MetaFilter posts tagged with fantasy and art

The pictures and sketches of JRR Tolkien

nthdegx — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:01:53 -0800

The pictures and sketches of JRR Tolkien

Inspiration

fearfulsymmetry — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:36:49 -0800

Concept Art World - For example: Michael Kutsche, Marek Okoń, 25 Inspiring Examples of Spaceships and Aircraft, Star Trek XI Concept Art by Ryan Church plus lots more.

This Would Save a Lot of Time

netbros — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:12:18 -0800

World Builder by Bruce Branit. A strange man builds a world using holographic tools for the woman he loves. There's more at Not Possible in Real Life, dedicated to identifying and sharing well conceived and realized content creation in Second Life® that would not be possible in real life.

The Other Side

Artw — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:05:33 -0800

"These are like cool Magic Cards!" - the sometimes disturbing (and sometimes NSFW) art of Alfred Kubin.

Fantastic art by John Jude Palencar

mediareport — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:04:24 -0800

Just some cool dark fantasy art by John Jude Palencar, including covers for Lovecraft, de Lint, Tolkien and other popular books.

Fallen Lights

homunculus — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:20:13 -0800

Artwork by Laura Pelick. [Via]

The Fabled Pyramid

EatTheWeak — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:06:44 -0800

Jesse van Dijk paints fantasy and science-fiction scenes. Some of these paintings include a little shot of narrative about the astonishing imagined worlds they depict. His work has appeared in a mediocre PSP game and won a Gnoman Workshop challenge. Mr. van Dijik does his thing with Photoshop, and this is how he does it.

JMW Turner - Broadening the landscape

kliuless — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:11:30 -0800

If you like 'fantasy' art (as opposed to comics :) and you're in DC I'd highly recommend checking out the JMW Turner exhibit at the NGA! I know very little (next to nothing) about art history but to me he's like the godfather of fantasy/SF art (if not impressionism); pre-Crystal Palace.¹

Painting with Fire

misha — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:51:19 -0800

In the world of fantasy art, he is an icon. Some argue Arnold would never have become governor without him. Though his arrogance is second only to his skill, Frank Frazetta suffered for his art: for eight years an undiagnosed problem left him unable to create at all, while a series of strokes in his later years led to the artist having to learn to paint all over again, this time with his left hand. Since I was a girl, only this artist ever came close to inspiring me half so much as Frazetta did.

Snog that Snape, girl!

metasonix — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:57:18 -0800

Anyone who has spent time browsing through Deviant Art has almost certainly run into the cartoons of a young Australian woman named Gemma Wilson. She is fond of Harry Potter, snakepeople and (occasionally) torture and hermaprodites. She has a fan club. And she has detractors. Make of this what you will.

Parting the Veil of Faery: The Colmore Fatagravures

mediareport — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:43:00 -0800

Parting the Veil of Faery: The Colmore Fatagravures, said to date from the 1890s. "A Scottish adventurer, inventor, and photographer named Neville Colmore claimed to have constructed a device capable of '...parting the veil of Faery...' The device, which he called the Spectobarathrum, along with all of the images he claimed to have made were believed destroyed in a fire. I believe some of these images and related artefacts may have survived." [via Apothecary's Drawer]

Nivbed's artwork

nthdegx — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:49:51 -0800

Nivbed's artwork

visions and imaginings

nickyskye — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:18:02 -0800

Surreal, fantastic realist, psychedelic and visionary artists, sculptors and forum. Sites created by Jon Beinart.

Tim Hildebrant 1936-2006

WolfDaddy — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 13:44:00 -0800

Tim Hildebrandt, half of the Brothers Hildebrandt artwork team, died yesterday due to complications from diabetes.

Sometimes you just have to stare be thankful someone can paint this stuff.

gagglezoomer — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:25:37 -0800

Kim Taylor's Online Art Gallery. The beautiful, mystical, and eerily fantastic artwork of Kim Taylor.

Sweet and unnatural

BlackLeotardFront — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:21:36 -0800

(NSFW-but not porn) Never GIS "little mermaid," large size images, and click the second image from the left out of curiosity. If you do, don't look at the other galleries at the site, hypnotized and horrified. Furthermore, follow any of the links at your own peril. If you manage to make it to the Renderosity pages, you are expressly forbidden from looking at every single page of art by these three artists. Under no circumstances look at these unabashed masterpieces: "Damnedly Wanted," "Nooo, you ARE hansome," "9/11 Remembrance," "Cure for cancer," and god knows how many more. If you follow these instructions carefully, you will have successfully avoided the fairy(faerie, fae), poser, chibi, furry, and koshini scenes for the day.

Dead Artist

growabrain — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:31:08 -0800

Fantasy Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski was found murdered at his house

Fantasy Planes

growabrain — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:05:35 -0800

Fantasy Planes. Sometimes I think the most interesting airplanes are the ones that never got built

Mail Art

dmd — Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:53:43 -0800

Nick Bantock's gorgeous Griffin and Sabine series is based on mail art, a medium with a long history. Developed in the mid-20th century by Ray Johnson and his contemporaries, today the community thrives, with the internet allowing dissemination beyond the reach of point-to-point mail.

Fantastic in Art & Fiction - images of the grotesque, marvelous and macabre

madamjujujive — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 07:16:35 -0800

The Fantastic in Art & Fiction - Cornell University's bank of nearly 300 images of the fantastic, the grotesque, the macabre, the marvelous and more "from works spanning a period from medieval manuscripts and printed incunabulae, to the early twentieth century."

snarkout — Fri, 24 May 2002 09:40:54 -0800

Fashion comes and goes, but art that might have come from the side of a van is forever. The cover artists from Dragon magazine, a staple of my pimply years, all have websites now, from Keith Parkinson to the ghastly Clyde Caldwell to Larry Elmore (who is putting his old Dragon comic, SnarfQuest, online). The grand master of bodacious barbarian babe art, Frank Franzetta, has a site, too. Relive your adolescence through gleaming swords, vanquished dragons, and hyperdefined musculature! (Warning: Not all pictures are work-safe.)

y0bhgu0d — Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:42:51 -0800

For those that like scifi/fantasy art this page is for you. The gut has some original stuff and a few good links (places like Elfwood)