The Art of Lolth

[Jarlaxle]

Remember: many of the Drizzt books had covers with dark (sometimes black) backgrounds. I saw some unpublished sample covers at a Con a few years ago...on the equipment TSR had (which wasn't top-line even new, and was anything but new), black skin simply didn't work. It printed one of three ways: dark blue, muddy gray, or blended into the black of the cover.

So that's why you got an old man with sideburns instead. Wait, what.

No, not sideburns...having seen the (much larger) original, it's hair coming out from under the sides of the cap.

Not quite as I seem to recall her hair went past her shoulders

Danica's hair is described, repeatedly, as shoulder-length and curly. Lockwood's Danica isn't even CLOSE. (He draws her hair straight and the wrong color.)

Best FR cover:

Elaine Cunningham, upon seeing that, actually had to suppress a shock of recognition upon seeing Liriel.

 

[Morrigan]

Funny, that's by Todd Lockwood, not Brom.

And I remember reading her comments about the horrifically bad original covers and laughing out loud. They were so bad. The re-issues look pretty nice.