The Bard of Bardic Broadcasts (the “Why Heroquest is so great” guy), finally published—a year later—part two of his review of the Larry Elmore art book.
He reveals the painting that he said in the first video was the best Elmore did (in the Bard’s opinion).
At one point, he starts going through the players handbook for each edition, but purposefully skips 4e. “Fourth Edition is not canonical, and shall not be discussed”.
As I pointed out in a comment, he is reviewing art, not game rules, and by skipping 4e, he is missing a lot of good fantasy art.
One of the nice things about the 4e books is that the artists’ names are put beside each piece, so if you see something you like, you can look up other stuff by the same artist.
Granted, the first PHB cover art is kind of weaksauce, when compared to the covers for other editions. Just a wizard and a dragonborn fighter posing for the camera, but the first multi-page spread in the PHB shows an adventuring party about to enter the ruins of some building. There is a companion piece in the DMG, showing the same scene, but from inside the building. A company of goblins is hiding in the shadows, about to spring an attack. The halfling rogue, who is in front, is holding her hand up; she obviously has a bad feeling about this. Both pieces are done by Ralph Horsley.
I mentioned in another thread that there is a scene (it fronts the PHB chapter on feats) by Raven Mumura, showing three adventurers fighting off an advancing column of tiefling skeletons. I didn’t like it, initially, but it had grown on me over the years. I don’t think I’ve seen artwork before that shows someone wielding a warpick.
In the DMG, fronting the chapter on Fallcrest, there is a very nice cityscape of Fallcrest. The party that was earlier seen about to be attacked by goblins must have survived, and are now looking to spend any loot they acquired. Or, perhaps, this scene depicts them prior to heading to the mysterious ruins. In any case, the party is moving among a crowd of vendors, who are displaying their wares. In the distance, the waterfall can be seen.