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Transitions: The Art of Todd Lockwood

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Transitions is simply incredible. Page after page of stunning fine-art paintings featuring some risque but quite discreet costumes. Wonderful portrayals of the human condition under inhuman conditions! Fantastic creatures in analytic detail brought to you by a master illustrator - the Art Director behind Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Edition.

There's decades of painting skill on display here. Well worth the cost and certain to be a sought-after collectible. Mine is remarked with a personal note - also available via the artist's website: http://www.toddlockwood.com

Wow, I just loved this book. I keep refering back to it. I think the artwork is fantastic. His passion for dragons really shows.
This is a very inspirational book and excellent art all around!

I have found Todd Lockwood to be an artist with an inimitable sense of humor, and great to chat about. I had purchased his book "Transitions"; available almost nowhere, from Amazon. What a fantastic collection to have in one's library. He executes dragons immaculately, as well as the swarthy slayers, buxom women, and assorted bestial anamolies. He has rendered one of my favorite horror pieces, the Spell Rune Golum, and a close second is Ghost. The Golum is a formidable apparition of sticks and cloth and assorted bits of rubbish and toss-away things (doll heads, plastic spoons, etc). I brings to mind the Spell Golem creature made famous by Stan Winston, Pumpkinhead, and is equally frightening,; as shown on the face of the young woman ensnared in it's grasp. It's featureless face appears to be howling to the storm, a beastial cacophony. Get this book before it disappears forever. Genius.

When I think rare I think extraordinary. This is rare, but not extraordinary. Not taking anything from the artist, reading Joe Jusko's book with his wisdom being revealed on every painting image in his book, I am a little disappointed in this artist book.

The cover - that female figure in front of a burning phoenix - gives a fair idea of what's inside. The drawing is outstanding and varied. There are science fiction scenes, fantasies with demons and dragons, sword-and-sandal, and lots more.

The real surprise for me was the huge and detailed black and white drawings. Pencil is a seriously under-rated medium. Lockwood shows just how much expression and detail the medium can support.

Still, the world of fantasy art is a large world. It is populated with people like Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Frank Frazetta, and too many others to name. Lockwood's work is creative and competent. I just don't see the spark in it that would let his work stand next to the greatest masters of the field.