Opinion from someone who cares about the art (Owns every purchasable skin)
So as someone who owns every skin that you can purchase (Excluding the new Tahm and Mao skin as i'm lagging a little there), i feel i should make the point that i have done so because i enjoy the art style of the game immensely. As someone who is also an avid fan of LOL fan, including Rated art, i may possibly be a bit biased towards the new splash arts however that being said, i'd like to think that i am one of the few that deserve to at least have their opinion heard due to my love and monetary dedication.
Therefore i am going to go through all the updated arts from the current splash and rate if they are either a positive or negative improvement and whether i think the art style is too 'fan artish' (Note, I'm excluding the tweaked arts)
Stinger Akali - Positive Crimson Akali - controversial. I am going to make a note here that this skin and the current Blood Moon art should trade places Silverfang Akali - Positive Longhorn Alistar - Positive Vancouver Amumu - Positive Re-gift Amumu - Negative Emumu - Positive APK Amumu - Equal Annie In Wonderland - Subjective. I am not a fan of either arts. Prom Queen Annie - Positive BB Blitz - Positive Safari and Arctic Caitlin - Positive! These two are highlights as the best arts going regardless Gentleman Cho'Gath - Negative Red Baren Corki - Positive Toxic Dr.Mundo - Subjective. This skin does not look like him in game. However, i was not a fan of the old skin either Shadow and Masquerade Evelyn - I cannot comment. As an Eve main and one who has been inlove with both splash arts for a good 2 years, i am too bias to comment. I will say FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THANK YOU!!!!! however. Spectral Fiddlesticks - Positive HT Galio - Negative Sanguine and Sanguine Garen - Subjective. Both skins are positives however they stick out horribly HB Gragas - Negative Base art and Infiltrator Irelia - Negative. Now alone these are two very nice art works however they look more like Fan Arts and the base change icon does not mesh well with the rest. On the topic though, Imagine if every skin had an ingame icon ;3 DS Jarvan - Subjective. Another one that looks nice but sticks out Tempest Janna - Controversial. This is a fun one isn't it. We have all seen those Facebook ads stealing this artwork. It sticks out horribly HT Janna - Negative Temple Jax - Negative. Now, i hate to say this but first, i LOVE this art however this is 100% fan art. Now i understand the idea behind it but it doesn't justify hard enough. SG Karma - Negative Sakura Karma - Subjective. Another beautiful art work but does not suit Karthus in general - Positive Unmasked Kayle - Subjective. Another art commonly stolen, this one is beautiful however the face looks copy-pasted Swamp Master Kennen - Subjective. Aye look, it's one of the Kennen trio. This follows the same as Jax's problem. I understand whats going on, and it fits better however it still doesn't suit Lion Dance Kog'Maw - Positive Wicked Leblanc - Negative. SCREAMS fan art Traditional and Acolyte Lee Sin - Positive. Here are two more arts that are perfect Master Yi in General - Positive. A little shaky though. Miss Fortune In General - Negative. Ohhh Dearrrr.. An upgrade from her last but this cannot stay as a bandage. On the topic owever, Captain Fortune should be her Base. Just sayin. She's seriously beautiful Exiled Morgana - Negative Lord Mordekaiser - Negative. Oh good lord no. Mind the pun FT Nocturne - Subjective. Correct me if i'm wrong but this is based on his old look right? It would be fine if it looked like the rest of the art Sasquatch Nunu - Positive Workshop and bot Nunu - Negative Molton and Freljord Rammus - Positive Wukong in General - Positive ...
So more positives to me than negative however i feel most of these, even some positive, should not simply bandage the problem. There are only a handful of positive ones i would keep however i am a advocate for equilibrium and this situation causes a problem with that. Overall I'm more than happy with these regardless