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Anne Strokes
- 1. ANNE STROKES Brief BiographicalDetails: Anne Stokes is known for her fantasy artwork, which has appeared in role-playing games in particularly Dungeons and Dragons. Born in London and lives currently in Leeds as a freelance illustrator, who designs and draws artwork for a numerous of clients in the game industry. Such as illustrations for Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeon and Dragons rule books and miniatures. Anne Stokes is now licensed to paint her fantasy artwork and designs on a large number of products such as calendars, posters, book covers, T-shirts, mugs, greeting cards and many more. For marketing leading companies such as Ravensburger, Zippo, Llewellyn and Pyramid International. She has produced artwork in a lot of books from 2004 to 2008, and album covers for music bands: One Minute Silence and Sirenia. ‘AWAKEN YOUR MAGIC’ Goth Fantasy Owl& Pentagram Immortal Flight (2010) Size: 50 x 100cm Spiny Woodland Hopper (2008) Digital Media Photoshop Anne Stokes was a different influence on my own artwork than other artists, who influenced me. As she used digital media techniques to produce her masterpieces than original fine art materials, and still get the same intricate detail within each piece. Stokes has inspired me to use and develop my own artwork in new different, interesting ways such as using Adobe Photoshop and applying new features or changing the style of the image. In additionally, by more experimenting with new art-creating techniques would allow me to develop in skill-wise, but by taking my artwork in a new approach. The first time, I looked at one of her pieces was when I was in my last year of sixth form; the piece was ‘Spiny Woodland Hopper’. This piece I was influenced by the fine detail that it put into the scales of the dragon and used a similar effect with my own work throughout the year. A comparison to all Anne Stokes’ artwork is that she produces all her artwork by digital media unlike my other 5 artists, who draws with oil or acrylic paints on canvas. Another comparison that shows Anne Stokes to be different than my other 5 artists, is that Anne Stokes uses her own imagination to create fantasy artwork whilst the other 5 artists, draws something that’s real and everyday thing we all see.