Topic: jamfamsam's art ranking by committee (Read 155889 times)

jamfamsam · « **Reply #450 on:** July 19, 2016, 11:35:03 am »

#147 - Explorer

This is the start of group J, 15 cards.

This art must resonate with teenage girls. All 3 of my daughters rated this 5 or better. I can't stand this art (insert joke about they can't all be the best ever).

The water looks like a bunch of feathers. The front of the boat looks like an angry duck. She looks like an Irish dancer.

When I look at this art, I think of the opening scene from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl where Jack Sparrow is riding his sinking boat into Port Royal and steps off the crow's nest onto the dock.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #451 on:** July 19, 2016, 11:37:25 am »

#146 - Transmute

We like the skull as a page holder. Too much blue and purple. My daughters thought the beard being tied at the end was funny.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #452 on:** July 19, 2016, 11:39:21 am »

#145 - Bishop

What's with the shriveled hand of death reaching out to bless this guy? I'd be shrinking back from having that hand touch me. I think the bishop is really a mummy in disguise. Look at that face!

jamfamsam · « **Reply #453 on:** July 19, 2016, 07:34:20 pm »

#144 - Seaway

The grass is always greener on the other side of the, uh, Seaway.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #454 on:** July 19, 2016, 07:35:24 pm »

#143 - Ghost Ship

My daughters say this looks like something out of Scooby Doo. I love the Dutch translation for the name of this card.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #455 on:** July 19, 2016, 07:36:52 pm »

#142 - Coin of the Realm

Coin of the Realm for Marioland. I'm pretty sure that's Princess Toadstool's castle.

LibraryAdventurer · « **Reply #456 on:** July 19, 2016, 07:43:02 pm »

Quote from: jamfamsam on July 19, 2016, 07:35:24 pm

#143 - Ghost Ship...
I love the Dutch translation for the name of this card.

please elaborate. I don't know any dutch, but I like words. What are the connotations & stuff that you like about the dutch translation?

AdrianHealey · « **Reply #457 on:** July 19, 2016, 08:17:37 pm »

The Dutch name is (literally translated into English); 'The Flying Dutchman', a myth about a sea captain

jamfamsam · « **Reply #458 on:** July 20, 2016, 11:23:24 am »

#141 - Bandit Camp

One guy soaking his stinky feet. One guy notching an arrow. One guy standing guard over the guy soaking his feet.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #459 on:** July 20, 2016, 11:25:27 am »

#140 - Ironworks

Why are those guys carrying their crosses into the ironworks?

jamfamsam · « **Reply #460 on:** July 20, 2016, 11:26:41 am »

#139 - Feast

This card had a pretty high deviation in its rating. The pilgrim woman seems a little out of place.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #461 on:** July 20, 2016, 07:20:38 pm »

#138 - Graverobber

Nice floating lantern! The corpse just got engaged and wants everyone to see her ring.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #462 on:** July 20, 2016, 07:22:17 pm »

#137 - Miser

Those are nice ACE bandages on his feet. I think if you were hauling a bunch of riches around in a cart back then, you wouldn't be hauling a bunch of riches around for very long.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #463 on:** July 20, 2016, 07:23:39 pm »

#136 - Sir Vander

Sir Vander looks like a goblin sitting on a swayback horse.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #464 on:** July 21, 2016, 11:40:10 am »

#135 - Distant Lands

Matthew Chapter 2 Verse 1 "...behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem"

jamfamsam · « **Reply #465 on:** July 21, 2016, 11:41:59 am »

#134 - Mine

We work, work, work, work, work, work, work, in a mine the whole day through....

(song from Disney's Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs)

Seprix · « **Reply #466 on:** July 21, 2016, 11:42:54 am »

Quote from: jamfamsam on July 21, 2016, 11:41:59 am

#134 - Mine

We work, work, work, work, work, work, work, in a mine the whole day through....

(song from Disney's Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs)

jamfamsam · « **Reply #467 on:** July 21, 2016, 11:44:30 am »

#133 - Border Village

I really like this art. It is a little gray and it looks more like a fortress than a village. My daughters want to know why most of the art like this is up on a cliff.

That is the end of group J.

Co0kieL0rd · « **Reply #468 on:** July 21, 2016, 04:06:06 pm »

Quote from: jamfamsam on July 21, 2016, 11:44:30 am

#133 - Border Village

I really like this art. It is a little gray and it looks more like a fortress than a village. My daughters want to know why most of the art like this is up on a cliff.

A cliff seems like a natural border.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #469 on:** July 21, 2016, 06:07:15 pm »

#132 - Ambassador

This is the start of group I, 13 cards.

The room is very weird. A cup is sitting on a slanted surface and the light fixture looks like a floating peach. I wonder who gave the ambassador that black eye.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #470 on:** July 21, 2016, 06:10:29 pm »

#131 - Tournament

The knight on the right is in big trouble. That broken lance is about to go right through his eye slot and will probably kill him.

Those spectators are really far away. They will need some binoculars.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #471 on:** July 21, 2016, 06:19:54 pm »

#130 - Travelling Fair

I'm anticipating the comments about 'Fairgrounds is better than this', so I will get on my soapbox for a bit.

As I said when I posted Fairgrounds, the artist completely missed the moment in time you want to capture with Fairgrounds. Travelling Fair does a much better job. We want to think of the excitement of the Fair, not the letdown. If you were going to do some art for buying a car, you don't want to capture the moment of buyer's remorse. If you're drawing Feast, you aren't going to capture the moment of cleaning up all the trash and leftover food and bones and dirty dishes.

Stepping off my soapbox now.

ConMan · « **Reply #472 on:** July 21, 2016, 07:26:55 pm »

Quote from: jamfamsam on July 21, 2016, 06:07:15 pm

#132 - Ambassador

This is the start of group I, 13 cards.

The room is very weird. A cup is sitting on a slanted surface and the light fixture looks like a floating peach. I wonder who gave the ambassador that black eye.

I've always assumed that, since this card is from Seaside, that he's on board a ship. That would explain why everything looks slightly off-balance, and why the light is a hanging one.

Seprix · « **Reply #473 on:** July 21, 2016, 07:29:53 pm »

Quote from: jamfamsam on July 21, 2016, 06:19:54 pm

#130 - Travelling Fair

I'm anticipating the comments about 'Fairgrounds is better than this', so I will get on my soapbox for a bit.

As I said when I posted Fairgrounds, the artist completely missed the moment in time you want to capture with Fairgrounds. Travelling Fair does a much better job. We want to think of the excitement of the Fair, not the letdown. If you were going to do some art for buying a car, you don't want to capture the moment of buyer's remorse. If you're drawing Feast, you aren't going to capture the moment of cleaning up all the trash and leftover food and bones and dirty dishes.

Stepping off my soapbox now.

Fairgrounds is better than this.

jamfamsam · « **Reply #474 on:** July 22, 2016, 12:53:52 pm »

#129 - Sir Michael

When you look at an enlarged picture, it looks like Sir Michael has Bell's Palsy. (Bell's palsy is a sudden facial paralysis that usually strikes all or part of one side of the face.)

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