40k art thread

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>>51280637
Hive world wastes

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>>51280637
Thunder warrior

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>>51280637
Plaguebearer

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>>51280637
Imperial court

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>>51280637
Veteran guard

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>>51280637
Crusading imperials

>>51280637
doesnt look like hell have one for long

That poor little guy.

>>51281988
That's a nice piece of a really shitty art

I swear there used to be a rule about not posting images of anyone younger than 18 but I can't see it now so never mind

>>51282344
why, cause it doesnt have dolled up fap bait sisters and portrays them in a more realistic manner to how they would actually look?

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>>51282052

its a reference to John Blanche's art style of jamming tubes into things

/autsim

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>>51280637

Are they turning his son into a tech priest?

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>>51283013
At least post a good image of a techpriest.

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>>51280700
Is that a Thunder Warrior?

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>>51283320
Jesus Christ, my dumb ass didn't even read the post.

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Should I post it?

>>51283385
is it purely Blanche's artwork?

where did you get that you fuck

>>51283385
Whats that? A new artbook by GW?.

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Has Blanche ever illustrated any Imperial Guard?

>>51280664
I'm not at all sure whether this is an SOB or some kind of blinged out arco-flagellent. Maybe some combination of the two.

>>51283460
It's just a Blanche thing. I don't think he did art to sell models.

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>>51283405
>>51283393

Here's the story behind it.

>As I remember, while the DESIGN STUDIO was working on the the 2nd EDITION OF 40K during 1992/3 several of the artists - Mark Gibbons, Adrian Smith etc. left the company and JOHN was asked to personally complete all of the artwork and illustrations for the rulebook and sourcebook that would go in the box. He worked non-stop for a couple of months and developed a loose pen and ink-wash style that enabled him to deliver the work in record time, meeting the print deadline - and in many ways saved the project. As a personal thank you to JOHN, an artbook was secretly produced by GW in a highly limited edtion, without text or descriptions, but with colour plates of all these pieces and simply titled: WARHAMMER 40,000 - JOHN BLANCHE.

>THIS BOOK WAS NEVER SOLD, but a copy was given to each member of the DESIGN STUDIO STAFF and people directly involved in the project

The only way to have gotten it outside of being given it was through a Skulz giveaway.

>>51283529
I am 120% salty and entirely jelly

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>>51283385

>>51283529
So basically, its all the artwork that was in the 2nd Edition rulebook, but in color.

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Sorry if the images are a little blurry, I'm taking these pictures with my phone camera.

>>51283385
Man, I fucking love that old ass 40k logo.

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>>51283858

>>51283529
You lucky fuck, Im so jelly right now.

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>>51283974

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>>51283459
Yes.

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>>51284007

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>>51283097
Looks like fabricator cain to me
What a swell guy he was

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>>51284047

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>>51284059
>tg

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>>51283460

I say female tech priest of some sort.

>>51283460
A Sister of battle, she has the Fleur de lys on her tits, a full armor and a whip/gun. She's a Repentia leader ready to whip some rowdy bitches.

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>>51280637
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

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>>51284123
Think I'm going to stop here. Theres like 50+ more pages to it though.

>>51284123
That's a nice melta gun.

>>51284220
There's room in the thread, please post more.

>>51283715
>>51284220
>posting the fucking dead sea scrolls of 40k art
You glorious bastard
Nooo, don't stop!

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>>51284220
Alright, here's some more.

>>51283459
Vostroyans were built from his sketches for heresy era imperial army as pseudo napoleonic

Actually it's a shame no one mentions les Edwards as his paintings were much more iconic - the realms of chaos covers the dark future covers and the hero quest box cover

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>>51280700
His banner says LEGIO

>>51280637
This is why we have such stupid people around. No one is allowed to die anymore.

>>51285193
Yes, a Thunder Warrior legion.

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>>51285193
Aw look. Armless has a pet gimp over his crotch to give blowjobs, since the power armor fused over his mangina.

>>51285132
I'm trying to put together a folder of 40K artwork from each of the major artists. Mind doing a Les Edwards 40K art dump?

>>51285212
You mean like Steven Hawking? That fucking waste of space, dragging down man's intellectual capacity.

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EXCESSIVE HAIR CRESTS

>>51286628
Now I want to do a Blanchquisition army.

>>51286682
Outlier and you know it. If eugenics was more prominent would could have entire generations of geniuses instead of one or two notable cripples. Though that would take people and have to make them admit some traits or more valuable than others. Couldn't have that though. Might hurt feelings.

>>51280637
Is Bab OK?

I hate children but I feel bad seeing that thing wired up like a fucking cherub

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>>51286860
No idea it's one of those "like for Jesus" posts on normiebook that I thought resembled a piece of Blanche art (what with the small child full of tubes)

>>51283715
Any chance you could scan these if you've got the time?

>>51286964
I don't really have access to a scanner. Pretty sure my dad has one, but hes a way aways, so I probably wont see him for a few months.

>>51287003
Was worth a shot. Thanks for sharing though, it's awesome!

>>51287018
Sorry I wasn't able to post more, its just that I have a lot of other work to do and I don't have the time to post all of the images. But if I can get access to a scanner, I'll make sure to post a gallery of all the images.

>>51287034
Always liked how his armor was of a radically different color scheme to his legion.

>>51282783
here we fucking go

>>51283529
man, I don't understand why they don't have books like this and gothic&eldritch in regular stock

they're so fucking good

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>>51287106
I'm torn. This is a very crisp and vibrant bit of art and full of detail. The artist put a ton of work into it. But the centerpiece Angron is just fuckawful, all HEUG and ludicrous anatomy, plus a far-too-big axe and far too many fiddly details so the eye gets lost. The perspective is also funky in spots, with tinydread being the standout. It's an amazingly well made shit piece of art, and it makes me a little sad to say that.

>>51287330
Because they're not about featuring photoshoots of brand new models with mediocre paint jobs framed as if they're in mid-game under harsh studio lighting. Art and creativity are forbidden. Now go enjoy the Warhammer Hobby of buying, assembling, and painting high-quality Games Workshop miniatures, you peon.

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>>51287034
Loyalist Angron has too many bodies on his armor. It's impractical. Hell, who even WERE those people? Assholes who decided to challenge him to single combat? Corpses he thought looked nice? Why is he waving them around like they're collectables on a keychain? Is he showing them off to someone out of frame? Is he trying to impress the 6 assholes who are actually looking in his direction? Doesn't he have better things to do than that, anyways?

>>51282920
/bad taste

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>>51282344
>>51287312
>Feeling the need to unnecessarily call out someone's taste in art when you can easily ignore it

>Saying "here we go" when they inevitably react to your shitty bait.

Do you feel like a big boy?

>>51286711
>Bowie Eldar

>>51286848
If we determine genius by IQ, your eugenics plan would require you to also breed an equal amount of niggers to offset the average, or else the scale will stay the same, and just make low iq people not really that dumb.

>>51284031
Where is the source for these Vostroyan guardsmen? Is in any codex??

>>51285212
You first

>>51285765
It's on his site
As far as I can tell it was the nurgle cover and a white dwarf cover the rest being hero quest - check out the warhammer 80s blog page

>>51286860
It's post open heart surgery according to google

>>51287034
Poor composition
Making him do that pelvic thrust whilst having the high gorget and armour makes him look like a fat belly

>>51286794
the past few white dwarves have been full of warbands modelled by blance and other guys who channel his style. Really great and creative stuff.

>>51283911
Oh, I remember this, I'm pretty sure it is a High Lord of Terra

>>51289915
That is literally not how that works.
>>51291177
Immaculate retort.

>>51284007
Why. Why would you chain your pauldrons to your chin?

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>>51291891
I actually really like this one. I've always felt 40k had a bad tendency of enforcing it's sense of danger by making bigger, dumber critters- but just having this one scribe who looks equal parts frightened and bewildered at the prospect of handling a laspistol really makes the plaguebearer far more intimidating. It also reinforces that behind the Imperium's military are just the defenseless, incapable people who would have fallen prey to the galaxy long ago without them.

Sometimes it's the small touches that can go a long way.

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>>51292315
That`s why several people actually prefer seeing the imperial gaurd (or astra militarum for thoise that prefer), even its elites, the karskins/stormtroopers/tempestus scions in action than the adeptus astartes.

And seeing how they handle countless xenos horros.

And arts from not just frontlines (where frankly, even some of the us military might handle due to nuclear bombs against the genestealers if they fought head on) but individual fights.

All in all I agree with you. Wish we had more of that art.

>>51283925
Power-halberd. Fuck yeah.

>>51285550
Thanks anon

>>51286711
jes goodwin

>>51292415
Exactly. The cold, transhuman awesomeness that are Space Marines and the fanatical single-mindedness need to be counter-balanced by the very human, personal encounters of the Imperial Guard and the nuanced experiences of Inquisitors.

This is the main reason why I love the 40k universe, it gives such a broad spectrum of ideas with such a elegantly tied together premise. Too bad for the last 0 years GW forgot that anything but Marines exist in the Imperium.

>>51280637

Poor little guy. :(

>>51286848

Well you are certainly helping things along by being a kissless virgin. Good job.