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The Eaten Lands are an extensive badlands on Saara's home world. Notice the two bright blue-white suns. The place is crazy with UV light as well, and definitely not very hospitable for humans. The art is done in a stylized fashion, to not look completely like something out of a standard SF illustration or comic book. The script at the top is in Siroihin, one of the main languages spoken by the Kjola. There are a couple of diacritical marks I can't reproduce in the title for FurAffinity, and have a grammatical purpose.
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This art does hearken back even farther to some of the Sci-Fi work of the 1940s and '50s. I don't recall the specific artists as it's more feeling than anything.
I got an artist on DeviantART turned onto Hannes Bok (Wayne Francis Woodard) a few months back. He'd never heard of Bok as an artist or a writer and fell in love with the style. As long as they don't come to the same sad end...
I got an artist on DeviantART turned onto Hannes Bok (Wayne Francis Woodard) a few months back. He'd never heard of Bok as an artist or a writer and fell in love with the style. As long as they don't come to the same sad end...
An interesting artist whose work I like, but never collected. For one thing, I never collected old 1930s and 40s magazines, and by the 1950s I think Bok had turned to casting horoscopes, and other crank stuff. I think my favourite was Edd Cartier. Virgil Finlay was to stuffy and obsessive about minute detail.
(* nods *) Exactly correct; Bok had become unhinged by the mid-1950s and in the words of Forrest Ackerman, starved himself to death.
I like Finlay's work but I think you're right about his details; those tiny circles make me think of Georges Seurat and Pointillism. Cartier's work was more fun; he seemed to enjoy doing humorous Sci-Fi illustration and some of his action/detective work was lighthearted.
My favorite Sci-Fi artist of all time? Hands down, Frank Kelly Freas!
I like Finlay's work but I think you're right about his details; those tiny circles make me think of Georges Seurat and Pointillism. Cartier's work was more fun; he seemed to enjoy doing humorous Sci-Fi illustration and some of his action/detective work was lighthearted.
My favorite Sci-Fi artist of all time? Hands down, Frank Kelly Freas!
At this point, I have no idea. I checked my file card and it likely says "The Eaten Land" or "The Eaten Place," because that's what I wrote down. I do have an alphabet that I devised but looking for it would be a bit of a bother. Logically, there's nothing else it would likely say.
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