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<blockquote data-quote="guachi" data-source="post: 7772309" data-attributes="member: 6785802">Absolutely. Flipping through the massive tome of Elmore art you see a lot of the models used and it becomes immediately obvious why the final pictures look like they do.EDIT: The text from The Complete Elmore for this picture:When I started to paint this piece the marketing department wanted me to hurry and get it done so they could start advertising it and get some advanced sales. There are ten characters in this paining and they wanted it done in about three or four days. I knew I couldn't do a halfway decent job in that amount of time. When I drew it out, I tried to hide some of the characters so I wouldn't have to take the time to paint all their costumes. To save time I gathered up a few people, we went to an empty room and I photographed them, roughly in these poses. I remember Jeff Butler posed as Raistlin, Caramon, and also Riverwind. Clyde posed as Tanis and my wife posed as Tika (and it looks like her.) I think there was another girl that posed for Goldmoon and Laurana, but I can't remember her name. I made up the rest of the characters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="guachi, post: 7772309, member: 6785802"] Absolutely. Flipping through the massive tome of Elmore art you see a lot of the models used and it becomes immediately obvious why the final pictures look like they do. EDIT: The text from The Complete Elmore for this picture: [I]When I started to paint this piece the marketing department wanted me to hurry and get it done so they could start advertising it and get some advanced sales. There are ten characters in this paining and they wanted it done in about three or four days. I knew I couldn't do a halfway decent job in that amount of time. When I drew it out, I tried to hide some of the characters so I wouldn't have to take the time to paint all their costumes. To save time I gathered up a few people, we went to an empty room and I photographed them, roughly in these poses. I remember Jeff Butler posed as Raistlin, Caramon, and also Riverwind. Clyde posed as Tanis and my wife posed as Tika (and it looks like her.) I think there was another girl that posed for Goldmoon and Laurana, but I can't remember her name. I made up the rest of the characters.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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