Shadowdark General Thread [+]

[Scribe]

But what it's ending up with is this kind of vibe:

I'm still cackling at this.

 

[Bae'zel]

It comes across as an artist who's been ignoring the past 30 years of fantasy/vampire pinup art.

Has never browsed DeviantArt or Pinterest, I guess.

 

[Reynard]

It comes across as an artist who's been ignoring the past 30 years of fantasy/vampire pinup art.

Has never browsed DeviantArt or Pinterest, I guess.

Whoever mentioned the book this cover is of has me on block, or vice versa: what is this book? I must see the cover now.

 

[Scribe]

lol well I guess that explains that.

Tell Reynard he's got 1 way block enabled.

 

[aiouh]

WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOSE

 

[Bae'zel]

Whoever mentioned the book this cover is of has me on block, or vice versa: what is this book? I must see the cover now.

I also have that person on ignore and vice versa, but someone mentioned the title and here you are:

(Edit: the wannabe Elvira / Vampirella on the left looks like an homage to an old pin up painting… maybe a ravenloft cover?)

 

[Reynard]

I also have that person on ignore and vice versa, but someone mentioned the title and here you are:

I agree that the art is a little amateurish but I don't get the hate. Sexy vampires are a pretty standard thing.

 

[Bae'zel]

I agree that the art is a little amateurish but I don't get the hate. Sexy vampires are a pretty standard thing.

Yeah you’re right I guess I got hyped on the bandwagon.

It isn’t that bad; the subject matter doesn’t bother me (it’s clearly for a distinct audience). I was just being mean (hey at least it is by a real person. I’ll give them points for that!

 

[overgeeked]

hey at least it is by a real person. I’ll give them points for that

Right? At this point I’m just glad to see real human-made art on products. It might not be my taste, but at least someone spent time and effort making it.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It isn’t that bad

It kinda is though!

It reminds me of a lot of some 5E 2014 art where it looks unfinished because that's exactly what it is - they paid the artist for X amount of work, and if they'd wanted something that looked finished and cleaned up and so on, they'd need to have paid twice that because of the sheer hours of work involved.

Sexy vampires are a pretty standard thing.

There are sexy vampires and then there are vampires that look like strippers and then there are vampires that look like strippers standing next to vampires that look like a couple of vampires who giving off a really weird American Gothic (the painting, not the show(s)) meets Curb Your Enthusiasm vibe (and not in a scary way lol).

Given the book seems like it's at least semi-satirical this may be intentional of course - check out the list of organisations the PCs can join - I don't really think "The Night Court" (lol, I'd love to compare a list of the NPCs involved with that to the cast list here) or "The Dethkillers [sic]" are intended to be taken entirely seriously. Nor does the take on Fishmen seem like it's entirely jest-less.