I was looking online for fantasy based art today when I stumbled upon some very sad news. Artist Keith Parkinson passed away two years ago to Leukemia. I wasn’t aware of this sad news. I even had a Keith Parkinson calender for 2006 and I didn’t know he was gone. This truly sucks. I have always been a fan of his work. He created fantasy art that always had a very realistic look to it.
He used to work for TSR where he was responsible for some of the best Dungeons & Dragons artwork. That’s how I became familiar with this work. His artwork was also featured on Magic The Gathering cards. He also did the box art for the EverQuest massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
He will be missed.
I don’t usually like the “D&D art” genre, but that dragon picture you posted is pretty nice. Anyway, I hope Mr. Parkinson enjoys these early days in heaven because he’s in for an ass-kicking when Boris Vallejo gets there.
Boris Vallejo? I never cared for his style. Everyone is always shown way too muscular and way too tan. It’s like his subjects all have lifetime memberships to gyms with unlimited suntan booth usage.
Yes. Unlimited suntan and unlimited *awesome*. I used to have an Empire Strikes Back poster by Vallejo, in which Darth Vader is holding up not one but TWO red lightsabers. I thought, “Well, that doesn’t make any sense, but at the same time…cool.”