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**Great White**

So I'm a big fan of art, and I love seeing really awesome 40k drawings and artwork in all media, and I'd like you guys to share yours

On a side note I did not realize how big this pic was sooo sorry

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**dragoonmaster101**

Awww.... I can't see it.... Oh well.... This has to be one of my favorite pieces of art... Just look at the guy in the middle! He looks so happy! Even though he actually sucks...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U6Qjb-4YdLM/UxcvW_Vb3rI/AAAAAAAAfDM/EkYvAb8qcaI/s1600/possessedmarines.PNG

**Reinokarite**

Becase I love both characters depicted I like this one:

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**EngulfedObject**

My absolute favorite piece is Mantle of the Champion by Sam Wood (it's my avatar pic

). It's from Horus Heresy: Collected Visions.

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I also really like Hands of the Emperor, also by Sam Wood (This is actually a compilation of several Custodes and Sisters of Silence images, I think Hands of the Emperor is the one in the middle with the Emperor in it). The image is probably too large so I'll leave a link: http://wh40kart.im/_images/13d8ef7553e9afb73462e679004330a7.jpg

There's also this pic of the Great Crusade but I don't know the artist (let me know if you know!)

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The covers for The Damnation of Pythos, Shadows of Treachery, and The First Heretic, all by Neil Roberts, are also great:

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All of Beckjann's Dark Eldar art is friggin amazing:

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And finally some of the art from the new Harlequin codex is just mindblowing

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btw, if anyone knows the artist of the first Harlequin pic, please let me know!

I have other favorites but there's just too much

Reinokarite wrote:
Becase I love both characters depicted I like this one:

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This is great as well. Do you know the artist?

**Draco**

This

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and this

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**Reinokarite**

EngulfedObject wrote:

Reinokarite wrote:
Becase I love both characters depicted I like this one:

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This is great as well. Do you know the artist?

Here is page on devianart of this great Korean (if I recall corectly) artist: http://ukitakumuki.deviantart.com/

**The Wise Dane**

This piece of art was what made me favour the Imperial Fists... I have no idea who the artist behind this is, but pretty much anything by the person/those personalities are my favourites. It just presents the universe in a gritty, realistic, but still really retro-futuristic and, you know, 40k'ish way I really like.

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**EngulfedObject**

Reinokarite wrote:
EngulfedObject wrote:

Reinokarite wrote:
Becase I love both characters depicted I like this one:

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This is great as well. Do you know the artist?

Here is page on devianart of this great Korean (if I recall corectly) artist: http://ukitakumuki.deviantart.com/

Thanks! I actually stumbled upon that page earlier today while distractedly browsing deviantart for hours (!) but thank you all the same

So much great art on there! Found some great Eldar art by Heebster:

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And this piece by KoTnoneKoT

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Ilqar also has some very decent Great Crusade era Space Marine art (pretty much has all the legions covered):

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DiegoGisbertLlorens has loads of great 40k art (lots of them in the RPG books):

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I also really like this piece by nachomolina:

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Btw, does anyone know where this is from?

**ImAGeek**

It's from Codex: Chaos Daemons I believe. Could've been used somewhere earlier but it's definitely in there. Lovely bit of art. I actually really like a lot of John Blanches stuff.

**EngulfedObject**

ImAGeek wrote:
It's from Codex: Chaos Daemons I believe. Could've been used somewhere earlier but it's definitely in there. Lovely bit of art. I actually really like a lot of John Blanches stuff.

Ah, thanks brother! I've just been reading the CSM codex for Chaos stuff. It's too bad they don't usually write who the artist is. I've been stumbling upon a lot of the art from the Dark Heresy RPG on Deviantart lately and its always a pleasant surprise to find the artist.

And yea, I really like John Blanche's art as well!

Oh btw I've started reading The First Heretic, good stuff! Could be the best 40k novel I've read!

**ImAGeek**

I think First Heretic is my favourite too.

**Pilau Rice**

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It's piggin huge sorry

**Bobthehero**

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**Rippy**

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**ImAGeek**

The stuff in the Harlequin dex all looks pretty awesome from what I've seen. Massive improvement from the Necron stuff.

I really like all the plates for the different legions in the HH books, as well as the ink art for the Primarchs/characters. And the big two page pieces they had near the front of the 6th ed Codexes were almost universally fantastic, I loved the one in the Tau dex of the tanks and suits dropping into the city at night, and the Eldar one with the Iyanden army against...orks?

**EngulfedObject**

ImAGeek wrote:
The stuff in the Harlequin dex all looks pretty awesome from what I've seen. Massive improvement from the Necron stuff.

I really like all the plates for the different legions in the HH books, as well as the ink art for the Primarchs/characters. And the big two page pieces they had near the front of the 6th ed Codexes were almost universally fantastic, I loved the one in the Tau dex of the tanks and suits dropping into the city at night, and the Eldar one with the Iyanden army against...orks?

Yea, the art from the Harlequin codex is just wow!

Next level stuff! (which makes sense, the one with the Harlequins fighting Emperor's Children marines took the artist 4 months to make! So worth it).

And yea, the FW stuff is amazing. I would include stuff like this among my favorites:

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The Tau piece and the Iyanden are also fantastic. And yea, they were fighting Orks.

This is also pretty cool:

**Spinner**

Some great stuff in here! I like...pretty much all of the art in the RPG books.

Also these two bits of fan art are fantastic.

**EngulfedObject**

Spinner wrote:
Some great stuff in here! I like...pretty much all of the art in the RPG books.

Also these two bits of fan art are fantastic.

Ooh I haven't seen the first piece before, I like it!

Btw, ukitakumuki (the azrael and kharne pic) also makes some official art (Farsight Enclaves, Crimson Slaughter, and the RPG books).

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**Boss Salvage**

Everything Adrian Smith has done is awesome, however his Chaos stuff reigns supreme for me, particularly the splash pages in C:CSM 3E. Even above his AdMech stuff in Inquisitor, which is saying something!

If I had to pick just one of Adi's CSM works, this is it:

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- Salvage

**Grimskul**

I've always liked Black Templars and their artwork, this for me epitomizes their never-ending crusade.

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For Orks there's a ton, but these are probably my favourites:

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**Rippy**

Carcharadons!

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**Freytag93**

I've always really liked this one. It's a landscape painting with tyranids biomorphing the planet.

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**Rippy**

Freytag93 wrote:
I've always really liked this one. It's a landscape painting with tyranids biomorphing the planet.

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Incredible. Best so far IMO

**Ratius**

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**sudojoe**

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got me to start playing sisters actually along with:

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that got me starting inquisition and GK

I love the Vraks Krieg Pics. They caused me to dump a paycheck's worth of cash on just the infantry alone lol. Love gas mask look (also have a bunch of steel legion too -they were some of my first IG models so I've kept the same look essentially)

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And of course we all need one of these:

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**Hansisaf**

This one by Majestic Chicken:

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EDIT: I realize this isn't 40k

**McGibs**

I did this run of 40k characters for some of Fantasy Flight's Dark Heresy expansion books. They're my favorite warhammer art because I'm a narcissist and it was awesome to get these published!

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**pretre**

The holy trinity:

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**Great White**

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**Freytag93**

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Always loved this one. So much energy.