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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 802957" data-attributes="member: 4049">I think you're right about recent Wood material.As for B&W stuff, I think they use different approaches.  WAR tends to go for very crisp, illustrative looks... very much like an uncolored comic book image (that's not a knock.  I collect).  Wood tends to use a lot of washes, acquiring a more artsy feel.  As a result, I think the two styles aren't really comparable.The verdicts still out on that one!  <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" />Hmmm...  That one's not bad.  But, I think the poor fool fleeing the Astral Dreadnought looks retarded and I think the image itself is very static.  It has no energy aside from the retard.  The Dreadnought is just in the middle of the picture reaching out.... but I'm not afraid of it.  Very dull.  And, then there's that clunky look again.  Nope!  I don't like it! I hate every single one of those covers.His cover forLegends and Lore, with Odin on the cover...?  Ugh!  Odin's face looks like something from a Warner Brother's cartoon.  Why is the horse sneering (yeah, I know it's not a real horse, but the wrinkles around the eyes look lame... not to mention the frown).  Are those wolves or weasels; the muzzles look like they were chipped from wood...  The horse looks more threatening than the wolves!And, since TSR couldn't find anyone else, they asked him to return for the 2ed verison, which, if possible, is even worse and less awe-inspiring than the 1ed version.The "wizard" on the 1ed DMG looks like he's wearing a heavy, plastic robe.  His "enigmatic" smile looks like he's just found a pretty little girl to torment (perhaps that's the point).  The Red Dragon surrounded by pegasi...  Why does the dragon's snarling wrinkles look like huge plastic folds?  I'll stop there.  And the boring as all nymph.Elmore has declined dramatically as an artist.  The Titan is a great example of that.  And, I think when it comes to very intense, action-oriented scenes, there have always been better artists.  But, compared to Easely, he's a god.WHERE!!!!!!  Is there a link to the image somewhere?He also did an image of Orcus (for FR, I believe; it's a idol of Orcus surrounded by cultists) and this fantastic as hell picture of a masked wizard and his pet Hellhound!  The molten lava replacing dog saliva!  GREAT!!!!By and large, the art in the BoVD is pathetic all around.  Heck, the best images were the ones on the chapter pages!Demogorgon looks really, really dumb.  He looks like a rubber and wire child's toy (I don't care about the heads... although they could confuse one with Yeenoghu).  I thought Graz'zt was supposed to be drop-dead gorgeous?  Instead, we get a guy with really wierd looking legs (interestingly, the artist who did Graz'zt turned out some great work in Races of Faerun).Not one of the Lords of the Nine matched his/her description... although Bel came the closest.  Belial and Fierana are hideous (particularly Belial) rather than diabolically seducative.  Dispater (another Easley travesty) doesn't look all that conservative, doesn't appear to be made from iron, and doesn't appear to be wise.  He looks like he's ready to lay the smack-down.  Although I love WAR, his Mephisto is not what I hoped.  His Mephisto looks like a goth reject rather than an immensely powerful, stylish Arch-Duke of Hell in elaborate, flowing cloaks and robes (what's with the greasy hair?).  And Asmodeus.  Let's not get into that.Yep.  The art in BoVD sucks.</blockquote>

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