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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 513287" data-attributes="member: 5100"><p>Whoever it was who did the Blackguard did quite a few of the illos that I'm talking about as being bad -- horrid even. After looking again at my DMG, I like most of WAR's pics.</p><p></p><p>I don't know who did the iconics, but they are a mixed bag. Mialee has _no_ good pictures in anything I've ever seen. Lidda is sometimes cool looking, sometimes not. Tordek is the same. Krusk usually looks pretty bad. The druid (whassername) looks really cool except for those wierd horns. Devis usually looks okay, too.</p><p></p><p>I think a lot of the problems I have are an indirect result of the medium used (bear with me, this thought _just_ occurred to me). It looks like all the color illos are done in watercolor. They have this wierd quality of being both bright and washed out at the same time. There are no real metalic colors. Nothing really has _texture_. It's all flat.</p><p></p><p>This is really where the old Elmore pics have an edge. Whatever medium he used (probably oil or acrylic with an airbrush), steel looked like metal, not washed out grey/blue/white. Clothes looked like cloth, not polyvinyl. Hair actually had strands.</p><p></p><p>It's not breast-size or how their armor is shaped or nipple-piercing sorcerers. It's how flat the new pics are. They look like cartoons. They should be out capturing Pokemon rather than fighting dragons or orcs. </p><p></p><p>I don't like it in D&D and I don't like it in d20 Modern. They would have been better off skipping the color and sticking in pencil or charcoal illos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 513287, member: 5100"] Whoever it was who did the Blackguard did quite a few of the illos that I'm talking about as being bad -- horrid even. After looking again at my DMG, I like most of WAR's pics. I don't know who did the iconics, but they are a mixed bag. Mialee has _no_ good pictures in anything I've ever seen. Lidda is sometimes cool looking, sometimes not. Tordek is the same. Krusk usually looks pretty bad. The druid (whassername) looks really cool except for those wierd horns. Devis usually looks okay, too. I think a lot of the problems I have are an indirect result of the medium used (bear with me, this thought _just_ occurred to me). It looks like all the color illos are done in watercolor. They have this wierd quality of being both bright and washed out at the same time. There are no real metalic colors. Nothing really has _texture_. It's all flat. This is really where the old Elmore pics have an edge. Whatever medium he used (probably oil or acrylic with an airbrush), steel looked like metal, not washed out grey/blue/white. Clothes looked like cloth, not polyvinyl. Hair actually had strands. It's not breast-size or how their armor is shaped or nipple-piercing sorcerers. It's how flat the new pics are. They look like cartoons. They should be out capturing Pokemon rather than fighting dragons or orcs. I don't like it in D&D and I don't like it in d20 Modern. They would have been better off skipping the color and sticking in pencil or charcoal illos. [/QUOTE]
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