Name that art style

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Lachlan Hunter McIntyre

Lachlan Hunter McIntyre

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The thread where the artistically gifted and knowledgable can help us less fortunate identify various art styles.

I'll start with something I'm curious to know the name of. It was a very popular style in the late 70s well into the late 80s. Very conceptual and ethereal looking, almost airbrushed. Usually in unearthly landscapes with vivid unnatural colours. Usually used for album artwork during that timeframe. These Iron Maiden covers are good examples of it, anyone know what it's called?
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I'm far from an art expert, but lowbrow seems to fit the best. I don't think that there is a necesserily an art style for every piece of art in the world...
Could even be real airbrushes if not drawn with a computer. Airbrushs are the best thing for fine color gradients, which are really hard/impossible to do in other traditional media.
 
The thing with lowbrow is it looks specifically for comics and things of that nature. I've seen this art style used with just landscapes, not always for album art. It is closer than what I've come up with, though.
 
I'd describe it as fantasy art - the classic sci-fi/fantasy illustration cover style. In the 70s and 80s a lot of artists did both fantasy novels and rock/metal record covers - The Hildebrant bros , and there's also Rodney Mathews, Michael Whelan, Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell.

It was pretty easy to find big books of these guys art in 80s and 90s bookstores but you might have to search now.

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frazetta
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Vallejo

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Julie Bell

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That is very similar, thank you.

For the record, this thread is for anybody curious to learn about an art style. Someone can ask about a different one of they so choose.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
The unreleased Conan novel?

Nah, but seriously, it looks to be in the same vein as the other pictures thus far. Though a little more realistic than stylized.
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It is certainly that fantasy-style artwork, the likes of which Frazetta, Vallejo and others have popularized back then.
 
Jewelsmakerguy said:
The unreleased Conan novel?

Nah, but seriously, it looks to be in the same vein as the other pictures thus far. Though a little more realistic than stylized.
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I was referring more to the actual album; I've never seen it before
 
Not sure if I should be necro-ing this thread but it's the exact topic I'm looking for.

I'm trying to do some style studies on a style kind of like this. The more edgy, cartoony, dirty style:

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(Sorry I only have furry art)

Whenever I search "y2k art" (Because I think this style is reminiscent of early 2000's cartoons) I get mostly like, anime-esk shit. I just need to be pointed in the right direction of where to look. Furry, human, fantasy, doesn't matter. Just need more examples to work with.
 
Dr. Octogonapus said:
Not sure if I should be necro-ing this thread but it's the exact topic I'm looking for.

I'm trying to do some style studies on a style kind of like this. The more edgy, cartoony, dirty style:

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(Sorry I only have furry art)

Whenever I search "y2k art" (Because I think this style is reminiscent of early 2000's cartoons) I get mostly like, anime-esk shit. I just need to be pointed in the right direction of where to look. Furry, human, fantasy, doesn't matter. Just need more examples to work with.
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reminds me of the glamfur art on deviantart way back in the day, they were more uh decorated?? in style than this but it's the same hard edged lines, dirty, look with lots of scanned drawings that give it that kind of appearance too. Thankfully this community seemed less degen than most furries these days. A lot of those artists drew people too
 
cowboytakeshi said:
reminds me of the glamfur art on deviantart way back in the day, they were more uh decorated?? in style than this but it's the same hard edged lines, dirty, look with lots of scanned drawings that give it that kind of appearance too. Thankfully this community seemed less degen than most furries these days. A lot of those artists drew people too
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Shit sorry I forgot to reply. But thanks for the lead man! Never heard of glamfur, I'll check it out. Thanks again!
 
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