BEAUTY AND THE BEAST A Collection Of Heroic Fantasy Illustrations

Chris Achilleos was a Cypriot-born British painter and illustrator who specialized in fantasy artwork and glamour illustration. However, in "Beauty and the Beast" there's very little glamour, except in his beautiful ladies. He brings a meticulous technical skill to the illustration of tales of bloody heroism.

Achilleos draws from photographic and other visual source material, working the pictures from pencil roughs and developing them in inks, watercolors, and fabric dyes. In his polished artwork, cold metal gleams against and mingles with strange fetishist clothing. On his warriors and Amazons, armor merges into skin and fur; jeweled pendants drip from highly crafted gold and silver bracelets, where ornate swords are strapped and buckled onto body-molded carapaces. Out Of Print. Condition. Fine. Light cover and edge wear.