Fantasy Art

"Light the torch on the wall and gather round my fellow adventurers, I must tell ye a tale of frightening monsters and daring deeds. Ne'er mind the dragon hunched in the corner he'll not bother ye too much.," the old wizard belts in a manner much more akin to a thick skinned bartender than to the fragile mage you are used to. The torch flares into light and sure enough you see the hunched form of a familiar dragon ready to pouch on an unsuspecting cricket.

The dragon is small the torch is bright and you have imagined cleaner rooms belonging to 10 year old boys, but you are engrossed in the adventure if you are of a RolePlaying ilk. If you are purely interested in the art then perhaps you've seen a scene similar to this gracing the cover of a hobbyist magazine or on the cover of some computer RPG in the local game store.

Fantasy art is extremely popular, especially among those in the industry. Those in the industry include the artist, the editors, the gamers, and the average computer game player. It also includes people not associated with any of the above who enjoy mythology, weird or dark imaginative art, or dragons. In fact there are a whole slew of people who know and enjoy fantasy art and try their hand at it on a regular basis. And almost everyone associated with it can name at least 1 or 2 names that belong among the top ranks of this genre. Larry Elmore, Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta to name a few.

Fantasy art isn't necessarily going to be the kind of art found on the average doctor's wall, or gracing the museum regularly. Fantasy art is more of the art for the common folk. Those who can't afford a picasso can get a poster of a Picasso for 12 bucks. Who can't afford a pencil sketch from their favorite fantasy artist can either get a poster, buy the game or book the artwork is used on, or in some cases, get the collector cards of several of the artists works.

Fantasy art permeates our society through the use of mass media. Fantasy themes grace our television sets almost everytime you here "What's is your wallet?!". Listerine even had a swashbuckler dungeon crawler battling the vicious plaque. But why won't you find this kind of art hanging at the end of the room opposite the dentist chair?

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