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D&D art, what does it mean to you?

Started by Sacrosanct, August 06, 2014, 05:47:45 PM

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YourSwordisMine

#45
August 15, 2014, 05:14:28 PM
Who is the artist on the second piece there? The Tieflings. It has a rather Parkinson feel to it.
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#46
August 15, 2014, 05:27:08 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine4e was the ACTION POSE!!1eleven art of Wayne Reynolds. Who is now the main artist for Pathfinder.

In my experience, 4e art produced more "That, I want to play that!" reactions from players than any other.

Bren

#47
August 15, 2014, 05:44:14 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;780005That was 3.x

4e was the ACTION POSE!!1eleven art of Wayne Reynolds. Who is now the main artist for Pathfinder.

Quote from: Haffrung;780006That was 3E. 4E has some cool stuff like:
Ah, thanks. With the exception of a few pieces, I dislike the 3x/3E art. Those two 4E pieces are interesting, though they don't particularly excite my interest to play that. I'll have to surf about to look for some other 4E art.

The second piece looks like a Renaissance-style painting. Which is odd, but rather interesting. So the goat horned folk are Tieflings?
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Omega

#48
August 15, 2014, 06:01:06 PM
Hated 3e's MM art. ugh!

Aside from some anatomical or perspecta flubs. I actually like the art in the D&D Rules Cyclopedia.

LibraryLass

#49
August 15, 2014, 06:03:53 PM
Quote from: Omega;780020Hated 3e's MM art. ugh!

Most of it was pretty bad, but its beholder and chromatic dragons are iconic to me. (honestly chromatics that look different always seem... off to me. Like the dragon equivalent of the uncanny valley.)
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Haffrung

#50
August 15, 2014, 06:24:07 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;780009Who is the artist on the second piece there? The Tieflings. It has a rather Parkinson feel to it.

I don't know.

Quote from: Bren;780016The second piece looks like a Renaissance-style painting. Which is odd, but rather interesting. So the goat horned folk are Tieflings?

Yes. I was reluctant to allow Tieflings in my game until I saw that picture.
 

Omega

#51
August 15, 2014, 06:41:07 PM
Quote from: LibraryLass;780023Most of it was pretty bad, but its beholder and chromatic dragons are iconic to me. (honestly chromatics that look different always seem... off to me. Like the dragon equivalent of the uncanny valley.)

Dragons of diffrent breeds that all looked the same would feel off to me. And did feel off in the D&D movie. You couldnt tell the Reds from the Golds because they looked too simmilar, especially with the lighting.

Same for the Dragonlance dragons. They all look kinda the same.

Omega

#52
August 15, 2014, 06:53:02 PM
Quote from: YourSwordisMine;780009Who is the artist on the second piece there? The Tieflings. It has a rather Parkinson feel to it.

Howard Lyon I believe.

Natty Bodak

#53
August 15, 2014, 07:47:05 PM Last Edit: August 15, 2014, 07:55:45 PM by Natty Bodak
My D&D art confession: up until a couple of years ago (I guess around the time Diesel LaForce started redoing some of his classic work), I would have bet good money this (or more accurately, the original version of this) was an illustration of a web spell.  Clearly, I would have lost that bet.

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Natty Bodak

#54
August 15, 2014, 07:54:36 PM
My D&D art confession: up until a couple of years ago (I guess around the time Diesel LaForce started redoing some of his classic work), I would have bet good money this (or more accurately, the original version of this) was an illustration of a web spell.  Clearly, I would have lost that bet.

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LibraryLass

#55
August 15, 2014, 09:34:42 PM Last Edit: August 15, 2014, 09:46:54 PM by LibraryLass
Quote from: Omega;780035Dragons of diffrent breeds that all looked the same would feel off to me. And did feel off in the D&D movie. You couldnt tell the Reds from the Golds because they looked too simmilar, especially with the lighting.

Same for the Dragonlance dragons. They all look kinda the same.

Different from the 3.x interpretations, I mean. Which were all different from each other. Crested white, forward-swept horns and short face black, tall-finned green, bulky blue with a big nose horn, finned red with spikes and horns.

You interpreted it exactly opposite from what I meant, I think.

In 4e they changed up the Green, but they're back to the way I'd expect them in 5e, at least if that Tiamat wallpaper from last month was any indication.



Edit: Actually, I just cracked open my 2e MM and they had more basic versions of the same designs even then, but I like the particular interpretations of them in 3e with the humans for scale.
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LibraryLass

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August 15, 2014, 09:49:48 PM Last Edit: August 15, 2014, 09:52:37 PM by LibraryLass
Quote from: Omega;780035Dragons of diffrent breeds that all looked the same would feel off to me. And did feel off in the D&D movie. You couldnt tell the Reds from the Golds because they looked too simmilar, especially with the lighting.

Same for the Dragonlance dragons. They all look kinda the same.

No, I think you misunderstood me. Dragons that all look identical apart from color are definitely weird.

I mean like... the specific designs that they used from 3e onwards (which were really more like refined versions of the ones that were in 2e at least... I don't have my 1e MM on hand so I can't see if they have the same distinctive head shapes-- you know the drill, white dragons with a crest, black with short faces and forward-swept horns, etc.)

Edit: Here's the specific illustrations:









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Black Vulmea

#57
August 15, 2014, 10:22:37 PM
Quote from: LibraryLass;780092I don't have my 1e MM on hand so I can't see if they have the same distinctive head shapes . . .
They do.
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LibraryLass

#58
August 15, 2014, 10:36:58 PM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;780107They do.

Thanks, Vulmea.
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Sacrosanct

#59
August 16, 2014, 12:38:29 AM
Quote from: Black Vulmea;780107They do.

some do.  The black in 1e doesn't look anything like the one above.  Neither do some of the others.  I liked the variation in 1e the best.  Greens were fat.  The illustrations above?

They all look alike bodywise.  Every single one is "look at my muscly muscles human!"

This is my favorite dragon pic of all time

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