Hey y'all, this is my first post here, I have been a DM and player for a few years now and I truly love the books and all the wonderful love and care that goes into them. I don't mean this in a harsh way, but compared to the art in the galaxy guide and the playtest book, does the art in the official player core look off to anyone else? I mostly mean the art for the ancestries. Everything beyond classes looks great, but everything before that is wildly inconsistent or a noticeable drop in quality from the previous 2 book. It's not the end of the world, but I just wanna make sure that I am not losing my marbles.
Here are the page numbers for example: The vesk on page 40, the android on 42, the humans on 50 and 52 (side note, really odd to remove the black human from the playtest to include 2 white humans.), The Kasatha on 54 (have they ever been this fleshy looking?), the ysoki on 78 looks unfinished and flat compared to the one on 80, and time for my biggest issue the Skittermanders.
What happened to them? They tweaked them slightly in the playtest book to be these really cute and kawaii looking space gremlins and I loved them so much. Now, they have snouts but only sometimes and the one on 72 looks so off model and I hate to say this AI generated. The teeth are not consistent, the ears are both different shapes, the fur looks chopped in several places, and overall it looks terrible. Like it was a traced over or cleaned up AI generated image. The art for the influencer one on page 92 looks really off too, the snout and eyes are just really different and not in a cute way.
I will say the Pathra got a strong increase in quality and I love the drawings on 62 and 64.
Is it just me or does anyone else notice this too?