Can scribal hands be correlated to imagery? Let's look at faces!

[Bluetoes101]

It can be argued that the artist got tired of drawing all the zodiac nymphs or that some pages were considered more important than others but is the bad artwork really sloppiness or lack of skill? I can't say. but I think we must consider that the VM was drawn in several layers and not all elements on a page were necessarily added at the same time.

This I think is a key point. I couldn't see much rebuttal to the idea that Q13 nymphs are more "artistic" than the zodiac nymphs on the whole, but it doesn't necessarily mean it was someone else. The start of the zodiac seems to have more care taken to a point than after that point, it doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest the "artist" just got tired/bored of doing nymphs and maybe they started doing them in bulk, doing 30 noses in a circle then 30 legs might break up the monotony and quicker ways of doing things developed, such as dots for eyes etc.