Favorite Artist

[TylerDonnelly]

And Go!

[Vertical]

Really Tough choice...I'm going to say the Disney animator Fred Moore

[Rey]

Hmm, I have a lot of people who I look up to. Skottie Young, Jim Lee, LeSean Thomas, Keron Grant and so on. Lately Dave Rapoza have caught my eyes a lot. He hits that little g-spot between cartoony, painty and realism...y... realistic perfectly.

[mouser]

None, i will just say probably my favorite artist in terms of personality Iain McCain.

[dwalkerart]

I've always been a huge fan of Frazetta, I remember my mom bought me this Frazetta book when I was in middle school and I brought it to school cause it had boobs in it and I wanted to show my friends.

It got taken away and my mom, yelled at the principal over the phone trying to tell them that it was just art and that it wasn't porn.

I shouldn't have taken it to school, cause I never got it back.

[gangstershit]

I can't narrow it down, but here are a few.

Tomer Hanuka


Sergio Toppi


Calum A Watt AKA Salaryman


Bernie Fuchs. He really had great ideas of where to put detail and where to leave it out.


I could go on forever, but I don't want to hog the thread with a giant post.

[Jeffers]

My choice would be Glenn Brown: The way he paints is just crazyily awesome. It's all about the replication of other works, bringing to light the imperfections of reproduction.
I also have some top animators (because that's my field): Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli) and Tex Avery

[PS Zant]

Man my list is huge. But here are some that come quick to mind, in random order.

Hans Versfelt



Peleng



Jaime Jones



Hongnian Zhang



Frazetta

[Conny Nordlund]

I like many artists but..

When it comes to masters, I turn to Zorn and Sargent.



Other than that, I really love asian artists. A blog that I usually go to is:
http://blog.naver.com/loped
Image from there


I totally love Bao Pham's stuff too
http://bao22.blogspot.com/


And Björn Hurri is a big inspiration when it comes to concept art.
http://www.bjornhurri.com/


Izzy is awesome too!
http://mercilessdesign.blogspot.com/


And dave... but you all know him already.

[Forrestimel]

Maciej Kuciara will always be one of my favorites :)

[gangstershit]

I love moguai zelda.

[lake]

Gabriel Max


Clement Sauve


Jeremy Geddes


Gottfried Helnwein

[Monsieur-Beefy]

Wayne Reynolds


and
Clement Sauve
Prometheus|ANJ
Marko Djurdjevic

[mindwrack]

can't say i have one particular favorite as it changes so often, but at the moment i would probably go for
justin mortimer


jeff simpson

[Giant Panda]

I can't name one specific artist, but I can name the first few on the top of my head.

Besides the obvious MB + SixMoreVodka: James Jean, Frazetta, JC Leyendecker, Sargent, Hokusai, Robert Fawcett, Dean Cornwell, Norman Rockwell, Kent Williams, Amano, Yoji Shinkawa, Drew Struzan, Ian McCaig

[CharReed]

So many to choose from! So a few:

Loish


Melissa van der Paardt aka Luckywolf


Der-shing Helmer


Loopy Dave


Adam Hughes


Just to name a small number of the artists I love :D

[gangstershit]

I forgot to mention Alex Toth. He is truly The artists artist. I just found a database of his old model sheets. They are pretty impressive. I really like how he only stuck to what was necessary and didn't make any sort of effort to be flashy.

[DannO]

Well a few here.
The Hidebrandt brothers http://brothershildebrandt.com/paintings.htm
Tony Diterlizzi http://diterlizzi.com/home/
Frank R. Paul http://www.frankwu.com/paul1.html
Albrecht Durer http://www.albrecht-durer.org/
Roger Dean http://www.rogerdean.com/
Pieter Bruegel the Elder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder

Just getting started thanks for all the inspiration.

[Osiris0721]

Kasemir Malevich, his Black Square is so stupid it's brilliant
Mr. Laird and Mr. Eastman, because their work sparked the connection that art has a real person behind creation, and maybe artists connect with the viewer.

[Mesmer]

right now bumskee, i love his very smeary, vibrant, almost dream like style. its like what id be doing if i didnt suck ; )

john sargent, my favorite artist. i love his very style.. i love how his values are so so so subtle, but the highlights are very exaggerated. his style is very photoreal but zoomed in his art is simple effortless strokes.

and honestly, dave (seeing hes my age and hes doing some very cool and impressive work and we dig the same music so far and he likes awesome 80s things. and knows who the guyver is.





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