Artist: Steven Vincent Johnson Ringworld (Larry Niven) From Future Life magazine 1979
We don't NEED AI art. We NEED to have a full apartment complex full of 1960's-1980's sci-fi & fantasy cover artists on permanent retainer
It just doesn't get any better than this
see @70sscifiart and their book for more of this great stuff
These are all great lmao
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All but one of these are illustrating scenes from the world of Lord of the Rings. Try to spot the odd one out, and then read my newsletter about McBride to see the answer.
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Hey all! I colored Puffer Boy. I’ve been trying to nail down an Eastern Dragon design of mine for the longest time, so I’m pretty happy how this one came out. #chinesedragon #dragon https://www.instagram.com/p/BwZxvd1FcNc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=uzudo14st7pk
I suppose most people have a favorite type of art, and mine is right here. The 70-90’s fantasy scifi art. And starting with one of my most favorite piece of all time by Al Williamson.
There is something about that art from that time, from those genre, that you don’t see anywhere else, and i am thinking of style and colours here. The simplicity, yet the amount of details still. The bright nights, and use of white. Good lord i love it! And it’s a shame, because i won’t see much new stuff coming out like this.
1. Al Williamson
2,5. John Harris
3,6,8.Syd Mead
4. John Berkey
7,9 .Moebius
10. Peter Elson
The densest people on the internet are the ones who say sci fi and fantasy are are getting too political. Why can’t we go back to the good old days of The Twilight Zone, with its various episodes about mob mentality and the danger of mass paranoia that totally weren’t about the Red Scare. Or Star Wars and its genocidal empire of racially homogeneous Aryan men. Or Dune with its religious tribal peoples who live in a desert that contains the galaxy’s most valuable resource and the wars with the foreign colonizers, that was purely from Frank Herbert’s imagination. Can you imagine how much Star Trek would suck if it was packed to the brim with ham-fisted allegories of every societal issue of the 20th century. Not like all this modern ultra-political stuff, like a woman hero.