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by cousin_it 4002 days ago
Thank you for linking to that gallery! It's very eye-opening. I dutifully went through several pages, trying to find something non-boring, and it was indeed all boring (with the exception of Bruegel, who shouldn't be in there).

Interestingly, I feel the same way about many works on ArtStation [1]. The artists try to draw something "cool", like a fantasy creature, but end up with just a basic picture of a human with lots of greebles [2]. Lack of imagination is very obvious.

At the other end of the spectrum for me is something like Wayne Barlowe's "Wargate" [3], an image with a whole new visual language for what it's trying to say, or Paul Veer's pixel art for Nuclear Throne [4], with very simple technique but very imaginative character designs. Apologies if my taste is pedestrian :-)

[1] https://www.artstation.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble

[3] https://simotron.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/tumblr_mv4vmddu...

[4] http://i.imgur.com/7V8Di0i.gif