#Fantasy landscape art easy professional#

Shishizaru was only hired onto Magic during their oriental mythology block called “Kamigawa.” It’s a shame because his paintings are soft and beautiful, and Magic could use more artists with this kind of quality. These are some of the best fantasy designs by a single person that I’ve seen and I can’t wait to see more of the haunting world of Nightmares in Rust. He’s creating his own fictional universe that looks like a mix of abstract horror and mythical fantasy. Andreas Zafiratos has a rich and flexible imagination that make his character designs borderline sublime. This is an artist who’s entire catalog deserves to be looked at. I can’t help but get excited and wonder if he’s ever going to draw another character that I love. His style is pleasantly varied too with digital detail dominating one piece while elegant brush strokes are left rough and messy in others. Every piece of his is vivid, whether in color or in black and white. It’s rare to see an artist that delves into nerdy culture and creates mainly fan-art to be considered a true fantasy artist, but Stanley Lau definitely has the skill to back his spot on this list. But talent alone doesn’t win me over, it’s also the fact that he combines that realism with a refreshing sense of imagination to create interesting portraits. His hyper-realistic art style gives his work an instant gratification at the sheer talent his work contains. Steven Belledin is one of Magic’s newer artists and since he started a few years ago, his contributions have been endless. It goes a long way to make his art unique and the way he adds such vibrant colors without making it look too unrealistic is astounding.

He manages to capture this primal detail on creatures that I have yet to see replicated. There’s something you catch on to the instant you look at any art from Paul Bonner. Going forward, there won’t be any more artists that make this list as a one-hit-wonder. He’s kind of a shoe-in because of this one illustration, but his other works aren’t so bad either. The feeling of an epic, cataclysmic event being controlled by a seemingly infinitely powerful being is tough to portray, and Howard Lyon does it with apparent ease. It’s not often where one piece of art can elevate my entire opinion of the artist, but his masterpiece “Time Reversal” is one of my favorite drawings. There will be a total of four parts! Now then, prepare your eyes… For the thrill of suspense, I’m starting from 60 and working my way up to number one.

#Fantasy landscape art easy professional#

These are not only my top twenty, but my top sixty fantasy artists, whether on Deviant Art or in the professional industry, that have graced me with their finely drawn or painted imagination. It didn’t take long to realize that twenty didn’t even leave enough breathing room for the sheer amount of talented artists I wanted to include. I initially began this thinking I would shoot for a top twenty, believing that it would be tough to find that many different artists with enough variety or unique talent to offer. Concept artists are people I follow all the time and you’ll see a few of them on this list as well. The final source is the massive industry of video game art. The producers (Wizards of the Coast) are known to hire the best fantasy artists in the world create wonderful illustrations for their cards. Second to that is Magic: The Gathering, a fantasy card game. It remains one of my most frequented websites and I have thousands of pieces of art downloaded from that place alone. The biggest one is, the social artwork website. I come across most art pieces from three main sources. It has now come to a point where I believe I have a strong preference of which artists appeal to me more than most and will therefore give you some insight into the fantasy art world by crafting this list for you to peruse and enjoy. I’ve whittled away countless hours of my life dauntlessly searching for any artwork that pleases my seemingly insatiable hunger for visual fidelity. I do have plans to come back and revamp this post because google really likes sending people here. These photos were from an old premium photobucket account that I don’t use anymore.