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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 3816474" data-attributes="member: 32536">What I mean is that the guy in the horned helmet looks like he is in a wide-armed dancing pose (my brother compared it to a broadway musical pose), as if the bard in the background had cast Otto's Irresistable Dance upon him, and he is looking of to the side, begging the unseen party mage to dispell it before the big guy's axe hit its mark. Either that, or he can't decide whether he want's to block or attack, and instead just kinda prepares to do both while letting the axe guy get a free hit in.The dracolich picture has the fighter staring off to the left, making a "cool stance" pose, in a way which seems completely unrelated to the battle against the dracolich. He is neither helping his allies, nor interacting with the dragon. He is behind the wizard, just standing in the center of the image trying to look cool. Don't get me started on how much I hate that overdone wierd "double pointy finger" spellcasting pose...Half the people in the ice dragon image look like they are just going to fall flat on their faces in the next few seconds.The "minotaurs and magic spears" image has all kinds of oddities, and certainly doesn't seem like the character is fighting, but is instead just standing there.The "sword vs. staff" just has two people in poses which are slightly off, so much so that I can't figure out what is going on between them. The intention is that it looks lik their weapons are clashing, but in reality they are just kinda posing with their weapons touching, with no indication that either one is putting any force into thier weapons.The oriental image is particularly problematic, because it is a "ride by attack" image in which neither character is actually beginning an attack at the other. The samurai is in a classic ready posture, not actually attacking, and he isn't even geared to attack the side the ninja is on. It looks like the two are content to pose at each other while the samurai just rides by.As a whole, the artist seems to rely too much on photographs of static poses as his models for his paintings, and merely splices together an action sequence out of a bunch of unrelated static poses. There is no real attempt to actually study or portray the motion or collision of people in actual conflict. That is pretty sloppy and lazy, which is a shame, since otherwise the artist's technical aptitude is pretty good.</blockquote>

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