Well, let's see, we've done favorite music, movies, old Bryce Art, traditional media work, personal photos, I know I'm leaving something out...but: We haven't done the most obvious one. Who's your favorite artist? Who inspires you, whose work has compelled you to buy books of their work, whose talent do you most envy? So here's mine (no particular order: 1. Frank Frazetta 2. Jean Giraud (Mobius) 3. Rene Magritte 4. Salvador Dali 5. Norman Rockwell 6. H R Giger And many, many more (including many of you :^) ). I was trying to limit it to 5, but none of these guys would leave the list. I don't make distinctions between commercial art and illustration and fine art. To me, art is art. If I like it, if it speaks to me, it's Art. Now show me yours.

Well, lets see... 1. Frank Frazetta 2. Jeff Jones 3. A. Bierstadt 4. John Waterhouse 5. Maxfield Parrish 6. H R Giger And alot of you here, too!

Tamara De Lempicka Jean Jiraud Miyazaki Leonardo Da Vinci Eduard Hopper ...and many many more...

Luis Royo MC Escher Hieronymous Bosch HR Giger Edvard Munch ... quite difficul to limit to 5... Very interesting thread TJohn...

hmmm, artists who have inspired,okay this is the list of those that started me drawing and inspiring the subjects that i now draw, although not all of them are still favourites....these are the keys to my development. 1-My Dad. 2-Chris Foss, book covers etc. 3-(This is a group entry) Dave Gibbons, O'Neill, Brian Bolland, Belardinelli, Gary Leach. 4-H. R Geiger and Boris 5- Heironymous Bosh and M.C Eischer. yes i know my spellings atroucious but im a painter not a writer...And yes i know i cheated on the list....

Renoir, Frazetta, Rockwell, Walt Disney, Dave Mann.

Cheating is encouraged. :^)

1. Frank Frazetta 2. Roger Dean 3. Michealangelo 4. Norman Rockwell 5. Currier & Ives 6. Brom Too many to list, Along with Many People here.

Patrick Nagel Gil Bruvel Kino Michael Parkes rk post Oscar Chichoni And, many of the others already mentioned. AgentSmith

Albrecht Durer Escher Parrish EB Leighton Roger Dean Andy Simmons.... :)

michelangelio Caravaggio Claude Monet Norman Rockwell Andrew Wyeth Dan Peterson

Roger Dean (for the YES albums) HR Giger (For ELP's Brain Salad Surgery and Alien) MC Escher (For those things-aren't-what-they-seem pics...I can't remember what you call them) Dhali (For simply wierd despite the fact he was a complete dickhead in real life) Michealangelo (For inventing the helicopter) The Bryster (this is me, not my favourite artist...LOL)

Good question, there's so many: In no particular order: Salvador Dali (I have a signed litho of "St. Jerome") Jack Vettriano (print of "The Singing Butler") Michaelangelo Titian Van Gogh et. al. (BTW Bryster, I think it was Da Vinci that did the helicopter)

Nukeboy: THAT's THE FELLA!!!! LOL I always get them mixed up.........them and arcamides who invented the screw thing.............

Michael David Ward Larry Elmore Keith Parkinson

Cheating :-) Old masters of Italian and English provenance (Carravagio, Turner et al) Rick Berry (http://www.braid.com/ and http://www.papereye.com/) Brom (http://www.bromart.com/) Hayao Miyazaki (if only for Nausicaa) (http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/) And many other artists, of course.

Besides what has already been mentioned Boris V. (can't spell his last name :) ) The Hildebrandt brothers

bryster,

I think da Vinci stole the idea of the helicopter from Mona Lisa,
and the reason she was smiling was that she was inventing it while Leonardo painted her.

• TJ

Frank Frazetta Roger Dean HR Giger

who inspired me to start making art..

Clyde Caldwell, artist known for many works on many tsr book covers and more.

Thats who inspired me at first, i've gone on from there on my own path..

but favorite artists include
Clyde Caldwell
Boris Vallejo
Salvador Dhali
H. R. Giger
and way to many to continue naming. as well as a few here

Hieronymous Bosch Michaelangelo Edvard Munch Leonardo Da Vinci Salvador Dali Vincent VanGogh Sorry I cheated a little bit too, by accident of course. I used to sit in the reference section of the library as a kid and be in total awe of the old masters, and I've been painting and digitizing ever since. Catlin

This is a great question! Turner (for amazing use of light) Dante Gabriel Rossetti (I love the pre-raphaelites in general) Vermeer (beautiful, intimate moments) William Blake (I'm intrigued by his philosophy of art) Mary Cassatt

Alphonse Mucha Escher David (18th Century) Frazetta Boris Nitro 115 Roger Dean Realist Painters in general Pre-Raphaelites as well (who was Raphael, anyway?)

Attached Link: http://www.postercheckout.com/PictureFull.asp?PrintID=1362&ReturnURL=/PictureGroup.asp?ArtistID=665

lets see... 1.)M.C. Escher 2.)Ted Nasmith 3.)Norman Rockwell 4.)Derek hess 5.)Andy Simmons (hobbit) Giger is also one of my favorites!

My Wife (she is my muse, a taste of paradise, and every thing is so beautifull since I know her, and she is a great Artist) My Father, a great French Painter HR Gigger A Dimaccio Tim White Roger Dean Dali

1. Royo 2. Vellejo 3. Julie Bell 4. Cleavenger 5 Linda Burqkvist (Spelling sucks but this lady's art is abso-friggin-lutely impeccable.)

I must admit that mine are perhaps a little bit different. So I've added a brief explination to each. 1. Ansel Adams His photographs aren't moments in time. They are works of art in moments of our lives. 2. Leonardo DiVinci Is not creation the true art of geniuous 3. Ron Fricke .. Wow.. Genious!

Aldaron:

I used to have (maybe still do) a first issue of "The Sword of Shannara" by Terry Brooks. It was filled with color plates by the Brothers Hildebrandt. Very cool work!

Yeah I used to have some of them too. I have a Dungeons & Dragons calender that they did and one of my gallery postings is of Tim's work.

Norman Rockwell M. C. Escher

@Bryster: I know this may sound a bit strange, but I swear I didn't know that Brain Salad Surgery cover was by Giger! That's why I always liked it soooo much! So thanx for the info... and, plus, so many times I dreamed on the Roger Dean's cover of Yes albums! Tales From Topographic Oceans was my fav cover @gregsin: Dan Peterson? I know a basketball coach by this name... :) Then, nobody Michael Whelan? I forgot to mention him... I have the almost extint first limited edition of Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" and his illustrations are tops! S.

Well, I wanted to put Michael Whelan, cause there is a couple of his pictures that I like. (Dark Tower or "Shonto", for instance.) But then visited his site to make certain of the link and changed my mind, because a wholesome kid face met me at the index page. Didn't like it, cause my tastes turned to darker images in illustration. http://www.michaelwhelan.com/

Doublecrash: Favourite YES cover......Fragile.

looking thro i see many names repeated. so now tjohn, how about going thro the list and making a top'o'the pops list; i think it will be Geiger on top closly folowed by Da vinci, or Boris vllejio, (hmmm bad letter day).

1. Rembrandt 2. Pre Raphaelites (Alma Tadema, Burne Jones etc.) 3. Bryce artists here like Alvinlaya, Hobbit, Occdoug, Beton and many more... 4. Iwan Aivasowsky, Turner and other maritime artists.

A number of my favorites have already been mentioned here so I'm going to list some of the ones I haven't seen yet. A few I think are worth repeating though... Also, although I love many of the old and not so old masters, but I'm going to limit myself to contemporary artists. :-) 1. "Michael Whelan" has long been a favorite on mine. So much so that I own some of his limited edition prints and an artist proof. I like his early work the best. (www.michaelwhelan.com) 2. "Syd Mead" is another favorite of mine. He did a lot of the set and craft design for Blade Runner. He also work on numerous other films such a Aliens, 2010, Tron, etc. His work falls into the classifications of illustration and industrial design. (www.sydmead.com) 3. "Donato Giancola" I fell in love with some of his brilliant science fiction and fantasy oil paintings the very first time I saw them on book covers.(www.donatoart.com) 4. "Brom" Wonderfully strange, dark and sometimes brooding paintings that fall into the genres of fantasy and horror. (www.bromart.com) 5. "Alan Lee" I've always enjoyed his beautiful and detailed fantasy watercolours and sketches. He is best known as the celebrated illustrator of J. R. R. Tolkien's great fantasy novels and worked on the Lord of the Ring films. (more info at http://www.endicott-studio.com/galalan.html) And sneaking in a few more... Michael Parkes, Jeff Jones, Brain Froud, Gil Bruvel, Lela Dowling...

oh yes i forgot 2 more! John Howe and Alex Ross

I guess I'm an art illerate compared to you folks! :o) I'm of that class that says "I may not know art, but I know what I like." I guess about the only one I can name is Thomas Kincaid and only because my Mom loves his work so much that I'm forever being exposed to him. (and that's not a bad thing) Honestly tho', his type of art is the type I especially like. I'm partial to water scenes, nature, snow scenes and gardens. So, even if I can't name any specifically, if you put it in front of me, I could say if I like it or not.

1.) Chuck Jones 2.) Walt Disney 3.) Stan Lee 4.) Bob Kane 5.) Sandy Frank

S. Mead, C. Foss, R. Dean, Brom, J. Burns, F. Frazetta, H.R. Giger, H.W. Sahm, P. Nagel, A. Lee and L. Alma-Tadema. These are the big names for me in more traditional media. There are many more I have collected but I keep returning to these.

Since most of these artists did (do) work in traditional media, I will add one favorite digital artist. David Ho

Hmm... I like pretty much all the artists named (glad someone mentioned Chuck Jones, I was definitely going to put him down). But the artists that originally inspired me, I can't really name because I don't know who they are. I've always loved art from the ancient world, prehistoric cave paintings, greek, roman, middle east, far east, africa, both americas, australia. Paintings, carvings, statues, jewelry. You name, I probably love it. What I love is the individuality of each piece, the care that went into making it, the clever ways they solved technical problems. I love museum replicas, and if I ever had the money, I'd probably have a whole houseful. I'm also a fan of stop-action animation, so I like David Sproxton and Peter Lord (Wallace and Grommit) and the Bass-Rankin shows. I also quite like Phil and Kaja Foglio. Lin

Hrm...in no particular order. 1. Brothers Hildebrant 2. MC Escher 3. HR Giger 4. Micheal Parkes 5. Larry Elmore 6. Johnathan Earl Bowser There are many more but I can close my eyes and remember my favorites from them at any time.

Whooohooo!!! Here's another vote for Chuck Jones. Very glad to see him mentioned. Daffy is my hero!

Nukeboy........I've got a book filled with images from the Brothers Hildebrandt. I got it years ago and still love too browse through it. As a kid I just adored fantasy art and still do. Another artist who's art just blows me away is Lucian Freud, I saw an exhibition of his work years ago in the Hayward Gallery on the south bank in London. Lots of humans in his work and they always look terribly ill but very natural. Catlin

Wow! I like lots of the talents listed above, and here's some I don't think have been mentioned yet: Carl Larsson Arthur Rackham Cornelis Springer Thomas Moran and Dr Seuss!