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<blockquote data-quote="Rothe" data-source="post: 3522770" data-attributes="member: 39813">I agree, the secret is if it is &quot;cool;&quot; but what is &quot;cool&quot; to one is simply &quot;goofy&quot; and &quot;juvenile&quot; to another.&nbsp; To me if it get's too unrealistic it gets &quot;goofy&quot; and destroys my suspension of disbelief and then fun.&nbsp; I have a hard time viewing someone as an inspiring bad-ass adventurer that, to me, just looks &quot;goofy.&quot;This argument could also be applied to the illustrations of women in fantasy art.&nbsp; To many men, the scantily clad women in fantasy art, especially warriors, may be &quot;cool&quot; to others not. In addition it depends on how many &quot;clearly&quot; unrealistic things we have in one image, how many percieved incongruities.&nbsp; People will generally accept 2 or 3, add too many and disbeleif is broken.&nbsp; The thing with tying ones illustrations in the realistic is you minimize the incongruities.&nbsp; The incongruities you do have can then make for a stronger message.&nbsp; In addition, you can get your message across.&nbsp; If things come off as &quot;goofy&quot; to someone, that person probably won't get your message.&nbsp; I think it is possible to get both cool and realistic enough (for me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />).&nbsp; I'm not saying it is easy, probably not attainable by all artists.&nbsp; Frazetta Conan illustrations do it fairly well for me on the cool+realistic front.&nbsp; The detail of the frost giant on the right turning green in the &quot;Frost Giant's Daughter&quot; illustration is an excellent realistic detail for someone who just had their jugular cut (and the tiny drop of blood on the snow adds to it).&nbsp; To me (which I can't repeat enough this being art) Frazette's Conan illustrations bespeak bad-ass, are inspiring and have realistic enough weapons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rothe, post: 3522770, member: 39813"] I agree, the secret is if it is "cool;" but what is "cool" to one is simply "goofy" and "juvenile" to another. To me if it get's too unrealistic it gets "goofy" and destroys my suspension of disbelief and then fun. I have a hard time viewing someone as an inspiring bad-ass adventurer that, to me, just looks "goofy." This argument could also be applied to the illustrations of women in fantasy art. To many men, the scantily clad women in fantasy art, especially warriors, may be "cool" to others not. In addition it depends on how many "clearly" unrealistic things we have in one image, how many percieved incongruities. People will generally accept 2 or 3, add too many and disbeleif is broken. The thing with tying ones illustrations in the realistic is you minimize the incongruities. The incongruities you do have can then make for a stronger message. In addition, you can get your message across. If things come off as "goofy" to someone, that person probably won't get your message. I think it is possible to get both cool and realistic enough (for me ;)). I'm not saying it is easy, probably not attainable by all artists. Frazetta Conan illustrations do it fairly well for me on the cool+realistic front. The detail of the frost giant on the right turning green in the "Frost Giant's Daughter" illustration is an excellent realistic detail for someone who just had their jugular cut (and the tiny drop of blood on the snow adds to it). To me (which I can't repeat enough this being art) Frazette's Conan illustrations bespeak bad-ass, are inspiring and have realistic enough weapons. [/QUOTE]

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