The text covers a broad range of dragon-related subjects, from historical roots to the digital-versus-traditional media debate, with varyingĭegrees of depth. Though he mentions names like Frederick Leighton and Joseph Turner, I had to visit the internet Masters whose works influenced many of today's fantasy art masters. I would've liked some examples of the old-school Its quality varies, but Aymer at least selected artists with different styles and approaches. The artwork itself is mostly modern, dating back perhaps to the 1980's or late 1970'sĪt the earliest. Not helped by the odd two- or four-page spreads depicting works in progress.

(including John Howe, Michael Whelan, and other big names), the images rarely coincide with the text near which they appear the arrangement seems entirely random, However, aside from an early section on famous dragon artists Rendered in various media by artists young and old, newcomers and established masters of the field. It includes an admirable array of images, depicting all manner of dragons This one came close to a full Good rating, but its ambition overshot its execution. Illustrations by artists from around the world, plus a foreword by noted fantasy artist John Howe. This book celebrates the ubiquitous dragon in fantasy art, including many Kerem Beyit, on the other hand, decided to embrace the old style of D&D and change it up a bit - making it into digital art rather than traditional.Brightdreamer Books - Graeme Aymer Reviews Graeme Aymer - Reviewsīe they primordial embodiments of chaos or peaceful guardians of nature, world-encompassing serpents or fluttering fairy beasts, dragons have been around sinceīefore the dawn of history, and are likely to endure to the end of human existence. I envisioned the dragons in Todd Lockwood’s style, one of the original Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) artists, which made each different type of dragon look unique. For the majority of my life, I have always loved art related to dragons, but it seemed no artist could capture how I envisioned them. The reason why I am so fond of Kerem’s art is because, in my opinion, he has captured the true essence of dragons in his art, and his detail in his other fantasy art is breathtaking.

Kerem has also been featured in the book Dragon Art by Graeme Aymer: a book featuring the best dragon artists of all time (a link to Dragon Art on amazon.ca can be seen at the end of this post).

He is famous in the fantasy artist world and is followed by over 79,000 people on DeviantART (his page alone has gotten over 2 million views). He has done countless artwork in the fantasy realm ranging from card art to cover illustrations, character concepts to game art for World of Warcraft. One of my favourite illustrators of all time is Turkish illustrator Kerem Beyit.