tattoos, spikes, punk, and goth in D&D images?

[dreaded_beast]

Ad Hominem is attacking the person rather than the argument and Straw Man is distorting the argument to make it easier to disprove. I meant no offense by either. Thus the posh.

Thanks! No offense taken.

I wasn't intentionally trying to attack people, more along the lines that I believe that people will like what they like and dislike what they dislike, regardless of what evidence is presented before them. I guess I'm trying to say people will have opinions and usually stick to them, one way or another. Did that make any sense?

Anyways, my opinion is that I like the WoTC art in general and anime as well. However, sometimes the quality of artwork can fluctuate between good and bad, but I guess that is true of many products.

I guess I prefer products to stick with 1 or even 2 artists and keep the styles consistant. Although a product can have many different artists, all good, I think it detracts from the overall product by not having consistancy.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

For those of you who hate the 3E art, is there any recent artwork put out nowadays you DO like? And why all the anime bashing?

In my opinion, I think this thread is similar to the old "why my edition is better than your edition" thread. Just add "art" into the equation.

There are always going to be people who swear by the "good-ol-days" and who hate the newest thing that comes out, and vice-versa.

Live with it!

I like the artwork in the Scarred Lands DM Screen. I also like some of the artwork in Kalamar's Player's Guide, Green Ronin's Avatar's Handbook, and the several Malhavoc pdfs I own.

 

[Brennin Magalus]

I can't believe that the people who are complaining about modern 3e art being too anime are the same people who like 1e art. Look at Jeff Dee's 'Paladin' piece. That helmet is like something out of battle for the planet! And the jumpsuit!

I just looked at that picture and now I have Flash, ah-ah! looping through my head.

 

[Olive]

I do think that the people saying that 3e art has no perspective/context have a point. It does seem to be lots of individuals with no background. Not always tho. Complete Warrior has a couple of pieces that might make people feel better tho. Check out pages 107, 109 and 124 (although if you hate WAR you still won't like that last one.) Actually a lot of the art in that book is action scenes, except for the core class and PrC pages.

 

[buzz]

Trampier = teh suck, the proportions, the shading, all awful.
Otus = I hate his style
Parkinson = rocks. Parkinson has always been good.
Caldwell = pretty damn impressive
Dee = man, that paladin has the most illogical looking helmet ever. Besides, what kind of armor is THAT?
Sutherland = read my analysis of Trampier

I get the impressoin that people who like the Parkinson/Elmore stuff tend to not like art that's good... I MEAN ART LIKE TRAMPIER'S and, uh, 3e. Yeah. And vice-versa.

 

[buzz]

And, FWIW, Trampier was one of the few 1e artists who had a clue about perspective and shading, and all that tehcnical mumbo-jumbo.

Buzz, former art student-type

 

[Pants]

I get the impressoin that people who like the Parkinson/Elmore stuff tend to not like art that's good... I MEAN ART LIKE TRAMPIER'S and, uh, 3e. Yeah. And vice-versa.

Elmore is okay, nothing real special. Parkinson can draw a mean picture though, I really like his 'Lord Soth's Charge' for Dragonlance. Shows both artistic quality and coolness.

Trampier... only thing he's got going for himself is nostalgia... nothing personal of course.

And, FWIW, Trampier was one of the few 1e artists who had a clue about perspective and shading, and all that tehcnical mumbo-jumbo.

Sure...

 

[buzz]

Sure...

C'mon. Compare his stuff to anything else in the original AD&D1e books. Whether they all suck or no, he was the best of them.

And, man, Wormy! It's like the Pogo of gamer comics.

 

[SSquirrel]

*cough*

http://www.weewung.com/gallery/arnistotle/duncov.jpg

http://www.weewung.com/gallery/arnistotle/05.jpg



(I'd post the full images, but they're huge, so links are more prudent)

very cool pictures my friend.

Hagen

 

[Buttercup]

Wow, 9 times out of 10 if I see a Buttercup post it's almost what I would say.

Except I like Elmore....

Well, then I guess you could agree with the part where I said that taste in art is subjective.