Hi, compilation of artworks from Godbeasts http://wellofeternitypl.blogspot.com/2016/04/artworks-from-age-of-sigmar-vi.html

The blue Stormcast against the Minotaur is awesome. The Slann vs the Deamon Prince is a joke lol.

Most of the artwork seems pretty... average?

Stormcasts look more like Space Marines than ever in it.
The Minotaur one is pretty cool, though.

 Haechi wrote:
The blue Stormcast against the Minotaur is awesome. The Slann vs the Deamon Prince is a joke lol.

Agreed on both. I can't unsee the horrible positioning of the DP's right arm.

There are some good pieces and then there are some pretty bad pieces for the level we've come to expect. Something is happening in the art studio as Curse of the Wolfen has been PACKED with these more or less mediocre pieces. Maybe someone has been given the opportunity to gather some experience while having his works published in GW's expensive books... Something smells bad...

there's some great stuff in there.
I particularly like the one of the stormcast in the shield wall. I wish there was something in the rules to represent them locking shields a bit better since they seem to do it in just about every story I've read.
I really hate the term sigmarine and the comparison to space marines but ill be damned if I don't see a marine every time I see one of them using that hand crossbow.
it looks like a bolter with a cross bar strapped to it... ugh.

Yeah the art level has veen severely dropping. No more Kopinsky and such. I'm pretty sure they're trying to save money on art but whoever is in charge of that has no idea what a good or bad illustration is.

Thanks for the blog, love seeing it all compiled.

As always - there are some awesome arts and some not so great Good to see something more than stormcast and khornate warriors (Minotaur, Beastmen, Skaven...).

This is another good one:



Awesome!

This is another terrible one:



All the angles look off - especially on the bolt storm pistol.

Bottle, what actually gets to me the most in that specific picture is that all the mounts give the impression of being either smirking or laughing.

Nice! Thanks guys/gals

Yeah, this is not the level of art I'm expecting from a book this expensive. There are certainly good pieces, but for the price I'm paying I expect maybe one or two bad ones in the whole thing. A lot of these look like the artist took too much inspiration from the models, in that the individuals in the art seem like they are figures with a painted background. They just feel stiff and awkward to me. Also these are riddled with mistakes in joint posing and angles; I'm sorry, but if you are an artist being paid for your work you should be able to get that right. Especially with digital art production being as it is.

I'm quite used to GW books containing quite bland or bad artwork nowadays - I bought the Skitarii Codex and, oh my, it has some real stinkers. I have heard the Dark Angels Codex was a real low.

In my Skitarii codex the one piece that stands out like a breath of fresh air is one of Blanche's depictations of Mars. I know Blanche isn't for everyone but I absolutely love his work. Has there been any Blanche pieces for AoS? I would love to see one if there has been.

My favourite piece of AoS artwork is still of Sigmar as a leaping angel battling Khorne (or a giant minotaur). Great artwork shows you something of the game worlds which miniatures cannot. But with a lot of the art not only being of miniatures, but matching the poses and have fuzzy indistinct backgrounds to boot, those stand out pieces are few and far between.

But there is much more stuff like some new, original battleplans and formations plus some nice fluff. Overall this is still good book!
As for artworks - some are great, but they are different from old whfb arts - much more "cartoonish" (for younger customer i think).
Cheers!

Some of those pieces are really good. The Stormcast dueling a minotaur is very cool. However, a lot of them are really weak in big, objective ways that aren't related to the general AoS aesthetic- angles, perspective, posing, etc. For all of its myriad flaws, GW has always had great artwork. What's going on? Are they not drawing the same level of talent anymore?

 Bottle wrote:
This is another terrible one:

Spoiler:

Oh dear. How in the world did that ever get approved?!

 Guildsman wrote:
Some of those pieces are really good. The Stormcast dueling a minotaur is very cool. However, a lot of them are really weak in big, objective ways that aren't related to the general AoS aesthetic- angles, perspective, posing, etc. For all of its myriad flaws, GW has always had great artwork. What's going on? Are they not drawing the same level of talent anymore?

 Bottle wrote:
This is another terrible one:

Spoiler:

Oh dear. How in the world did that ever get approved?!

Maybe they pay less

This is my favourite from the above link:

There is so much win in this one - beginning with the slowed face of the rightmost stormcast (srsly couldn't help but think of Beavis from "Beavis and Butthead" ) , going through the already notorious bolt pistol, gliding near the Disney villain face of the little skaven, caught between all the big guys and finally ending with the stormvermin themselves. IMO GW don't pay low - they've paid in solid gold for this one

 CoreCommander wrote:
This is my favourite from the above link:

Spoiler:

There is so much win in this one - beginning with the slowed face of the rightmost stormcast (srsly couldn't help but think of Beavis from "Beavis and Butthead" ) , going through the already notorious bolt pistol, gliding near the Disney villain face of the little skaven, caught between all the big guys and finally ending with the stormvermin themselves. IMO GW don't pay low - they've paid in solid gold for this one

Liberator gold

As with all the new GW books, some of it is pretty crap, and some of it is awesome. I really like that Beastman.

I think a lot more of the art is commissioned these days, and some of the artists don't necessarily know the universe and only have the models to go on. That's why there's so much art that's basically just the models drawn loads of times. I really like the art pieces where they aren't just the models - like the dwarf vs the big lava dragon thing, or the Stormcast (sigmar?) jumping with the hammer against the massive horned beast thing. When you look through the older books and there's loads of monsters and things in the background, I definitely preferred that.

But yeah the new stuff, when it's good it's really good, but when it's bad it tends to be really bad.

Good grief, what awful art some of that is :(

Some of it is not very good, but has redeeming qualities. Some of it is downright awesome. But some of it...irredeemable...

 spyguyyoda wrote:
Good grief, what awful art some of that is :(

Some of it is not very good, but has redeeming qualities. Some of it is downright awesome. But some of it...irredeemable...

I think it`s not so bad. some of them are really good (minotaur vs stormcast eternals and beastmen for example).

 wellofeternity wrote:

 spyguyyoda wrote:
Good grief, what awful art some of that is :(

Some of it is not very good, but has redeeming qualities. Some of it is downright awesome. But some of it...irredeemable...

I think it`s not so bad. some of them are really good (minotaur vs stormcast eternals and beastmen for example).

Fair enough. Some of the pieces I think are bad not because they look terrible, or because they aren't to my taste, but because they are, from a technical standpoint, worse than some of my stuff back when I used to draw/paint. The angles are all wrong, or something similar.

Of note, while the Minotaur vs SE is definitely a big favorite of mine, I can't help but notice that he's holding his hammer at the wrong angle if he actually plans on hitting the Mino with it.

I still really like that piece in particular (though the last Beastmen one with the gors is the best, IMHO), but that little detail bugs me.

Some of the pieces that I don't like are still really well done, IMHO. For example, the cartoony skaven (I think it's a warlock?) with all the warpstone on it. That's a pretty fine piece, but it's a little cartoony for my tastes. It's still one of the better pieces overall, but I just can't quite like it.

So, hopefully these examples explain my opinion a little bit. I'm not just saying they're bad subjectively, a lot of them are bad art from an objective stand point.

Definitely still some clear winners, though!

Also, thank you for posting them! I really enjoyed looking through them, even if a lot of them make me wince

I hate to say it, that is horrible. No blame on the artist, since if that was fan work, it might have been ok, but for $100 a book, no way.

For $100 a book I expect Heavy Metal type artwork. Now if GW spent the money on that instead of this joke on release, I would have been spending $100 for their books. but not this gak.

Too bad the fluff goes with the artwork as well. Damn, 50 Shades of Grey looks like a master piece compared to this.

The Beastmen one is the best by miles, IMO.

I do have to say: hand drawn illustrarions will be forever surperiour.

USAriadna cover won "best artwork 2015" on Beast of War.

WHAT A F****** JOKE. Flat, characterless.. Absolutely the same as almost all art in "godbeast".. Sigh...

I looked through Liber Necris a couple hours ago, you see. My standards are raised, it seems.

The fluff isn't for everyone, but some people enjoy the over-the-top setting. It really isn't worse than most popular action anime, the problem is more that its so completely different from what WHFB was, and that a decent chunk of people hate AoS for another reason then read the fluff with that perception bias.

Eh, looks pretty good to me with some pieces ranging from sub-par to excellent. There's only one really bad one, imo.

Love the Stormcast shieldwall with swords drawn, that one's awesome!

Thanks so much for sharing this, wellofeternity!

Majority of those is soulless trash. It's the same in 40k, bad cgi models smeared with blur filters, it's the main reason I hate GW nowadays. Artwork is important here mr. Roundtree, ffs.

The only okish AoS book so far was "Mighty battles...", It was still more sunshiny and cartoonish than even End Times but at least some quality was there.

 Bottle wrote:
This is another good one:



Awesome!

This is another terrible one:



All the angles look off - especially on the bolt storm pistol.

Agreed, good example. I kind of like this one, not for technical reasons but it's like Blanche diluted 1:1000, a bit like a healthy breath of polluted air before the gold brigade of awesome comes riding the cgi sunshine kicking ass and taking names.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ea-vZfYDOcY/Vw9YuFiFC5I/AAAAAAAAAkg/5O79eyLAwpUr3iDLa3lLNiis1ItB0ug4gCKgB/s1600/age%2Bof%2Bsigmar%2Bartwork%2B2.jpg




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 CoreCommander wrote:
This is my favourite from the above link:

Spoiler:

There is so much win in this one - beginning with the slowed face of the rightmost stormcast (srsly couldn't help but think of Beavis from "Beavis and Butthead" ) , going through the already notorious bolt pistol, gliding near the Disney villain face of the little skaven, caught between all the big guys and finally ending with the stormvermin themselves. IMO GW don't pay low - they've paid in solid gold for this one

This is straight embarrassing.

So many people so many opinions Thanks for your feedback! Artworks are important part of the hobby so good to see how people discuss about them

Yes, they are! They amount for nearly 100% of my inspiration. To be honest I'm being a little too harsh on some of these (part of the reason wanting to be funny ) and I can attribute much of this discontent with my familiarity with the older artwork.

 CoreCommander wrote:
Yes, they are! They amount for nearly 100% of my inspiration. To be honest I'm being a little too harsh on some of these (part of the reason wanting to be funny ) and I can attribute much of this discontent with my familiarity with the older artwork.

I`m in hobby thanks to one of the arts from 5 or 6th edition whfb (bretonnian knight vs saurus warrior with besieged castle in the background). That was epic! So i agree 100%

Aw, I never saw that piece of art. I've seen about everything Bretonnian where art is concerned from 4th edition to End Times and Blanche's portrayals.

I'll have to track it down.

Way off topic but while we're talking Bret art, someone made a cool Bretcast sketch.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/warhammer-fantasy-general-thread.333032/page-166

Art work is important. I left Battletech because I just hated the look of the mechs in technical readout.

Just imagine if that artwork was great in there from the beginning how much long FASA could have lasted.

Crappy artwork, can't get into the hobby and stay then. Took me a while to get into 40K and GW but the artwork at the time helped big time getting into the setting and what not.

Now this Age of Sigmar is just trash. If it wasn't for the people on the Dakka forums here keeping my interests in AoS, I would have left ages ago.

Now this art work. It's not a premium price at all. GW CAN'T claim they are a premium company now. After garbage rules for 40K/Fantasy/AoS and now this art work, they have no leg to stand on saying they sell premium products. Now they sell great minis, but the rest of their range is just GARBAGE for the prices they are asking for.

That said, I am grateful for the great people here on Dakka. You have kept me interested in AoS no matter how bad a job GW is doing.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
The fluff isn't for everyone, but some people enjoy the over-the-top setting. It really isn't worse than most popular action anime, the problem is more that its so completely different from what WHFB was, and that a decent chunk of people hate AoS for another reason then read the fluff with that perception bias.

Probably why I like AOS then, since I can't get enough of OTT action sequences. But like any fight scene, or any scene in general, it needs to be well choreographed. Limbs at less than comfortable angles can't be excused because that's what people pick up on the most. The DP and Slann is pure cringe by those standards, with the Slann's arm way too far forward etc.

I have definitely noticed the increase in digital prints, and they are much more susceptible to "deformities". Probably easier to get away with it too.

Oh I am not defending this art, believe me...

Baron Klatz wrote:
Aw, I never saw that piece of art. I've seen about everything Bretonnian where art is concerned from 4th edition to End Times and Blanche's portrayals.

I'll have to track it down.

Way off topic but while we're talking Bret art, someone made a cool Bretcast sketch.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/warhammer-fantasy-general-thread.333032/page-166

I was thinking about: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.664610.n2.nabble.com/file/n6243191/pic455062_lg.jpg BTW it`s quite similar to AoS arts (as for me)

Oh! I've seen that, I believe that's the old form of king Louen Louencour.

That was an epic piece alright!

@Davor, glad we could help.

Anyway, back on topic. I don't really think the art's all that bad but hand-drawn (as with animation) is superior by far.

Is that the problem with the art? It's not hand drawn? Is everything computers now? I didn't know this art work wasn't hand drawn. I guess I am very old school that way.

Haha, that's the way of the future. Everything is computer-made, it's faster and cheaper but lacks quality.

From Disney to Berserk (which ticked off alot of fans), it's all cgi with only concept sketches being the exception.

Baron Klatz wrote:
Haha, that's the way of the future. Everything is computer-made, it's faster and cheaper but lacks quality.

From Disney to Berserk (which ticked off alot of fans), it's all cgi with only concept sketches being the exception.

Not everything new is better Hand-made shoes, cars, bicycles are still highly priced, luxury goods. If GW want to be top quality producer of miniatures/fantasy content shouldn't rely in 100% on cgi (in my opinion).

That's why I said it lacks quality. That's the curse of modernization.

The Bretonnian rpg book even mentioned that a Bretonnian blade was superior to an imperial one because the blacksmith would labor through the night to perfect it. Where as an imperial forge like those in Nuln focused on mass-producing the weapons to fill out the armies.

Digital art tends to be better than hand-done art, there are a large number of benefits that simply cant be reproduced in physical form. The problem is due to GW not hiring artists of the same quality, rather than the medium in which the art is produced. Or put in other words; digital art may be better, but it is still subject to the skill level of its creator.

Digital artwork can be great too, but it's also an easy way for lazy (or rushed, or underpaid) artists to put in minimal effort and get.. well that crap people have been posting here.

It's no different to using CAD to sculpt models, those slayers with the mirrored leader stand out like a sore thumb, but Infinity has been using CAD for a while now and a lot of there sculpts are amazing.

Off the top of my head I'd point to this as a cool piece of digitally made art (since apparently the company CEO who used to be an artist learned digital drawing just to make this for the anniversary):


I did find this one surprisingly good though:


Not so much for the artistic quality (though I won't really complain about that), but because showing the sigmarines ranked up, with swords, makes me think of a roman legion ready to crush the (chaos) barbarians under heel as they slowly advance across the field as a slow but unstoppable force. If they were presented more that way when released I might have loved them.

That was my favorite piece as well!

Baron Klatz wrote:
That was my favorite piece as well!

It`s look like spartan phalanx, truly epic

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
The fluff isn't for everyone, but some people enjoy the over-the-top setting. It really isn't worse than most popular action anime, the problem is more that its so completely different from what WHFB was, and that a decent chunk of people hate AoS for another reason then read the fluff with that perception bias.

I don't think the issue with the fluff lies in the fantasy style. I think it lies in the writting skills. Most of it looks like high school level fan fiction.

Some of the artwork in this is stunning

 Haechi wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
The fluff isn't for everyone, but some people enjoy the over-the-top setting. It really isn't worse than most popular action anime, the problem is more that its so completely different from what WHFB was, and that a decent chunk of people hate AoS for another reason then read the fluff with that perception bias.

I don't think the issue with the fluff lies in the fantasy style. I think it lies in the writting skills. Most of it looks like high school level fan fiction.

Level of epicness is too high?

Excellent pieces

I'm not sold on the goblin one, it feels like it could be really good but a couple of parts feel too CGI and (like most of the End Times onwards stuff I've seen from GW) suffers from that dust/light/fog/whatever obscuring the background effect.

 wellofeternity wrote:
Hi, compilation of artworks from Godbeasts http://wellofeternitypl.blogspot.com/2016/04/artworks-from-age-of-sigmar-vi.html

Thank you for sharing! Really love this one:



Very well done! Such a great feel to this piece

However, in the post a few above mine is a pic with some black armored stormcast. What are their "backpacks" for? Looks like they browsed that from 40k, but it's not present on the actual models, right?

Yeah that Minotaur one is awesome. Looking at the models for those two minis I never really saw either of them as all that dynamic.

This picture though? yeah now I see it...and it's damn good.

 RiTides wrote:

However, in the post a few above mine is a pic with some black armored stormcast. What are their "backpacks" for? Looks like they browsed that from 40k, but it's not present on the actual models, right?

It is on the models themselves, but AFAIK it has not been touched on what it actually is (in the way SM armour is detailed). It looks like some kind of reliquary or an icon, but my guess it that its true purpose is to not let the back of the model seem void/empty.

@RiTides, those black armored Stormcasts are paladin decimators.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Stormcast-Eternals-Paladins-Decimators

I'm not sure whether those "backpacks" are for showing they are elites or if they use them to channel Sigmar's magic into battle.

Love that spider one.

 CoreCommander wrote:

 RiTides wrote:

However, in the post a few above mine is a pic with some black armored stormcast. What are their "backpacks" for? Looks like they browsed that from 40k, but it's not present on the actual models, right?

It is on the models themselves, but AFAIK it has not been touched on what it actually is (in the way SM armour is detailed). It looks like some kind of reliquary or an icon, but my guess it that its true purpose is to not let the back of the model seem void/empty.

I don't think its been officially described, but given that numerous other holy-looking icons channel the might of Sigmar (relictors and vexillors being the most prominent examples) and that paladins' weapons have similar effects, I would guess its has something to do with that.

 Ratius wrote:
Excellent pieces

Especially beastmen one. I`m looking now for orruks arts and more destruction stuff

Compared to the quality work that went into the artwork for the end times books, these don't measure well. Far too cartoony for my taste.

I can't help but wonder if there is any art focusing more on the landscapes or cities. So far all I've seen from AoS is vauge maps and pictures of warriors in battle or lining up. I think we've seen a couple of Sigmars court right, what about Nagashs or Archaons... I'm guessing he has a super fortress?

There are some sights of Archaon's fortress in Everchosen. It's cool.

jonolikespie wrote:I can't help but wonder if there is any art focusing more on the landscapes or cities. So far all I've seen from AoS is vauge maps and pictures of warriors in battle or lining up. I think we've seen a couple of Sigmars court right, what about Nagashs or Archaons... I'm guessing he has a super fortress?

Haechi wrote:There are some sights of Archaon's fortress in Everchosen. It's cool.

Not too much city/fortress arts. I remember few with Khornate fortress and Archaon fortress, but no human/non-human cities or such. From my blog:

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fd5fQzaGGqI/VtVD9407zmI/AAAAAAAAAQY/eBoLLNgr5e0/s1600/9ZG3AgWcdzw.jpg
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OEx7peqlUJg/VtVEHZkuZ6I/AAAAAAAAATY/PtFqqZEHedc/s1600/eUTxws_MSF0.jpg
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-L1bbwS7dulw/VtVEIUCMmQI/AAAAAAAAATo/cPwvUhq1onc/s1600/fV4e2rp0Esw.jpg
https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Tffp4HiOc7g/VtVEC96s9SI/AAAAAAAAARo/-ctwLbbh01Y/s1600/QPPRkbHqNMg.jpg
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-X3jJr1O8Euo/Vr2O8TF1tsI/AAAAAAAAANE/J-8xGGSZpSI/s1600/Warhammer-Fantasy-fb-%25D0%25BF%25D0%25B5%25D1%2581%25D0%25BE%25D1%2587%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D1%2586%25D0%25B0-%25D1%2584%25D1%258D%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B4%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BC%25D1%258B-Age-of-Sigmar-2669786.png

One thing in common with the lesser art work is that everything is in focus and exactly detailed as the models.
Feels like the artists have to focus to much on cramming in every detail right, and therefore get angles, proportions and dynamics out of balance.
Its like when I try to draw some of my RPG characters and feel the need to cram in every detail and gear instead of just doing a cool drawing. (it ends up in a bad drawing focusing on the wrong stuff).

Im not saying Blanche would fit the AoS style, but with his art there are so many crummy out of focus weird and unexplained details (sometimes just an enigmatic blur) that give a profound sense of a huge world yet unseen.
It got to do with artistic freedom I guess.

The whole problem with AoS art so far, (that is, in my own opinon) is there is no secrets and no surprises, no sense of awe exept for some floating stuff in the background. Its all new and shiny, no age old culture or larger cultural framework.
I dont mind the computer generated illustrations, most of the time its probably a superior tool, I think.

Edit: I think it was good point someone made that the stormcast vs minotaur pic looked great, but the actual models never looked so dynamic. Thats what Im talking about. Good art present something new, or a new perspective.

A few concept art by JB.

Meowstalker wrote:
A few concept art by JB.

Spoiler:

I saw these and they're awesome! Then again I'm a hardcore Blanche fan so

 Fayric wrote:
One thing in common with the lesser art work is that everything is in focus and exactly detailed as the models.
Feels like the artists have to focus to much on cramming in every detail right, and therefore get angles, proportions and dynamics out of balance.
Its like when I try to draw some of my RPG characters ...

The whole problem with AoS art so far, (that is, in my own opinon) is there is no secrets and no surprises, no sense of awe exept for some floating stuff in the background. Its all new and shiny, no age old culture or larger cultural framework.
I dont mind the computer generated illustrations, most of the time its probably a superior tool, I think.

Edit: I think it was good point someone made that the stormcast vs minotaur pic looked great, but the actual models never looked so dynamic. Thats what Im talking about. Good art present something new, or a new perspective.

You make an excellntloint here about mystique, articulating something I couldn't quite out my finger on.


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Ooooo, if the aesthetic went more toward the Blanche side that would be an improvement. His stuff is hit or miss with me but it is different.

I'm a massive blanche fan - so I am thrilled to see these concept pieces.

Meowstalker wrote:
A few concept art by JB.

Spoiler:

They`re amazing. Waiting for more arts in the same style.

The interesting thing is that these stormcasts are branded as seraphon (angelic) on the pictures and at sometime the name has been given to the lizardmen.

 CoreCommander wrote:
The interesting thing is that these stormcasts are branded as seraphon (angelic) on the pictures and at sometime the name has been given to the lizardmen.

It says 'Gryphonne' not Seraphon.

Well, nice to see Ikit Claw is still around and kicking


But a lot of that stuff is seriously bad.


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 wellofeternity wrote:

Baron Klatz wrote:
Aw, I never saw that piece of art. I've seen about everything Bretonnian where art is concerned from 4th edition to End Times and Blanche's portrayals.

I'll have to track it down.

Way off topic but while we're talking Bret art, someone made a cool Bretcast sketch.

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/warhammer-fantasy-general-thread.333032/page-166

I was thinking about: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.664610.n2.nabble.com/file/n6243191/pic455062_lg.jpg BTW it`s quite similar to AoS arts (as for me)

That was the cover art of the box that started me and my brothers in Warhammer

Still have the Brets and lizardmen from that box around here somewhere.

 ImAGeek wrote:

 CoreCommander wrote:
The interesting thing is that these stormcasts are branded as seraphon (angelic) on the pictures and at sometime the name has been given to the lizardmen.

It says 'Gryphonne' not Seraphon.

Hmm, do you think? It looks like an S to me and taken with the tendency of Mr Blanche to warp the words a little and the appropriate use of the term for the winged warrior, it seems probable enough for me. It can aswell be just wishful thinking

And what do you think about these arts? :

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bx6ReP7Zztc/VsbVmNO1RRI/AAAAAAAAAFc/iOjrSyh2EzM/s1600/Warhammer-Fantasy-fb-%25D0%25BF%25D0%25B5%25D1%2581%25D0%25BE%25D1%2587%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8%25D1%2586%25D0%25B0-%25D1%2584%25D1%258D%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B4%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BC%25D1%258B-Age-of-Sigmar-2669732.jpeg
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I think a chinese or a korean artist mentioned that these are his pieces on one of the FB groups? These images evoked memories about the berserk manga I used to read. While I think the composition is suitable for the realm of Chaos, I wouldn't like the art style that much if it was used for representing the rest of the setting.

But it`s something totally different from other (old) stuff and for me - quite refreshing.

I saw those on your blog as well and was very surprised by the artistic contrast with the other artworks.

I think it's very suitable for the chaos depictions. It's similarities to the Berserk-style (as CoreCommander noted) is also appealing to me.

Very nice artwork all round I would say.

Yeah I loved that Archaon comic art. Really well done and so refreshing to see something different.

 Bottle wrote:
Yeah I loved that Archaon comic art. Really well done and so refreshing to see something different.

Similar to "Sin City" and "300" aesthetic

Meowstalker wrote:A few concept art by JB.

Spoiler:

If the models actually looked like those I'd probably be playing them, but then asking someone to make a model in line with Blanche art is a tall order.

wellofeternity wrote:And what do you think about these arts? :

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I'm not a fan of the style, different doesn't necessarily mean better. The first, fourth and last I think are ok, and could look really awesome if it was done in a sketch style on faded yellow paper with the scratch marks from a pencil/quill that makes it look like an in universe attempt at telling a story visually. The second and third have Archaon himself in a totally different style with a lot more colours and that throws me entirely, I don't understand why and don't think it suits at all to suddenly have colour and finer details.

Blanche stormcast are 10x better than the obese guys in golden lycra we were served in the end.

Plumbumbarum wrote:
Blanche stormcast are 10x better than the obese guys in golden lycra we were served in the end.

I think the key point for me is that his artwork presents them as very thin, almost elf like in places, and the rest they look like tall, noble humans in realistic armour. The models very much went the route of being very much like space marines in that they are overly bulky with rather inhuman physiology, they look bulky, slow, and yes powerful, but not as human. I could see the sigmarines being golem like constructs or animated suits of armour more than anything else, while that art presents them as the angelic, noble figures they are (presumably) supposed to be.

Yes also the face mask looks better, pauldrons and poleyns look better, there's more detail of the good kind plus usual Blanche's grit and menace.

To me, Blanche's looks like what Stormcasts would be in truescale rather than heroic scale.

Still much too fat for the angelic wings, even in heroic scale. It's really off putting for me.

And again https://scontent-waw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12998520_493989164135361_1622313978395800448_n.jpg?oh=c2b432aa268615f7f0df6c557bafc9de&oe=57BF284F looks like old (mid 90) artwork for me.

Ha, that art's a bit of old news where the rumor section is concerned.

I rather like it. Good amounts of Orruk ferocity mixed with a nice view of the new maw crusher.

The artwork does resemble something of the 90's now that you mention it....

That new one's not bad. There's a couple of awkward looking poses, but I'll attribute that to style.

The Ironjaw battletome seems to have a lot of really good illustrations.

Thanks for the link to the gallery - but as the first few pages already said a lot of this art is subpar for GW. Dang.

A question: does someone recognize the rune in the eye of Ignax on this picture ? I can make out the stylized face of a dwarf with fiery hair all around him if it's not my imagination playing tricks on me.

Not from Godbeasts but thought this was appropriate thread. Who are the Ironjawz fighting in this shot from their battle tome? Looks kind of like dwarves on the left and then a Stormcast riding a giant fell bat on the right. Edit: the harder I squint, I think that's supposed to be a maw-krusha on the right, but very different looking to me.

I liked the different visions of Archaon in the Godbeasts book appearing to various chaos goons and giving them their packing orders. We had Nurgle (cloud of flies) Archaon, Khorne (blud blud blud and red stuff) Archaon and even Skaven Engineer (whispy green smoke) Archaon. It's a pity we didn't see Tzeench Archaon or Slaanesh Archaon.

coldgaming wrote:
Not from Godbeasts but thought this was appropriate thread. Who are the Ironjawz fighting in this shot from their battle tome? Looks kind of like dwarves on the left and then a Stormcast riding a giant fell bat on the right. Edit: the harder I squint, I think that's supposed to be a maw-krusha on the right, but very different looking to me.

Guys on left are blood reavers, think you're right about that being a maw-krusha, looks to have an Orc rider (with stormcasty armour!)

coldgaming wrote:
Not from Godbeasts but thought this was appropriate thread. Who are the Ironjawz fighting in this shot from their battle tome? Looks kind of like dwarves on the left and then a Stormcast riding a giant fell bat on the right. Edit: the harder I squint, I think that's supposed to be a maw-krusha on the right, but very different looking to me.

That`s nice Art! Do you have bigger version?

Uh... I think those guys are ironguts. Look at the helmets, and the sword on the guy getting run over looks like a scimitar with additional teeth attached to the blade.
Scale would be about right, too.

RoperPG wrote:
Uh... I think those guys are ironguts. Look at the helmets, and the sword on the guy getting run over looks like a scimitar with additional teeth attached to the blade.
Scale would be about right, too.

You know you could be right. I've painted up 40 of the of late, I see bloodreavers everywhere.

Dai wrote:

RoperPG wrote:
Uh... I think those guys are ironguts. Look at the helmets, and the sword on the guy getting run over looks like a scimitar with additional teeth attached to the blade.
Scale would be about right, too.

You know you could be right. I've painted up 40 of the of late, I see bloodreavers everywhere.

Definitely Ironguts - nice fight - Brutes vs Ironguts - biggest mother#$% from destruction alliance

In general, my biggest issue with the artwork so far is that there is NO images with any Stormcasts dying, taking damage, being ruffled up or having a somewhat difficult time, at least. It's not that I have a problem with Stormcast being super-powerful, I just can't get invested when I don't see the realities of all factions. I would like to see artwork of a reforging, or Liberators being torn apart by Chaos Warriors, or a horde of Reavers or just SOMETHING - I need to see some humanity in there! If the other guys take casulties too, fine, but I need both to take damage!

Of course that's not a part of the setting; tried charging five Liberators with twenty Reavers with three buffs, and all Reavers were killed, while one Liberator was left dead. That left me salty, and even more salty now that the artwork seem to agree with me.

 The Wise Dane wrote:
In general, my biggest issue with the artwork so far is that there is NO images with any Stormcasts dying, taking damage, being ruffled up or having a somewhat difficult time, at least. It's not that I have a problem with Stormcast being super-powerful, I just can't get invested when I don't see the realities of all factions. I would like to see artwork of a reforging, or Liberators being torn apart by Chaos Warriors, or a horde of Reavers or just SOMETHING - I need to see some humanity in there! If the other guys take casulties too, fine, but I need both to take damage!

Of course that's not a part of the setting; tried charging five Liberators with twenty Reavers with three buffs, and all Reavers were killed, while one Liberator was left dead. That left me salty, and even more salty now that the artwork seem to agree with me.

That sounds like some bad dice rolling unless the Libs were buffed up too. Was one of the buffs the Bloodsecrators plus one (two really) attacks and no battleshock?

The Stormcasts got torn a new one big time at the end of the Balance of Power sourcebook too.

Dai wrote:

 The Wise Dane wrote:
In general, my biggest issue with the artwork so far is that there is NO images with any Stormcasts dying, taking damage, being ruffled up or having a somewhat difficult time, at least. It's not that I have a problem with Stormcast being super-powerful, I just can't get invested when I don't see the realities of all factions. I would like to see artwork of a reforging, or Liberators being torn apart by Chaos Warriors, or a horde of Reavers or just SOMETHING - I need to see some humanity in there! If the other guys take casulties too, fine, but I need both to take damage!

Of course that's not a part of the setting; tried charging five Liberators with twenty Reavers with three buffs, and all Reavers were killed, while one Liberator was left dead. That left me salty, and even more salty now that the artwork seem to agree with me.

That sounds like some bad dice rolling unless the Libs were buffed up too. Was one of the buffs the Bloodsecrators plus one (two really) attacks and no battleshock?

The Stormcasts got torn a new one big time at the end of the Balance of Power sourcebook too.

It had those buffs, but on the other hand, the Liberators (with Shields) was in terrain, and so got a buff to their armor. Also, as you said, no Battleshock.

Also, my buffed up Mighty Lord got killed by a Liberator five-man group, and they took no wounds. This game left me very, very salty.

 The Wise Dane wrote:
In general, my biggest issue with the artwork so far is that there is NO images with any Stormcasts dying, taking damage, being ruffled up or having a somewhat difficult time, at least. It's not that I have a problem with Stormcast being super-powerful, I just can't get invested when I don't see the realities of all factions. I would like to see artwork of a reforging, or Liberators being torn apart by Chaos Warriors, or a horde of Reavers or just SOMETHING - I need to see some humanity in there! If the other guys take casulties too, fine, but I need both to take damage!

Interesting! I didn`t notice this earlier. But i agree, i would love to see battle damaged armour, mud, blood and dust on stormcasts shiny armour

 The Wise Dane wrote:
In general, my biggest issue with the artwork so far is that there is NO images with any Stormcasts dying, taking damage, being ruffled up or having a somewhat difficult time, at least. It's not that I have a problem with Stormcast being super-powerful, I just can't get invested when I don't see the realities of all factions. I would like to see artwork of a reforging, or Liberators being torn apart by Chaos Warriors, or a horde of Reavers or just SOMETHING - I need to see some humanity in there! If the other guys take casulties too, fine, but I need both to take damage!

Of course that's not a part of the setting; tried charging five Liberators with twenty Reavers with three buffs, and all Reavers were killed, while one Liberator was left dead. That left me salty, and even more salty now that the artwork seem to agree with me.

From Ironjawz battle tome, looks like Stormcast getting trampled.

Cool art of Stormcast loosing! Though in terms of flight capability hose Maw Crushas look like balloons with paper wings tacked on.

So a grand total of two Stormcast, neither of which has any actual physical damage depicted

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
So a grand total of two Stormcast, neither of which has any actual physical damage depicted

Was that this thread someone made an interesting comment about no Stormcasts taking blows? (Actually a great thought I never had and I wonder if the GW artists have even noticed or planned )

Can't do printscreen I guess from computer but the Ironjaws tome has a 2-page spread of charging Waaaagh! and Gruntas running over Stormcasts. Not really graphic but they do look hurt--as hurt as I guess their position allows given they are fully helmed

 VeteranNoob wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
So a grand total of two Stormcast, neither of which has any actual physical damage depicted

Was that this thread someone made an interesting comment about no Stormcasts taking blows? (Actually a great thought I never had and I wonder if the GW artists have even noticed or planned )

Can't do printscreen I guess from computer but the Ironjaws tome has a 2-page spread of charging Waaaagh! and Gruntas running over Stormcasts. Not really graphic but they do look hurt--as hurt as I guess their position allows given they are fully helmed

It was this thread, it was me

I dunno, I just feel like artwork doesn't represent a faction well enough if no one is killed or damaged. In battle, all factions has both wins and loses, and I want to see both, so I can better get into what the faction is about. How can I ever think Chaos is some bad fethers when Sigmar's best doesn't seem to be even slightly phased by them?

 The Wise Dane wrote:

 VeteranNoob wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
So a grand total of two Stormcast, neither of which has any actual physical damage depicted

Was that this thread someone made an interesting comment about no Stormcasts taking blows? (Actually a great thought I never had and I wonder if the GW artists have even noticed or planned )

Can't do printscreen I guess from computer but the Ironjaws tome has a 2-page spread of charging Waaaagh! and Gruntas running over Stormcasts. Not really graphic but they do look hurt--as hurt as I guess their position allows given they are fully helmed

It was this thread, it was me

I dunno, I just feel like artwork doesn't represent a faction well enough if no one is killed or damaged. In battle, all factions has both wins and loses, and I want to see both, so I can better get into what the faction is about. How can I ever think Chaos is some bad fethers when Sigmar's best doesn't seem to be even slightly phased by them?

No, you are completely right. I agree with needing the good and bad but was surprised at your insightful comment because I went and looked and couldn't find an example Good call.

 VeteranNoob wrote:

 The Wise Dane wrote:

 VeteranNoob wrote:

 A Town Called Malus wrote:
So a grand total of two Stormcast, neither of which has any actual physical damage depicted

Was that this thread someone made an interesting comment about no Stormcasts taking blows? (Actually a great thought I never had and I wonder if the GW artists have even noticed or planned )

Can't do printscreen I guess from computer but the Ironjaws tome has a 2-page spread of charging Waaaagh! and Gruntas running over Stormcasts. Not really graphic but they do look hurt--as hurt as I guess their position allows given they are fully helmed

It was this thread, it was me

I dunno, I just feel like artwork doesn't represent a faction well enough if no one is killed or damaged. In battle, all factions has both wins and loses, and I want to see both, so I can better get into what the faction is about. How can I ever think Chaos is some bad fethers when Sigmar's best doesn't seem to be even slightly phased by them?

No, you are completely right. I agree with needing the good and bad but was surprised at your insightful comment because I went and looked and couldn't find an example Good call.

By the way, I've found a SINGLE picture where a Retributor takes an axe to the chest. You don't see any damage, but it's there.



Look? All the way back right? Yeah, we've come a long way haven't we.

You mean on the right? I think he is parrying it with the shaft of his axe. :-p

I also wonder if the art is the way it is (with everything looking exactly like the models), because of all the goofy lawsuits against companies making 3rd party variations of their stuff. Could if be that they have moved to taking some freedom away from the artists so that there will be no doubt with the art that it is fact something portraying a GW product. I don't know, a few of my friends and I have talked about the recent art and that was something that came up.

 NH Gunsmith wrote:
I also wonder if the art is the way it is (with everything looking exactly like the models), because of all the goofy lawsuits against companies making 3rd party variations of their stuff. Could if be that they have moved to taking some freedom away from the artists so that there will be no doubt with the art that it is fact something portraying a GW product. I don't know, a few of my friends and I have talked about the recent art and that was something that came up.

Or maybe customer base need clear description and reconstruction models in arts instead imagination It`s easier to imagine some stories about your army when you see exactly the same characters on arts.

About the Stormcasts taking damage, have you seen the new ghoul court battletome artwork? They're getting hit hard there.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/2160/683422.page

It's really just an example of the Worf effect, take some lads and make them seem invincible but then introduce some new guys down the line that completely curb-stomp them to show how awesome they are.

Gonna be cool to see how the Aelves and Free Guild is handled in the future artwork. Will they be shown curb-stomping the Orruks and newer enemies with dragon spams and Ironweld bombardments or will they be put in the relatable category with them fighting on equal ground with the forces of madness and winning through sheer determination?

Looking forward to either.

 NH Gunsmith wrote:
I also wonder if the art is the way it is (with everything looking exactly like the models), because of all the goofy lawsuits against companies making 3rd party variations of their stuff. Could if be that they have moved to taking some freedom away from the artists so that there will be no doubt with the art that it is fact something portraying a GW product. I don't know, a few of my friends and I have talked about the recent art and that was something that came up.

I was giving this some thought recently and actually came up with an alternative theory. GW could be, either because of laziness, not wanting to pay much for their art, or because of time restraints, could he taking their concept art for models and inserting it into larger peices of art. It's all digital now and that would save time (money) at the expense of everyone looking like their models.

Baron Klatz wrote:
About the Stormcasts taking damage, have you seen the new ghoul court battletome artwork? They're getting hit hard there.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/2160/683422.page

It's really just an example of the Worf effect, take some lads and make them seem invincible but then introduce some new guys down the line that completely curb-stomp them to show how awesome they are.

Gonna be cool to see how the Aelves and Free Guild is handled in the future artwork. Will they be shown curb-stomping the Orruks and newer enemies with dragon spams and Ironweld bombardments or will they be put in the relatable category with them fighting on equal ground with the forces of madness and winning through sheer determination?

Looking forward to either.

Yeah they're being tossed around a bit, but they aren't taking any damage it seems.

Baron Klatz wrote:
About the Stormcasts taking damage, have you seen the new ghoul court battletome artwork? They're getting hit hard there.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/2160/683422.page

It's really just an example of the Worf effect, take some lads and make them seem invincible but then introduce some new guys down the line that completely curb-stomp them to show how awesome they are.

Gonna be cool to see how the Aelves and Free Guild is handled in the future artwork. Will they be shown curb-stomping the Orruks and newer enemies with dragon spams and Ironweld bombardments or will they be put in the relatable category with them fighting on equal ground with the forces of madness and winning through sheer determination?

Looking forward to either.

You are talking about this one? Quite nice and indeed - Liberators have some hard day here.

There is a picture in the new BL novel of the orruks attacking the stormcast one gets battered out of the air by a maw crusher and one gets his arm bit off.

I think the new flesh court image pretty much shows the stormcast having a bad day.

 The Wise Dane wrote:

Baron Klatz wrote:
About the Stormcasts taking damage, have you seen the new ghoul court battletome artwork? They're getting hit hard there.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/2160/683422.page

It's really just an example of the Worf effect, take some lads and make them seem invincible but then introduce some new guys down the line that completely curb-stomp them to show how awesome they are.

Gonna be cool to see how the Aelves and Free Guild is handled in the future artwork. Will they be shown curb-stomping the Orruks and newer enemies with dragon spams and Ironweld bombardments or will they be put in the relatable category with them fighting on equal ground with the forces of madness and winning through sheer determination?

Looking forward to either.

Yeah they're being tossed around a bit, but they aren't taking any damage it seems.

And I bet if someone posted art of wounded Stormcasts you'd say 'yeah but that's only a handful of guys in a huge battle'

 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 The Wise Dane wrote:

Baron Klatz wrote:
About the Stormcasts taking damage, have you seen the new ghoul court battletome artwork? They're getting hit hard there.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/2160/683422.page

It's really just an example of the Worf effect, take some lads and make them seem invincible but then introduce some new guys down the line that completely curb-stomp them to show how awesome they are.

Gonna be cool to see how the Aelves and Free Guild is handled in the future artwork. Will they be shown curb-stomping the Orruks and newer enemies with dragon spams and Ironweld bombardments or will they be put in the relatable category with them fighting on equal ground with the forces of madness and winning through sheer determination?

Looking forward to either.

Yeah they're being tossed around a bit, but they aren't taking any damage it seems.

And I bet if someone posted art of wounded Stormcasts you'd say 'yeah but that's only a handful of guys in a huge battle'

Absolutely