Artists Wizards of the Coast should use (use more)

[johnnype]

Actually, I don't. What's it from.

It's from Unaproachable East. He also did this one:

http://www.wizards.com/leaving.asp?url=/dnd/images/ue_gallery/49914.jpg&origin=dnd_ag_20030510a

 

[Ghostwind]

Apparently your forget the books that he basically inspired. Some of which went on to beocme miniatures of their own no? Allies & Adversaries and another one and another one that was down the pipeline.I apologize for the lack of clarity when referering to his art. I meant he was like THE artists for those books and they were great looking full color products but...

Ah, that explains it. Allies & Adversaries andFriends & Familiars were developed and produced by Talisman Studios. Bastion Press only served as the printing and distribution point for those products, they were not involved with the writing, editing, or pricing. Just an FYI...

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

Hmm... I'm suprised nobody has mentioned Brom yet... did he up and die? Or just declare that he'd never do art for D&D again? I was flipping through a book of art he did (mostly featured on M:TG cards and Dungeon or Dragon magazine covers), and once again I was blown away by the dark majesty of much of his work.

I cut my D&D teeth on Planescape, and the art of Dungeon and Dragon issues from the late 90's defined what D&D "felt like" to me (as did, oddly enough, early M:TG).

So DiTerlizzi and Brom are my fantasy artists of choice. Sure, they're definitely "dungeonpunk", but they did it with a flair that seems to have so much more character than Reynolds, Cramer, or the rest of their ilk. Aesthetically, 3e doesn't do a whole lot for me, but hey, that could just be my age showing...

 

[DMH]

I found Kelley Hensing's website:

http://www.wickiearts.com/portfoliopage.htm

Turns out she also did work in Midnight and Dragonstar.

 

[Nightfall]

That's one of the things' the does surprise me when Soverign Press books look as good if not sometimes better thanks to UDON as a WoTC book.

Well not a Soverign Press stuff but yeah the DL covers have been done by the greats and unknowns too to some great reviews.

I felt the artwork (not necessarily the monsters themselves) in Beastiary was some of the best I've EVER seen. If S&SS had artwork like that in the CC series, that would have edged them out of any crisis. (Well almost any! )

 

[Sammael]

I've never seen a WAR pic I didn't like.

Tempus in Faiths and Pantheons. Absolutely horrible and nothing like Tempus whatsoever. He should have made a variation on the theme of Tempus riding over the battlefield from 2nd ed. Faiths & Avatars - that's a powerful picture, even if its artistic quality isn't exactly high.

If I never see another Crabbaple picture in a D&D book, I'll be happy. Jeremy Jarvis is another signature I'm beginning to loathe. At least Crabbaple's art is good from a technical standpoint, and I bet he'd make a great comic artist. But Jarvis has to learn the proportions of human body first, and then study motion for at least five years.

 

[JustKim]

At least Crabbaple's art is good from a technical standpoint, and I bet he'd make a great comic artist.

He does make comics for, shall we say, specific interest groups. This adds to my bewilderment as to how he came to illustrate for WotC.

 

[Eremite]

Here I was thinking that I was the only one who despised Dennis Crabapple/Cramer's work. Ditto for Jeremy Jarvis who really needs to learn how to properly apply perspective... and colour.

I notice from the first couple of pages of the Libris Mortis gallery that Crabapple doesn't appear. I hope that this is a sign of things to come... tempered by a desire never to wish ill on someone when it comes to their employment.

I really think the WotC art guys could learn a lot from FFG and Green Ronin: both of these companies often provide far more evocative (the key work, IMO, when dealing with illustrations in RPGs) work even in black and white than appears in the full colour WotC books. Actually, some of the later 2E products where Arne/Arnie Swekel and Glen Angus provided B&W art are also much more evocative that the full colour dreck that acts as filler in some books (MMII springs to mind as lacking both in terms of creative direction and control as well as art direction).

 

[Sammael]

He does make comics for, shall we say, specific interest groups. This adds to my bewilderment as to how he came to illustrate for WotC.

Now you simply must tell more... what kind of special interest groups?

 

[Teflon Billy]

WAR rocks. His pictures are nicely detailed and his characters look active instead of looking like they are waiting for a bus...

Totally agree with Psion.

I was about to post something like "I'm not sure they could use him more, but I'd like to see more Wayne Reynolds"