Interior Artwork

[vladthemad]

Alright, I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed in the interior artwork, and the ship section in particular. The exterior views are average, and the isometric interiors while nice would be difficult to use in play. With a black on white top down view of the interior like you have in the printer friendly copy and previous material, I can print them as needed and use them at the table with tokens of some sort if needed for combat and the like.

I'd also like to make the suggestion that Ian Stead be used for the exterior ship designs, as he has been used previously in some of the other books...and his work is stellar! Pun intended. If any of you haven't stumbled over his website yet, I suggest you take a look.

https://biomassart.wordpress.com/

 

[DickNervous]

I'd also like to make the suggestion that Ian Stead be used for the exterior ship designs, as he has been used previously in some of the other books...and his work is stellar! Pun intended. If any of you haven't stumbled over his website yet, I suggest you take a look.

https://biomassart.wordpress.com/

I second this 110%, his artwork is awesome

 

[Jeff Hopper]

I'd also like to make the suggestion that Ian Stead be used for the exterior ship designs, as he has been used previously in some of the other books...and his work is stellar! Pun intended. If any of you haven't stumbled over his website yet, I suggest you take a look.

https://biomassart.wordpress.com/

I second this 110%, his artwork is awesome

Thirded!

 

[-Daniel-]

I have loved Ian Stead's artwork for both the style and the feel. He is a great artist.

 

[vladthemad]

It's settled then. Ian Stead does the artwork or we march on Mongoose HQ!

 

[Vile]

I just wanted to check whether the colours for the interior pages are what we would see on the PDF and the printed book? Generally I'm not a fan of black backgrounds with anything printed. It also makes printing out bits of the rules difficult, especially for careers which can be handy if you have a whole group at the table generating characters and they don't all have a copy of the book.

I hope these won't make it into the final product, but I guess the fact that they're here means it's likely?

Okay, and you can't go wrong with Ian Stead doing your ships. 8)

 

[Stainless]

Another vote for Ian stead's ship art.

 

[middenface]

'blush'

 

[nats]

Another vote for Ian stead's ship art.

That is a superb illustration. He is getting really good now.

I don't know who did some of the ship illustrations in the Traders and Gunboats books but some of them are atrociously bad (I am thinking Junk Fighter and Modular Clipper here) you can tell the artist doing those ones does not have any artistic flair at all and most of them dont look anything like the deck plans. They had better not be using that same artist again for the new Core Rule book - but I have to say that illustration of the people sat looking at the city lights in the new v2 pdf seems painfully similar ...

 

[Gypsy Knights Games]

I'd also like to make the suggestion that Ian Stead be used for the exterior ship designs, as he has been used previously in some of the other books...and his work is stellar! Pun intended. If any of you haven't stumbled over his website yet, I suggest you take a look.

https://biomassart.wordpress.com/

Agreed. Ian is an amazing artist.

 

[phavoc]

HUGE fan of Ian's work. I've purchased a few supplements just based on the artwork.

Good art sells, GREAT art sells AND inspires.

 

[Anonymous]

HUGE fan of Ian's work. <snip>

Good art sells, GREAT art sells AND inspires.

Hell yes on both!

Blush not Mr Stead, be proud!

 

[Cugel]

At this point I think it's close to unanimous: please, please have Ian do the ships! :!:

 

[brother lemur]

I am not a big fan of the depiction of the Aslan in the book. A sketch or line drawing may be better for the image comparing the different races.

 

[Scratches]

With the exception of CT Alien Module 1 and DGP the depictions of Aslan have been atrocious. Aslan are lion-like, they are not lions. The black Aslan armor on the MgT Aslan cover is cool but the actual lions standing in the background make me crazy.

So please add my vote to changing the Aslan artwork.

 

[hdan]

Yes, that was my biggest complaint about the otherwise enjoyable Aslan book - after going out of their way to state that Aslan do not actually look like lions, all of the interior artwork is of lion-headed humanoids.

Vargr are justified with a dog-ish look, though I don't like the "muscled human werewolf" version of Vargr very much - they should have very narrow shoulders.

The pictures on pg53 are closer for Vargr than previous artwork, but I still don't quite buy their Aslan.

 

[Scratches]

Scrawny Vargrs are the best.

On page three of CT AM01 Aslan (emphasis is mine):

Early Terran explorers regarded the Aslan as "lion-like," and the simile has stuck ever since, although the Aslan bear little resemblance to Terrestrial lions.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Best Aslan.

http://orig10.deviantart.net/3ac3/f/2011/148/7/8/__aslan_commission___by_caesar120-d3hgf7t.jpg

 

[Scratches]

Best Aslan.

http://orig10.deviantart.net/3ac3/f/2011/148/7/8/__aslan_commission___by_caesar120-d3hgf7t.jpg

100% Mr. Driscoll, 100%.

 

[Tarkin]

I have no idea if he is still active, but I would love to see William Keith's work in Traveller again. Also Janet Aulisio.