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<blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 3708341" data-attributes="member: 317"><p>Honestly, these covers are stinkers. WAR is technically pretty sound, I just never cared for his work, style, ridiculous postures for characters, or general compositions- its always seemed very cartoonish. The PHB art is the worst- it just looks ridiculous. The DMG is the best of the three, but still rather plain. And the MM looks like Orcus throwing a temper tantrum...why Orcus? I know he's popular, but he's really overrated, and it would serve the purposes of a MM a lot more to use some more iconic monsters.</p><p></p><p>Brom covers would be cool- he has great composition and style, but he's moved on to other things now. From the looks, David Griffith is going to be illustrating some of 4E (the halfling cleric is his). I've always liked Griffith- he can bring a character's face to life better than almost any other illustrator out there, and his proportions and costumes/armor are great. He did a lot of work for FFG with their harback books, and recently has been doing quite a few WotC interior illustrations. Tony Scuzuldo is great too- his Brithright covers were among the best covers ever for D&D/AD&D, and truly captured a feel of action and tension. Arnie Swenkel would be incredible too- his interior illustrations for the old books were great, and the color work I've seem him do is very impressive. </p><p></p><p>However, the best fantasy artist out there now IMO is Pat Loboyko. His work has been featured in the recent Witch Hunter game by Paradigm, the new Changling: The Lost book (which is gorgeous), and WHFRP2. He does incredible scenes with a lot of detail and with a strong otherworldly quality, and facial expressions on his characters are also great. Unlike a lot of fantasy artists, his backgrounds are not just static placeholders to feature the characters, but have intricate detail and action as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gothmog, post: 3708341, member: 317"] Honestly, these covers are stinkers. WAR is technically pretty sound, I just never cared for his work, style, ridiculous postures for characters, or general compositions- its always seemed very cartoonish. The PHB art is the worst- it just looks ridiculous. The DMG is the best of the three, but still rather plain. And the MM looks like Orcus throwing a temper tantrum...why Orcus? I know he's popular, but he's really overrated, and it would serve the purposes of a MM a lot more to use some more iconic monsters. Brom covers would be cool- he has great composition and style, but he's moved on to other things now. From the looks, David Griffith is going to be illustrating some of 4E (the halfling cleric is his). I've always liked Griffith- he can bring a character's face to life better than almost any other illustrator out there, and his proportions and costumes/armor are great. He did a lot of work for FFG with their harback books, and recently has been doing quite a few WotC interior illustrations. Tony Scuzuldo is great too- his Brithright covers were among the best covers ever for D&D/AD&D, and truly captured a feel of action and tension. Arnie Swenkel would be incredible too- his interior illustrations for the old books were great, and the color work I've seem him do is very impressive. However, the best fantasy artist out there now IMO is Pat Loboyko. His work has been featured in the recent Witch Hunter game by Paradigm, the new Changling: The Lost book (which is gorgeous), and WHFRP2. He does incredible scenes with a lot of detail and with a strong otherworldly quality, and facial expressions on his characters are also great. Unlike a lot of fantasy artists, his backgrounds are not just static placeholders to feature the characters, but have intricate detail and action as well. [/QUOTE]
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