Cover to Dragon #310 [wow!]

[Pants]

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

Stylized, comicbook crap.

The anime comment is bull. "Oh look, her eyes are slightly larger than normal! IT'S ANIME!!!1111" Yeah, really.
There was some pretty blatant anime style/inspired art in RoF, but this is hardly close.

 

[Stormfalcon]

The anime comment is bull. "Oh look, her eyes are slightly larger than normal! IT'S ANIME!!!1111" Yeah, really.
There was some pretty blatant anime style/inspired art in RoF, but this is hardly close.

Heh...better not show him any old Betty Boop, Disney, or Warner Bros. cartoons at any rate. That's where the big-eyed look came from in the first place.

 

[Stormfalcon]

Getting back to the topic at hand, I loved seeing the Elmore cover on Dragon this time around. To me, it was like running into an old friend. Even if I didn't play D&D during the 1st and 2nd edition eras (hey, you try growing up in a fundamentalist household!), the works of Elmore and other artists at the time defined the look of D&D for me as it has for others in this thread.

Besides, some of us unabashedly love our cheesecake and came of age in the 80's, and make no excuses for either.

Is Elmore perfect as an artist? Nope. He does need a bit more diversity with his female subjects, as well as some more dynamic posing. However, I do enjoy what he does present to us as well as his level of talent, and I do give him some leeway with his current stuff thanks to his stroke earlier this year (thankfully he seems to be getting over that).

To me, that's the important thing: do I enjoy what I'm looking at or not? In my case, yes, I do enjoy looking at Elmore's work. If others don't, that's fine. After all, no two people will ever see eye-to-eye on things, particularly when it's a subjective matter like tastes in art.

However, it doesn't kill anyone that his work got a Dragon cover, particularly since he doesn't land the covers like he used to and Dragon gives us a rich diversity of other artists to go along with his work. In this case, it's a matter of tipping the hat to an old favorite of many of us fans.

 

[Kai Lord]

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

Which is exactly what great D&D art does.

 

[buzz]

Which is exactly what great D&D art does.

True, that.

For all my venom directed at Elmore, I readily agree that if an artist's work inspires you to do fun and cool things with your game, then by all means be inspired.

 

[Artimoff]

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

Stylized, comicbook crap.

It's funny how many first edition artists went to comicbooks. Jeff Dee, Bill Willingham, and Tim Truman to name a few. Although Truman and Willingham mostly write now. Oh, wait. Didn't Willingham write and draw a fantasy porno comic called Ironwood? Talk about a D&D art with bare midrifts

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

There is more of an anime influence in 3e art but I'm not sure that WAR is one that really draws manga style stuff that much. Dragon 292's cover wasn't anything special, but it wasn't horrid like the cover of the Paladin issue. ugh!

 

[Arnwyn]

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

Anime? You sure don't get out much, do ya?

There is no more anime influence in anything 3e than there was in 2e products.

 

[quadibloc]

Excellent cover! It's a little hard to tell but it looks like he has drawn inspiration from Angelina Jolie and Fergie?

I don't know about "The Protector", the dark-haired sword-wielding woman in the foreground, but the elf in the background with her magic wand reminds me, instead, of Britt Ekland.

 

[Wycen]

I don't know about "The Protector", the dark-haired sword-wielding woman in the foreground, but the elf in the background with her magic wand reminds me, instead, of Britt Ekland.

Welcome to the board. Or maybe I should say welcome to your first post, since you actually dropped the name Britt Ekland. Young punks wouldn't know her name.