Re: [DL] PEG Internal Art (Goff)

[The Baron Samedi <baron11@netmcr.com>]

At 01:57 PM 8/24/00, you wrote:
>[OK,OK so my secret's out, while on holiday I visited some art
>galleries and soaked up some culture - so maybe some of it has rubbed
>off on me and I'm noticing these things more.]
>
>I don't know if there is any way to say this politely, but am I the
>only one to think that the art within Hexarcana sucked big time.  I
>will clarify this a bit by saying that, I am not meaning the full
>splash pages at the end of each chapter, but the smaller art
>throughout the book.  Some was better than others, but the style of
>art tends towards the thick rough sketching, with little or no detail
>("look I can draw in crayon"), and looks to have taken at most 5
>minutes to complete!

There was some discussion there on the Forum.  Many people had problems, 
evidently, with Hexarcana's interior art.
It is lower grade then some of their other art, but it failed to offend me.

>OK, maybe that's a bit excessive, but there are some particularly bad
>pictures within Hexarcana.  I don't know if in a effort to get the
>book out on time PEG needed the stuff done in a hurry, or what; it
>just looks to be poor and in my opinion lets down the text pretty
>shamefully (does that sound as if I'm being too grovelly to Mr Goff?).
>The art just makes me want to turn the page to get rid of it rather
>than complete the text on the page.  Maybe I shouldn't knock the
>artist that, for all I dislike his art, can draw a heck of a lot
>better than me (unless of course the stick man image is the one PEG
>want to use - in which case I'm willing to discuss all possible
>contracts).
>
>The last Deadlands product I can remember being impressed with the art
>was Dommtown or Bust (didn't like the cover much - but that was just
>the subject rather than the style :-) ).  Maybe this required more
>detailed art to convey NPC features and locations, but I was surprised
>by the high quality (not that I was expecting a lower quality from
>PEG, but in general the art here I felt was of a higher quality than
>most of the RPG supplements that I own)

DToB had a great deal of Art from the Cards. ;-)
Deadlands interior art, to me, has always been average, with some strong 
exceptions.  I rarely see a pic and say "my character looks like that or 
this NPC looks like that".  To compare it to White Wolfs, I have seen much 
better in WW, but I have also seen FAR worse then I have EVER seen in PEGs 
work.  Mebbe that is why I was not mussed much by Hexarcana.


>Anyway that's me for my artistic rantings.
>
>Roy " now artistically enlightened" Spence

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