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<blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 3521289" data-attributes="member: 9045">While this is true and all, this really does make the case against the artists doing poor work on the weapons &amp; armor in the D&amp;D books worse.&nbsp; I mean seriously, the artist doesn't have to make the items, (s)he just has to draw them.&nbsp; I know whenever I go into an illustration, more than 3/4 of the time I put into it is in research.&nbsp; If I'm drawing armor, I spend horrendous amounts of time pouring through various real armors of various types trying to find something that comes close enough to what I'm trying to do that I can use it as a strong, functional base for what I'm going to do.&nbsp; The same with weapons.&nbsp; Fantasy, modern, it's all the same.&nbsp; I don't go trotting willy-nilly into drawing a sword any more than I do drawing and M-16A2 with M203 attachment.&nbsp; You have to give it some thought.But for me, it's a matter of pride.&nbsp; That's my work, and every piece I put out is a representative of my skill, how good of an artist I am.&nbsp; Granted they don't all say what I want them to say, but I like to think that they all say that I put in the work and time to have them not look like I made it up as I went along with nothing to base it on.That being said, I'll play devil's advocate just long enough to say that everyone has some bad work that they had to turn in for one reason or another (deadline issues or whatever), and it's possible that the artists who have done these atrocious illos cringe when they see them as much as we do.&nbsp; Or not, hell I'm just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt a little. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolv0rine, post: 3521289, member: 9045"] While this is true and all, this really does make the case against the artists doing poor work on the weapons & armor in the D&D books worse. I mean seriously, the artist doesn't have to [i]make[/i] the items, (s)he just has to draw them. I know whenever I go into an illustration, more than 3/4 of the time I put into it is in research. If I'm drawing armor, I spend horrendous amounts of time pouring through various real armors of various types trying to find something that comes close enough to what I'm trying to do that I can use it as a strong, functional base for what I'm going to do. The same with weapons. Fantasy, modern, it's all the same. I don't go trotting willy-nilly into drawing a sword any more than I do drawing and M-16A2 with M203 attachment. You have to give it some thought. But for me, it's a matter of pride. That's my work, and every piece I put out is a representative of my skill, how good of an artist I am. Granted they don't all say what I want them to say, but I like to think that they all say that I put in the work and time to have them not look like I made it up as I went along with nothing to base it on. That being said, I'll play devil's advocate [b]just[/b] long enough to say that everyone has some bad work that they had to turn in for one reason or another (deadline issues or whatever), and it's possible that the artists who have done these atrocious illos cringe when they see them as much as we do. Or not, hell I'm just trying to give them the benefit of the doubt a little. :) [/QUOTE]

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