Who are the great artists?

[JVisgaitis]

Interesting. His Cthulhu is stunning. So is his Dragon in Archives, or Avandu. Excellent use of exposition.

Man I love that Avadnu cover (and yeah I have a HUGE bias). Crazy thing is he did that picture in like three days. Below are the other thumbnails Komarck did that we didn't go with (but I liked ALL of them). I'm so glad we went into a holding pattern on the Violet Dawn core book as we'll get to use that cover for 4e and we have 90% of the writing already done!

Mike is a great guy and was great to work with. I'd love to get him to do more covers in the future.

 

[Woas]

I'm probably going to lose all credibility on ENW for this, but my two favorites are Dennis Crabapple McClain and Jeremy Jarvis.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Frazetta is still cool too, I think.

And wow, I still love those Avadnu pics. Awesome.

 

[roguerouge]

For those who like the Celtic look, I recommend Stephanie Pui-Mun Law: http://www.shadowscapes.com/galleries.shtml

I second the vote for DiTerlizzi and I happen to like Wayne Reynolds quite a bit, especially his cover of the Freeport 5th anniversary edition: http://www.waynereynolds.com/Fantasymain/2.jpg

 

[roguerouge]

After being disappointed by the new 4e covers, I've been wondering about who are the fantasy art artists and who I like.

I have to confess that I find the soft-core approach of Royo and the like to be ... silly.

 

[roguerouge]

Yeah.... he's good, but I don't like his faces.

I really like his faces, because they give a sense of the exotic and the strangeness of a different world without throwing you completely out of the realm of the ordinary.

 

[JVisgaitis]

Here's a small sampling of some of my favorites:

http://www.jasonart.com
http://steveargyle.com/index.php
http://www.johnavon.com/index.php?option=com_ponygallery&Itemid=26
http://crazybrush.com/cms/
http://koniwaves.com/capprotti.htm
http://cavotta.com/artists/cavotta/main.asp
http://www.tychoi.com/
http://www.ryanchurch.com/index.htm
http://daarken.com
http://jdillon.net/
http://www.hawkprey.com/mainpage.htm
http://www.paintandsuffering.com/html/main_ie.html
http://www.peterconcept.com/
http://www.christianlorenzscheurer.com/htmlpages/htmlmenue/homepage.html
http://www.jonmccoy.info/
http://www.ravenmimura.com/index.php
http://www.goodbrush.com/mainpage/index2.htm
http://www.torsteinnordstrand.com/
http://www.no-go.dk/Welcome.html
http://www.jamesryman.com/
http://www.philipstraub.com/
http://www.justinsweet.com/
http://www.targeteart.com/
http://www.howardlyon.com/
http://www.tylerwalpole.com/
http://members.shaw.ca/jasonwalton/
http://mattwilsonart.com/
http://www.souleage.net/

 

[Ahzad]

Frazetta is still cool too, I think.

Yea no one does art like Frazetta he's the man! He brings something so primal and raw to his work, others try to imitate it, but they can't match him. Hands down the greatest fantasy artist of all time.

Now for your D&D artists, I'm partial to Otus, and Trampier from the old school, and I love all of Reynolds Freeport stuff.

 

[roguerouge]

I'm probably going to lose all credibility on ENW for this, but my two favorites are Dennis Crabapple McClain and Jeremy Jarvis.

Do they have web sites?

 

[KingCrab]

Tony DiTerlizzi because he's great. Easley and Elmore because they too are great and also bring me back to my past.