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I personally like John Blanche's art.
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only BROWNRED and REDBROWN.
How about you guys?

Mark Gibbons. Everything he does is gold. Wish he was still working there.

BYE

Adrian Smith by far followed by Blanche.

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I just like how Blanche makes everything fuzzy and muddy to capture the teen-age fanboy notebook "scribble" ethos.

Adrian smith.

Oh, yeah! Skulls for the Skull God!

Paul Bonner.

JohnHwangDD wrote:I just like how Blanche makes everything fuzzy and muddy to capture the teen-age fanboy notebook "scribble" ethos.

thats rather stereotypical, dontcha think? i'm a teenager, and an art student. none of my pictures are "fuzzy and muddy" or scribbly for that matter

i second adrian smith. but i actually dont like john blanche's work...
"oh, look, its a chaos squiggle"

Blanche is an "artist" the same way Tim Buckley is an "artist/writer".

Blanche is a fantastic conceptual artist, and he brings vision most fantasy artists don't possess.

I loved the 2000-2001 shift to Alex Boyd, Paul Dainton, and Karl Kopinski. They have their own touches, but provide a strong unity, and tons of atmosphere.

I think GW's artists are their strongest asset.

stonefox wrote:Blanche is an "artist" the same way Tim Buckley is an "artist/writer".

But he captures over the top GrimDark so perfectly.

Platuan4th wrote:

stonefox wrote:Blanche is an "artist" the same way Tim Buckley is an "artist/writer".

But he captures over the top GrimDark so perfectly.

Kasimir Malevich, Black Square, 1914

I like whoever drew page 100 in the rule book

WaaaaghLord wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:I just like how Blanche makes everything fuzzy and muddy to capture the teen-age fanboy notebook "scribble" ethos.

thats rather stereotypical, dontcha think? i'm a teenager, and an art student. none of my pictures are "fuzzy and muddy" or scribbly for that matter

i second adrian smith. but i actually dont like john blanche's work...
"oh, look, its a chaos squiggle"

The difference is that you're an art student with some actual training.

I like Blanche's work the best out of the GW stable. I prefer his more polished paintings, like the Sisters of Battle cover and that painting of the Emperor in the new rulebook, but I like his sketches as well. They're so bizarre, and have so much energy to them. Blanche really pushes my buttons more than most of the others. Dispite some of the ignorant mockery expressed in this thread, Blanche is well-acquainted with art history and knows his stuff. When he decides to put a couple of months into a single painting it really shows.

Clint Langley's work is also excellent sometimes. Those covers he did for the Inquisition War series were terrific, and he's done several other great covers as well. His faces are always the best part. So expressive and characterful.

Mark Gibbons every single time, it's a crime they've never released a 'Art of' book for him.

http://www.redknuckle.com/

I quite like Jes Goodwin's concept art (yes, I have "the gothic and the eldritch") for its clean style. I also like Mark Gibbons' style. There are a few others who've done work I've seen in 2000AD as well, but whose names escape me.

I do not like blanche's work. Yes, he goes way-back in the GW history, but his style is too busy for me.

Mark Gibbons every time...

Adrian Smith, his art has inspired me to collect more than one army.
Mark Gibbons gets second place.

stonefox wrote:

Platuan4th wrote:

stonefox wrote:Blanche is an "artist" the same way Tim Buckley is an "artist/writer".

But he captures over the top GrimDark so perfectly.

Kasimir Malevich, Black Square, 1914

So the question is "Can it get more black?" and the answer is "No, none more black". --- Derek Smalls, This is Spinal Tap

Brimstone wrote:Mark Gibbons every single time, it's a crime they've never released a 'Art of' book for him.

That Avatar illustration is iconic. I'd never seen this one before, but it's pretty darn sweet: http://www.redknuckle.com/eldar.htm. His special character illustrations in the 4th Marine codex were pretty awesome, too.

Paul Dainton has also done a good jorb with the pointy ears.

Mark Gibbons is good, and he can do any of the GW races with incredible skill. His work seems almost TOO crisp for 40k though, there's some of that grit and grunge that he's missing.

Was it Adrian Smith that did that great piece of all the Space Marines lined up in parade ground style - the large 2 page piece in the rulebook and codex?

My personal favorite was mentioned - Paul Bonner. Incredible work that man can do. His color, his linework, his design - all amazing. He made the orks come alive back in the day, he really was the father of the new look orks before sculpting god Brian Nelson took them in the direction they are now going. There's a comedic and yet very dynamic aspect to his designs that make everything he's done look alive and very dimensional.


For technique I've always liked Wayne England - his work is very bright and fun and worked really well for GW back in the day.

Blanche is a central force in the look of 40k, like it or not. His style is far looser, but it wouldn't work any other way with him. Iconic stuff.

I saw this back in 1989 and I have been hooked ever since.

I don't know who painted this , So if anyone knows please let me know. I would love to get a nice print of this.

Can't tell you who, but I can tell you the central guy is based off of Scarface. No, really!

Mark Gibbons.

The character art he did for the 2nd Ed. books were fantastic.



I still love this picture of the old Hive Tyrant.

Jes Goodwin is almost single handedly responsible for the entire Eldar race, every mini from like 1990 on all the aspect warriors, the tanks and more were derived from his work. He also did all the superior tyranid stuff and the new Eldar vehicles and the new terminators and all the old cool EPIC stuff.

Theres a lot of great art in the GW team but I think Jes Goodwin is a God!

Evil Eli wrote:I saw this back in 1989 and I have been hooked ever since.

I don't know who painted this , So if anyone knows please let me know. I would love to get a nice print of this.

One of my favourites as well, the artist is called Jim Burns.

I've made enquiries about a obtaining a copy as well but they don't have permission from GW to sell it.

The link for details is here

http://www.artistsuk.co.uk/acatalog/LIMITED_EDITION_PRINTS.html

Pariah Press wrote: I like Blanche's work the best out of the GW stable. I prefer his more polished paintings, like the Sisters of Battle cover and that painting of the Emperor in the new rulebook, but I like his sketches as well. They're so bizarre, and have so much energy to them. Blanche really pushes my buttons more than most of the others. Dispite some of the ignorant mockery expressed in this thread, Blanche is well-acquainted with art history and knows his stuff. When he decides to put a couple of months into a single painting it really shows.

Well, I know some people get "art" and "illustration" confused and that's why they hate Blanche. I actually enjoy abstract, modern, and pomo. I love going to the MOMA whenever I visit NYC. Blanche has his colors, the wild energy of the insane (seen clearly in his depictions of psykers) and is wonderful the first and maybe even the second time. The reds and golds and blacks are great when you see them as well, as they characterize the mood and inherent madness of 40k. However, when you see that over and over, when that's all there is to it, it starts to look formulaic. That he cannot adapt. That he'll post a good piece that might give a minute of reflection - but then beat you over the head with it 50 times. That you cannot see where blues and greens fit into the madness - only reds and golds. Nowadays I see him as being too formulaic to be an "artist" but too rough to be an "illustrator." That is why I do not like John Blanche.

I'm sure there's proper terms for this stuff but I'm only a mere engi student who happens to have some interest in arts and music. If only I can major in them all. :(

Can't tell you who, but I can tell you the central guy is based off of Scarface. No, really!

No kiddin. Looks like an albino Pachino.

Jes Goodwin is without a doubt my favorite artist.

Now that I know who Mark Gibbons is, he is my 2nd favorite.