Cover to Dragon #310 [wow!]

[Gnarlo]

My favorite of the 3e era covers.

This says D&D to me, and is one very sexy female, with nary a buckley, spike, or bared mid drift in sight.

Unfortunately, his recent work for D&D is suffering from Elmorization: as artimoff said above, when you see yet another snarling, charging, furrowed brow -knight -satyr -blinkdog -godlfish, you just ask yourself haven't I seen this before?

 

[hellbender]

So far, I don't mind most of the illustrator who have appeared in WotC products. I first saw WAR in Warhammer Monthly, and have seen Elmore doing great work from the 80's. Dennis Cramer is probably my least favorite WotC illustrator, I think the bogun was the only piece I like. Most illustrators have a niche, Elmore is great at stills, WAR at action, Lockwood is awesome with conceptual work. I really like Quinton Hoover's pieces in the MM2 (he is also a great guy, very down to earth) Raven Mimura does some super work as well. Now third party work, some of that art ranges from very good (Ken Capelli, Adrian Smith [previews from the new setting]) to abyssmal.

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[Bagpuss]

Same old, same old from Elmore, we have seen that pose countless times (just standing facing forwards) and the armour in most of his Dragonlance illustrations. *yawn* Okay we get that you can illustrated lifeless figures standing still for their portraits but do something a bit more original.

His 'Dragons of Ice' cover was much better than this, 'Avalyne the
Lifegiver' told a story. This is just his standard yawnfest.

 

[Seule]

Two of the gamers I play with declared immediately that the picture was of their characters. That'd be Princess Phae Corisol, of the Elven Empire (Bard) and her best friend Morganna Vallenwood, 3/4 Elven Paladin. It's really very much how they've been described.

Oh, and WAR rules. Others are good too, but I like almost everything of his.

--Seule

 

[Aaron L]

Elmore is good, but his work has always seemed too... thick, for lack of a better word. Too round. And I have never liked the way he does armor plates. They look like porcelain china. I much prefer Brom for painting and Lockwood for drawing.

 

[hong]

My favorite of the 3e era covers.

The part I liked best about that picture is how her ears still manage to poke out of her hood, even when it's up.

 

[Pants]

From page 2 of this very thread...
http://minipainting-guild.net/eo/eohome.html

Thanks.
That was definitely NOT the same artist I was thinking of.

 

[Jody Butt]

My favorite of the 3e era covers.

This says D&D to me, and is one very sexy female, with nary a buckley, spike, or bared mid drift in sight.

That says ANIME to me. Look at the size of her eyes, for crying out loud.

Stylized, comicbook crap.

 

[Wolfspider]

That says ANIME to me. Look at the size of her eyes, for crying out loud.

Stylized, comicbook crap.

Crap? Crap?

Hmmm.

So stylized art is crap? Comic book art is crap? By extension, anime/manga art is crap?

Hmmm.

Interesting.

 

[buzz]

So stylized art is crap? Comic book art is crap? By extension, anime/manga art is crap?

Indeed. God forbid that RPG art should be anything but bland, photo-realistic Xena-wannabe art.

BTW, never mind Jody. By his own admissions on RPG.net, he doesn't even play 3e, much less any recognizeable form of D&D. He just likes to tell all us poor shlubs, at every opportunity, how stupid we are for liking d20 and that everything associated with it is the devil.

BTWBTW, I freaking love that WAR cover, too. Inspired a great NPC for a game I ran once.