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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3239783" data-attributes="member: 22779">Oh, hey, I love me the Elmore.  Great stuff.  As I said upthread though, there's just SO MUCH 3e art out there, that you can't really make any general statements about it.  You can pick and choose different publishers, or maybe even specific periods of a given publisher, but, the stable of fantasy artists doing some really great stuff right now is huge.  Like I said, I like to lurk over at the Pen and Paper Database and check out the galleries.  IIRC, there's something like almost a hundred artists over there that have published work for a 3.x book.  That's astonishing.  Honestly, I think that's one of the biggest differences now.  Instead of a small number of artists totally dominating the hobby, like the Dee/Otis/Trampier bunch in 1e or the Elmore and co. of 2e, you have very large numbers of artists working for a number of publishers all attempting to portray a different look and feel.I guess what I'm trying to say is that there is a larger chance of finding artists that you don't like in 3e and a larger chance of finding those you do.  In earlier editions, if you didn't like a small number of artists, you were SOL for D&D art.  However, in 3e, because there are so many artists, it's much more likely that you are going to get smacked with images that you don't like.Personally, I don't like Bergting and Lukacs.  I find their art not to my taste to say the least.  However, between the covers of Dragon, I'm also going to find artists like Andrew Hou and Eva Wildman who I really, really do like.  So, I ignore the stuff I don't like and focus on what I do.</blockquote>

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