Arcadia

[dansadad]

http://www.geocities.com/danielrhorne/arcadia.jpg

Here here is my painting ARCADIA, I had a great time painting her !

[foster]

oh boy! dan is here! this is a good thing, a very good thing.

i got a chance to see this painting in the flesh.. and talk about about a man who can pant with oils! does not get much better.

ask him questions, demand more posts, ask to see his sculptures.

dan glad you are her.

you know i love your work.

jon foster

[dansadad]

Thanks Jon,
I would love to chat about painting and sculpting!

Arcadia was a turning point in my career. I felt with this painting i finally had something to say with my art.
At last count I painted 412 paper back covers and I'm only now starting to understand oil paints.
She is a very demanding mistress, but well worth it.
Daniel

[Kunglejing]

I would never have guessed it was oils. I don't know why, I think I tend to believe everything is digital these days. It's getting very hard to tell them apart.

I remember this piece from Spectrum. 412!? Bravo, I can only wish that I get that many jobs in my lifetime, ha.

Thanks for posting!

[Oblio]

:bow:

412... so.. where are the rest?
PLEASE SIR... !!!!:eek:
and sculptures too?
/faints


Oblio

[facezero]

dansadad your works cool!
I have ever seen this pics with my friends. and then we talking about this pic. oh~ good! justin... and foster....entering same book. yeah? your masters.

[bOne]

I saw your piece in Spectrum 9 I think... Great talent !!!

Welcome on CA.org :)

[zef]

Hello,

very very great works and various activities.
You have the chance to touch differents things and mediums and you are good with all.

The sketche from Arcadia his ... Wow.

[Maximillion]

Wow! and welcome!
Congrats on the cover last year. Your piece was one of my favorites in that spectrum.

I will state that the digital version of your painting is a bit desaturated, and the levels could be tightened.

But please, please post more.

Jon is right, this is a very good thing.

[sparth]

amazing illustration dan. bravo!

[davi]

*star struck*

[DRESDEN]

BEAUTIFUL!!! SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL.

:jawdrop:

[2kre8]

wow this one took my breath away, i think this a great painting. please post more. model is not to shabby either!

[Marie]

That is just beautiful, I remember stumbling across your paintings quite a while ago and just being awestruck... and you posted one of my absolute favorites!

I can't wait to see what more you create. :)

--Marie--

[dansadad]

http://www.geocitiec.com/danielrhorne/ergoth.jpg

Here is my second digital book cover for the dragonlance book line.
The format is a half wrap around cover.
It was tricky squeezing all the elements onto the cover and designing the picture around a established type design.

Once I have the concept approved, I shoot reference.
With this painting, I used my favorite male model, Skip Gibson, he is a good friend and the local Fire Chief fo Cherry Hill.
He has posed for all the G.I.Joe box art that I did and just about every elf and wizard.
I use friends and family in my pictures.
Back in the day I would go to NYC to shoot professional models.

When we could my mentor ,historical painter Ken Lagger and I would go to NYC to shoot reference for our cover assignments and then hang out in the city.

I now shoot my reference with a Canon power shot G1. I find with a digital camera that I experiment with lighting more now that I don't have to drag out all the strobe lights and all the medium format equiptment.

I usally prit out the shot that matches my sketch and tape ontothe side of my MAC.
I do all the sketching on my wacom 12x12 tablet then colone it and start to paint.

I use the same process with both oils and digital, lay in the colours and start with the back ground and work forward.

I still draw most of my inspiration from the great 19th century painter, John William Waterhouse.

It's hard not to get inspired by his painting The Lady of Shalott, and if you read the poem The lady of Shalott you will see that he has captured the tone and feel like no other artist has .

Daniel

[Loga4]

Great jop,Dan!
BAh,I can`t see 2 piece>red X!

[el coro]

holy shit! daniel horne? wow! i'm a HUGE fan of your stuff. you own! your fleshtone treatment on the spectrum cover is truly breathtaking...i cant tell you how long i've stared at it. welcome to our humble forum! look forward to seeing more...-c36

[dansadad]

Thanks for all the wonderful comments on my art!
I think that the time spent painting romance covers, I had taken a break from fantasy art for a year, back in the 80's and 90's I was pumping out covers at a rate of three a month, while this was great for the bank account, it was deadly to my art.
So for a change of pace I started to paint romance covers.
Yes they are hokey with fake sex but, it was a year of doing nothing but rendering and studing flesh tones.

I learned a ton from the experience and it really made my fantasy art that much better than it was.

I still go to museums and try to crack the codes of the 19th century European painters.

Howard pyle , the father of American illustration said, "throw your heart into your paintings and leap in after it". I love that saying.
Ken Lagger my mentor is a 6th generation Pyle student in a unbroken line of teacher to student from Howard Pyle . He is a masterful painter and story teller and taught me everything I know as a painter and a story teller.

I have learned something from every artist I have met, older and younger artists.

I have to admit that I was one of THOSE artists that railed against the use of a computer to do illustration, it came from my own ignorance and fear.

I remember what hell was unleashed at illustrators who used an airbrush!
it was silly then and it's silly now.

I'm going to try to post the image again.

make some great art,
Danielhttp://www.geocities.com/artboydan/ergoth.jpg

[Ra Havok]

Oh my... Very impressive. :chug:

[JackalAnubis]

wow, really amazing I would love to see a higher rez image of it. she's got a great rack, nice pose!

[pogonip]

Your skill is masterful in my opinion . Few people can capture such powerful subtle emotion and evoke such presense . Please honor us with more posts . I would love to see anything that would enlighten the process . Sketches work in progress...etc etc :cuddle: :waves: I baught your SQP sketch book and it was one of my best art book purchases ever !! Along with my Nirasawa art book :D

[chukw]

Superlative. You is a renaissance man!

[Travis_Bourbeau]

thanks for coming here dan its a pleasure to see your work !


Cheers
Trav

[S.C. Watson]

dansadad,

Thank you for joining our forums. It's both an honor and a pleasure to have you and your work here.

Oregano.

[dansadad]

There are time when as an artist you wonder if you have made a difference with your work.

Without sounding like a salesman, I do have a bunch of my sketch books here at my studio.

Part of the deal with SQP was that I get some books . I will if there is any interest sign and do a small sketch in the books for members of this forum only.
My website has a print page and a paypal account, just go to any print and write in "sketch book". If anyone would like one you can contact me.
fourhorne@comcast.net and we can work out the details.

Well Back to sculpting, I'm sculpting a Christmas figurine line that I created and sold to kmart for Christmas 2005. I'll post some in progerss pics on the 3D forum here soon.

Sal Quartuccio of SQP is a sweetheart of a guy, If there are any future pin up artists here Sal is always looking for new artists and has broken in several artists into the fantasy field.

Send some work to him, you never know what could happen or who will see the art. I have received several oil painting private commissions from my sketch book so you never know and one of those commissions was painting a scene from Alexander the great's life!

Daniel

[bRyaN]

I'm a huge fan of you work...

It is truly a godsend that you've joined this forum...

sometimes i feel like i'm at the academy awards for artists on these forums...

please post more...

and i will be contacting you soon about that sketchbook...

bRyaN

[Jason Manley]

ive admired your work for a long time....it is a pleasure to see you here with us.

excellent....


jason

[davi]

dansadad, check your pm box. I set you some information.

click the link at the top of the page that says USER CP or at the very bottom of the main forum page: Http://www.conceptart.org/forums/

thanks.

[fukifino]

You know...I don't know what I was thinking but I never even made the connection with the name printed in the Spectrum book and that old badass of fantasy. I used to love your work back when I was hardcore into all the D&D and Fantasy stuff. I love it when some of those "old school" people pop up again. Good to see you're still around and hope that you continue to return back to the fantasy genre. :D

And I don't have the spectrum book with me at work, so maybe my memory's a little fuzzy, but the colors on this picture/copy/scan/whatever look a little different from what I remember in the book. I'm curious as to which version is most like the original?

*edit*
Ahhh..memories...I was just flipping through your gallery and I saw an old Dragon magazine cover. Which reminded me of another one that I'm pretty sure was by you. A lonely ranger of the frozen north sitting on his dragon mount? One of my favorites of all time. I think that was you...

OK, enough nostalgia. :)

[PhilHolland]

Seconding Manley's and Coro's comments.
I've admired your work for a little while now.
Skin tones and saturation are great.

Phil

[Sedone]

Here's yet another long-time fan of your work. I love that Spectrum piece, but can't stare at that girl for too long or my thoughts begin to wander...

[liquidwerx]

Loved this painting since I first saw it a few months back. Wonderful work and welcome to CA. :)

~Malachi

[Arwar]

I have the spectrum 9 book, and you dont know how long I've spent looking at that one painting. Simply amazing work. I feel like I'm talking to a celebrity :D

[infinitipo]

Considering how great he is, you are. :D

Welcome to CA, Dan! (This is why I love this place:) )