There's a great selection of scans from Gnoli's "Beastiary" over at Giornale Nuovo. Click here to see a drawing by Gnoli of an imaginary city.
There's a great selection of scans from Gnoli's "Beastiary" over at Giornale Nuovo.
You can see a few more paintings here.
"BEASTS! is a 200 page, full-color hardback coming this fall from Fantagraphics and Jacob Covey. A gorgeous compendium of mythological and folkloric creatures, the text will be accompanied by full-page illustrations of each creature created just for this book. The jaw-dropping artist list includes 90 of the most talented pop culture artistes from the worlds of skate, rock, comics, scifi, children's books, "Fine Art" etc. Each artist has selected a creature from recorded descriptions of mythological (or perhaps just elusive) beasts and rendered their vision of it."
This gallery contains a couple dozen examples of strange monsters from vintage artworks. Click here to see 57 other odd looking creatures.
Here is a 10 page comic illustrated by Alex Toth and Sy Barry about a man who paints strange beasts that come to life.