Identify this 1E artist?

[Cthulhudrew]

In my continued efforts to decode the LJN action figure mysteries (well, the mysteries I see, anyway), I've located this:



Can anyone identify the artist of that picture? It looks like it might be an Elmore piece, but it also kind of looks like Jeff Easley to me. I know that both of those artists did illustrations for the LJN line, so that's where my main suspicion comes from. I think Keith Parkinson did some of the illos, too, as did Timothy Truman, but I know that's not a Truman piece.

Bonus points if anyone can tell me if there is a larger piece of artwork that goes along with it, or similar pieces? For instance, I'm pretty sure that Mercion shows up in a couple of Elmore works, and Easley's Ringlerun has had a couple of illos of him (his action figure and the 1E PHB, 8th printing).

 

[T. Foster]

Looks a lot like Elmore to me.

 

[AFGNCAAP]

I wanna say it's an Elmore as well--the style of her illo makes me think that.

 

[Garnfellow]

Could also be Tim Truman, but really hard to say.

 

[cildarith]

I would attribute that to Truman or even Holloway before Elmore. No idea, really...

 

[Klaus]

Could also be Tim Truman, but really hard to say.

Truman is my bet.

 

[T. Foster]

Is this same picture in AC1: Shady Dragon Inn? If so it might be easier to ID the artist by looking at that (and FWIW I'm sticking by my Elmore call)

 

[Lalato]

I would say that it is definitely NOT Elmore. Tim Truman is a good guess, but there is no way to confirm that without, perhaps, talking to Truman.

--sam

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Is this same picture in AC1: Shady Dragon Inn? If so it might be easier to ID the artist by looking at that (and FWIW I'm sticking by my Elmore call)

Nah. Unfortunately, the picture of Skylla in AC1 (and in XL-1) is actually a picture of Charmay, who is another character in the LJN line (she only appeared in the coloring books, though. She didn't have her own action figure.) Somewhere along the line, someone got the two pics mixed up and continued the trend.

The Charmay picture is definitely an Elmore, and he's used her elsewhere.

 

[Wolv0rine]

Having looked at some Truman work to refresh me on Truman's stuff, I'd have to go with my initial thought that that's an Elmore piece. It has that odd flat-but-not-flat angle/perspective /pose thing that a lot of BD&D elmore B&W art had, the same style of pseudo-scribbled wrinkles one sees in many other such pieces. The shape of her face screams "Elmore sketch!" to me (more exactly it screams "QUICK Elmore sketch!", heh). The shape of her leg and the rendition of the musculature look like Elmore, too.

'Course, I could be wrong, but I'm stepping in with the Elmore crowd.