huh, i just re-read season 1 like a day and a half ago, and yesterday started reading the mtl of the novel just passed where s1 left off. interesting timing.
art change is a bit ... meh for me. the old art wasnt technically amazing or anything, but i really liked the character it embodied.
edit: actually upon second look it seems pretty clear that we got an illustrator swap, you can just look at both jared's and chloe's facial shape (as well as chloe's ears specifically) and tell its a different person drawing.