Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy
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Anne Sudworth
From yesterday’s post about the magic of sunlight interacting with objects, we move into a different kind of magical light, the enchanted light in the mystical paintings of British fantasy artist Ann Sudworth. Her intricately detailed pastel paintings often feature night scenes in which multiple or individual trees are sharply illuminated by a mysterious light…
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Daren Bader
How’s this for a transition, from yesterday’s post about eye-placement in portraits to today’s illustration of a cyclops. (What’s that saying? “In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed, giant-tusked, white veined, maniacal, rampaging cyclops is king.”?… or something like that…) Daren Bader is a fantasy illustrator who, among other projects, does a number of…
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Chesley Bonestell
As I get a little older, I’m increasingly impressed with the changes in the world that a person can see in the course of a single lifetime. I have always been amazed that my grandfather, who was born at a time when it was still a matter of debate whether heavier-than-air flight was even possible…
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Brom
Brom started his career creating commercial illustration for clients like Coke, IBM and CNN. He was soon seduced the dark side (of illustration, that is) and shifted into working full time for TSR, creating wonderfully dark and twisted fantasy illustrations for TSR’s publications (image above). He eventually went freelance again and has continued to do…
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Stephan Martiniere
Stephan Martiniere has done concept and production art for films like Star Wars, Episodes II and III, I, Robot, Red Planet, Dragonheart and others. He has also done concept design for theme parks and animation as well as doing book and magazine illustration. During his three year stint at CYAN he was visual design director…
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Virgil Finlay
Virgil Finlay was one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy artists. He started working for Weird Tales in 1935 and continued to work for that magazine and others for over 35 years. He was a prolific artist and created more than 2,500 images. Although Finlay created many color cover paintings for magazines, the majority…