SFF artists

[opaloka]

So what SFF artists are people into? Does anyone collect art books by SFF artists?

I've been getting into Hannes Bok and I'm about to buy a book:

[AllenBG]

Science Fiction/Fantasy artists? Probably the "usual suspects" - Rodney Matthews, Roger Dean, Patrick Woodroffe, Michael Whelan, Frank Frazetta, Kelly Freas, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell... And just about everyone who's ever painted a cover for 2000 AD. I'm also very keen on Anne Sudworth. I quite like her paintings, too... ;o)

[Governor of Rowe Island]

Chris Foss is the name that first comes to mind when I think of SFF artists. Sometimes the covers were better than the contents! (I'm looking at you, Isaac Asimov.)

[Pebble]

Patrick Woodruffe who works in the UK was on the Quartet covers of the second Corum trilogy, luckily I picked up a copy of Mythaekopedia (I think that is the correct spelling). Is some one who art work I admire. He might have done the Poul Anderson books as well.

I always found it difficult to see why put a cover on a book that did not match illustrate some part of the text. Always upset me.

[opaloka]

Cool to find some other Woodroffe fans. I've currently got this on my wall, and managed to get a couple of the books before they went out of print.

An artist I really like that I tend to lump in with Foss is Peter Elson. His spaceships blow me away:

http://www.peterelson.co.uk/gallery/...?cat=11&id=181

[Governor of Rowe Island]

That was the name! Elson! I knew there was another artist very similar to Foss but I just couldn't get further than Peter something.

[KevJo]

Chris Foss is he name that first comes to mind when I think of SFF artists. Sometimes the covers were better than the contents! (I'm looking at you, Isaac Asimov.)

Agreed - to a young reader of science fiction growing up in the seventies, Chris Foss was everywhere. Amazing images, and yes, often better than the contents.

[opaloka]

There was a book called 'Great Space Battles' that came out around then that a lot of stuff like that, Peter Elson and Jim Burns and others.

[DeepFixer]

I'll go for 'The Usual Suspects,' too. Frazetta, BV & JB (got their 2009 on me wall).

Always liked a lot of the D&D artists, too: Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Clyde Caldwell. Got a coupkle of 'Art of D&D' books, and a couple of Larry Elmore's books. Got 'em signed, too!

Keith Parkinson (RIP) and Darrell K. Sweet are favs. Keith was a D&D artist, too. Both also did book covers.

Walter Valez is good. He did the original covers for the first five or six Thieves' World books, among others.

[Governor of Rowe Island]

There was a book called 'Great Space Battles' that came out around then that a lot of stuff like that, Peter Elson and Jim Burns and others.

Yep, I remember that book. I'm sure I've got one or two similar books full of illustrations by those artists somewhere. I used to love reading about the weaponry and engines and stuff.

[opaloka]

And of course there's:



Rodney Matthews

[AllenBG]

I used to have my walls covered in Rodney Matthews' posters of his illustrations for Mike's books. I have his book "In Search of Forever", plus a couple by Roger Dean, Patrick Woodroffe... in fact I have books by most of the artists I listed in my earlier post.

Pebble - Patrick did indeed do the covers for Poul Anderson's books "the Broken Sword" and "three Hearts and three Lions", as well as the Coronet "Corum" books.

[UncleDes]

Chris Foss is he name that first comes to mind when I think of SFF artists. Sometimes the covers were better than the contents! (I'm looking at you, Isaac Asimov.)

Agreed - to a young reader of science fiction growing up in the seventies, Chris Foss was everywhere. Amazing images, and yes, often better than the contents.

Yes indeedy. When I was a teen, I copied his style of spaceships with lots of little tiny slit-like windows.

Des

[opaloka]

I tried to copy that

[Governor of Rowe Island]

I used to try to build them out of Lego!