought but still...

Art - 5/5 Technical details 2/5 - needs the licence, better file names

For more on my views on stock art best practice I invite you to read

https://www.thegrinningfrog.com/post/ten-tips-for-stock-artists

Okay, so I review this as some length here

https://www.thegrinningfrog.com/post/review-sketchbook-creatures

but the essence is that this is something of a mixed bag. You get 53 images so that's a lot for your money, even at full price. Of those I think roughly 40 are entirely usable whilst the others are potentially lacking too much detail.

Whatever technique has been used to create the art has soften the images and the contrast is so low that some become quite indistinct.

The art is very much a sketchbook style but, and this is a guess not a known fact, it's been done via computer so it looks surpringly uniform. Which visually clashes a little with the 'sketch' idea. The images also come on a light faux paper background which is going to be difficult to remove without removing parts of the images - at least on the succubus that I tried it on.

Effectively this is a grab bag of Dungeons and Dragons creatures. I actually wrote out the list of names but don't want to cause any IP issues so suffice to say you get creatures you will recognise. I mention some by name on my fuller review and there are things to like in here too.

Some of the details are good - the succubus has cloven feet, the blink dog is blinking (I love that!), the ettin has different number of eyes on each head, the expressions on some are great - the Dretch is drooling. I actually don't know that creature but I assume it's some sort of large thuggish brute from the picture.

If you want ingame art, this pack is perfectly fine. If you want images to use in publications you might want to reconsider. Yes you get a lot of volume but unless you are going for a sketch style this isn't going to work. The three on the cover are three of the better images although there are easily ten to fifteen really good ones beside those. It doesn't get better than what you see on the cover, just fyi.

It's going to take a while for me to use these images, they don't beg me to use them. I gave them four stars because really it's a solid 3.5 but that's not an option. I felt mean scoring them down to a 3 as some of the images are nice and I appreciate the details.

SUMMARY

In Game Use Get it in one of their sales to offset the images that just don't work and you should be fine. For Publishing Purposes Only purchase if you can use multiple images in a very specific style that won't blend well with other sketch styles

Even IF, and it very much isn't the case, but even IF the art was second rate or average - the whole thing is for charity...

It is also being offered at a discount that frankly is dizzying - anything less than 5 stars and a glowing review would be churlish.

Although, IF the art was sub-standard, then I guess there would be a need to be honest. So, with that thought in mind, let me be honest - the art in here is bloomin' marvellous!

Do I like all the pieces? No, but then I don't like all the cakes in Betty's tearooms (the finest tea rooms in the world). That doesn't mean the cakes aren't good, it just means the cakes aren't for me. In this case, I feel his wizards as a little too muscular and some of the poses a little too rigid - for my taste. However, that's only in a couple of cases. What you mostly get are finely created, detailed and good resolution images with a generous ten-use licence.

Honestly, this bundle is a no-brainer. In fact, I've bought it and I'm in the process of signing up to support the artist on Patreon because I see several other pieces of work that I plan to use in a number of my publications - not least of which is my Dungeon Master's Adventure Pack which I just launched on Kickstarter. I mention that, not for advertising, but to highlight that this bundle isn't just for the most part pretty to look at but also pretty useful!

I've put a piece on the Kickstarter page for the DMAP and I have earmarked several of the pieces for use in later issues. This is good art. Like ANY artist, you pick the bits that resonate with you. I will easily be using over half these pieces in my publications and probably more as time goes on.

And it's for charity? BUY IT!

What you see is what you get - a great picture of a minotaur at a bar. By sheer coincidence I had just written a tavern scene in a new adventure that will be published in the next few months. Shuffling things around a little I was able to have a minotaur NPC show up early - in the bar to fit this excellent artwork.

it's probably quite a specific piece but it's 50c so what's not to like? If you have any need for something like this by all means go for it. And thank you to the artist of releasing it at such a good price. It meant I could add it without having to debate whether it fit into the budget or not.