Category: Sc-fi and Fantasy
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Bror Anders Wikstrom
With the exception of the more straightforward watercolor (images above, bottom), the rest of these wild and wonderfully realized watercolor illustrations are designs for New Orleans carnival parade floats from the early part of the 20th century by Swedish/American artist Bror Anders Wikstrom. Wikstrom originally went to sea as a young man, but his career…
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Eye Candy for Today: Leighton’s Perseus and Andromeda
Perseus and Andromeda, Frederic Leighton Link is to a zoomable version on the Google Art Project; there is a downloadable version on Wikipedia, which also has a descriptive page for the painting; the original is in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. There is a tendency to think of heroes and dragons fantasy as a recent…
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Emily Hare
Emily Hare is a freelance illustrator based in the UK who has a wonderful knack for creating beasties and creatures. These have a nicely strange charm, or a charming strangeness, or, well.. you get the idea. Though she used to work digitally, she is now working in traditional media, primarily watercolor. Among the items in…
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Raoul Vitale
Raoul Vitale is a fantasy artist, illustrator and concept artist who appears to work primarily in oil. His illustration clients include “Magic the Gathering” art for Wizards of the Coast, and his private commissions often focus on scenes from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Vitale frequently works with a controlled palette, allowing the wonderful…
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Gurney Journey at 10
Congratulations to James Gurney for 10 years of authoring his superb blog, Gurney Journey. What started as a modest intention to chronicle his travels on a book tour — in a way mirroring the journaled adventures of the character Authur Denison in Gurney’s popular illustrated adventure series, Dinotopia — has grown over time into not…
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Pablo Carpio
Pablo Carpio is a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in Madrid, Spain. He has worked for Ubisoft Montreal and MPC and his work has been featured in publications like ImagineFX and 2DArtist. A number of the pieces on his online portfolio are Star Wars themed and were apparently done as part of an ILM…