Every time I see this next piece I want to read the Dragon Riders of Pern!
And of course there is John Carter
Wednesday, May 07, 2014
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The World of Aihrde Growing
We have completed the Codex of Aihrde Expansion Dwarven Trace and it is set to be released any day. This piles on top of the recently releas...
-
Geoffrey Blackwood As is common knowledge, the Winter Dark lasted for 11 centuries. Locked in the grip of that long winter the world a... -
.png)
Greetings from the Troll Dens, We have some interesting news. A little bit of a setback, but nothing the trolls aren’t used to. As many of y...
4 comments:
Those John Carter books with Whelan covers were also my introduction to his amazing sense of color and composition. Back then I associated Frazetta with Conan, Whelan with Barsoom and Robert Gould with all things Melnibone (although Whelan also did some rip-snorters for Moorcock's books.
Book covers today are lousy by comparison. All photoshop and no artistry.
I think your on to something, the digital medium has really hampered style and composition. It looses something, though I'm not sure what (not being an artist), but when you look at these old covers, they are alive and fire the imagination.
The wife is a printmaker, and she says the problem with a lot of digital artists is that they've never drawn from life. They build stuff in programs that looks like a picture of what they want, but it doesn't look real. Some of 'em learn to draw, and learn anatomy and then can construct bodies and structures digitally that have the proper weight and heft. Many of them just go right to the computer, though.
Guys like Whelan and Frazetta and your pal Peter Bradley know what they're doing, and it shows in the final product.
Post a Comment