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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormfalcon" data-source="post: 1035959" data-attributes="member: 11604">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.</blockquote>

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