something awful forum wolfe discussion

Son of Witz · 01 Feb 2011, 00:07 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: Sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:07:01 -0800
Subject: (urth) something awful forum wolfe discussion
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On Jan 31, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Adam Thornton <adam at io.com> wrote:

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> On Jan 31, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
> 
>> I think bad fantasy art keeps more people away from the genre than bad fantasy films or books.
>> I wouldn't touch D&D once I thought the art was corny.  Now I wish I'd practiced dragons and shit a bit more.
> 
> Huh.  D&D art is certainly a mixed bag...but David Trampier was astonishingly talented.  Erol Otus did an awful lot of hallucinatory fever-dream paintings that I like too.  Jim Holloway, if you're looking for slightly-cartoonish figures with a lot of eye-pleasing motion, is good.  Jeff Dee usually wasn't bad.
> 
> Sure, Sturgeon's Law still applies...but a lot of the Golden Age (say, 1977 to 1984) D&D art was really well done.
> 
> Adam

I don't mean to disparage any particular artist.  Even Greats like Hildebrant rubbed me the wrong way when I was a teenager. It has more to do with my biases than the art. I don't even know David Trampier. Just googled, and I like it, but at fifteen I would have thought it corny & cliche.  It's odd that I appreciate this stuff more as an adult, but that has mostly to do with getting over myself, I think.

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