Illustrating 40K's Most Iconic Moments | Adrian Smith in Conversation
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มี.ค. 2024
- In an incredible career artist Adrian Smith has produced some of the most iconic Games Workshop art for the worlds of 40k and Warhammer Fantasy.
From his early work drawing playful Nurglings and dramatic scenes for the Realm of Chaos to his unforgettable renderings of Warmaster Horus and the Emperor of Mankind in their final encounter, and countless incredible book, box, and game besides, Smith has helped to define the look and feel of Games Workshop.
In the years since leaving GW Smith has produced a huge volume of work for wargames like Chronopia and several board games from CMON, including The Others, Rising Sun, and most recently a game inspired by his own comic book The Chronicles of Hate.
In conversation with Adrian Smith we talk the history, the process, and the future of making art for tabletop games, and some of the greatest art from Games Workshop’s past.
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I was privileged to have Adrian Smith's artwork adorn two of my Black Library novels - Magestorm and Iron Hands. The Magestorm cover reused a painting Adrian had produced for the War Cry CCG and I am pleased to say the original now hangs on my office wall.
And just like Adrian, my favourite project is always the next one.
Absolutely loved Iron Hands, especially the brief chapter from the Guardsman Squad's POV facing off against Plague Marines! Gdolkin forever!!
Damn, Adrian seems to be a really chill dude. Thx for the interview!
Might have something to do with that vape. He really started loosing focus after hitting it. ;-)
It’s an absolute tragedy that games workshop made his Emperor vs Horus a limited release like 10 years ago meaning you can’t get a print anymore.
This is truly a remarkable interview with arguably one of the best artists GW ever had. Amazing! 🤘🤘🤘
Adrian Smith is awesome. Thanks for the interview. HATE is gorgeously brutal.
I really wished HATE would be reprinted. Ebook is good, but print is much better to enjoy
Great interview, I remember buying Adrian Smith art book about 25 years ago and I'll still got it.
I trained as an illustrator for decades, but eventually had to look elsewhere for my destiny and livelihood. Adrian Smith was a massive influence for me over the years and would be again in the future if I ever get back to it.
I think my favourite of Adrian's works is the picture of the chaos warband coming down a slope in deep snow. There's a mixture of hounds, marauders, chaos warriors and horsemen. It really fits the vibe of what I feel chaos warbands should be. Love that piece. The colour version has all these wonderful subtle cold blues and purples yet the hounds and chaos warriors have piercing glowing orange eyes that catch your vision as you look across the piece.
Adrian, Karl, Wayne, Paul, John... I'm missing somebody, darn memory, I know. These are our industries most iconic artists. Black and White, color or sepia, it's all so iconic and evocative.
this man is modern master! Forget Warhammer, fantasy etc, his mastery of art principles like value, colour, design, composition etc ts just insane. I pursued an art career in no small part thanks to his influence. Great interview!
Adrian is a trip to listen to ("try to follow")-- Love his facility (he'll hate that word) with charcoal especially. A wonderful human being. thanks for dragging this out of him. --Rick Shaefer
He has done some of my most fav artworks of Orcs & Goblins.. I love John Blanche´s stuff, but Adrian Smith is just as good.
Great stuff. And thanks for the mention, Adrian.
This was awesome. Adrian is up there with Blanche for me personally as a fan, his work is just so striking. I highly recommend the art book for HATE for anyone interested in the game but not keen on buying the massive box set. Fantastic work Jordan, keep it up!
The true legend. I'd give anything for prints of a few of his works, wish GW didnt hate money so much...
It's easy to see the influence Gustav Dore must have had with Adrian Smith. Absolutely love "Born into Damnation" from 5/6th edition Vampire Counts. It made "Dante and Virgil before Farinata" seem really familiar at first sight
Adrian Smith has always been my favorite artist that worked for GW. Love his style and ive always been inspired by his work for my own miniatures.
Fairly certain the two art pieces he's talking about around the 1 hour mark as being favorites, the one with the horse rearing up is page 43 of the Lost and the Damned book. The other one with the staircase and the two characters fighting is page 8 of the same book.
Thank you for this! Adrian Smith is one of the iconic artists of my early gaming years, I had both Realms of Chaos books and several Chronopia books and was obsessed with the artwork.
Thank you so much for this Jordan! What a wonderful interview. It's a real delight listening to Adrian talk about his experience and his approach to art. Cheers!
Those interviews are amazing !!! Great job ! 👍🏻
Fantastic interview of a truly masterful artist and so happy to hear there's more comics in the works. So looking forward to the next volume of CoH and super excited for the new series he mentioned here.
Adrian’s style of Warhammer is my favourite - I admire the works of all the artists who’ve contributed their visions to this IP but Adrian’s works resonate the most with my conception of the grim dark future. Thanks for a great interview Jordan!
Awesome to watch this interview Adrian's work from the early era of GW is some of my favorites. (I dropped off around the 2000 mark so am not as familiar with the later GW art)
Great to hear that he's still active and creating I'll have to check some of the things mentioned like Hate and his later GW pictures!
This man has inhaled a lot of ink fumes, and I’m here for it.
Great to see the channel grow, so well deserved. Good times ahead Jordan.
Adrian is up there with the legends,, Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Jus Oborn.. Awesome interview, Thanks Jordan!
OZZY!!
Thanks for including electric wizard in this list.
Nice guy
I've been watching him drawing on his channel which is mind-blowing
The diffidence of these incredibly talented people when it come to their artist output is so English
It makes me hope they know themselves just how much they have done for people like me over the years
Another fantastic interview. I had no idea he worked on Kryomek, I have a copy on my shelf, always felt the artworks seemed familiar, of course as a teen I didn’t read the inside cover to find out 😂
Thank you for this interview.
And thank you to Adrian for creating art that has inspired me over the years.
This was fantastic! Thank you Adrian for amazing vision of those worlds.
And I'm happy to say i recognised the description of that image Tzeentch mage on horse, straight away. Ive always loved that piece too!
Ohhhh YEAAAAH! The greatest of all time along with Blanche
Awesome - another amazing person to interview!
beautiful interview 🙂👍👍👍
Such a great video, really glad you were able to interview Adrian Smith! He's an amazing artists and seems like a really cool guy. Was awesome to hear his stories.
What a character, great chat 👍
Adrian Smith and Paul Bonner were my faves back then
An inspiration to so many of us who got into the hobby back in the 90's - great interview and well done for just letting Adrian speak.
Absolutely fantastic, he also comes across as such a humble and relatable guy. Legend. Can’t wait for the next one!
An awesome interview of one of my favorite artists. Thank you, Jordan!
My IDOL JORDI! Love U!!!
absolutly my favrit warhammer artist , love the Horus/Empror art and his Chaos marines art too
I agree 100% with him. Seriously epic films (Conan and Excalibur.) Give 'um a re-watch!
Adrian Smith, Dave Allsop and a whole bunch of other great artists pieces went into Kryomek. The minis were also amazing. Shame the game itself didn't hit the same heights.
More good interviews? Ambassador you are spoiling us
GREAT ARTIST!
I think he might be the artist that did a piece ive not been able to find .
There were marines chained to pillars and orks in the forgroud
Black and white.
I think it was from one of the Spacemarine books.
It was probably a late 80s piece
Adrian is a great painter!
W00T! 101st like!! I liked him in Iron Maiden...
Both Adrian’s are great
Came to the comments to say this you beat me 😂
Just Say No to drugs kids, sorry, what was the question again?
Adrian Smith is what I associate Warhammer with
Another interesting interview; have you thought about chasing up Tony Hough at some stage?
I still call the background stuff fluff, isn’t that what it’s called?
I used to love it when GW still treated the workforce as humans indeed of making the people that bring the conceptual into a tangible reality that reaches from the pages into the minds of the people who really are fans of the entire world created from images and fluff; shame on GW for now not doing so and making it a faceless insult to the creative industry. I can’t even draw and I find it insulting as it is dehumanising.
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