Dauntless Bravura
Since I can remember surfing the web, I have always been a huge fan of Boris Vallejo's work. Boris is a true oil panting wizzard that worked with hand-and-brush to create his unmatched female and demon masterpieces. I thought, well … and still do, that one would not match his caliber of perfection within the fantasy art genre. His body of work produced from 1956 to 2000 is mind bogglingly admirable. A good description of Boris found on the site linked below states:
"His mastery of oil painting is immediately and abundantly clear to anyone who looks at his work, and his classic sense is as much an homage to the old masters as it is to anyone contemporaneously working in the Fantasy genre. For sheer dauntless bravura, few have ever pushed the limits as does Boris with his beautiful maidens and fearsome monsters."
On the other hand, while surfing the web this weekend, I stumbled into yet another weird but brilliant little web zone. It is the world of CGI Artist Gaspard Blate (Digital Pin Ups). Not quite as *paint-and-brush skilled* as good old Boris, but rather new generation /SHLASH/ fantasy /SHLASH/ Boris /SLASH/ CGI type depictions of the female form. Yet, I must concede, CGI is just another art medium and require just as much aesthetic skill. Some of his maidens are rather interesting, to say the least. I am still undecided on 'ol Gaspard though - many of the poses that the girls are in rings way to familiar to veteran babe-site-surfers like myself. I suspect Gaspard uses real model photos to create his CGI interpretations thereof.
Links:
[ WARNING: Digital representations of nudity ]
2 Comments:
Shweet...I like Boris' work.
PS: I see you've been posting like a demon today dude.
Some days there are just sooo much to say and other days, well … they are just days.
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