Old School Inspirational Art Thread

[Tristram Evans]

[Tristram Evans]

[One Horse Town]

Those Book of The New Sun covers are some of my favourite pieces of art, period.

[Opaopajr]

There's something about the narrowing of vista and close up of the presumed subject over time that is fascinating yet lamentable. It's a phenomenon well captured in photography's art history, where once broad panoramas to talk about surrounding details beyond the subjects has been reduced to the modern subject-only perfection of "the selfie." These images call to mind vistas of strange new worlds and the wonders therein, a slowing down and taking in of awe. Whereas the modern fantasy art corpus (Magic the Gathering is likely now the largest purchaser & purveyor) shows how strong the favortism toward "selfies-as-proxy-power-fantasy?" has shifted. The less dynamic action shots, lack of extreme close ups, broader & classic composition, interspersing of details... it gives you an image to look upon in greater relaxation, less dynamic tension, and discover more nuance over time as it is savored.

Trends over time are fun stuff for me. I miss MtG hand drawn art over the MtG computer drawn art terribly. For the greater resolution of detail from technology, strange features of artist's character seem to be absent. Like I could name artist's work by their style alone across CCGs once upon a time, but as of late it's all CG studio with far too similar repertoire. It feels a great homogenization has swept over the land...

[Tristram Evans]

[Opaopajr]

Oh, it's been a noticed trend among the art historian, and especially the photography art historian, for quite a while now. I'm just noticing its presence in professional commercial fantasy art. It is a fascinating study of either the modern mind in a highly information saturated society, or, a product of democratization & reproduction technology. (The latter follows a pattern where photography became more affordable and reproduceable from negatives, and our modern ages's correlating advance of digital arts simulating traditional art media.)

[kobayashi]

Brantonne, a french artist who did a zillion covers for SF books



And another one



Segrelles' art is a bit too "stiff" for me but still, there are some inspiring bits.



Jack Kirby for the win



Disney's Sleeping Beauty "concept art" by Eyvind Earle is awesome :





Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble, fuck yeah



More to come if I find the time.

[JeremyR]

This is from an old pulp, Planet Stories

[Tristram Evans]

[Voros]

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Saw some Ed Emshwiller earlier, also a great experimental filmmaker and husband of Carol Emshwiller who wrote very fine surreal sf short stories.

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[Weru]

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[ZWEIHÄNDER]

Anything by Mœbius for the unrealized Dune:

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[kobayashi]

Philippe Caza (he made the cover for the french 5th edition of Call of Cthulhu by the way)





From the russian 1976 edition of the Hobbit, illustrations by M. Belomlinskij

[crkrueger]

[Arkansan]

Tristram who were those last two pieces in your last post by? They were fantastic.