Daily Art Preview

[Dausuul]

Love the new manticore art. Soooooo much better than the 3.X manticore.

 

[Klaus]

Hmm. Like the return to a more traditional manticore, but the art itself is a bit... dull. If I was interested in tracing each brush-stroke I might like it, but this just looks like a painting of a manticore.

Not exactly leaping out of the art and going 'Rarrr!'

Errr... This IS a painting of a manticore.

The art is good, I just think some bits (like the face) could use some more definition.

 

[Engilbrand]

He's talking about the actual art itself. It's obviously a painting of something, instead of being done so well that it actually looks like the thing. He's commenting on the art as the medium, not the manticore.

 

[Voss]

Yup. It actually looks like something that Aristocrat Andrew, Amateur Artist would have hanging on the wall of his manor in the actual game. Not something thats supposed to invoke, 'This is a manticore, be frightened!', in a game book

 

[Klaus]

He's talking about the actual art itself. It's obviously a painting of something, instead of being done so well that it actually looks like the thing. He's commenting on the art as the medium, not the manticore.

That's not a valid complaint, since not all art needs to be photorealistic. The manticore does need a little more work detailing the face, but is done well enough (specially the wings and tail). In fact, other than the face and the right foreleg, the entire piece is very well rendered.

 

[Aloïsius]

I can't see the manticore ! error 404 ! Is WotC link broken ? That's strange because the other picture works flawlessly...

 

[Kishin]

I too love the new Manticore. The 3E one was clearly an attempt to be different gone horribly awry.

I approve the new manticore.

10 points, sir.

Please tell me you can point me in the direction of more of those images.

Tower of Doom/Shadows over Mystara were both amazing.

 

[Jhaelen]

I can't see the manticore ! error 404 ! Is WotC link broken ? That's strange because the other picture works flawlessly...

It's been fixed now:
Manticore

 

[Lurks-no-More]

Heh, the first time I saw the 3E manticore my reaction was similar to how everyone reacted to the Guulvorg from Monday...

"THAT"S a manticore?!?!?...Er, ok...."

Well... yeah. Because it's a critter that could be described as "It's like a lion, with a spiked tail, and wings, and a head kind of like a bearded man's." It looks like a real creature of its own, instead of just a mythological mash-up of human and animal parts. (For the same reason, I really like the 3e minotaur. The sphinx isn't bad, either.)

 

[Stogoe]

Well... yeah. Because it's a critter that could be described as "It's like a lion, with a spiked tail, and wings, and a head kind of like a bearded man's." It looks like a real creature of its own, instead of just a mythological mash-up of human and animal parts. (For the same reason, I really like the 3e minotaur. The sphinx isn't bad, either.)

I much prefer the mythological mashup to 3e's screeching hate-baby. Blech.