I stumbled across this the other day and thought there might be some interest, since so many of you are also fans of Game of Thrones. This concept art was created by artist Kimberley Pope in the early stages of development for Game of Thrones, helping to solidify the foundations for the ‘look’ of the show as it brought George R.R. Martin’s words to life. Beautiful stuff.
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#17 Pidgeotto by Shane Richardson
The Pokemon Battle Royale project was create with the intent of gathering together 151 different artists and giving them free reign to apply their “own aesthetic, style, and creativity” to the classic pocket monsters, and to explore “just what made those little Pokémon so interesting and fun to catch.” The project, curated by Alyssa Nassner (@smalltalk) and Bryan Ische (@ishyyyyy), took place took place Spring 2012 at the Light Grey Art Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. Tell me that this doesn’t send your little 11-year-old, Gameboy-loving heart a-fluttering.
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Boom.
Late last week, with the unfinished artwork for Darrell K. Sweet’s painting for the cover of A Memory of Light, the final volume in Robert Jordan’s legendary Wheel of Time series, many of you suggested that it might be the best cover in the series. Well, is it?
Well, I’ll be damned. This piece was looking to be one of Sweet’s best in years. Suitably epic. Love the colour palette.
Curious that there’s no Rand on the cover, though. Hmm…
So, I do a google search for “fantasy women art” and this shit pops up:
We’ve all seen it before, and it’s fucking absurd. Do any three of those women look like they’re ready to take a sword-swing from those angry warriors behind them? Do they look like they could stand any sort of a chance in a pitted battle against even a moderately armed and armoured child?
No, no they do not.
So, in comes one of my new favourite websites: Women Fighters In Reasonable Armor. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a collection of artwork from around the web that features female characters wearing reasonable, functional and cool looking outfits. Like, you know, the kind that you generally find on male characters?
Art by Alex Alice:
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