List of important graphics & illustrators

[Sunday Udom]

I'm looking for list of most important graphics, which illustrate
frp games. Oh, Dear Bwana! Me want to make a poll / flame topic bout
greatest/ugliest illustrators. If Bwana seen discusion about great/awful
laubenstein graphics are, Bwana knows What me wants to do .TIA

[Greg Singh]

Post by Sunday Udom
I'm looking for list of most important graphics, which illustrate
frp games. Oh, Dear Bwana! Me want to make a poll / flame topic bout
greatest/ugliest illustrators. If Bwana seen discusion about great/awful
laubenstein graphics are, Bwana knows What me wants to do .TIA

Larry Elmore.

Hands down. Without a shadow of a doubt, Elmore is one of the best artists
in the fantasy genre to begin with, but his work with Shadowrun is
phenomenal. Laubensteins portraiture is excellent, mind you - but a bit,
almost, caricaturish, whereas Elmore's work tells a story unto
itself. Every major piece of his that I've seen stands alone, but also
stands strong beside whatever story it's emphasizing. He has a great sense
of scale, excellent use of colour, and the imagery, while not "fantastic",
is real and believable. A storyteller with a paintbrush, that's Larry
Elmore.

I was fortunate enough to bump into him at Gen Con, signing posters and
lithos. Though I was mostly broke, I managed to scratch up a first-ed
cover poster and got him to sign it. Though it's only a cheap poster, it's
one of my prized artistic possessions.

[Steve Newport]

Post by Sunday Udom
I'm looking for list of most important graphics, which illustrate
frp games. Oh, Dear Bwana! Me want to make a poll / flame topic bout
greatest/ugliest illustrators. If Bwana seen discusion about great/awful
laubenstein graphics are, Bwana knows What me wants to do .TIA

That doesn't need a poll: Earl Geier is your man :)

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

[AlexD]

By "most important" do you mean in terms of their work being significant in
contributing to (or even shaping) the atmosphere of a game (or of a
particular setting within a game), or are you after a list of artists with
the products they contributed to, for the purposes of some sort of "who's
the best" vote? If the former I'd suggest Tony DiTerlizzi for ADnD
Planescape setting, Brom for ADnD Dark Sun setting, and Stephen Fabian for
ADnD Ravenloft setting (though I believe many other artists contributed to
Ravenloft; Fabian is just my personal choice). If the latter, I cold list
several dozen (possibly hundreds!) of artists, along with which
products/settings they contributed to in many cases ... but I think any
discussion of "who's the best" would be fairly futile as this is mostly
subjective. (There's several artists who's technical ability I think is poor
but who are still significant in shaping the atmospheres of the products
they contribute to ... for better or worse!)

AlexD

Post by Sunday Udom
I'm looking for list of most important graphics, which illustrate
frp games. Oh, Dear Bwana! Me want to make a poll / flame topic bout
greatest/ugliest illustrators. If Bwana seen discusion about great/awful
laubenstein graphics are, Bwana knows What me wants to do .TIA

[Tamuel]

Post by Sunday Udom
I'm looking for list of most important graphics, which illustrate
frp games.

Apart from the well-known American and English tyupes, I would like to
mention two Swedish artists that are quite popular:

Henrik Tamm
Håkan Ackegård