Now maybe this is just a generational thing of interpretation, but when it came to the 70s late 80s and 90s DnD artwork, they nailed it down when it came to this:
http://dungeonsmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/fred-fields-red-wizard1-239x300.jpg
http://dungeonsmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/jeff-easley-dmg-220x300.jpg
http://www.spinningdicegames.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ClydeCaldwell-art.jpg
http://mygirlfriendisadm.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/caldwell00.jpg
http://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/pic549862_md.jpg
It's alittle hard to find these images, but they showed real skill of art without the use of computers nowadays. All I see now in Dnd to mostly borderline cartoonish styles. This is just a personal preference more than anything, but I would love to see a return of the old styles.
I think that's why I loved Baldur's Gate and Icewind dale so much, though I know computers might have been used, they kept a certain style fitting for DnD even if the style is alittle different, and it didn't go straight cartoon y like. :-)
Maybe it was the feather-hair look of the 80s that put it away in the past? idk lol.
http://dungeonsmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/fred-fields-red-wizard1-239x300.jpg
http://dungeonsmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/jeff-easley-dmg-220x300.jpg
http://www.spinningdicegames.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ClydeCaldwell-art.jpg
http://mygirlfriendisadm.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/caldwell00.jpg
http://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/pic549862_md.jpg
It's alittle hard to find these images, but they showed real skill of art without the use of computers nowadays. All I see now in Dnd to mostly borderline cartoonish styles. This is just a personal preference more than anything, but I would love to see a return of the old styles.
I think that's why I loved Baldur's Gate and Icewind dale so much, though I know computers might have been used, they kept a certain style fitting for DnD even if the style is alittle different, and it didn't go straight cartoon y like. :-)
Maybe it was the feather-hair look of the 80s that put it away in the past? idk lol.