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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.