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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 319392" data-attributes="member: 363">Arnie Swekel is one of my all-time favorite D&D artists. He did a lot of work back on the Pendragon RPG also. You wanna see him at his best? Check out the 4 volume Encyclopedia Magica, which he almost entirely illustrated. His work in Deities & Demigods (and speaking of which, anyone who thinks the ELH is better illustrated is clearly on another plane of existence than I am) is also fantastic.Wayne Reynolds is another favorite. Y'know, even back in my 1e days (long before Easeley did the covers for the hardbacks), I didn't much like the art for D&D overall. Yes, there were a lot of good artists, but the overall "look" was bland and unimpressive. 3e brought in a new excitement. I never much cared whether armor looked like something from a history book - too often in earlier editions of D&D armor was drawn to look very ill-fitting and clumsy. Maybe it really was, but it seemed wrong to me that a D&D world, which seems to have been using (and therefore perfecting) armor for a lot longer than in our world, wouldn't have armor that looks a lot more comfortable to wear and move around in. Jim Holloway's art, by the way, often played up on this, making the armor look ridiculously clumsy and impractical.Artists like Roger Raupp and Jim Holloway could make armor like that look good. Very few others could.</blockquote>