What artists do you follow?

[Docsmith626]

Something D Akey said to Grey triggered a line of thought. Who are your favorite fantasy/comic/manga artists, particularly those who have influenced you. Of course, Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo caught my interest early on. I loved the Vampirella comics. Some more recent candidates include:


Adam Black, ArtRager and author of Locus, described by Adam as “monsters and nekkid ladies”.


Megan Rose Gedris, a phenomenal and multi-talented artist.


Terrence Bernard of Sophia Awakening.


Tara Tallan of Galaxian.


Inaki Miranda of Tribes: The Dog Years.


Sarah Skye of Simply Sarah and Cathy.


Jenny Romanchuck of The Zombie Hunters. http://ashwings.deviantart.com/art/TZH-Webcomic-Tutorial-112296684 A very cool tutorial.


Jamie Robertson of Clan of the Cats, which she started as the rankest of amateurs, honing her craft over a period of years.


Dave Reynolds of Shadowgirls

[Ambi Dextrose]

Even though I'm not originally from the United States, my first exposure to the world of comics (and art) was through the standard fare of Marvel and DC comics. However, as I grew up, i stated to take notice of my next-door neighbors- Japanese and Korean artists. Today, I seldom follow any Western artists, if at all:

Shirow Miwa - Dogs: Bullet and Carnage
Ito Ogure (Oh! Great) - Tenjo Tenge, Air Gear
Kubo Tite - Bleach
Hiroaki Samura - Blade Of The Immortal
Tsutomu Takahashi - Sidooh
Hoshino Katsura - D.Gray Man
Takeshi Obata/Tsugumi Ohba - Bakuman, Deathnote
Mizuki Kawashita - Lilim Kiss, Ichigo 100%, Ane Doki
Shoji Kawamori - Macross series, Cyber-Formula, Escaflowne, Eureka Seven, Armored Core, et.al.
Hajime Katoki - BANDAI Gundam lead model mechanical designer
Shirow Masamune - Appleseed, Ghost In The Shell, Dominion Tank Police, Intron Depot, et.al.
Range Murata - Blue Submarine No.6, The Last Exile, Robot
Kim Hyung Tae - character designer
Katsuya Terada - character designer
Mamorou Nagano - Five Star Stories
Izumo Jyuki - mechanical designer
Ugetsu Hakua - Burst Angel, character designer
Shunya Yamashita - character designer
Yasushi Suzuki - Purgatory kabuki, various games

Syd Mead - Blade Runner, Tron, et.al. concept designs
James Jean - Fables covers
J. Scott Campbell - Danger Girl/Gen 13
John Howe/Alan Lee - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Greg Hildebrandt - Star Wars posters
Ron Cobb - Star Wars, The Last Starfighter, The Abyss, et.al. concept designs
Adi Granov - Iron Man
Marko Djurdjevic - Marvel cover artist

[Cati]

Wow that's a lot! I have trouble keeping up with even with one artist. Haha! ;-)

How do you keep track with so many artists? I'd get mixed up. :-P

[funwulf]

thats a long list:eek:
I'm starting to draw and paint only recently, here is my list:
David Manuel (Fashmir) on his blog fashmir.blogspot.com
Sav Scatola (Boxy) on his website boxy.co.uk
Claudine Gevry (Cloe) homepage.mac.com/cloe/cloe.html
and Claude Monet on wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet
maybe will add another on the journey :)

[dasHerz]

:)
pablo picasso
(schon in der grundschule, mit 10 jahren angefangen, mit sechzehn eine jahres arbeit geschrieben: Pablo Picasso - leben und werk )

egon schiele
gustav klimt
piet mondrian
miro

surrealistische kunst
abstrakte kunst

danke
lg
dasHerz

[Docsmith626]

Skoji Kawamori and Shiro Masamune are flat out awesome. :eek:

[Ambi Dextrose]

Skoji Kawamori and Shiro Masamune are flat out awesome.

Yes they are. Considering the breadth and depth of their body of work, it's no wonder they're regarded as institutions by a lot of creative individuals out in the industry.


Wow that's a lot! I have trouble keeping up with even with one artist. Haha! ;-)

How do you keep track with so many artists? I'd get mixed up. :-P

Mangaka's works are easy to track- I follow the mangas they write and oftentimes, it will include advertisement for any other (recent) work done by that particular mangaka. In other instances, the publisher (i.e., Jump, Kadokawa, et.al.) would advertise upcoming work done by their artists. Those who work in anime and games are similarly easy to track because their (respective) studios would advertise upcoming work/releases. So I just check periodically the websites of these publishers/studios. It's for this reason that I taught myself how to read Nihingo.

[cLuMsY_joel]

My favourite artist of all time is a relatively unknown British painter called Sir Stanley Spencer. He painted (usually Biblical) narratives, set in his local, modern surroundings in a very idiosyncratic style! (Some of his paintings are housed in the 2 Tate Galleries and The National Gallery in London).

An example of his work: (St Francis and the birds, 1935)

http://www.leninimports.com/stanley_spencer_st_francis_shop_postcard.jpg

A link to his website:

http://www.stanleyspencer.org.uk/

Whilst searching Flickr, I found a couple of contemporary artists that inspire me to work.

French artist (based in London) McBess:

http://awesomewith.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/mcbess_1.jpg

http://mcbess.com/

and UK illustrator Gemma Correll, who does really entertaining daily diary doodles! See her Flickr page here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gemmacorrell/

[Illuminati]

i'm still waiting for da vinci to make some new paintings:P
and some on deviantart

[Docsmith626]

Thanks, Rose. Those are some great sites.

[screenpainter]

Thanks Rose, daily painters is a great site.
Joel... great choices... thanks for making me aware of those.

I find the most delight in the work of Nigel VanWieck.
Though secretly I think it is Edward Hopper reincarnated.
My favorite painter:

http://www.nigelvanwieck.net/
http://nigelvanwieck4.blogspot.com/
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_YAYaDOSNbV0/SNdLZbu66gI/AAAAAAAAAWI/v8HU9cCtTZE/s400/+THE+HUDSON+LINE++oil+on+panel++8+x+16_1.jpg


also
Jeffrey t. larson
http://www.jeffreytlarson.com/

And this fellow:
Daniel Greene
http://www.danielgreeneartist.com/portraits.htm

Now if only I would learn something from them. :)

oops,,, I see now you said fantasy artists... never mind. :)

[Alexandra]

Maxfield Parish, Roger and Martyn Dean, my comics of old I still have from the late 60's, many many more-especially here on AR.:)

[Borilius]

Frank Frazetta
Dan Milligan
Todd Lockwood
Drew Struzan
Paul Bonner
and many many others, but above are my Top 5 :)

[Mike Severoff]

I'm talking about Digital art (except Beksinski):
Craig Mullins (http://www.goodbrush.com/),
Beksinski (http://www.beksinski.pl/),
misterpaint (http://misterpaint.artrage.it/)
uxorious (http://uxorious.deviantart.com/gallery/),
Ryan Church (http://www.ryanchurch.com/),
Raphaël-Lacoste (http://www.raphael-lacoste.com/acceuil.html)

[Docsmith626]

Gzairborne, those may not be fantasy artists, but I looked at their websites and their respective bodies of work are well worth study. :D

[Alexandra]

Frank Frazetta-that's his name-yes-he is fantastic. Thanks Borilius for mentioning him. Must add the Hilderbrandt Brothers. (I may have misspelled the name)

[Judith Tramayne]

Here's one of my favorite artists I found on the Internet:

http://www.kathyostman-magnusen.com/Kathy_Ostman-Magnusen_Art/Welcome.html

Now just image what would happen if she painted with ArtRage 3 :D

Judith

[Docsmith626]

The mind balks at the potential awesomeness.

[Gray]

I guess I should comment, eh? My personal favorites are

Tom Siddell of Gunnerkrigg Court: http://www.gunnerkrigg.com
Aaron Diaz of Dresden Codak: (specifically this particular style) http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content: http://questionablecontent.net/

I don't know if this counts as a single style or not, but Chris Hastings, Kent Archer and Carly Monardo all contribute to various aspects of Doctor McNinja: http://www.drmcninja.com/

Some really great art throughout, it's also fascinating to watch these artists grow and learn. All of these are examples of people who start good and get really good. Among these, I'm truly in love with Gunnerkrigg Court, which has fantastic color, and Dresden Codak, which makes fantastic use of facial expression and shape, with less emphasis on lines, more emphasis on shades. Also, the story to Gunnerkrigg is fantastic if you have the time to read through 600 some pages. It's worth it from the art standpoint alone, but if you like robots, magic and fairytales with pragmatic heroines, you've got to read it. Dresden Codak really appeals to the scientist and random math whimsy in me =D

[D Akey]

Great thread. Inspiring artists.

[Jono]

An artist that I think was ahead of his time and had a fantastical and fertile imagination, was Pieter Bruegel the Elder (about 1525/30–1569).

I became fascinated with his paintings and etchings when I first found a small dusty and faded paperback by a Tiziana Frati in a local bookshop a few years ago.

Check out ‘The Fall of the Rebel Angels’ painted in 1562!
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_(Brue gel) (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_%28Br uegel%29&action=edit&redlink=1)

[screenpainter]

definitely interesting to see everyone's favorite artists. some people didn't just include fantasy artists. :) funny.

[Jono]

...some people didn't just include fantasy artists.

I suppose fantasy art has evolved from other genres and has blurry edges. People, me included, may have inadvertently listed some non-fantasy artists due to the stylised cartoon nature of similar types of art work.

Three modern artists that I do admire, that are perhaps more in the fantasy art camp, are Nick Harris, Jon Hodgson and Simon Dominic. They are all wonderful illustrators (IMHO) that also, from what I understand, use ArtRage when it’s practical.

As a slight diversion and at the risk of being controversial, :eek: I read that in the past Bruegel's work was considered to be 'absurd and vulgar'. It’s all a matter of personal taste. I’m sure an image of a scantily clad women, on the back of a wolf, going off to slay a dragon, will be considered in a similar vein by some people nowadays. :rolleyes: :D

Surly this is fantasy art – boy with wings attacking a flying hamster fish :D