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frostfyre · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 8:53 am

Hi all!

Thought this might be fun to discuss (sorry if its been done already)- who are your favourites? Sci-Fi, Renn, Abstract, Comic, Fantasy, Commercial, Fine, whatever type of visual artist, can you pick a few faves?

for me, in no particular order-

Hayao Miyazaki (Nausicaa, Totoro, etc)
Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy)
Jeff Smith (Bone)
Leonardo DaVinci
Glenn Keane (Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast)
Dave McKeane (Sandman Covers, Front Line Assembly Covers)
George Perez (Old School New Teen Titans)
Adam Warren (Dirty Pair Flash)
John Lasseter (Tin Toy, Toy Story)
Bruce Timm (Batman Beyond)
Alphonse Mucha (Czek Epic, Sandra Bernhardt Posters)
Moebius (5th Element, Heavy Metal)
Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Sandman)
Yukito Kishiro (Battle Angel Alita, Ashen Victor)
Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac)
Wendy Pini (Elfquest)
Jim Henson (All the Muppets!)

There's a bunch of others, but I think these folks are the top of my list. What about all of you ?

MrPumpernickel · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 9:35 am

One kickass artist which can't go unmentioned is Luis Royo...his fantasy art is sooo kickass...

I seem to be using the word 'kickass' excessivly much

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Spitfire · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 9:46 am

Dave God McKean

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GreenPeach · Guest Member #

sequencial art faves: Moebius, Kent Williams, Blake

painters: Goya, Van Gogh, Klimt, Jasper Johns, Craig Mullins

scupture: Charles Ray, Chris Bruch, Martin Puryer, Mathew Barney

non-artist inspiration: Otto Lilienthal, the Right Bros.

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frostfyre · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 10:14 am

LOL I love the photo!

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...uhm, what does lol mean? eh...

lots of love?
liberachi on ludes?
links of liberty?
lights out lucy?
lets ovulate lightly?
last one living?
long on loins?

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Waldo · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 11:02 am

LOL at GreenPeach!

Jabberwocky · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 4:09 pm

Michael Whelan
Norman Rockwell

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SoMK · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 5:00 pm

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Michael Whelan
John Sargent
Franz Hals
Ivan Bilibin
Alan Lee

Day to day stimulation because he paints as quickly as he breathes : Aaron Jasinski..bastard ;p
A plug for his latest quick digital pict

the whale

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Giant Hamster · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 1782

Jhonen Vasquez
Spumco guys

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Visionary · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 10:12 pm

Inspirational Artists to me:

Stephan Martiniere
Syd Mead
Craig Mullins
Michael Turner
Ron Lemen
Feng Zhu
Steven Garofalo
Francis
Laura Dubuk
Isaac Hannaford
Levi Simpson
Robert Chang

All of these people have affected me in a positive way with either their personality through art or what I've learned from them by studying them closely - or even both for that matter. Thanks guys

-Visionary

nova · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 10:29 pm

Off the top of my head:

Concepts: Feng Zhu
Painting (not digital): John Singer Sargent
Painting (digital): Craig Mullins
Comics (Pencils): Joe Madureira/Arthur Adams(?)
Comics (Inks): Liquid!
Game Art: Yoshitaka Amano, Ulrick Park
Pencils: Brian Froud/Mike May/Mikael Noguchi
3D: Not sure
Longest I've followed and has influenced me the most: Dhabih Eng
Favorite comic so far: Fathom

umm... that's probably more than you wanted.. *shrug*

-Nova

Pat · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 10:29 pm

Oh, where to begin!

I break them into catagories that make little to no sense:

Fave Sci-Fi painter:
Donato Giancola. Check out his ultra-ginchy site (and try to get past the weak scans) at http://www.donatoart.com

Fave Facial Expressions Painter:
GreenPeach. Check out his ultra-ginchy website at... oh wait, he doesn't have one. :P

Fave Classical Painter: Hieronymus Bosch. A painter with a paradigm shifting style and unique vision. Isn't he on everyone's list?

Fave Painter who can make colors do things I can't: Edward Hopper. His subject matter leaves me yawning but his technique leaves me begging for more.

Fave Friendliest Painter I ever met: Brian Froud. Why the world didn't beat a path to his door after the design work he did on the Dark Crystal will forever be a mystery to me. I'll treasure the sketch he did for me until the day I die!

Fave Painter who makes sloppy brush strokes look oh-so-perfect: Rembrandt. Maybe it has something to do with the size of his work?

Fave Painter who's work most looks like my other (unlisted) fave painters: James "Dinotopia" Gurney. Heh heh... he worked on that crappy movie Fire and Ice.

Aside: Dumbest Painter who thought ripping off James Gurney who be a neat idea for Phantom Menace: Doug Chiang. I can't believe he had the brass balls to do work up Naboo the way he did --as if no one would notice it wasn't lifted wholesale from the city in Dinotopia. Bad artist! Someone get me a rolled up newspaper.

Fave Painter I'd most like to spy on while he's working: J.R.R. Tolkien. I just gotta know.

Fave Painter I fear for the most: Craig Mullens. I love ya Craig, but what is this sick facination people have with your emulating your style?

Fave Painter I shouldn't like, but do anyway: Chris Achilleos.

Ah, I could go on and on.

-Pat

Spooky · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 10:40 pm

So many names already listed...how about...

The amazing Wallace Wood
Mike Mignola
Claude Monet
Dan Brereton
James Gurney
Brian Froud
Gustav Dore
Albrecht Durer
Michael Okuda
Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales and SubHuman and a good friend so I have to put him on the list!A kick a$$ artist!)
Frank Cho
William Stout
Ralph McQuarrie
Doug Chiang and Ian McCaig
Tex Avery
A whole ton of concept artists for Disney, DreamWorks, film companies, and games companies among others!
Heck, the talented people on the list...give yourself a hand! I enjoy looking at the site daily!

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Ragnarok · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2001 11:00 pm

Bad bad bad...

You forgot about Velazquez???
The painter who knew how light works.

Have you ever seen in real his painting "Las Meninas"? I did, in the same museum (El Prado) where many good paintings from Goya and Rembrandt, and other great artist are. But when I saw that painting I stayed around 15 mins looking at it, without trying to analyze anything, just looking. It was something special. It has never happened me afterwards with any other pic, even the Gioconda of DaVinci.

frostfyre · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 8:12 am

Heh- Ragnarok, you know I had a similar experience when I saw some of Monet's late period pieces live. I never thought much of them in print, but when I saw them in person I was overwhelmed by a sense of presence, the reality of the place struck a chord. The odd thing is, the works that hit me this way were well into when he was going blind...

DrBof · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 8:19 am

ben durry :: badboy
roz golds :: kicks my meesly ass

wayfinder · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 8:20 am

piet mondrian

travis travis · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 9:57 am

:Fave Painter I fear for the most: Craig Mullens. I love ya Craig, but what is this sick facination people have with your emulating your style?

Hasn't that been happening for all time, in all mediums? Someone comes up with a new style, everyone else feels they can be a part of it and not have to come up with their own. Ah well.

Anyway, my favorite artists, ummm... the list would probably get too big and I would have to cross check this and that, I'll just tell you things they've done that I like - Disney's The Little Mermaid and Tarzan are pretty great pieces of art I think, all the people who painted all those awesome background paintings for Sierra adventure games- the VGA years. Art artists - I like Tamara Lempicka, Rembrant, anything evocative, and the more meaning the better, I don't like abstraction without purpose. There's a lot of character designers I really like, whoever designed that 80's rubber puppet toy line, Boglins, I like them. And the Land Before Time, liked the characters there as a kid. Basically the art I like, is either magical, bright ultra-comic stuff, or on the other end paintings with purpose. You could show me a room of landscape paintings and I might get sick (unless there's really something particually fascinating) but there usually isn't. But that reminds me, I do like Rockwell Kent's landscapes because they are fucking cool enough to show dramatic differences in light by cloud shadows.

S4Sb · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2001 11:47 am

Kevin Walker!!!!!!! He's the greatest. Never found his homepage tho. Anybody got art of him? Gimme! I'll pay

Kreuze · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 12:16 am

A few favorites.

Michael Whelan -he seems to be very popular here, What can I say, I like fantasy.

Jean Leon Gerome -see his paintings at artrenewal.org, I think his work is amazing

Salvador Dali - Anybody who titles a picture "The Ghost of Vermeer Delft, which can be used as a table" is alright in my book

Craig Mullins - not only an artist of the highest calibre, but also willing to hang around internet forums to give art hobbyists (like me) and beginning artists advice

That's weird, just saw Greenpeach's Wright brothers photo here, maybe if I had seen it earlier I would have been inspired to draw glider wings on the pic I did yesterday

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Acually that's Otto Lilienthal. He spent 20 years developing the science of flight before the Right brothers started. He would biuld these hang glider things without anyone's help and jump off the tallest hills he could find. Lot's of people had been crazy enough to try this before him but no one had been smart enough to succeed at it. He died when a gust of wind stalled him. He was the real Icarus.

Oh, and I forgot Lucian Freud in my painters list. One of the best contemporary figure painters, no question.

Kreuze · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 11:03 am

Ooops, Otto Lilienthal picture. I knew that the Wright Brothers spent a lot of time building gliders before they made their first powered airplane, and I didn't know who Otto Lilienthal was

An interesting story, thanks for filling me in. I guess all the Wright Brother's Gliders were in airplane form though, not just wings.

(Wilbur Wright gliding in 1901)

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PlantMan · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 3:06 pm

Attention!
Sound off...

Max Ernst stop playing with mud.

Katsuhiro Otomo, how many times must I tell you? You cannot levitate a pencil with telekenesis.

Where is Zdzislaw Becksinki?
"He is hiding in the cupboard, sir."

No HR Giger you cannot follow him into cupboard, stop copying.

Simon Bisley? Are you admiring your muscles in the mirror? So vain.

etc

Enayla · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 4:04 pm

Brian Froud.

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Socar MYLES · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 5:38 pm

Durer. Courbet. Bernini. And Frank Miller. Frank Miller is THE MAN.

Lunatique · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2001 8:34 pm

I posted mine a while ago. Here it is, along with other people's art Gods:
http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000283.html

Visionary: awwwww... man, I'm embarrassed now. . .. You are a sweet guy, aren't you?

PlantMan · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2001 9:32 am

How about Vermeer?

Also Will Eisner, I dug out a great 'A Contract with God' recently. His renditions of people here were quite compassionate.

Visionary · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2001 3:25 am

Lunatique - upon occasion I can be... every so often

Seriously every name I posted up above showed me something in art that was either new to me or I had lost touch with.

Caliban · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2001 7:32 am

in no particular order and as many as i can think of...

john singer sargent
alphonse mucha
dave mckean
yoshitaka amano
frank frazetta
john bolton
yuen wo ping
lois greenfield
hayao miyazaki
gustav klimt
frank miller
hiroaki samura