Jul 16
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Art Direction: Look, I’m telling you there is NOTHING more erotic than a naked women with an over-sized insect. Hold on a second who are those guys? What are they doing with a straitjacket? Hey, get off me. Wait, it’s still a good idea, I swear…. draw it… and remember meeeeeeeeee!
Published 1980

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Tagged with: Chris Achilleos • cleavage • damsel • M. John Harrison • Sphere Books • strange creature • WTF
Feb 02
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Everyone is into wizards these days. Your friends, that strange shopkeeper next door who just stares at you, even your mother! Sorry… but who wouldn’t appreciate a mullet wielding wizard with a sexy open ripped shirt, kneeling next to a dragon in the midst of a spell? Teenagers? Well… mmm… uh… uh oh.

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Tagged with: Ace Books • dragon • dude • Lost Years of Merlin series • magic • merlin • Mike Wimmer • T.A. Barron • Tom Barron • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Dec 15
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Just have some muscled dudes on horses, pretty much looking exactly the same. Where we will shine, my good apprentice, is in the title and border. Our colour scheme will be brown and the links will be many. And we’ll have a horse or two leaping over the border giving the viewer a 3D experience! Uhhh well, some sort of experience.

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Tagged with: archery weapons • Blacksheep UK • bladed weapons • capes • cloaks • dude • Everien series • horses • mullet • muscles • once you see it • Orion Books • shortbow • surprised horse • sword • Tricia Sullivan • Valery Leith • war
Dec 02
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There is nothing in this world that makes anything look better than shiny gold highlights around text and generally shiny boxes around huge fonts. What will you draw? Oh uh, three guys on a mountain edge, don’t forget the magic! Fantasy isn’t fantasy without a magic fireball or two.

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Tagged with: bladed weapons • bracers • Chronicles of the Raven series • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dinosaur • dude • font problems • Fred Gambino • James Barclay • magic • male skirts • Orion Books • sword • Wizaaaaaaaard!
Nov 10
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You know what I love about Ireland? All the dwarfs, the mysterious dark riders on horses, the barmaids that insist on carrying a bow and arrow with them, the extreme landscapes and, of course, the rainbows so I know where to find my pot of gold. We should turn that into a cover someday, my boy.

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Tagged with: archery weapons • beard-wielding • bladed weapons • Book of the Painter series • bracers • castle • cloaks • daggers • damsel • dwarf • Headline books • rainbow • shortbow • Stephen Bradbury • sword
Sep 07
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Trench coats are really in, so I want a big leather one in there on a guy who looks like he’s right out of Top Gun. Have him walking along with his dog, his shirt tucked neatly into his jeans, carrying a magic sword and the typical explosions in the background. Who’s he kissing? Uh..I guess the dog.

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Tagged with: architectural framing • bladed weapons • casually walking away from an explosion • dog • dude • horses • jeans and a t-shirt • leather • magic • Roc Books • strange creature • sword • Thomas E. Sniegoski • Unknown Artist Institute
Sep 03
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I was thinking of a beautiful misty icy snow covered landscape with, *cough* , a couple of Eskimos looking upon a dragon frozen in a tower of ice. That’s what I want, what more can I say? …Wait – make it so purple it makes your eyes bleed!

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Tagged with: daemons • dragon • furs • magic • Peter Elson • Red Fox Books • snow and ice • staff • Victor Kelleher
May 06
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An alien planet, with vegetation and all that, and another huge other planet in the background. And throw in a huge space ship taking off with a person throwing her fist in the air, making the reader ponder, “is she covering her eyes or simply shouting complaints?”

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Tagged with: +1 Protection from Spelling • Alexis Glynn Latner • aliens • Brian Dow • cloaks • damsel • once you see it • Pyr Books • space ships
Jan 26

Good Show Sir comments: Hello, Orkin. My house is infested with priest-kings.
Thanks to Ryan for sending this in!
Published 1976

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Tagged with: Ballantine Books • bladed weapons • Boris Vallejo • damsel • devil's dumplings • font problems • giant insects • John Norman • kneeling • muscles
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