Re: Sartar Companion cover art

From: julianlord <julian.lord_at_xBMCarSpDknLnQrgWXd6i7T9lMAe3zt-RGaTsJSMaRFBBn-urWYwfhV4gWHMRot0>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:05:15 -0000


Jeff :

> Adept -
>
> You don't like the cover. Fine. Taste is subjective and beyond certain bare technical requirements there is room for wide disagreement on whether something is good or not.
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> I like the cover, (as does our kitchen cabinet) and at the end of the day that is all there is to be said about it.
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> What I dislike is posts that are insulting to the artist. Please stop that.

Adept -- getting good art is one of the very hardest things to do for the purposes of any Gloranthan publication, as I know from painful personal experience, and objectively speaking that cover is MORE than good enough -- OK, certain publications in the past have had some absolutely *outstanding* cover art, but it's simply naďve to expect that all published cover art for every product, official or otherwise, will be so outstanding, nor that everyone will enjoy it equally.

Gloranthan artists are rare and precious creatures, and deserve 100% of our support, so that your comments are entirely unwelcome. Dave Dobyski as the exception proving the rule. Don't like the art in Sartar Companion ? Grab your copy of Eldorad, if you haven't burned it yet, and see the difference...

Your comments are insulting not only to the artists, which is unacceptable ; but also to the MD production and design team, which is *just* as unacceptable. MD have done and continue to do their utmost to provide the best quality that they're capable of ; including _financially_ capable ; professionally absolute top-notch artwork is very expensive indeed, and Mongoose for example have been dispensing with cover art *entirely* for some of their more recent RuneQuest publications (!!) ; so unless you're personally willing to finance some outstanding artist to provide cover art for future MD products, I think you'd be better off just being happy with what they *can* provide, which is again **Good Art** and perfectly EXCELLENT for the purposes of illustrating this game product.

So -- a big THANK YOU to : Simon Bray, Dan Barker, Bernard Bittler, Daniel Brereton, Damon Brown, Heather Bruton, William Church, Dario Corallo, Gene Day, Jed Dougherty, Sarah Evans, Lisa Free, Stefano Gaudiano, Marian Gutowski, Ossi Hiekkala, Gill Hellion, Merle Insinga, Paul Jaquays, Ilkka Leskila, Rick Lippiet, Manoel Magalhaes, Juha Makkonen, Michael O'Connor, Luise Perenne, Jan Pospíšil, Steve Purcell, Kevin Ramos, Markku Silvennoinen, Darran Sims, John Snyder, Peter Town, and Eric Vanel for providing the WONDERFUL ART for this latest Glorantha publication !!!!

Julian Lord            

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