Who Do You Want Illustrating 4th Ed.?

[Testament]

I've asked it before and I'll ask it again: what is with the love for Erol Otis? I feel like I'm on crazy pills here!

How can people complain about WAR's styling and in the same damn post, ask for work by a man who's art resembles the amateurish scrawlings of my single-digit aged cousins?

 

[WhatGravitas]

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

Strangely enough, I don't care much for his colour stuff (though it is usually well-executed). But I TOTALLY dig his soft B/W pieces!
Like the ones here or here.

Cheers, LT.

 

[Testament]

Strangely enough, I don't care much for his colour stuff (though it is usually well-executed). But I TOTALLY dig his soft B/W pieces!
Like the ones here or here.

Cheers, LT.

Damn, that is some nice work. By the same token, Sam Wood seems to work better in B/W.

 

[Wiseblood]

My hat of WAR know no limit.

I don't have any particular preference towards art, other than that I despise WAR's art with a passion.

I think a fair mix of art would be nice. I don't like the comic-book look, but I can deal with it. I'm not a fan of old-school high-fantasy art, but I can deal with it. So long as it looks nice and fits the subject matter, the art isn't all too important.

But seriously, WAR needs to go. The covers for the 4e books look horrid. I have yet to see a piece he has done that I've looked at and had anything better than a mildly negative reaction towards.

QFT His stuff belongs in comic books. Give me Elmore, Jusko or anybody that doesn't draw characters whose studded leather looks like full plate. If they don't release PHB and such with alternate illustrators I'll have to wrap mine in paper bags a-la highschool and put my own freaking illustrations on them. Hell, pencil drawings of polyhedral dice would look better.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

I've asked it before and I'll ask it again: what is with the love for Erol Otis? I feel like I'm on crazy pills here!

Nope.

There's all of, like, two Erol Otus works that I think would be worth the paper they're printed on.

The rest just hits me like really bad 80s cartoons.

 

[Simia Saturnalia]

Nope.

There's all of, like, two Erol Otus works that I think would be worth the paper they're printed on.

The rest just hits me like really bad 80s cartoons.

You've seen two? Which ones?

And I'd really say more like filler art in the back of a cheap 70's sci-fi fiction magazine.

 

[Desdichado]

QFT His stuff belongs in comic books. Give me Elmore, Jusko or anybody that doesn't draw characters whose studded leather looks like full plate. If they don't release PHB and such with alternate illustrators I'll have to wrap mine in paper bags a-la highschool and put my own freaking illustrations on them. Hell, pencil drawings of polyhedral dice would look better.

Oddly, I'd love to see some honest to goodness comic book artists do a few freelance pics. I wouldn't turn my nose up at some Marc Silvestri, Jim Lee, Dale Keown and others.

Speaking of which, did I ever mention here that I had Keith Pollard working tech support in my last building? The artist who did Spiderman for years and created Black Cat along with Marv Wolfman? Weird. But very cool. I shoulda had him sign something; I'm not sure where he ended up when they relocated everyone out of that building and put it up for lease.

EDIT: to point out that that's no excuse for Rob Leifield illustrated D&D.

 

[The Ubbergeek]

How about looking a bit out of the north america?

The europeans have the bd, wich have some great artists, like...

Régis Loisel, of the franco-belgian school... He have a style not unlike DitErlizzi (spelling?) a bit, with a flair for a certain light comicish note and creative, but who can be quite dark at times?

Like the cover for La Quête de l'Oiseau du Temps - Le Rige.

Or the Frazette-inspired Gil Formosa, who have worked in the american comic industry? Very old-school stuff, he can do, if wished. Sword and sorcery.

Les Légendes du Chevalier Cargal was a classic of fantasy art in Europe

Or ledroit - Pontet, with their Warhammeresque impressive art in Chroniques de la Lune Noire, cool yet artsy at the same time?

Those guys could do wonders in Eberron...


The manga styles are not so liked, but well... There is some guys who could REALLY fit well with minimal efforts.

How about Tetsuo Hara? The seminial ultraviolent Fist of the North Star manga shown him doing an art inspired by american comics and artists (llike Frazetta) yet with his own feels. Also, he did among his other works a few famous samurai tales, like Hana no Keiji - Keiji the Magnificient. He could be well in an oriental Adventure book.

Hey, don't tell me that it would not fit perfectly in a new Oriental Adventures line...


Kentaro Miura of the classic dark fantasy Berserk fame could be good also. He do have his 'dungeonpunk' things now and then, but his art also have an occidental influence, gritty, dark side. Berserk was late medieval-renaissance anyway, so...

Is it very different from D&D?

 

[Guild Goodknife]

Kentaro Miura is absolutely great. If he could do anything for D&D (especially for the Monster Manual) i'd love that.

 

[DandD]

Kentaro Miura, yeah, totally bad-ass...