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Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy

  • Raymond Swanland

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    Raymond Swanland has spent much of his career as a concept artist wih the gaming company Oddworld Inhabitants, working in various capacities from conceptual design to art direction and even marketing. Now that Oddworld is transitioning into film development, Swanland is following suit. Outside of his Oddworld work, Swanland has created illustrations for fantasy and…

  • Patrick Woodroffe

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    Patrick Woodroffe is a British artist noted for his his illustrations in the fantasy and science fiction field. His work, however, often bears less conceptual and visual relation to the images normally found in that genre than it does to Surrealism, Symbolism, contemporary visionary painters and the work of 16th Century artists like Bosch and…

  • Journey to Chandara

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    I recently did an update on James Gurney, and I don’t normally do two posts about the same artist in such quick succession, but I finally had a chance to spend some time enjoying my new copy of his latest book, Journey to Chandara, and I was just knocked out. Journey to Chandara (more detail…

  • Craig Phillips

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    So I was on Netdiver (see yesterday’s post) and who comes up as the first illustrator on the first page in the Illustration category but Craig Phillips, a terrific illustrator from New South Wales in Australia. Phillips works in a pleasing line and color style that carries some of the fresh, open feeling of European…

  • Cover Browser

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    Covers of comic books, pulp magazines, and for that matter, magazines and books of any kind, have one purpose — to make you pick that sucker up and run home with it in your sweaty hands after plunking down your hard earned dimes. Cover art, particularly from the lower part of the periodical pool, can…

  • Astrona: Space and Astronomical Art Journal

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    Artistic visions of “the heavens” have been with us throughout the history of art, but pictures of space and planetary bodies probably date from the late 1800’s when conjecture about flights to other spheres became the topic of popular literature. Since then artists have portrayed other worlds with varying intent and degrees of scientific accuracy,…