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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6828894" data-attributes="member: 92511">It may or may not be common knowledge 'round these parts, but interestingly, @<a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=6788652" target="_blank">The Grassy Gnoll</a> both of the classes that you liked/were drawn to were done by Larry Elmore. The rest, including those round headshots, are all Jeff Easley.I concur that Elmore's more crisp and, for lack of a better term, "realistic" work (and Jeff Dee's comic book/superhero-style stuff as well, for me) definitely captured my attention and imagination more than Easley's kind of "brushed wispy" inks.I was similarly baffled, and I suppose shall be to our dying day, that of all the classes presented in Mentzer, the /Magic-User/ was the one that didn't get a full character shot (and also noted that halfling and elf were forced to "share" a spot, though I personally love elves and halflings and always enjoyed that picture). The guy with the spells?! The wizard?! That's who you think you don't need to show a picture of to people in the real world?! It made [and makes] NO sense to me.Equally irritating was the severe dearth of images in/among the spell sections. Cleric spells had at least two cool ones (Detect Magic and Cold Resistance, I believe). MUs had barely in it/back of the hood for the Phantasmal Force & Mirror Image (also Easley)...and two small/tiny Elmores, an unconscious halfling near Sleep and a female mage, kind of..."phased out" to indicate Invisibility (or so I've always presumed since it's the only spell description near it that could possibly make sense).Still, I was in D&D for the magic, man. If it didn't have spells, my interest was immediately lessened. So, no big surprise, art or no, my first ever (and ciontinued favorite) class is the MU/mage, my 2nd was a Cleric (female, as well. haha), and my third was an elf. And through the decades, those [and with AD&D druids and illusionist -in no small part due to that Jeff Dee illusionist image from the Rogue's Gallery- also] have always been my go to/favored classes and humans, elves, halflings [and half-elves with the occasional gnome with AD&D] for my go to races.</blockquote>

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