NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 4878179" data-attributes="member: 317">I have to agree with you Jeff.  4e's art is far more evocative to me than 3e's was.  3e's dungeon punk art with spikes and buckles, and "kewl poze" pieces really turned me off, and Wayne Reynolds was the king of this kind of horrible art.  From what I've seen so far, Pathfinder has embraced this sort of art and WAR, as well as using very cartoony looking illustrations (that look like they were done by teenage boys what with all the clevage and bare midriff females), including elves with foot-long pointy ears.  The one art-related thing I did like about the 3e books was the tome look- that was pretty cool.4e's art has been much, MUCH better.  Dungeonpunk pieces are nearly all gone (as is most of the cheesecake/beefcake stuff), and I love the emphasis on showing adventurers in a landscape or scene rather than with a flat white background behind them.  In particular, I am really enjoying Lucio Parrillo's, Dan Scott's, Howard Lyon's, and Michael Komarck's stuff (that painting on page 4 of the 4e MM has to be one of the coolest D&D art pieces EVER).  I'm even starting to like William O'Conner more as he is using more drab earth tones and painting more scenes rather than "kewl poze" stuff with time.  I like that the art direction is somewhat darker in theme and color scheme (reflecting a PoL setting), with a context in the world.  I wish WotC would hire Pat Loboyko for more stuff- his art just oozes the PoL feel and that classic AD&D feel to me (he did the Witch Hunter books for Paradigm, some of the stuff in the WHFRP2 books, and a lot of the art in the new Changling books).</blockquote>

Verification