Who's your favourite artist?
 

As far as classic and beautiful go, I am in love with John William Waterhouse but for surreal and horror it has to be H. R. Giger - famous for his "Alien" design; the character Sil from "Species"; and that horrific worm-like demon in "Poltergeist II"

Give me Giger any time! :D

My favorite author has to be Ralph Stedman. I've gotten two of his works tattoo'd on my leg.

Hi there :) Wow! I bet they look brilliant on skin! I have tattoos, but not anything to do with artists - altho the tattooist is a brilliant artist. I have an ankh on my right arm and a very long and colourful gecko on my left arm.

I have considered a full length *Alien* (from the Signourney W. series) on one leg - but still havent found the right design yet. Maybe one day..... :D

Cheers!

I love Waterhouse!!!Very beautiful.Also classic beautiful:Rossetti,Edward Burnes-Jones...many,many others.I have one of H.R Giger books.Very horrific I must say.He is good at that.That worm like demon gave me nightmares as a child!But for horror art I like Dave Mckean(does that count as horror art?)and Brom.

Francis Bacon
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k1..._study1953.jpg

I wouldn't say he's my FAVORITE but I dig Stephen Gammell's illustrations.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1.../scarecrow.jpg

H. Bosch
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k1...06/H_Bosch.jpg

Gustave Dore. His woodcuts are amazing and contribute a lot to any book they're in. Here's one from the Raven:
http://www.artpassions.net/cgi-bin/d...ghtlyshore.jpg
I had a Don Quixote with his woodcuts but it was wrecked by flooding.

van gogh
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...361/vangoh.jpg
not a fave, but i dig this painting.

and "saber" is a favorite
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber_river_.jpg
the biggest piece in the world,"saber" - L.A. river
this is a graphic edited picture, but it's real...and you can see the artist sitting down in the center of the "b"

http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e107/illdojo/grey.jpg
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e1...dojo/grey3.jpg
Alex Grey

Bernie Wrightson is amazing hands down!, lately been looking at alot of Gary Pullin(Rue-Morgue) & Jeff Zornow(Halloween,Fight-Rags,Bub etc) stuff there both awesome an fan of all the guys from the classic EC comics

Big fan of Johnny Craig, Graham Ingels, and Frank Frazetta. Craig and Ingels for the great early EC stuff and Frazetta for the fantasy illustrations.

TypH...Make your sig or image clickable so I can check out more of your stuff. Love the pics you posted of your drawings. Throwback stuff that's great!!

Nice picks Ingels & Criag & Frazetta are some of my favs too! as for making my sick clickable I tried to an doesn't seem to work for me unless there something I'm missing that makes it clickable:S haha Glad you love the stuff, i'll post more soon as for on my site just been posting old stuff seeing I can't post the comic pages im working on yet

Looooooooooooove Ray Caesar:

http://www.raycaesar.com/

Yoshitaka Amano - His final fantasy artwork is really,really cool.
Josh Kirby - His discworld artwork is amazing.

There are so many great artists it's hard to pick, but in comics I'm still partial to the ones I grew up with: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and Joe Kubert. SF books and magazines came later. All eras had true eye-catchers: Frank R. Paul, Kelly Freas, Jack Gaughan, John Schoenherr, and Don Maitz to name just a few.

Joe Coleman is my favorite

....plus I dig these cats a bunch too:

Ed Roth
Pushead
Jeff Giather
Raymond Pettibon
Coop
Winston Smith