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I miss how unique and unpolished the art in old school speculative fiction used to be allowed to be. I love the angle-dragon and I feel like nothing like him would be allowed to exist on the cover a non-self-published book nowadays.
This whole paragraph is giving me deja vu. I know I've read it before. Update: I remember! It was a dream I had last year about an "angle-dragon" that lived in the angles of reality. I had just finished reading China Mieville's The Scar which contains a character that moves through the angles of reality. Weird!
The artist who drew the dragon also illustrated a version of Michael Creighton's Eaters of the Dead which was just amazing. I can't remember his name off the top of my head. His first name is Ian I believe
If you're talking of the angle dragon seen on this image, then I must say that's definitely not unpolished IMO and I love it. I definitely prefer this over the generic dragons we get on book covers.
I wasn't saying it as a bad thing, just saying it looks a lot more raw and unfiltered than your standard DND sourcebook.
I guess it's just a different style.