Character Gallery II: Elves 2, contains twelve pages of illustrations for use in your home games and as part of a published work, with the standard ilmits of art. Mainly that you cannot repackage it as art and resell it.
The art is by Brian Brinlee, Ozzy Longoria, and Alex Gutierrez. The art can be grouped by the styles. The cover art, which in my opinion looks better in black and white, is a nice clean style and the artist has several morei llustrations in the book including a swashbuckler female with two blades, a monk/wizard style figure, a wizard/fighter style female (perfect for a Hexblade in 4e), an armored male wizard/fighter (more suited for a swordmage perhaps, but still too heavily armored), and a archetype elf ranger archer.
The next art style is not too my personal taste. The first illustration is an elf, perhaps female, in some odd squatting position where the right hand and the bow the figure is holding are partially cut off. The female noble on page nine is well done being more clean, but then it gets messy with some warrior woman wearing leg armor that seems highly segmented, and this same illustration is then repeated on page 13.
the third style is more of a charcoal or heavy sketch style and starts with a female that could easily pass as a tiefling or dark elf with a evil sword and a massive staff with the head of a demon on it. Horns spiral off her skull, but could easily be a helm or going through the helm. The next illustration looks like it could be an elf warrior or a other... perhaps not evil, but definately military styling. There needs to me more of this style.
If the middle artist work had the full illustration of the female with the bow and the art wasn't reprinted, I think this would be a more useful product. Having more of that last illustrator do more work would also be great as that style is my own personal preference.
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