I was privileged to have Adrian Smith's artwork adorn two of my Black Library novels - Magestorm and Iron Hands. The Magestorm cover reused a painting Adrian had produced for the War Cry CCG and I am pleased to say the original now hangs on my office wall. And just like Adrian, my favourite project is always the next one.
I trained as an illustrator for decades, but eventually had to look elsewhere for my destiny and livelihood. Adrian Smith was a massive influence for me over the years and would be again in the future if I ever get back to it.
This was awesome. Adrian is up there with Blanche for me personally as a fan, his work is just so striking. I highly recommend the art book for HATE for anyone interested in the game but not keen on buying the massive box set. Fantastic work Jordan, keep it up!
this man is modern master! Forget Warhammer, fantasy etc, his mastery of art principles like value, colour, design, composition etc ts just insane. I pursued an art career in no small part thanks to his influence. Great interview!
Another fantastic interview. I had no idea he worked on Kryomek, I have a copy on my shelf, always felt the artworks seemed familiar, of course as a teen I didn’t read the inside cover to find out 😂
Adrian is a trip to listen to ("try to follow")-- Love his facility (he'll hate that word) with charcoal especially. A wonderful human being. thanks for dragging this out of him. --Rick Shaefer
Thank you for this! Adrian Smith is one of the iconic artists of my early gaming years, I had both Realms of Chaos books and several Chronopia books and was obsessed with the artwork.
I think my favourite of Adrian's works is the picture of the chaos warband coming down a slope in deep snow. There's a mixture of hounds, marauders, chaos warriors and horsemen. It really fits the vibe of what I feel chaos warbands should be. Love that piece. The colour version has all these wonderful subtle cold blues and purples yet the hounds and chaos warriors have piercing glowing orange eyes that catch your vision as you look across the piece.
Adrian’s style of Warhammer is my favourite - I admire the works of all the artists who’ve contributed their visions to this IP but Adrian’s works resonate the most with my conception of the grim dark future. Thanks for a great interview Jordan!
Fantastic interview of a truly masterful artist and so happy to hear there's more comics in the works. So looking forward to the next volume of CoH and super excited for the new series he mentioned here.
It's easy to see the influence Gustav Dore must have had with Adrian Smith. Absolutely love "Born into Damnation" from 5/6th edition Vampire Counts. It made "Dante and Virgil before Farinata" seem really familiar at first sight
Thank you so much for this Jordan! What a wonderful interview. It's a real delight listening to Adrian talk about his experience and his approach to art. Cheers!
Awesome to watch this interview Adrian's work from the early era of GW is some of my favorites. (I dropped off around the 2000 mark so am not as familiar with the later GW art) Great to hear that he's still active and creating I'll have to check some of the things mentioned like Hate and his later GW pictures!
Nice guy I've been watching him drawing on his channel which is mind-blowing The diffidence of these incredibly talented people when it come to their artist output is so English It makes me hope they know themselves just how much they have done for people like me over the years
Fairly certain the two art pieces he's talking about around the 1 hour mark as being favorites, the one with the horse rearing up is page 43 of the Lost and the Damned book. The other one with the staircase and the two characters fighting is page 8 of the same book.
Adrian, Karl, Wayne, Paul, John... I'm missing somebody, darn memory, I know. These are our industries most iconic artists. Black and White, color or sepia, it's all so iconic and evocative.
This was fantastic! Thank you Adrian for amazing vision of those worlds. And I'm happy to say i recognised the description of that image Tzeentch mage on horse, straight away. Ive always loved that piece too!
Such a great video, really glad you were able to interview Adrian Smith! He's an amazing artists and seems like a really cool guy. Was awesome to hear his stories.
I think he might be the artist that did a piece ive not been able to find . There were marines chained to pillars and orks in the forgroud Black and white. I think it was from one of the Spacemarine books. It was probably a late 80s piece
Adrian Smith, Dave Allsop and a whole bunch of other great artists pieces went into Kryomek. The minis were also amazing. Shame the game itself didn't hit the same heights.
I still call the background stuff fluff, isn’t that what it’s called? I used to love it when GW still treated the workforce as humans indeed of making the people that bring the conceptual into a tangible reality that reaches from the pages into the minds of the people who really are fans of the entire world created from images and fluff; shame on GW for now not doing so and making it a faceless insult to the creative industry. I can’t even draw and I find it insulting as it is dehumanising.
This is truly a remarkable interview with arguably one of the best artists GW ever had. Amazing! 🤘🤘🤘
I was privileged to have Adrian Smith's artwork adorn two of my Black Library novels - Magestorm and Iron Hands. The Magestorm cover reused a painting Adrian had produced for the War Cry CCG and I am pleased to say the original now hangs on my office wall.
And just like Adrian, my favourite project is always the next one.
Absolutely loved Iron Hands, especially the brief chapter from the Guardsman Squad's POV facing off against Plague Marines! Gdolkin forever!!
It’s an absolute tragedy that games workshop made his Emperor vs Horus a limited release like 10 years ago meaning you can’t get a print anymore.
Damn, Adrian seems to be a really chill dude. Thx for the interview!
Might have something to do with that vape. He really started loosing focus after hitting it. ;-)
Adrian Smith is awesome. Thanks for the interview. HATE is gorgeously brutal.
I really wished HATE would be reprinted. Ebook is good, but print is much better to enjoy
I trained as an illustrator for decades, but eventually had to look elsewhere for my destiny and livelihood. Adrian Smith was a massive influence for me over the years and would be again in the future if I ever get back to it.
Great interview, I remember buying Adrian Smith art book about 25 years ago and I'll still got it.
This was awesome. Adrian is up there with Blanche for me personally as a fan, his work is just so striking. I highly recommend the art book for HATE for anyone interested in the game but not keen on buying the massive box set. Fantastic work Jordan, keep it up!
He has done some of my most fav artworks of Orcs & Goblins.. I love John Blanche´s stuff, but Adrian Smith is just as good.
Adrian Smith has always been my favorite artist that worked for GW. Love his style and ive always been inspired by his work for my own miniatures.
The true legend. I'd give anything for prints of a few of his works, wish GW didnt hate money so much...
Great stuff. And thanks for the mention, Adrian.
this man is modern master! Forget Warhammer, fantasy etc, his mastery of art principles like value, colour, design, composition etc ts just insane. I pursued an art career in no small part thanks to his influence. Great interview!
Another fantastic interview. I had no idea he worked on Kryomek, I have a copy on my shelf, always felt the artworks seemed familiar, of course as a teen I didn’t read the inside cover to find out 😂
Adrian is a trip to listen to ("try to follow")-- Love his facility (he'll hate that word) with charcoal especially. A wonderful human being. thanks for dragging this out of him. --Rick Shaefer
Thank you for this! Adrian Smith is one of the iconic artists of my early gaming years, I had both Realms of Chaos books and several Chronopia books and was obsessed with the artwork.
I think my favourite of Adrian's works is the picture of the chaos warband coming down a slope in deep snow. There's a mixture of hounds, marauders, chaos warriors and horsemen. It really fits the vibe of what I feel chaos warbands should be. Love that piece. The colour version has all these wonderful subtle cold blues and purples yet the hounds and chaos warriors have piercing glowing orange eyes that catch your vision as you look across the piece.
Adrian’s style of Warhammer is my favourite - I admire the works of all the artists who’ve contributed their visions to this IP but Adrian’s works resonate the most with my conception of the grim dark future. Thanks for a great interview Jordan!
Fantastic interview of a truly masterful artist and so happy to hear there's more comics in the works. So looking forward to the next volume of CoH and super excited for the new series he mentioned here.
It's easy to see the influence Gustav Dore must have had with Adrian Smith. Absolutely love "Born into Damnation" from 5/6th edition Vampire Counts. It made "Dante and Virgil before Farinata" seem really familiar at first sight
Thank you so much for this Jordan! What a wonderful interview. It's a real delight listening to Adrian talk about his experience and his approach to art. Cheers!
Awesome to watch this interview Adrian's work from the early era of GW is some of my favorites. (I dropped off around the 2000 mark so am not as familiar with the later GW art)
Great to hear that he's still active and creating I'll have to check some of the things mentioned like Hate and his later GW pictures!
Nice guy
I've been watching him drawing on his channel which is mind-blowing
The diffidence of these incredibly talented people when it come to their artist output is so English
It makes me hope they know themselves just how much they have done for people like me over the years
Those interviews are amazing !!! Great job ! 👍🏻
Fairly certain the two art pieces he's talking about around the 1 hour mark as being favorites, the one with the horse rearing up is page 43 of the Lost and the Damned book. The other one with the staircase and the two characters fighting is page 8 of the same book.
Adrian, Karl, Wayne, Paul, John... I'm missing somebody, darn memory, I know. These are our industries most iconic artists. Black and White, color or sepia, it's all so iconic and evocative.
Great to see the channel grow, so well deserved. Good times ahead Jordan.
Adrian is up there with the legends,, Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Jus Oborn.. Awesome interview, Thanks Jordan!
OZZY!!
Thanks for including electric wizard in this list.
Thank you for this interview.
And thank you to Adrian for creating art that has inspired me over the years.
beautiful interview 🙂👍👍👍
What a character, great chat 👍
This was fantastic! Thank you Adrian for amazing vision of those worlds.
And I'm happy to say i recognised the description of that image Tzeentch mage on horse, straight away. Ive always loved that piece too!
Ohhhh YEAAAAH! The greatest of all time along with Blanche
Awesome - another amazing person to interview!
This man has inhaled a lot of ink fumes, and I’m here for it.
Such a great video, really glad you were able to interview Adrian Smith! He's an amazing artists and seems like a really cool guy. Was awesome to hear his stories.
Absolutely fantastic, he also comes across as such a humble and relatable guy. Legend. Can’t wait for the next one!
An inspiration to so many of us who got into the hobby back in the 90's - great interview and well done for just letting Adrian speak.
Adrian Smith and Paul Bonner were my faves back then
My IDOL JORDI! Love U!!!
An awesome interview of one of my favorite artists. Thank you, Jordan!
absolutly my favrit warhammer artist , love the Horus/Empror art and his Chaos marines art too
I agree 100% with him. Seriously epic films (Conan and Excalibur.) Give 'um a re-watch!
More good interviews? Ambassador you are spoiling us
I think he might be the artist that did a piece ive not been able to find .
There were marines chained to pillars and orks in the forgroud
Black and white.
I think it was from one of the Spacemarine books.
It was probably a late 80s piece
Adrian Smith, Dave Allsop and a whole bunch of other great artists pieces went into Kryomek. The minis were also amazing. Shame the game itself didn't hit the same heights.
W00T! 101st like!! I liked him in Iron Maiden...
Both Adrian’s are great
Came to the comments to say this you beat me 😂
Adrian is a great painter!
GREAT ARTIST!
Another interesting interview; have you thought about chasing up Tony Hough at some stage?
Just Say No to drugs kids, sorry, what was the question again?
Adrian Smith is what I associate Warhammer with
I still call the background stuff fluff, isn’t that what it’s called?
I used to love it when GW still treated the workforce as humans indeed of making the people that bring the conceptual into a tangible reality that reaches from the pages into the minds of the people who really are fans of the entire world created from images and fluff; shame on GW for now not doing so and making it a faceless insult to the creative industry. I can’t even draw and I find it insulting as it is dehumanising.
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