Old School Style Artist

[Xyanthon]

Heya Gang. Just wanted to make a quick post and show off a sample of my work. I tend to do mostly B&W line art sort of in the vein of the great 1e artists. I do color as well and will be doing some accrylic paintings. I'm currently working on an OSRIC project that will feature some of my art. If anyone has any projects and would like an artist in the old school mode, I'd be interested in working with you. Attached is a sample of my work and I have a link to my gallery (which is admittedly small - I'm working on rectifying it) in my signature. Please stop by and let me know what you think or post comments here. Email me if you are interested in putting me to work!

Thanks,

John

 

[BastionLightbringer]

Awesome picture. It really does remind me of the good old days of 1e. Please post more.

Bastion

 

[Xyanthon]

Thanks Bastion! You can check out my gallery in my sig for more (I have a few more pics that I'll be adding to the gallery soon). Here's one I did for the cover of a now defunct (I think) ezine. This one is a little less on the old school feel than the first, but it gives some idea of my color work. This one is done in accrylics.

 

[frankthedm]

The fist one is so busy i have to study it to tell this-from-that because it also lacks enough contrast. There is quality, but the pic is a bit too jumbled.

The white dragon oozes old school feel.

 

[Xyanthon]

Frankthedm,

Thanks for the comments! Yeah, the first one is pretty busy. I really just did that one as a doodle (meaning there was no overall direction when I was working on it). Because of that, it does suffer from a business that can be distracting, but it really felt like it was in the old school vein to me so overall, I'm happy with it. I'm trying to make my newer works less jumbled.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Pretty cool stuff! Frank's comments are on the mark, but maybe some heavier coloring to differentiate? The dragon's well done.

 

[Xyanthon]

Varianor,

Thanks for the comments! I do agree with Frank's comments. I'm going to leave that first dragon pic as is, but some of my more current work reflects my focus on contrasts to make it easier to pull out the images.

Here's one of the more recent ones to give you an idea:

 

[Xyanthon]

Here's one more from the gallery (and also happens to be my avatar).

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Now those are really well done.

 

[Xyanthon]

Varianor,

Thanks! Hopefully the illustration board I ordered from the States will be here this weekend. I've got a few paintings I want to do. I also want to do some more action shots. I've got an OSRIC project that I'm working on which will have quite a few of my illustrations in it.