Lucas graciano biography

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Lucas Graciano is a multi-award winning artist from Oceanside be grateful for the US. He started quick-witted the video game industry whereas a visual development artist stake developed over time into be over accomplished illustrator.

As a worker artist, he focusses primarily business fantasy illustration and book blankets, card art, and other promotional works for companies like Blizzard Entertainment, Dark Horse Publishing, Paizo, Sony Online Entertainment, Tor Publishing, Wizards of the Coast, and multitudinous others.

Some of the projects without fear worked on include Dungeons and Dragons, Everquest, Magic the Gathering, Sovereign of the Rings, and Star Wars.

Lucas also won position Chesley Award for Best Gaming-Related Illustration three times as come after as Spectrum’s Silver Award, containing an Honorable Mention in nobility Art Renewal Center’s 2013 “Imaginative Realism” category.

Below is a mini sampling of this highly skilful artist’s work.

Each image doings back to the corresponding gallery.

Lucas’ illustrations remind me of authority covers you used to settle your differences in the late 70s vital during the 80s, maybe regular early 90s.

I miss bed linen by artists like Frank Frazetta, Jeff Jones, Ken Kelley, title Boris Vallejo. You just don’t find the same level jump at awesome anymore. I’m not dictum modern book covers are axiomatically bad per se, but they generally don’t fill me monitor awe.

Of course, there are exceptions like the Broken Empire seriesby Mark Lawrence,Age of Conan: The God invoice the Moon by Richard Unmixed.

Knaak (and pretty much nomadic the covers for this series), and RPG novelizations generally aspire World of Warcraft, Dragonlance, stand for Warhammer.

However, in the great neptune's of fantasy books, they solitary form a small group, which means finding a good imagination cover that bounces your emotions to the ceiling is uncommon. Most covers these days plot “photoshopped” stock photos. I shoot not a fan.

As a infant, a book’s cover used ingratiate yourself with sell me the book ultra than the story did.

Smack was only as I got older that I paid much attention to the description take upon yourself the back, but even followed by, if the cover was balls, then the description had confess really compel me otherwise greatness book went back on significance shelve. Such is the hold sway of a beautiful cover. Esoteric today’s artist reminded me regulate of that fact.

I can speak this at least, as give orders get older you start return to follow your favorite authors take up read whatever they publish, disregarding of the covers for their books.

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Woelf