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Old School Inspirational Art Thread

Started by Tristram Evans, March 09, 2017, 12:10:48 AM

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March 28, 2017, 05:27:54 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:49:44 AM by Tristram Evans

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March 28, 2017, 05:36:11 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:50:04 AM by Tristram Evans

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Opaopajr

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March 28, 2017, 01:57:48 PM
Wow, it's humbling to see Warduke's stats now after all these years. We've really been submerged in power inflation that his two magic items (+1 sword and infravision helmet), and attribute scores, read lackluster to today's hero standards. And yet his look is more iconic and inspirational to me compared to the Wayne Reynolds ungapatchka (festooned!) heroes of late.
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

RunningLaser

#200
March 28, 2017, 04:04:04 PM
Quote from: Opaopajr;953999Wow, it's humbling to see Warduke's stats now after all these years. We've really been submerged in power inflation that his two magic items (+1 sword and infravision helmet), and attribute scores, read lackluster to today's hero standards. And yet his look is more iconic and inspirational to me compared to the Wayne Reynolds ungapatchka (festooned!) heroes of late.

I love Warduke.  And you have a point there on the power inflation.

Tristram Evans

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March 29, 2017, 01:47:51 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:51:41 AM by Tristram Evans

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March 29, 2017, 02:05:45 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:52:03 AM by Tristram Evans

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March 29, 2017, 02:09:40 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:52:18 AM by Tristram Evans

Opaopajr

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March 29, 2017, 04:50:47 AM Last Edit: March 29, 2017, 04:57:15 AM by Opaopajr
Frazetta's compositions are breathtaking. There's this tense dialogue with back/foreground that further inflames the composition. They are so dynamic while simultaneously speaking to a depth (suggested parallax) to the scene, it pulls you from the obvious artificiality of the dramatic compositioning into a breathing, intruding, immediate tension -- and boom, you're there. The artifice of the tableau's posing is transmuted by passion and enthralling depth of view into a visual climax worthy of any of the past Romantics. There's such a fiery intimacy, that I bet even his thumbnails and draft sketches must be somewhat overwhelming.

Which gets me to those hyper-realistic images. Technically, they are gorgeous, and I do love their compositioning, too. But for some reason there is a flatness I have trouble putting my finger on. Somehow, for as much as I complain about the fading and dithering of fore/backgrounds elsewhere in modern CGI works, these intensely passionate scenes don't seem to work as well in hyper-realistic style as much as pastorals. I think it might be Frazetta understood how human vision selectively occludes detail during moments of great passion and danger? I don't know, but as beautiful as those works are, the difference between them and a master like Frazetta is plain.

(It's an unfair comparison, I know. But comparing is how we puzzle out our ideas of things.)

Which gets me to Kaluta. I love it, it brings to mind an Art Nouveau fugue; an Alfonse de Mucha line work, with a sometimes Maxfield Parish coloring/lighting. Works really well in contemplative, social, inner tension scenes. Never saw him before but another great call back to past movements. I feel Rebecca Guay is akin to this style, however trying to tame watercolor into her own etheric version. Kaluta seems better in control, but I wonder how much is about his medium and how much is his excellent draftsmanship.

keep posting! I got nothing to share because I'd lapse into CCG stuff and then this topic will go to pot. :)
Just make your fuckin\' guy and roll the dice, you pricks. Focus on what\'s interesting, not what gives you the biggest randomly generated virtual penis.  -- J Arcane
 
You know, people keep comparing non-TSR D&D to deck-building in Magic: the Gathering. But maybe it\'s more like Katamari Damacy. You keep sticking shit on your characters until they are big enough to be a star.
-- talysman

kobayashi

#205
March 29, 2017, 06:27:01 AM
Larry Mac Dougall






Someone on the Samurai Jack team



Tristram Evans

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March 29, 2017, 09:15:49 AM Last Edit: May 18, 2017, 03:52:38 AM by Tristram Evans

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