"Fantasy RPG artist's work to hang on your wall?" Topic

Pick an artist, any source.

Here are suggestions:
Trampier
Sutherland
Otus
Elmore
Caldwell
Dee
Ellis
Willingham

Add yours below…

None. I hate fantasy art.

I'm sure Frazetta's work was used somewhere. And, not to my liking, but:

That guy who paints bodybuilder models.

That chick who paints like that guy who paints bodybuilder models.

I used to be put off by his work, but now I love Erol Otus.

Frazetta warlord of mars
Romita Original art from captain america issue #142
Gutzman Original art from Gi combat #150
Barry Smith Conan fight Skeletons

"None. I hate fantasy art"
It was an essential contribution to this thread that we know this . . .

Vallejo is the body-builder model painter, he did the Ben Stiller Bull by-the-horns painting in Dodge Ball. Frazetta of course! Angus McBride, known mostly for his historical paintings also did some great Lord of the Rings paintings.

And "that chick" is probably Vallejo's wife,Julie Bell. I consider them both kitsch artists,which Frazetta was not. But I don't know whether he did any pieces originally for RPGs. I have had his prints on my walls.

I'd love to have prints from the ICE MERP games,which mate two faves--Angus McBride and Middle Earth.

Paul Bonner, I have always liked his Ork work.

Elmore, Blanche, McBride or Whelan

Perhaps I should clarify that to "I hate cloying fan fantasy art."
Google "Jamie and Cersei" for some truly appalling art. Game of Thrones art is almost universally sickeningly "artful".
Arwen art isn't much better.

I have an original Dell Harris 'sort of griffon' in pencil, and several Whelan prints. Otherwise I hang pictures of cats. Really big cats.

Angus McBride did some wonderful illustrations most of them OFM approved (loads of great Ospreys, of course) but some lovely (obviously not to some folks liking) of LotR from the MERP supplements.

His illustrations – of whatever style – can go on any wall space I have.

But Howe and Frazett are both good.

John T

OT,but I'm partial to Alan Lee's work on ME--though I'll allow that it's a bit too bleak and grim for many--but that's how I see LOTR,mostly. Someone wrote to Tolkien that he saved LOTR for Lent,"because it is so hard and bitter".

In happier mood,Ted Nasmith is good,though sometimes edging towards Hildebrandt,which is almost pure Disneyfication--and oh,how JRRT loathed Disney!

…and paint on the side of my '70s conversion van!!!

Brom. Gerald, not Larry. He of the original TSR Dark Sun artwork.

I like Keith Parkinson. I've had these two images on my wall:

I used to like Elmore, but as I got older, my tastes got more selective. At lot of Elmore's work seems like pandering fan art without a lot of substance behind it. I prefer Jeff Butler and Jeff Easley. For pure classic, I love a lot of the old black and white art, as I feel it had far more character than a lot of the more modern stuff that takes away viewer interpretation. A lot of the older art for RPGs tended to allow viewers to interpret from their own perspective and use their own imagination. I feel a lot of modern RPG art, while technically superior doesn't invite any user interpretation at all.

Otus was great with viewer interpretation:

Roslof was good with that as well.

Another for Michael Whelan.

… and maybe Mondriaan …

Mondrian did RPGs? Wonder what those were like. . .

Tony DiTerlizzi (Planescape, Spiderwick Chronicles, The Leafmen)

Alan Lee

John Howe

Frazetta

Well,heck,since the thread's been derailed (sorry,Parzival),one of my favorites, Hannes Bok:

I have this as lock page wallpaper on my phone:

A unique artistic vision.

I'm not much for fantasy art generally, but a buddy of mine had Andrea of Ganesha games do a picture of some of our club members as fantasy characters and it has an honored place above the bookcase in my bedroom.

I do have a large framed Battletech poster up in my music room though. It's this same piece of artwork with no words.

It's a much more impressive picture when the bottom third is visible, but you get the idea.

I currently have two Chris Achilleos art prints hanging in my War Room and another one elsewhere in the house:

Penthesilea:

Amazon BC:

Athena:

They are large size and impressive, much more so than the reproductions in books.

I might pick up some more someday -- you can order direct from his website and he'll sign the prints.

I admire Ted Naismith's Tolkien art a great deal and would like to buy some prints of his work sometime.

Fantasy art often shows the subject of the picture in a pose. What I like about this image, which is drawn in a realistic style is the believable nature of it showing a party of adventures doing different things after a fight. You see a fighter sitting and cleaning his sword, a wizard resting against his staff, a man in plate armor looking at a map perhaps, along with a companion, and a couple of thieves trying to pry a large gem from the statue. This picture has detail and tells a story.

I also like the Tolkien artists Lee, Howe, and Nasmith. Also like the heroic paintings of Franzetta and Vallejo; as well as the art of Parkinson and Whelan.

Angus MacBride, for presenting an image of Middle Earth in which everybody is real and not a white melting ghost. Most specifically Eowyn and the Witch King.

Just about any image done by Kieth Parkinson, especially the Queen of the Spiders. (one of the good module covers I mentioned from way back in the other thread)

As for modern artists there's one I'm blanking on. He's a Pathfinder artist, but I like him.

TYLER WALPOLE! That's it. Pick any of his Demons or Devils, but if it were up to me I'd take either the Succubus or the Glabrezu.

If we expand to Dragon mag covers, Den Beauvais's chess series always impressed me.

I passed the Dutchie. I forgot …

… Hieronymus Bosch

Frazetta
Dali
Klimt
Kandinsky
Parrish

My daughter has two Rodney Matthews paintings as posters on her wall. I gave them to her, so we both really like them.

One is On a Storyteller's Night, the other is Ilian of Garathorm.

andy

My walls display the classic Frazetta Death Dealer print pictured here. I also have Larry Elmore's Star Frontiers cover. I used to have some HR Giger lithographs, but I gave them away.

I'm a big fan of John Howe and Keith Parkinson, but I don't have anything from them. Also a fan of Denis Beauvais (great Dragon covers!), as well as Josh Timbrook, Phil Foglio, Richard Kane-Ferguson and the amazing Charles Vess.

Nowadays I like to support local or lesser-known artists that I meet at conventions. If they have something cool, I'll buy it.

Inga Moore