"Digital art with more pop" actually means "A.I. art we don't have to pay for". A.I. can be a great tool, but this kind of use (and abuse) is a problem that's not going away easily. We're going to get low quality crap unless we demand real art from real artists.
I never loved Elmore (after my time!) but he is the defining artist for generations of fans. I relate more to the scratchy squiggly comic-booky art of the early books.
I far and away prefer the old stuff. A properly done old-school art is fantastic, and it's a rarity. Off the top of my head, the Elf Queen of Shannara cover art is fantastic, as well as the first edition of cover art for Wheel of Time (the latter stuff is too washed out, and feels like crap.) I like vivid and stylistic fantasy art. You don't find them as much in the fantasy sections these days.
EDIT: Keith Parkinson is Shannara's artist. Similar in style, has that feelign like the monsters could BE real.
Hey the art has the right number of fingers. Ok
The new art is mostly ok but the faces are *nightmare material*, especially Tanis. By Reorx's beard get a decent artist to fix the faces. 😵
WotC misspelled "More Slop"
The covers for these series look like botched restoration jobs of classic Elmore paintings.
"Digital art with more pop" actually means "A.I. art we don't have to pay for". A.I. can be a great tool, but this kind of use (and abuse) is a problem that's not going away easily. We're going to get low quality crap unless we demand real art from real artists.
I refuse to buy any new D&D or Dragonlance books. The art sucks, the stories suck, the epic is gone.
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He didn't get "axed". He's been officially retired for years, just selling his art prints and occasional fanworks.
Going digital was a bad move by Randomhouse / Wotc, but it wasn't Ai and they didn't "axe" anyone.
I never loved Elmore (after my time!) but he is the defining artist for generations of fans. I relate more to the scratchy squiggly comic-booky art of the early books.
I far and away prefer the old stuff. A properly done old-school art is fantastic, and it's a rarity. Off the top of my head, the Elf Queen of Shannara cover art is fantastic, as well as the first edition of cover art for Wheel of Time (the latter stuff is too washed out, and feels like crap.) I like vivid and stylistic fantasy art. You don't find them as much in the fantasy sections these days.
EDIT: Keith Parkinson is Shannara's artist. Similar in style, has that feelign like the monsters could BE real.
The leftists and the feminists can buy their trash, I sure won't.