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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hakkenshi" data-source="post: 325526" data-attributes="member: 5457">True, it's impossible to say which style is "better". I agree entirely there.But since I've seen Lockwood paintings that were at least as evocative (IMHO) as Otus', and vastly superior technically speaking (an aspect which we CAN judge), I don't feel there's much more to be said, since it IS based entirely on opinion.Sure, you can definitely prefer Otus. And, as Kilmore said, that IS only the Otus of the 1980s. Which may make a huge difference.I got into D&D around 1990; I don't see how that makes me any less of a judge of which artist best exemplifies the hobby.And it's not a flame war at all, I just think that whatever feel an artist captures, he does it a lot better if he's more proficient than the other guy who also represents that feel well but isn't as skilled. You're entitled to thinking that Otus is the one that does it better, skill or no skill. IMHO, proficiency makes a difference.And there's no way a hack artist like Jim Lee can come CLOSE to the skill of the Great Kirby. But that's a different topic <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>