20 Unbelievable Fantasy Artworks From 6 Artists For Your Inspiration

19 July 2009
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This post was written exclusively for PV.M Garage byPiervincenzo Madeo
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I read, better, I devour fantasy novels. Tolkien, Brooks, Troisi are only three of my favourite authors, they describe a parallel world where my soul would live in. Their words animate our imagination, but there is another wonderful way to portray this magical world: the visual arts.The impact of some fantasy artworks is really impressive and in the computer age we have many wonderful digital illustrations about fantasy.

In this post I present amazing collection of 20 stunning fantasy illustrations that impressed me. They use different techniques, from airbrush to painting, from digital painting to photo manipulation, anyway the final result is awesome.

Carlos Villa, Mexico

Mexican artist based in Hermosillo, Sonora. Below two digital painting illustrations by Carlos (article cover is Brides in the lifeless forest by Carlos Villa).

El Villano

Brides in the lifeless forest

Anne Stokes, United Kingdom

Illustrator based in Leeds, she has produced a lot of artwork for clients in the games industry, including illustrations for Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeon and Dragons rule books and miniatures.
Visit Anne’s website to know more about her.

Winter fantasy

Kindred spirits

The Guardian

Anne-Claire Payet, France

Digital artist based in France. She works in a publishing house “Bragelonne” in Paris. She works on the graphics department. “Bragelonne” specializes in fantasy, horror and thriller books.
Visit Anne’s website to know more about her.

Incantation

The Pythie

Hysteria

Memento Mori

La Fee des Marais

Paul Gerrard, United Kingdom

Art Director at UbiSoft. Paul’s artwork has been exhibited at the Wave Gottec Treffen event in Leipzig, Germany. The first of a European exhibition tour. These exhibitions range from underground music events, pagan gathering and tattoo conventions to alternative dark wave festivals where over 3000 visitors drop by and see his work.
The paintings of Paul Gerrard have a style and imagination unique, He says “I want to create images that will stay in the minds of the onlookers for generations. I like to challenge what images can do to the human mind, to do that you need to understand our fears and aspiration”.
Visit his website.

Vampire

Procreator: Children of Sin

Paolo Barbieri, Italy

He works for several Italian and European publishing houses, and I have illustrated covers for books by authors. A different speech deserve the books by Licia Troisi, for which he realized all the covers edited by Mondadori.
Visit Paolo’s website to know more about this artist.

Cronache del Mondo Emerso, Trilogy

Le Guerre del Mondo Emerso

Le spade incantate

La Leggenda di Otori

Il Drago di Ghiaccio

Philip Straub, USA

He’s luminous and meticulously detailed digital and traditional oil paintings have classical influences but are purely based on the fantastic. Many images are derived from the ever present surreal worlds that play out in his mind like lucid dreams throughout the day.
Visit Philip’s website to know more about this great artist. See also Utherworlds website.