Fantasy Artwork; Surrealistic and Photo Realistic Fantasy Illustrations by Howard David Johnson depicting Fantastic Fantasy Worlds, filled with Creatures, Castles, Dungeons, Dragons, Heroes and Beautiful Maidens, Fairies, Mermaids, gods and monsters...all in a style inspired by classic illustrators. Howard David Johnson has spent a lifetime creating his Realistic Fantasy Illustrations in Paintings and Pictures ... Please be patient while the images are loading ... |
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Surrealistic Fantasy Illustration Gallery Enter a world of imagination...
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Surrealism is a literary and artistic movement launched in 1924 by the French poet Andre' Breton proclaiming the radical transformation of all existing social, scientific, and philosophical values through the total liberation of the subconscious. Salvador Dali's name has become synonymous with surrealism. His subconscious mind saw things that should be rigid were limp or melting and reflected it in his work with a sense of horror. Melting things are not always surrealistic and surrealism is potentially as vast as the human psyche. Everyone has different things enslaved in their subconscious mind. The monsters and beauty goddesses shackled in Johnson's subconscious mind run free in his art. David loves to do custom Fantasy book covers like the one to your right, especially to help emerging writers. Publishing calls for a different shape than traditional picture framing. Many of David's Fantasy Art posters can be modified to add more space at the top with Adobe Photoshop (tm) Software. In the early days of David's career adding canvas space was as impossible as growing a second head... |
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"If you've never seen the Lon Chaney Sr. Phantom of the Opera you're really missing out. The immortal classic silent film masterpiece provided the inspiration for this piece."
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| "Classic Myths and Legends never fail to captivate my imagination and can be great fantasy illustrations with all their gods and monsters, not to mention all the beautiful ladies."
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" My favorite fantasy illustration themes have always been the two-fisted tales of fantastic adventure in the heroic tradition and the classic fairy tale..."
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"...the true measure of a fantasy artist is not the subject matter or the technique , but is always the amount of "magic" in the air ...and whether the picture tells a story..." ~HDJ |
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AMAZON WARRIORS from ancient myth and legend were among the few fantasy warrior women of traditional folklore
MODERN MYTHOLOGY? ( "Goblin Fighter Halith" left 2010 digital) Was done for a Fantasy book cover. Chicks in chain mail? The warrior woman has emerged in recent times as ferocious and deadly as the mightiest male warriors of myth and history. The weaker sex? Not in these stories! The oddest part of this fun new phenomenon in fantasy art, cartoons, novels and movies is the eagerness of certain writers to pretend they always existed and to present historical figures in this light. Generals participating in battle plans? Yes! Judges and mayors? Yes! Battlefield combatants? No. Celtic Women were more like Warrior Queen Boudica (above right) and were more like cheerleaders on those days in history when the battles were actually fought. If their man was cowardly on the battlefield, they were eyewitnesses and you can rest assured he wished he was dead when he got home.
Thank you for visiting the Fantasy Illustration page of Howard David Johnson ... All images copyright 1993 - 2010 Howard David Johnson All rights reserved.
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| Howard David Johnson is a contemporary visual artist and photographer with a background in the natural sciences and history. He works in a wide variety of media ranging from traditional oils, pastels and others to cutting edge digital media. After a lifetime of drawing and painting, Howard David Johnson's Traditional Realistic Art was exhibited in the British Museum in London in 1996, ( 3 years before he got his first computer ) as well as numerous American ones since, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His illustrations have appeared in every major bookstore and gameshop chain in America as well as magazines and educational texts around the world. Some of his more prestigious clients have included the University of Texas, the Book of the Month Club, Paramount Studios, PBS TV, Adobe Photoshop Auto FX, and J Walter Thompson Advertising. Licenses to print his existing work are available at surprisingly affordable prices. Oil Paintings, Colored pencils, Pastels, Mixed media, and Digital art can also be commissioned for select projects - Working in a variety of traditional and cutting edge digital media he offers his customers a variety of options and more than thirty years of experience. As a commercial illustrator HDJ has not only used the computer but has been involved in the development of imaging software. On his existing works license offers start as low as $100.00 |
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