Book Description
After a successful career as a commercial artist in advertising, Todd Lockwood was astonished to be told that people were willing to pay for the fantasy and science fiction art he vastly preferred to create. That discovery altered the course of his life, and he is now one of the most widely respected fantasy artists of our age. Known worldwide for his depiction of heroic and stirring high fantasy imagery under the aegis of TSR™ and Wizards of the Coast™, he also creates work of astonishing sensitivity and beauty in quieter styles. This book, with its revealing text by Hugo-nominated writer and journalist Karen Haber and by Lockwood himself, contains well over a hundred paintings from all areas of his fantasy creation.
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The Barnes & Noble Review
Frank Frazetta. Boris Vallejo. Michael Whelan. Zdzislaw Beksinski. Add Todd Lockwood to the elite list of legendary fantasy artists. Transitions, a visually spectacular collection of Lockwood's best work, includes more than 80 full-color illustrations, dozens of black-and-white sketches, and insightful text that explores the artist's fascinating history as well as the complex workings of his highly imaginative and witty mind.
Spanning Lockwood's "life-transforming experience" as an art student playing Dungeons and Dragons and his 15-year stint working as a commercial artist in the "salt mines of advertising," Transitions chronicles an astonishing ouevre that runs the gamut from black-and-white student sketches to some of the most breathtaking book, magazine, and gaming covers in the last decade. Included are not only his world-renowned works for the Dungeons and Dragons, Forgotten Realms, Magic: The Gathering and Ravenloft gaming campaigns but also extraordinary cover art for novels that include R. A. Salvatore's The Thousand Orcs and The Spine of the World, Karen Michalson's Enemy Glory, and Ed Greenwood's The Kingless Land.
Replete with warriors, wizards, dragons, and monstrosities galore, Transitions is a feast for the eyes -- and the imagination. This book should -- and will -- be cherished not only by science fiction and fantasy fans but by art lovers of all stripes. Paul Goat Allen
FROM THE PUBLISHER
After a successful career as a commercial artist in advertising, Todd Lockwood was astonished to be told that people were willing to pay for the fantasy and science fiction art he vastly preferred to create. That discovery altered the course of his life, and he is now one of the most widely respected fantasy artists of our age. Known worldwide for his depiction of heroic and stirring high-fantasy imagery under the aegis of TSR™ and Wizards of the Coast™, he also creates work of astonishing sensitivity and beauty in quieter styles. This book, with its revealing text by Hugo-nominated writer and journalist Karen Haber and by Lockwood himself, contains well over a hundred paintings from all areas of his fantasy creation.
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