Great fantasy artists? (here be pictures)

Swordmaster · Unread postby **Swordmaster** » 09 Sep 2006, 18:34

The topic says it all. Do you have any favorite fantasy artists?

My favorite in fantasy art must be Larry Elmores painting for MM6:

(And arrest me if such a topic has been created before)

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 10 Sep 2006, 08:29

I have seen some beautiful art, but my memory doesn't serve me as to the artist

. One of my favorites was on a poster. It depicted an enormous castle sitting on a big hill in front of a smaller hill. The sky was dark and white/yellow lightning was flashing everywhere (man I wish I had it and a scanner

Raising to the level of the first hill was a black dragon that was about as big as the entire castle. Blueish electricity was gathering in it's mouth and flowing slightly down its back. Standing on the small hill was a rather small figure. It was a female elf (of course scantily clad, do people ever make them anything but anymore?) holding aloft what looked like a twig. She had shimmering silverish hair and the 'stick' (which was probably ment to be a wand) had a white smoke rising out of it to form what would become one of my most favorite fantasy creatures. It looked like a pegasus with a horn (only do to magic made to enormous size).

Now a few people have depicted a pegasus with a horn, but to my knowledge they never actually had a name. So I suggest Unisys (should be Unisus, but wanted a flavor to it). Even created a D&D creature out of the idea

. Here is a link to some really great picks of Dragons (my second fav myth creature lol..warning some ...dicey picks here. /www.isidore-of-seville.com/dragons/ of these I like Staney Morrison's best cause they arn't as cheesy as the others.

Gaidal Cain · Unread postby **Gaidal Cain** » 10 Sep 2006, 08:43

John Howe is pretty awesome:

Morgoth's Forces before Gondolin

Grumpy Old Wizard · Unread postby **Grumpy Old Wizard** » 10 Sep 2006, 09:04

Here is a great fantsy art site.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/elfwood.pike

I had planed to make an Equilibris map based on this picture. Perhaps when the new version is released I will.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/m/a/m ... l.jpg.html

GOW

Akul · Unread postby **Akul** » 10 Sep 2006, 09:19

From: http://www.amoka.net

Mod note: removed an image, because it was too large - please see the Tips for posting pictures thread for guidelines.

Mytical · Unread postby **Mytical** » 10 Sep 2006, 09:30

Absolutely marvelous!!! Keep them comming, this is fantastic!! I must say this is a great idea. Hopefully we will get some very beautiful tasteful artwork here. Will have to make sure to save these to my HD too!! Thank you so much for starting this thread!!!

Swordmaster · Unread postby **Swordmaster** » 10 Sep 2006, 12:39

My pleasure!

And yeah, I should have mentioned John Howe and Alan Lee, great artists and definately favorites of mine.. But they are so obvious to me that I forgot them, haha!

This is "The Fall of Gondolin" of John Howe, and cover my edition of Silmarillion (been av favorite of mine for a long time):

Swordmaster · Unread postby **Swordmaster** » 10 Sep 2006, 12:45

There is a very mystic touch to everything Alan Lee does, he is truly great:

theLuckyDragon · Unread postby **theLuckyDragon** » 10 Sep 2006, 12:52

Does he have any pictures that don't involve destruction and/or danger?

Pol · Unread postby **Pol** » 10 Sep 2006, 13:21

I would like to go with Royo and Valejo, they are famous anyway

Swordmaster · Unread postby **Swordmaster** » 10 Sep 2006, 13:53

theLuckyDragon wrote:Does he have any pictures that don't involve destruction and/or danger?

Who? If you're talking about Alan Lee, then yes. Lots.

DaemianLucifer · Unread postby **DaemianLucifer** » 10 Sep 2006, 15:07

Man these are great!I dont have a favourite though,because Im not judgmental when looking at pictures.I like them all a lot.

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 11 Sep 2006, 01:42

these are excellent, Janny Wurts (one of my favourite authors) does some good artwork, and i really love that first pic

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 12 Sep 2006, 23:01

I don't really know who did these, but they're from Disciples 2, and i think they're pretty great. 1st one's a Titan too.

Titan:

Valkyrie:

Living Armor:

Possessed:

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 13 Sep 2006, 01:06

i'm gonna see if i can dig up a pic that i did some time ago .... i did draw it but can't really claim the credit, but before i go into that, will see if i can find it, did it maybe 15 years ago

Milla aka. the Slayer · Unread postby **Milla aka. the Slayer** » 14 Sep 2006, 16:50

Wow, these are all great. I really admire these artists' skills and eye for details. Also I've always admired people who can actually draw or paint exactly what they see or exactly what they had in mind

asandir · Unread postby **asandir** » 18 Sep 2006, 03:19

Yep, I can draw what I see, but it just doesn't look like what it should .... at all

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 18 Sep 2006, 10:28

Less blabbing, more pics pls.

ThunderTitan · Unread postby **ThunderTitan** » 19 Sep 2006, 13:57

Pic of a Mermaid i liked, the tentacles are a bit too much, but the rest is near perfection:

Marzhin · Unread postby **Marzhin** » 19 Sep 2006, 16:14

Frank Frazetta is still the best of the best :

I also love works from french comic-books artists, namely Philippe Druillet...

...and Caza :

I like when there is a SF flavour to fantasy illustration. (Probably why I liked the old M&M universe so much)

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