Who Do You Want Illustrating 4th Ed.?

hazel monday said:
Cary Nord!
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That's a great idea! Man, if you want to go comic artists I would kill for Rich Corben. The covers he did on the American versions of the Lone Wolf books were amazing. I used to stare at those for hours. Hell, I still do... I would kill someone to get posters of some of his art.

KoshPWNZYou said:
The Rules Compendium gallery showcases a lot of past 3E art.
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Wow! How can you possibly mistake this for Wayne Reynolds?

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/RulesComp_Gallery/110234.jpg

I mean no offense to Jason Engle either. WAR and JAE's styles are like night and day. How can one possibly confuse the two? They need to get that fixed.
 

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Michael_R_Proteau said:
Cary Nord-his work on Dark Horse's Conan is strongly evocative and he demonstrates great skill as a draftman and he uses colors to a spectacular effect to convey emotion, motion, and dynamism in his work.
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Cary Nord is an amazing artist. I would probably pick him as the head concept designer. Your mistaken about his colors though. That's the wizardry of Dave Stewart. Hands down, I think Dave Stewart is my favorite colorist when he works on Conan. His other stuff I don't like very much. Odd thing that.
 

Oh, throw Jeremy Jarvis into the mix. IIRC, he's in WotC staff (I think as Magic art director or something), but I think he still has some time for artwork. And I love his soft colours. They're refreshing.

Cheers, LT.
 

I would like to see a set that, unfortunately, would almost certainly be insanely expensive and would very much up the "D&D is turning into video games!!!" and "D&D is turning into anime!!!" quotient.

As to the former, when it comes to art direction, you say that like it's a BAD thing. :D As to the latter, I'd rather not see actual anime drawings, because those tend to be minimalist for the sake of being animated, but I do like anime STYLINGS, which all of these have.

Kou Yoshinari and You Yoshinari: Character Designers for Valkyrie Profile

Fumi Ishikawa: Character Designer for Suikoden II

Samwise Didier: Blizzard Entertainment's art director and principle concept artist

Takuji Kawano: Character Designer for the Soul Calibur series

Senri Kita: Character Designer for the Fire Emblem series
 


MoogleEmpMog said:
I would like to see a set that, unfortunately, would almost certainly be insanely expensive and would very much up the "D&D is turning into video games!!!" and "D&D is turning into anime!!!" quotient.

As to the former, when it comes to art direction, you say that like it's a BAD thing. :D As to the latter, I'd rather not see actual anime drawings, because those tend to be minimalist for the sake of being animated, but I do like anime STYLINGS, which all of these have.

Kou Yoshinari and You Yoshinari: Character Designers for Valkyrie Profile

Fumi Ishikawa: Character Designer for Suikoden II

Samwise Didier: Blizzard Entertainment's art director and principle concept artist

Takuji Kawano: Character Designer for the Soul Calibur series

Senri Kita: Character Designer for the Fire Emblem series
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I seriously second the mentions of Fumi Ishikawa and Senri Kita. If you add the character designers for Suikoden 3 and 5 (sadly, I don't know if they are different people or the same person, or thier names) then I am even more in favor. Maybe add Amano to the list as well.
 


TwinBahamut said:
I seriously second the mentions of Fumi Ishikawa and Senri Kita. If you add the character designers for Suikoden 3 and 5 (sadly, I don't know if they are different people or the same person, or thier names) then I am even more in favor. Maybe add Amano to the list as well.
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I'm pretty sure Fumi Ishikawa did at least some of Suikoden 3 as well, but I'm not sure how much. I have a copy of Suikoden 5 sitting next to me, and perusing the manual reveals nothing... :\

I'd prefer not to add Amano, myself. Maybe if he were the ONLY artist working on the book, I wouldn't mind, but his stuff is so distinctive, it doesn't fit with really anything else.

Fumi Ishikawa and Senri Kita have styles that would compliment each other in a book, as would the Yoshinaris (in the VP style, anyway) and Takuji Kawano. They all do that 'nods to anime/manga styling, but far less exaggerated, with generally more believable/pseudo-realistic gear, and with more depth of shading and design detail.'

Admittedly, Samwise Didier is outside of that continuum, but he's just too awesome to leave off. :) And he does use at least a somewhat similar, albeit more DRAMATIC, balance between cel shading and painterly shading. Of course, he's probably making more at Blizzard than the entire WotC art budget for Magic and D&D both... :cool:
 

Of course, I love WAR so I'm glad to see his covers.


But, I'll add to the list some highly unlikely ones -

Geof Darrow (super-fine line work, he's even done rpg work before, Mayfair's Underground)

Wayne Barlowe (he should be contacted for a planes/hell book, check his Inferno work)

Dave McKean (after Mirrormask, I'd love to see his work in D&D)

Keith Thompson (http://www.keiththompsonart.com/ he does do rpg stuff, so maybe)

Kieran Yanner (been doing some work for D&D lately, so this is actually likely)

Wen-M ( http://wen-m.deviantart.com/gallery/ has done work on the Anima rpg. Destined for stardom, even to those who hate "anime styled" artwork )
 

Dave Trampier (pipe dream)
Jim Roslof
Bill Willingham
Frank Freakin' FRAZETTA, baby. (pipe dream)
Claudio Pozas
Larry Elmore
Erol Otis
DiTerlizzi
Brom
Michael Whelan
Roger Raupp
The Brothers Hildebrandt (pipe dream)
Jim Holloway
Clyde Caldwell
H. R. Giger (I'd love to see his mind-flayer, grell or beholder!)(pipe dream)
Phil Foglio (pipe dream)


But no WAR, thank you very much.

[Edit: Add P. Craig Russell, Barry Windsor-Smith and Charles Vess to my list.]
 
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