Daily Art Preview

[Klaus]

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

You can have something midway between the traditional look and the 3e look. Instead of having the parts stand out against each other, you allow their characteristics to "bleed" into each other:

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[Sojorn]

Oh ugh. Shambling mound and just... ew.

In a good way, but ugh.

It's extra worse if you read the description.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

I think that's the first time I've ever found the Shambling Mound scary.

 

[small pumpkin man]

Tree eats Man.
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"This shambling carnivore catches prey with its thick, ropelike arms and traps it in the mucky mass of its body, where countless rootlets bore into the victim."

Good family fun

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/artpreview

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I likey, I am betting will be Feywild creature.

 

[Incenjucar]

Oh man.

That is a great shambling mound.

The old one had its charm, but you could use the same look for some kind of rubbish troll.

 

[frankthedm]

Don't like the teeth, but they are preferable to the carrot nose 1E gave them and thankfully less uniform than the teeth on the stormrage shamber's mini.* The shrooms are a nice touch though too uniform of a green if they are still supposed to look like rotting vegetation though. All said, it is a fine depiction of a plant monster and one of the best illos shambling mounds have gotten.


shambling mound from 1971's Night gallery; episode 13 "Brenda".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHlhbWfNXzI&feature=related

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[Moon-Lancer]

I approve the new manticore.

agreed.

Yay mythology!

 

[Moon-Lancer]

Tree eats Man.
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"This shambling carnivore catches prey with its thick, ropelike arms and traps it in the mucky mass of its body, where countless rootlets bore into the victim."

Good family fun

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/artpreview

I like everything about it except The colors are a tad too chromatic in my view, and it doesn't seem to have a designated plane to walk on (even an invisible one)

 

[Moon-Lancer]

Actually, I like a lot of the other art. Today's Manticore, though, looks like crap. Could I do better? No. Should a professional artist do better? Absolutely.

It depends on how much they get paid really.