Vote for your Favorite D&D Artist [Final Four Edition]

[orbitalfreak]

Throw another one in for Lockwood. WAR's stuff is awesome, but Lockwood's dragons bring him to the top of the pile.

 

[alsih2o]

man! i didn't make the polling again? man, i am just gonna try harder, so, ha!

soon, soon, my friends.....

 

[Kai Lord]

Check out the neck and neck battle for first and third place...

 

[Dragonblade]

Lockwood, Sam Wood, Brom, Elmore.

The best of the best, IMO.

(Well, Wayne Reynolds is good. And Ex-Palladium artist Vince Martin is cool too )

 

[RangerWickett]

I pick Tony Di's style as the most unique, so I voted for him. Todd Lockwood is like a Larry Elmore with more polish and better sense of dynamic composition and action, so I'd put him in second place. WAR is groovy, but I don't see him expressing the same range as the others on the list. Elmore was actually very good, but recently most of his pieces I've seen have been stiff and boringly composed.

Tony's work is beautiful fantasy, very diverse, airy, and magical. He wins because he captures the real magic of fantasy, though I'd put Lockwood in a close second because he captures the Hollywood-style fantasy remarkably well. But that's what you get when you work for decades.

 

[drowdude]

Lockwood.

 

[Krizzel]

Vote WAR! His artwork alone almost makes a book worth buying.

 

[Gez]

Vote WAR! His artwork alone almost makes a book worth buying.

I'm not really into fists thrice the time of a head and arms twice the time of the chest. WAR is a talented artist, and when he wants, he got the proportions right (his pic of Hathor in Deities & Demigods is excellent), but usually, he just make the same picture over and over and over again, a big, ridiculously hulking, shambling, misshappen monster, with feet that could fit in no known type of shoes, lunging forward with its jaws wide open.

My top list (for D&D 3) is Sam Wood, Todd Lockwood, Tony DiTerlizzi, Arnie Swekel, Daren Bader (in no particular order). They are the authors who made stuff I like 9 times out of ten or more.

 

[Golandrinel]

Damn! Brom's not in the list! Larry then...

 

[Ashrum the Black]

Larry all the way. His art has inspired more heros and villians for me than any other artist's.