You are missing the point though entirely. Its not meant to be a work of beauty, its production art, that goes back into the machine to eventually get turned into content. The criteria for critique doesn't revolve around "how good the picture looks."

If this is the case, why are you not criticizing those who claim the images are beautiful and amazing? We're focusing on the same thing, just on the different of the spectrum.

As production art, it's fine, as any form of art it's fine. But that doesn't change the fact that I didn't really like any of them. Which is what I said from the beginning. Aside from the first image, they didn't really add anything to my experience of what Skyrim is going to be.

This one, on the other hand, looks amazing! This is what they should look like.

And yes, I understand what concept art is, I draw myself, and I do go to art museums, but I don't release my drawings because I don't do it for a living and I haven't done anything I'm 100% satisfied with. If you do something for a living and release it to the masses you also have to be able to speak to those masses. You can't just slap a 'concept art' stamp on it because you only had 5 minutes to do it and expect people to love it.

Because they don't have a problem with it, you do. I personally also find it appealing, although I'm not saying that it should be for everyone, but I was explaining there is a reason why it looks rushed.

Better understanding of this might help you appreciate it more too. There is also a lot of knowledge to gain from these about what Skyrim will be, and that doesn't even have to do with how much you like it. We can clearly get a view of what kind of environments to expect, the mood and atmosphere they are taking, and we can use these to guess at what else there might be. In some ways, concept art is more telling than screenshots, if you understand them.

the artworks look very epic it will be pleasant to go to those places once the game is released/

I appreciated them from the beginning (well, at least the first image), but that doesn't mean that I find it aesthetically pleasing. And unfortunately the rest of your examples are moot because that's been covered quite heavily in other articles and artwork in GI. The image of the Troll fighting the adventurer in the gave that was recorded and sped-up was amazing. So I'm not trying to say the artists are terrible, I'm not trying to say I don't appreciate what they're doing by giving out the concept art. I'm just saying I didn't enjoy those particular images. I draw all the time, and I know how much effort they went to in order to create those pictures. I can barely draw a line on a graphics tablet, so I know it takes skill, but I also know they can do - and have done - a lot better, and can create much more evocative and compelling images if they so choose.

Second one seems to have the kicking pit from 300 :thumbsup:

LOL, that would be epic!!

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Then, as I have said, it's down to everyone's personal taste. We should all just agree to disagree. :thumbsup:

i would go and get your eye's checked.
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Well, it didn't seem that you did from your initial comments. Actually, I take away from these a lot that I didn't have from the screenshots or the articles. The articles might have covered the environment well, but they are just words, and the screenshots have mostly been focused on creatures, they haven't really shown us much in the way of locations yet.

You know, it probably wouldn't hurt.



eyes* Maybe you should come with me.

I actually find the way many concept artists draw, be it quick speed-painting to detailed work to be really beautiful as a whole. I've always wanted to learn how to do it, as the method of colouring. The concept art of The Witcher 2 forexample is utterly awesome and so is the one for Dragon Age 2.

And so far what have seen of Skyrim is utterly epic!

I want to kick somebody in there so much!

I really love the artwork, I think they are great!

I think they look great. Number 1 appears to be in the middle of a forest, the moss is fantastic. That contrasted with number two gives a good idea of the diversity of landscape we might see.

I wish that my computer screen was small enough for me to use one of those as a desktop picture. :sadvaultboy:

You could always use an image editing program to make them smaller, or ask someone here to do it for you.

Who/what is that mysterious figure in the first concept art?

Mysterious figure in picture one is a dragon in human form. Yes, I just pulled that out of my ass.

Looks a bit like a Harpy, if that's not just a dress. But it's probably a dress...

It's a guardian, and you must answer questions three, or ye shall not pass!

1: WHAT! is your name?
2: WHAT! is your favorite color?
3: WHAT! is the average air speed of an unladen Dragon?

I was hoping the dragon language on the stairs in the first pic was translateable, but the runes don't correspond with any we know of unfortunately.

According to the save titles, the 2nd and 3rd are "Nordic Temples/Ruins"

1. Sir Fanner of the Bethesda Forums.
2. Red.
3. What do you mean? An African or European Dragon?