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Xenomancers pic was pretty alright for a digi...

I think "I Cast Fist" wins though...

... hands down!

Except the I Cast Fist image is completely ruined by the space marine's stupid gopher face. "I will defend this beaver dam to the last!"


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Although, he can be played by Jake Busey in the movie.

 -DE- wrote:
... the continuing deterioration of the art is painful to watch.

It really is.

Wait, is that picture from the OP in the actual Codex? When I first saw it I assumed it was just fan art.

 Furyou Miko wrote:
As Grimtuff points out, its a Wraith. They probably are passing straight through it without it noticing. They're intangible until they have their blades inside you, at which point they become solid for just long enough to inflict horrific internal damage and exit wounds - why did you think they had a 3++ and Rending natively?

I don't know. Why does an iron halo give a 4++? It's not because it makes people wraiths.
And why, if they can't be harmed until they have their talons inside you don't they have complete immunity until they are in close combat? A 3++ invuln doesn't at all make it "obvious, DUH!" that they are ethereal until they don't want to be anymore. I don't know why you would try to imply it does. What a weird attitude to take. As if 40k doesn't have loads of different reasons for an invulnerable save.

Secondly, it doesn't matter why the bolter doesn't do anything to him. It still makes the picture look more static and boring than it would have if something happened to the wraith.

I think it would have been cooler if they actually showed the rounds passing through the wraith as it phases in and out, so it would be more clear why it's not having any effect without having to know the lore behind it beforehand, but all the "why this" and "why that" is kind of silly. Because GW said so, that's why. They came up with fluff for wraiths that said they were intangible until they didn't want to be, because it makes them sound cooler and scarier and makes you want to buy 9 boxes of them. That's why GW does everything it does.

 darkcloak wrote:
Xenomancers pic was pretty alright for a digi...

I think "I Cast Fist" wins though...

... hands down!

Art is art man. I don't discriminate!

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Wait, is that picture from the OP in the actual Codex? When I first saw it I assumed it was just fan art.

Yes it's a codex art. You are free to facepalm now.

This one never gets old

Could you elaborate?

Even though it's been posted, this is one of my absolute favorites:



Although these kinds of paintings will always fill me with the best nostalgia for my early GW days:

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Even though it's been posted, this is one of my absolute favorites:

YES!

This one and the old 3rd ed cover art.

I have always loved the one inside the cover of that book with the Emperor on the Golden Throne. That one just screams full back piece.

In light of recent revelations, I have corrected my assumptions and reassigned the label of 'favourite modern official artwork' to agree with Oxy.

Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:My favorite recent art :

Spoiler:

Sisters looking like badass, fighting until the bitter end, despite completely impossible odds. They continue to shoot even when the ground below them is exploding from whatever that is, I guess some Tyranid organism bursting from underground. Also look at the effect the bolts are having on that drop spore!
That does not seem very different from old-style art, though.

 AegisGrimm wrote:
Although these kinds of paintings will always fill me with the best nostalgia for my early GW days:

Spoiler:

Holy crap, look at all that color. That can't be offishul GW artwork, that's not "grimdark" at all!

It was and 2nd ed was about overwatch for eternity and everything goblin green and red, 2nd ed was very much the cartoony fk up period of GW, it's slowly gone back to a darker better look but still not the same as the 3rd and 1st ed fb/40k.

Gw USED to have very high quality artists, and not all of their art was good ( many interior filler pieces were crap ) but compared to now they are total crap covers. Age of Ikea, ugly digital fake painted covers and interiors, it's not just GW WOTC/TSR art is even worse, it's because of this push towards gakky art the last 10 years.

Luckily gw stil has adrian smith and jb plus a few others, but really everything today is mostly generic boring digital gak and it's tarnished most fantasy and rpg's and tabletop games. I guess it's what the kids want today but I really do hate it vs what all came before, art in general is mostly ugly modern and boring though, that is because society pushes to accept the mediocre rather than the rare real works of art, I think bryan ansells words have come true about the studio mixing with the business end.

This piece still impresses me, he used scarface for one of them and mike tyson.



Adrian smiths pencil work in the early days steamrolls over almost anything the last 10 years GW has put out.



My fave is this noise marine and the erotic sculpting on his shoulder armor.



7e ork codex cover I think is possibly one of the only ones that is real quality and 6e dark angels, most everything else looks like some vomit from a video game I would not even call it art.

 TedNugent wrote:

 Thairne wrote:
The biggest problem in all the new art... are the proportions. Wasn't always really perfect, but the new art really, really took a turn for the worse.
Check out this DA Codex "artwork":

Tiny Head Syndrom (4th pic). Also, stretched Plasma Pistol, tiny Chainsword and the forearms look way off. They're wearing really big powered armour and it could be an older design of plasma pistol
https://twitter.com/Lady_Atia/status/614059286055022592

That RW Knight in the front looks really unhealthy with that neck (4th pic). Also, why does the background guy not have any legs?!The guy in the foreground's head is turned. The banner bearer is stood up- you can just about see his legs
https://twitter.com/Lady_Atia/status/614060069630668800

They even managed to make a effing DREAD look terrible. Looks better on my iPad
https://twitter.com/Lady_Atia/status/614060455502417920

And the compressed spine syndrome gets ridicolous... The legs are about 150% the size of the rest of the body.
https://twitter.com/Lady_Atia/status/614061333244452864

Yup, the new DA Codex art is way terrible. The best art in the codex is by far the older dioramas and character portraits, like the old Librarian art.

Fixed that for you.