One of the great things about working on Pathfinder is that I get to work with my heroes. In Pathfinder #15, we have an article about the drow written by none other than Jeff Grubb, author of such products as Manual of the Planes, Spelljammer, The Finder's Stone Trilogy, and countless other classics. And as it works out, he worked on my favorite D&D adventure of all time, the super-module Queen of the Spiders. So his resume was pretty solid for the guy who we wanted to write about our drow.
In Pathfinder #15, we'll have just such an article—everything you wanted to know about how the drow of Golarion are different from those of other campaign settings, or how they're the same. Jeff did an excellent job capturing the depravity that is drow, but they're different enough that they're unique to Golarion.
I have been unable to identify the artist for this blog's artwork. There is a signature, but it is not one I recognize or can find with any of the listed artists for Pathfinder 15: Armageddon Echo.
The listed artist for the AP this is featured in are the following:
Cover Artist: Steve Prescott
Contributing Artists: Concept Art House, Julie Dillion, Andrew Hou, Imaginary Friends Studios, Ben Wootten, Kevin Yan.
Have you looked for these images on the Wiki? We've already got many of them credited. No sense in you redoing all our hard work. In the case of this one, it was Kevin Chin for Imaginary Friends Studios.
Have you looked for these images on the Wiki? We've already got many of them credited. No sense in you redoing all our hard work. In the case of this one, it was Kevin Chin for Imaginary Friends Studios.
I actually hadn't realized that they were posted separately on the wiki with information beyond what was posted on the blog.. Thanks for that resource, I'll make good use of it.
One of the difficulties in identifying art from studios like Concept Art House or Imaginary Friends is that studios generally want to push the name of the studio, not the artist. And while all the artists in most studios have similar styles, they don't always match so it's really tough to identify even which studio is responsible for the art in question. Our art folks could probably ID the studio that did this work, but I certainly can't. Furthermore... since some artists in a studio might be great and others not, and since we don't have as much control over saying which specific artist should work on a piece when we work with a studio... we MUCH prefer to work with specific artists as a result.
Sometimes the artists include their signature, though, which allows someone willing to do some detective work to figure out which artist from a given studio a piece is by. It's often more work than it's worth in my experience.
Sometimes the artists include their signature, though, which allows someone willing to do some detective work to figure out which artist from a given studio a piece is by. It's often more work than it's worth in my experience.
Yeah, I've been able to track down a few that way (and made a couple updates to the Wiki). For my purposes, while individual artist credit is preferable, studio credit is better than nothing.
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