Favorite Fantasy Artist - Round Table

canisvulpes · Forum Newbie Joined: Jan 09, 2005 Posts: 1

Richard Corben! -And especially the stories: "Den, The house of silence", "Encounter at war" and "Jeromy Brood".
Corben's pictures are so awesom and reading some of his longer stories can be just as good a film

http://www.corbenstudios.com/ and http://www.lambiek.net/corben.htm

randym77 · Forum Newbie Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 2

I was interested in art from a very early age. So the first artist I can remember trying to emulate is a children's book illustrator named Trina Schart Hymen. (I'm still impressed with her fantasy illustrations, such those for Ruth Nichol's children's books, "Marrow of the World" and "A Walk Out of the World.")

Perhaps because of the printing limits of the time, most of her art was pen and ink, with strong, flowing lines. As a result, my art was very Art Nouveau-looking for a long time.

When I was a little older, my favorites were Don Maitz and Kinuko Craft, two artists who have done a lot of fantasy and SF books covers. My preference was always for a more painterly or illustrative look, over photorealism.

GhostofMacbeth · Forum Member Joined: Sep 21, 2001 Posts: 613

There was a while that I liked Boris but then I grew to really dislike his work. He has good technical ability but I just feel his stuff lacks a soul.

I have always liked a number of people but my first real like Daryl Sweet LOL ... I then learned more and really don't like a lot of his work now but I like Frazetta, Kaluta, Rackham, NC Wyeth etc ...

Fire_Angel · Forum Newbie Joined: Feb 02, 2005 Posts: 1

Hi, my first post here.

Michael Whelan, Tim White, Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, more than I could remember probably. I like Rowena Morrill's stuff too, the variety of her work is startling; even if you're a fan of hers you can't always see something and recognise it as hers if it is one you never saw before, just because some of her work is so varied.

Boris Vallejo's stuff is always a technical tour-de-force, Tim White has a great command of mood; there must be hundreds of artists who have made works that I have admired in different ways.

randym77 · Forum Newbie Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 2

I never cared for Darrell K. Sweet. His characters always look so stiff and unnatural.

redspark · Forum Newbie Joined: May 13, 2004 Posts: 3

I like Larry Elmore and Todd Lockwood. They are both excellent artists. Lockwood really nailed the drow and Elmore's skin tones are always so realistic.

GhostofMacbeth · Forum Member Joined: Sep 21, 2001 Posts: 613

Yep, they do ... I am not really sure why I liked him to be honest. I liked some of the outfits maybe? But as you said, I really don't like him. I think it may have been that his was the first Tolkien calendar I had and that was when I was first exposed to Tolkien.

Smudger · Forum Member Joined: May 02, 2004 Posts: 11

Roger Dean and Rodney Matthews.
No explanations necessary.
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Smudger; you beat me to it, drat shulda logged on a few minutes earlier :evil:

Roger Dean and Rodney Matthews were the first artists I really noticed growing up and some of the various artists who did Conan Comics, then I found Boris (later he got married to Julie), Frazetta, and others.

Rick Wakeman RULES!

Satan-Hall · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject:

Frazetta's doing it with his left hand, after multiple strokes, and still is a genious at his craft.

Now that also impresses the hell out of me.

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Spiffopolis · Forum Member Joined: Jun 04, 2002 Posts: 13

My favorite is Frazetta. His Conan paintings are what got me hooked on fantasy.

Fargo · Forum Newbie Joined: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 2

Hey! Im new around here! greetings to all!

About this topic, there`s a couple of sci-fi artists that REALLY rock my world when it comes to creating true works of art, these are Boris Vallejo, and Shirow Masamune.

Here`s an image gallery with loads of works by Boris Vallejo (WARNING: Some of the images contain nudity, but in an artistic way ;-)

)
http://vallejo.ural.net/

And here`s a fan page dedicated to Shirow Masamune, with loads of samples of his works as well
(WARNING 2: Nudity in some cases, but like I said in the first warning, in an artistic way 8-)

)
http://members.lycos.co.uk/masamune_shirow/

ENJOY!

Vadlor · Forum Member Joined: May 09, 2003 Posts: 296

Fargo · Forum Newbie Joined: Apr 25, 2004 Posts: 2

Awesome, Vadlor, thanks a lot!

Vadlor · Forum Member Joined: May 09, 2003 Posts: 296