Swords and Sorcery Artists

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Red Nails - I just re-read yesterday; awesome picture capturing the city action.

[Finarvyn]

Jul 13, 2021 18:26:42 GMT -6 tdenmark said:

Jul 13, 2021 18:19:05 GMT -6 DungeonDevil said:

Michael Whelan's art for the Barsoom books and Elric saga are superb.

Do you have an example? He's got one good Elric illustration, but I haven't seen any good Barsoom ones.

I'm not posting these because we really are running low on storage space for attachments, but Whelan may be my favorite Barsoom artist other than Frazetta. I have the whole set of paperbacks with his art and they are (in my opinion) all awesome.

www.catspawdynamics.com/john-carter-of-mars-covers-by-michael-whelan/

[geoffrey]

Aug 2, 2021 1:46:11 GMT -6 Finarvyn said:

Whelan may be my favorite Barsoom artist other than Frazetta.

I'm right there with you.

[stevemitchell]

If we're talking Burroughs, then I'd certainly recommend the great artwork by J. Allen St. John.

[tdenmark]

Aug 2, 2021 8:55:07 GMT -6 stevemitchell said:

If we're talking Burroughs, then I'd certainly recommend the great artwork by J. Allen St. John.

Before Frazetta, before Al Williamson, before much of the great fantasy and sci-fi art of the 20th century was J. Allen St. John. He was contemporary to NC Wyeth and there is some similarities. But we have to appreciate J. Allen St. John's creativity and originality.



Early Frazetta covers bear a striking resemblance to J. Allen St. John's work.

[captainjapan]

I hadn't known that Frank Frazetta contributed art to Battlestar Galactica:


www.rowsdowr.com/2012/10/28/frank-frazettas-battlestar-galactica-paintings-bsg/

It's about what you'd expect, lots of thick-thighed women. I think I see Death Dealer in the background of the Tombs of Kobol piece. Star Wars looms large over Battlestar, even in the promo art.

[jeffb]

<All for thick thighed Frazetta style women.

Just wish they were more common in real life

[tdenmark]

Dec 5, 2021 12:32:19 GMT -6 captainjapan said:

I hadn't known that Frank Frazetta contributed art to Battlestar Galactica:


www.rowsdowr.com/2012/10/28/frank-frazettas-battlestar-galactica-paintings-bsg/

It's about what you'd expect, lots of thick-thighed women. I think I see Death Dealer in the background of the Tombs of Kobol piece. Star Wars looms large over Battlestar, even in the promo art.

Considering that they hired Ralph McQuarrie to do the concept art for Battlestar Galactica it is no surprise there is a strong similarity to Star Wars in the aesthetic.

[tdenmark]

Chris Achilleos recently passed away. I was blown away by his art when I was a teen, I kind of grew out of it but I can still appreciate much of his work.





And of course his most famous image: