Here's a quick round-up to round out your Wednesday. A lot of these are artists I've talked about before on my round-ups and I'll probably have a little less to say about them that I usually would because it would mostly be me repeating myself, so please just enjoy some good art. A couple of these were posted within the hour that I am writing up this post, and some were from last night, so this is a hot-off-the-presses round-up.
This image is from circa 1980, but nowhere did I ever say the images I post have to be from the week I'm posting them. As I have mentioned, this is a way for me to revisit things that make their way across my feed so I can better consider them. Richard Clifton-Dey is someone who I bet you've seen at least one sci-fi book from the 70s with his art on the front. I love this one for its excellent texture work both with the interior texture of the crystals and the outer sheen, a thing I can imagine achieving with clipping masks in digital, and do not want to approach tackling in real paint, like this.
Kim Myatt was in my round-up last week for a book cover she did. This image is much closer to what I know her work to be like: attractive people among flowers, while magic light dances across the entire piece. I am so impressed with how ephemeral the light is in this image and how much movement it has. It's light fills every shadow so specifically with intense indigo and it really works to guide the eye where she wants you to look.
Peter is a prop designer on G-Witch, doing a really interesting thing here with his Getter take. Each colour on this robot is accompanied by its own kind set of shapes, and that could lead to an incongruous design, but it's done in a considered way that coheres very well. I love that each coloured section nods to another. The grey has touches of yellow, the yellow has touches of red, the red has touches of grey. I should give my robots more straps.
I mentioned Tiffany several weeks ago as one of my long time favourite illustrators. I am so happy to see her getting a great reaction from this piece being revealed because her two favourite subjects: monstrous creatures and boats, came together in a truly fun way. I highly recommend looking at a bunch of Tiffany's past works for some great creatures and great boats and water rendered in watercolour.
I am slamming my desk and chanting "Let the sword lesbians make out! They've been through enough!"
I talked about Allison Theus as one of my favourite creature designers in my post specifically about creature design. I think her dragons fuckin whip and I am always a fan of her maximalist approach to horns as well as her dynamic but sort of implausible-looking posing for creatures.