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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sjmiller" data-source="post: 2328230" data-attributes="member: 17262">Before I comment on your statement, let me first say that the artwork shown is all well executed.  They are good samples of the artists and their work.  To me none of them is really a complete picture.  They appear to all be a preliminary piece or cut out from a finished piece.  I would have to disagree with you that they all have backgrounds and settings in them.  Going picture by picture we have:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The shifter with a small amount of photoshopped trees and bushes in the background, but I cannot tell if it is a wall or something else behind that.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Natural Weapons picture with a bit of smoke and flaming garbage(?) behind it.  To me, at least, it appears that the artist is either just implying something in the background or the piece is unfinished.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The soulknife picture with a door against a white canvas.  There's not even the wall that the door would obviously be attached to.  It's like the artist painted one of those sculpture pieces/diaramas you see for sale at comic shops.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Now we get to one that at least appears to have a background.  The sky-ship picture would be better if, again in my opinion, the artist actually finished it.  Look at the bottom of the picture and the lower right corner in particular.  It's like the artist just got tired of doing it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The aerenel elf and baboon picture looks like the artist just applied a dark wash over the canvas for the "background."  No detail, no hints as to the setting, nothing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The quori nightmare has no background at all.  The nimbus surrounding the central figure is part of the figure's manifestation (I guess).  There's no context to the picture at all.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Primal Fear picture really looks unfinished to me.  Again, no background, just the manifestation of the power and, I guess, it's victim.  Inside?  Outside?  Who can tell?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The oriental looking half-orc fending off the crocodile again looks like a concept piece for a much larger scene.  I am not sure what that is supposed to be behind the half-orc.  It almost looks like dried grassland.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The orcs rescuing the gnome appears to come from a larger piece.  I would like to see the whole thing, to see the whole story.  This one has the beginnings of a background, but it just looks like something is missing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The final shifter picture again looks like a preliminary character sketch for a painting.  You concentrate on the main figure to get the details you want in it and do not worry about the background, as that is most likely done already.</li> </ol>As I said at the beginning of this post.  All the pieces show remarkable talent.  I guess, for me, the lack of context means that they do not grab me like they obviously do for others.  That's simply a matter of personal taste.  Just mark my comments as coming from a cranky old man.</blockquote>

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