Art Fantastix: The Art of Boris Vallejo

About the book

This collection by best-selling fantasy artist Boris Vallejo  includes a rare selection of his private work. The lavishly illustrated book brings the artist's exotic women, sinewy men, and fantasy worlds to life in over 90 full-color paintings. There are images of stunning winged women and muscled men fighting ferocious beasts, as well as strange alien worlds filled with metallic spacecraft and colorful citizens. Renowned fantasy author Nigel Suckling offers insight into Vallejo's work with fascinating and informative extended captions.

About the artist

Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian-American painter who works in the science fiction, fantasy, and erotica genres, and is America’s premier fantasy artist.  His hyper-representational paintings have appeared on the covers of numerous science fiction and fantasy fiction novels. They are also sold through a series of annual calendars. His works are known and loved around the world. Boris is famous for his illustrations of Tarzan, Conan the Barbarian, Doc Savage and many other fantasy characters, as well as movie poster illustration, advertisement illustration, and artwork for collectibles, trading cards, and sculpture.

Find more incredible fantasy art on his website (and his wife's, Julie Bell, renowned fantasy illustrator!)

Find even more on his Instagram account.

More examples of Boris's fantasy art in this video!