RIP Frank Frazetta

Spectre-x

Aw man, this blows.

I've always really liked his art. Nobody in the history of illustration could draw barbarians and scantily-clad, Martian warrior princesses as well as Frazetta.

I guess I'll do my part and increase the amount of half-naked warriors in my own stuff as a tribute.

Sars_Boy

This fucking sucks on the real.

pattonoswalt wrote:

RIP Frank Frazetta. '70s-era make-out vans should dim their headlights in tribute

mensch-o-matic

Fuuuuck noooooooooooooooo

Langly

Need to find that PA comic

Hunter

Damn, no more hot big titty princesses waiting for a barbarian to slay some monster to save her.

RIP

Tonkka

Yes, this is terrible news.

mensch-o-matic

Pourin one out from my diamond encrusted gold chalice

Fedora

Oh holy shit no

fuck




damnit

Dee Kae

This is horrible, and requires special attention.

Today, I'll wear a loincloth and a grimace out of respect for this great man.

celandine

Oh shit this is awful.
But he did have a very long career.

Viscount Islands

You know I hate it when I hear about someone really cool only after they die.

Fedora

Everyone should watch his documentary, dude was awesome.

World as Myth

you guys know the quest in wow where you have to plant a flag on a mound in ashenvale, and all the furbolgs come rushing at you in waves and waves and you kill them all and by the end you're standing on a pile of dead monsters, victorious and barely alive

I called that the frank frazetta quest

Orikaeshigitae

Shit.

I'll have to do a Frazetta-style painting tonight.

Henroid

Oh what. D:

RIP

Viscount Islands

ROPOMS more like.

Anjin-San

frazetta made crazy posters and for the most part, a lot of his work on book covers weren't even specifically created for em. cats would just look at a frazetta painting and just attach it to something that seemed a fit

also, molly hatchet album covers

ThatDudeOverThere

Fuck.

VALVEjunkie

oh man I heard about this earlier but didn't think to make a thread

scarlet st.

World as Myth wrote: »

you guys know the quest in wow where you have to plant a flag on a mound in ashenvale, and all the furbolgs come rushing at you in waves and waves and you kill them all and by the end you're standing on a pile of dead monsters, victorious and barely alive

I called that the frank frazetta quest

too bad it's just furbolgs. otherwise :^:

Anjin-San

Fedora wrote: »

Everyone should watch his documentary, dude was awesome.

i have. the first time i seen it was midway through the film

glenn danzig kept talkin about some sort of shit and then i saw big tittie women and finally, i had a name to put to the work which is something i make a point of learning

Beasteh

damn this sucks

Langly

Anjin-San

the most famous frazetta shot aside from the Death Dealer, is the big titty woman atop a pile of skulls reaching up alongside the leg of a stoic looking conan with a sword

that picture is the basis for a lot of movie posters, including the original star wars: a new hope poster

people blatantly copied this dude all the time

naporeon

True story: I learned about Frank Frazetta from MST3K's "Manos: Hands of Fate" episode, back in the early 1990's.

CorporateLogo

Dang, this is a shame

Henroid

Langly wrote: »

That last panel is so good.

Solid Bones

My bookshelves are weeping.

Fedora

Rest in Valhalla you glorious bastard

Anjin-San

in the latter part of his life, he had to switch hands if i remember correctly

Fedora

Anjin-San wrote: »

in the latter part of his life, he had to switch hands if i remember correctly

yeah, he had a stroke and had to train himself how to paint left-handed.

bongi

naporeon wrote: »

True story: I learned about Frank Frazetta from MST3K's "Manos: Hands of Fate" episode, back in the early 1990's.

OH MY GOD THAT FUCKING MOVIE

Anjin-San

thing is, the documentary where i remember learning this is probably more than a few years old

memory serves, he's done a few paintings or illustrations since then? which speaks to his talent, doing something like that at his age, and competently

Sars_Boy

Fedora wrote: »

Anjin-San wrote: »

in the latter part of his life, he had to switch hands if i remember correctly

yeah, he had a stroke and had to train himself how to paint left-handed.

holy shit that rules

well not the stroke part but still

that is the definition of Bad Ass Artist

bsjezz

i had a book full of frazetta's fantasy art when i was pretty young, maybe eight or nine

it was just the kind of thing you could pore through always and every image contained in itself an amazing adventure

Sars_Boy

bsjezz wrote: »

i had a book full of frazetta's fantasy art when i was pretty young, maybe eight or nine

it was just the kind of thing you could pore through always and every image contained in itself an amazing adventure

also titties

very crucial at that age

Henroid

Sars_Boy wrote: »

Fedora wrote: »

Anjin-San wrote: »

in the latter part of his life, he had to switch hands if i remember correctly

yeah, he had a stroke and had to train himself how to paint left-handed.

holy shit that rules

well not the stroke part but still

that is the definition of Bad Ass Artist

Pony should be inspired!

Lost Salient

bongi wrote: »

naporeon wrote: »

True story: I learned about Frank Frazetta from MST3K's "Manos: Hands of Fate" episode, back in the early 1990's.

OH MY GOD THAT FUCKING MOVIE

So this is Manos... the... Hands of Fate.

Yep.

Jars

damn, can you imagine not having stuff like this because of him?

Spoiler:

Fearghaill

It wasn't all barbarians and titties. This is one of my favourites.

Fearghaill

Jars wrote: »

damn, can you imagine not having stuff like this because of him?

Spoiler:

I don't know where I'd be without NintendoLife. It's true.