Post by drmanhattan on Jun 19, 2021 10:20:44 GMT
OK
same pictures (obviously) as
fightingfantazine.proboards.com/thread/1172/illustration-poll-warlock-firetop-mountain
This time, nominate the 3 pictures which are your least favourite, but this time you have to explain what it is about the picture you feel is missing something. To be clear, this is no criticism of Russ Nicholsons amazing work, and frankly each of these pictures is difficult to separate from the wonderful and long lasting memories I had as a wee lad, but I maybe found it easier to pick 3 I "least liked" than 3 I liked best, since I could pick almost any 3 from the selection and content myself with them being the best.
I posted here
and will have to pick 3 of the 4 as
Mosaic Floor (primarily the small size format hurt the impact of the image maybe)
Rats (just look too normal. and almost "too perfect" I mean they would not be amiss in a wildlife book about rats)
I think I'll take Bats just slightly over Spider, both have better "coming for you" poses than the Rats, but a giant spider is just physically scarier than a bat perhaps.
same pictures (obviously) as
fightingfantazine.proboards.com/thread/1172/illustration-poll-warlock-firetop-mountain
This time, nominate the 3 pictures which are your least favourite, but this time you have to explain what it is about the picture you feel is missing something. To be clear, this is no criticism of Russ Nicholsons amazing work, and frankly each of these pictures is difficult to separate from the wonderful and long lasting memories I had as a wee lad, but I maybe found it easier to pick 3 I "least liked" than 3 I liked best, since I could pick almost any 3 from the selection and content myself with them being the best.
I posted here
Yep, I too quickly realized just how many amazing illustrations there were, and almost all of them I could directly connect to very many memories and emotions from days gone by. It might have been easier to pick out 3 that didn't evoke strong memories, though I might still have struggled.
I think I always found the rats a bit off, somehow they look "too real" like everyday rats, despite the size, so I suppose there was no magic with those, and no striking pose like them snarling out of the page
the mosaic floor I think at the size and scale, the floor pattern doesnt really pop as much as it might at a larger format
the spider probably similar reason to the rats (I guess bats would have been in the same group), too close to real life monsters somehow not quite fantasy exaggerated enough.
But this is literally trying vainly to pick "least favourite pics" and I still think all of those are great and I remember them all fondly
I think I always found the rats a bit off, somehow they look "too real" like everyday rats, despite the size, so I suppose there was no magic with those, and no striking pose like them snarling out of the page
the mosaic floor I think at the size and scale, the floor pattern doesnt really pop as much as it might at a larger format
the spider probably similar reason to the rats (I guess bats would have been in the same group), too close to real life monsters somehow not quite fantasy exaggerated enough.
But this is literally trying vainly to pick "least favourite pics" and I still think all of those are great and I remember them all fondly
Mosaic Floor (primarily the small size format hurt the impact of the image maybe)
Rats (just look too normal. and almost "too perfect" I mean they would not be amiss in a wildlife book about rats)
I think I'll take Bats just slightly over Spider, both have better "coming for you" poses than the Rats, but a giant spider is just physically scarier than a bat perhaps.