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[lutecius]

Now that is a good looking White Dragon. I like it. Powerful, noble and still savage.

The overall picture is impressive, especially the colors.
But the extra shoulders (at the base of the wings) are disturbingly large. They look a bit like a hump.

 

[Klaus]

They look pretty similar to me.

I'm not a fan of the weird beak-thing going on (in either picture), but it's still pretty solid.

And the 3e/4e white dragon is pretty much an update of the 1e AD&D white dragon.

 

[BendBars/LiftGates]

Bringing the conversation to the warforged piece, do you think it could possibly be only coincidence that they released the warforged art the day before the release of Iron Man?

But, to keep things on-topic, I like the warforged pic, but I liked the 3e warforged art more. This picture is fine as an illustration of warforged, but I think that the race is, for me, indelibly associated with the illustration from the ECS.

 

[Klaus]

Bringing the conversation to the warforged piece, do you think it could possibly be only coincidence that they released the warforged art the day before the release of Iron Man?

But, to keep things on-topic, I like the warforged pic, but I liked the 3e warforged art more. This picture is fine as an illustration of warforged, but I think that the race is, for me, indelibly associated with the illustration from the ECS.

As I've mentioned int he other Daily Art Thread (why did we forsake that one?), the 4e warforged picture has far too short legs, knees that are bending backwards just a bit too much and a face that looks clunkier than the Eberron one.

 

[Quickleaf]

Fair enough.

I am loving all of the art previews we are getting, but the PHB cover art seems off to me. Some people (who are conceivably artists or are educated about art) have said that it is employing a specific style, but I wouldn't know about that. All I know is that something about it just dosn't seem right.

While I like the art overall, the PHB cover seems off to me too - just 2 characters posing. I'd rather see a party engaged in an adventuring action like a battle against a dragon (see the character record sheet cover), picking a lock while getting fired at by archers, planning a course of action over an aging map, deciphering a set of runes at an ominous gateway, etc.

Why not one of William O'Connor's pieces like this one? http://www.wocstudios.com/moonsea.htm

 

[DandD]

Let's continue in this thread:
Ladies and gentlemen, I present, the butt-ugly Worg...

Ye (former?) trusted goblin-steed is now one ugly son of a mofo, if I'm allowed to say that.

 

[AllisterH]

Do not like...WAY too ugly...

I mean, I know a worg is a bigger and uglier wolf, but that doesn't even look like a wolf...

 

[Hawke]

That looks more like a dinosaur.

 

[Kunimatyu]

I can't really blame WotC for trying to distinguish the Wolf, Worg, and Dire Wolf from each other, but....I'm not sure the Worg really worked out. I'm honestly surprised they didn't just junk it for MM2 or something.

Is that an ankylosaur-esque club-tail I see?

 

[ncc4781]

it looks like a displacer beast without any tentacles to me. I really do not think it looks like a worg at all.