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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jbear" data-source="post: 5839694" data-attributes="member: 75065">Forgive me rudeness, but since everyone is feeling free to express their opinions about other people's art work, I'll express my opinion as well. This thread strikes me as a whole bunch of people who know little or next to nothing about art expressing their uninformed nostalgic opinions about what makes good fantasy art.Any time you start a post with 'forgive my rudeness' it is probably a good idea to start your post again but without the rudeness. Thanks. Plane Sailing, Enworld adminWayne Reynolds is an incredibly skilled artist. He does all of that work in acrylic paint with brush. His ability to capture movement and the weight of a figure is brilliant. He has a unique style that you recognise instantly. People keep using the word cartoony as if that somehow his style not being realism made it of less value. BTW, pet peeve, I really despise people who say cartoon as though it was a dirty word. If you want a crack at 4e art, sheesh seriously ... you're going to pick out Wayne Reynolds ...? Also, for those who keep harping on about the size of the sword in the original image ... did you ALL skip over the post where someone posted the character description and the fact that it is a Frost Giant's sword? You do realise that the artist usually gets a brief of the image to be drawn? So if you don't like the fact that it's a static pose or in this case a really huge sword or whatever, rather than an action scene or a normal sized sword, don't blame the artist, blame the person who wrote the description of the image they wanted illustrated.There also seems to be a certain amount of contradictions about what people want ...I love 2e art .... but no bikini chainmail chicks! We want chaste, well dressed women who remind us of our mothers! Well ... many many of  Larry Elmore's illustrations were extremely erotic. Exactly what some people are clamouring against. Reynold's 'low cut bikini line' is very tame in comparison.<a href="https://www.reedcomics.com/images/photos/art_elmore/oldcrows_L.jpg" target="_blank">https://www.reedcomics.com/images/photos/art_elmore/oldcrows_L.jpg</a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XB7t89tRUGU/Tgq-8M78RdI/AAAAAAAAFtc/H49l-bRT6jg/s400/elmorebw056.jpg" target="_blank">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XB7t89tRUGU/Tgq-8M78RdI/AAAAAAAAFtc/H49l-bRT6jg/s400/elmorebw056.jpg</a>In any case I didn't realise how many prudes play D&D. Or are you just making an attempt at standing up for women's rights? My wife would have an interesting discussion with you about that. Here is the image she chose for her elf ranger character:<a href="http://www.advancedanime.com/pictures/normal_night_elf_babe.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.advancedanime.com/pictures/normal_night_elf_babe.jpg</a>And now, so you can criticise my taste, here is an image I think is cool:<a href="http://www.hdgamewallpapers.com/var/resizes/Game%20Woman%20%2820%29.jpg?m=1313692489" target="_blank">http://www.hdgamewallpapers.com/var/resizes/Game Woman (20).jpg?m=1313692489</a></blockquote>

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