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as the title says which is your favourite peice of art work that portrays the essence of the warhammer worlds to you ? or do you have a artist who pulls you in when you see the paintings ?
or artists that realy embody a period of GW
heres some to start off...

I love the rest of the image, I just can't find it. But it's fairly awesome, truly showing the power of the Astartes, showing the banner of their power in front of a monster horde or Orks.

And his arm's missing

Anything Chaos... hell, I like pretty much all the artwork for 40k that I've seen.

Some names worth mentioning.

Mark Gibbons; His stuff in the 2nd edition codexs is what drew me in to the 40k world 17 years ago. Grim and Dark=Grimdark.







Jes Goodwin; I always like the way he depicted the Eldar in his work.




Dave Gallagher; His work always had live in them.

+1 mark gibbons

NachoMon is a pretty good artist and has a great 40k Gallery on his DeviantArt site. Some of my favorites are probably;









And these are Warmachine, not Warhammer, but I don't care, they're probably my most favorite. Andrea Ulderzo's stuff is just plain awesome.

ADRIAN SMITH the man told me to go for Night gobbos

Mark gibbons +1

As mentioned, his images more than any other defined what my early mind thought the gw universe was like.

Mark Gibbons +1

Can I propose Inquis Exterminatus? All my fave artists are in it.

Mark Gibbons and Dave Gallagher, for sure.

Blanche's stuff has always been interesting, but the 2 above are more iconic to me.

Every time I see this picture:




....I want to play Tyranids. Then I remember how they turned them into non-thinking locusts and lose the urge. Don't know who the artist was, probably Blanche...as it's from Hive War.


*Edit* Actually I think it's Gibbons looking at his other stuff, it looks like the same style.

Adrian Smith.

Blanche and Goodwin.

The former creates the 'feeling' of the setting in visual form.

The latter is one of the best visualisers ever, for his hand in designing things like the look of Craftworld Eldar and their culture, to the same for Skaven, and laying it out in design in his sketchbook.

And even more impressive, getting it into 3D as a sculpt.

Goodwin and who ever does the black and white codex entry photos.

KARL KOPINSKI THE GOD.
Couldn't find my favourite the one with the guardsman and Kasrkin at ease. I think this one is by him tho and it is one of my faves:

That nid pic is indeed Mark Gibbons. As you said, it alone (probably) was what got me started on nids, the very first army I played way back when I was 11/12. I remember spending hours trying to copy that with pencils, before realising that he used inks. Ahh, nostalgia.

at perkustin:

that one?

Paul Bonner - his old Squat, Ork and IG artwork was amazing:

Yeah that's the one Vik but there is also a guardsmen one in the same style that i like a little better.

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All of Mark Gibbons' drawings/paintings drew me in. As others mentioned, that 3rd Edition Hive Tyrant drawing basically 'sold' me on Tyranids.

For all my chaos needs: Adrian Smith +10

I'm not a big buyer of art books, but I have a couple of Smith's books, as well as some Chronopia stuff I bought just because he graced it with his presence

- Salvage

at perkustin:

strangly i could only find the kerskin and not the vietnam style guardsman...

Here's the other guy:



And here's a personal fave:

lol!

nice one^^

Another one for Mark Gibbons. This fellow always seemed to understand Warhammer for me. His art really brings out the character of whatever he's drawn. Yes, it's almost cartoony, but Warhammer shouldn't take itself too seriously.



You know, I could look at his stuff all night. This is what Kroak should have looked like

Obviously

battle Brother Lucifer wrote:Obviously

Sigh and they all used to be best mates

Two particular favorites:





Favorite artist overall, Paul Dainton. While I enjoy a lot of the more cartoony older artwork for 40k, I can't resist chiaroscuro.