Arcane Power Art Gallery: Welcome back, old friends

[doctorhook]

I don't mind the recycled artwork per se. Honestly, what I do mind is that they still let Wayne England draw faces (especially humanoid faces) from any perspective other than in profile. He's a talented artist, but the faces he draws are quite ugly and awkward-looking IMHO, and it detracts substantially from his art.

There, I said it.

On the plus side, I'm just happy it's not the following artwork. (I'm not sure who the artist is.)[sblock=From Deities & Demigods (WotC, 2002)]

That's supposed to be Corellon. The deity. No wonder everyone thought Elves were sissies.[/sblock]Overall, I think the artwork is better in 4E than it was in 3E, if only because there's the same artists I liked (and more of them!), but fewer of the ones I didn't.

 

[Nai_Calus]

On the plus side, I'm just happy it's not this artwork: [sblock=From Deities & Demigods (WotC, 2002)]

That's supposed to be Corellon. The deity. No wonder everyone thought Elves were sissies.[/sblock]

As a testament to how truly bad that picture is, I knew it was going to be that picture the instant I saw what book it was from.

I still want to figure out who drew it so I can whack them with the cover of 2E FR's Demihuman Deities. Or the original picture of him from 1E D&Dg. Or the one from On Hallowed Ground. Or even the one from Monster Mythology.

To be fair on the 'sissies' thing, Corellon *was* supposed to be male, female, both and neither, so looking somewhat effeminate kind of fits... But I showed that picture to someone once and their comment was 'Elves worship Hillary Clinton?'. XD I'll stick with Todd Lockwood's for depictions of Corellon, thanks.

I dearly hope they never reuse it for anything. Even Mialee usually looked better.

 

[hong]

http://www.wizards.com/mtg/images/daily/wallpapers/WP_DvDAkroma_1280x960.jpg

Now THAT'S a freakin' deva.

 

[Jhaelen]

Now THAT'S a freakin' deva.

...and it happens to be from the same artist as my favorite piece from Arcane Power (blue dragons circling tower) - go figure!

 

[TerraDave]

I looked at this in the store yesterday. It actually looks good...including the (new) art.

Still, it could have used, say, 9 more pieces of it.