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Tremaine
Seeker
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 04 Jan 2010 : 19:27:56
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was wondering what everybody's favourite forgotten realm novel cover art is? I just picked up the fall of Highwatch to read and noticed the cover art done by Jaime Jones and thought it was very good 
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 04 Jan 2010 : 23:07:10
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For novels, it'd prolly have to be Larry Elmore's The Crystal Shard cover -- though Caldwell's cover for Spellfire is another great one.
My fave Realms art, though, would be the cover if FR9 The Bloodstone Lands -- I recently got a print of that one, because I really love that artwork.
In my opinion, most of the artwork of the last decade has been unimpressive at best, and downright hideous at worst. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 05 Jan 2010 : 00:06:05
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Elmore's FR covers have certainly been a contender for me over the last 20 years. But it wasn't until Duane Myer's cover for Blackstaff in 2006 that I finally found an FR novel cover that I fully love. It just reminds me too much of the classic Steve Ditko's 'Dr. Strange' images from the 60's issues of Marvel's Strange Tales -- which I've also held in high esteem.
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
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Posted - 05 Jan 2010 : 11:40:05
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| Thats a though one. Spellfire is a good candidate, but the Moonshae books are probably my choice. For some reason the old covers for the avatar series brings back a good nostalgic feeling. |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
Sweden
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Posted - 06 Jan 2010 : 14:56:09
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Theres Nielsen's cover for Heirs of Prophecy is a big favourite of mine among the novels (I like all of her Sembia-covers actuall), and the covers for Richards Lee Byers's What-to-do-if you're-dead-people-in-Thay series was also nice. As for the game supplements I can't say there any one that leaps out at me, but Serpent Kingdoms had a nice leggy elf-chick on it .
Mind you, the cover for the non-finished Arilyn & Danilo novel was bloody great too. *sniffles* |
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Thauramarth
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 Jan 2010 : 19:06:41
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I'll go along with most people here, and nominate Clyde Caldwell's Spellfire cover (I picked up that book just on the strength of its cover, and thus walked into the Realms, never to leave again ).
I've always liked Caldwell's work, especially his covers of the D&D Gazetteers, and along those lines, I'd also put up his covers for Azure Bonds and The Wyvern's spur (not wild about Song of the Saurials, though).
Oh, and also Todd Lockwood's cover for The Simbul's Gift. |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 06 Jan 2010 : 21:07:57
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I liked the cover art for
"The Black Bouquet"
best. Just had this fantastic setting feeling about it in a thrilling city.
Also liked very much:
- Gossamer Plain
- Avatar Series
- Scions of Arrabar Trilogy
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jan 2010 : 21:27:58
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Though I admit some bias, I will say that my favorite Realms cover art remains the cover of Ghostwalker--mostly 'cuz Swanland apparently yanked a perfect image straight out of my head.
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 07 Jan 2010 : 08:00:11
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
For novels, it'd prolly have to be Larry Elmore's The Crystal Shard cover -- though Caldwell's cover for Spellfire is another great one.
My fave Realms art, though, would be the cover if FR9 The Bloodstone Lands -- I recently got a print of that one, because I really love that artwork.
Agreed. I loved both of those precisely because they seemed very realistic, with few fantasy elements to them at all. I appreciate the lack of sweeping filigree around the edges of the painting or billowing dragon flame seemingly about to devour all in sight. There is beauty in the simplicity of both pics.
I remember brousing the shelves of a book fair in my junior high school library in the spring of 1988 when The Crystal Shard first came out, comparing and contrasting the different fantasy books, trying to pick one out from the others, all based on very little personal knowledge. Though I of course knew the old adage "Never judge a book by its cover", in effect I did exactly that. I picked the fantasy book with the least fantasy-oriented cover.
And I've never regretted it.
My copy of The Bloodstone Lands came into my possession many years later, but I still admire it for much the same reason.
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 10 Jan 2010 : 01:06:27
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Ghostwalker is my favorite cover.
Crypt of the Moaning Diamond is my 1a. |
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Sandro
Learned Scribe
New Zealand
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Posted - 10 Jan 2010 : 07:27:49
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I'm going to have say Spellfire as well -- 'twas indeed part of the reason I picked it up.
I also really like Todd Lockwood's work on the Drizzt novels, the cover of Knights of Eveningstar, and Elminster in Myth Drannor. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jan 2010 : 03:58:00
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| Fall of Highwatch cover is awesome. I just bought it and am wondering why it took so long to turn a cover 90 degrees. It gives the artist a much broader canvas to work with, I think it is really nice. |
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Arion Elenim
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 11 Jan 2010 : 16:09:55
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| Servant of the Shard - possibly the first time a drow looked like a drow in the history of FR covers. :) |
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