How I would very much love to be visited by her~

Urf, I adore your pencil work. It's so tight! The image itself is nicely evocative too.

Bunny spirit doesn't look too happy...
One could say her heart's not in it... (*ducks*)

Eh, when that wolf said he'd steal it she didn't think he meant it so literally. :-P

impressive
well if my heart would have been ripped out, i wouldn't be happy either
hopefully she finds someone who's willingt o share his heart with her

what do you think is wrong with fantasy art in the modern age?

It's a bit hard to express in words my exact feelings about current fantasy art. Mainstream fantasy feels super stale as board games, videogames, movies and all the other products that drive fantasy art copy the few super popular styles adding little or no personality. Everything is either boring Hollywood style "realism", garish imitations of the Games Workshop house style (this includes WoW and all its imitators, it's basically a caricature of that style), or some variation of anime style. Artists with a strong personal style like, say, Therese Nielsen or Mark Tedin are extremely hard to find. I used to think artists like Jeff Easley or Keith Parkinson were nothing special but looking back at their work now it's so much more striking than most of what I see when looking for fantasy art that I'm left wondering what went wrong. X-D

I'm talking of the styles here, not the contents. The contents are actually more interesting and creative nowadays, because even Frazetta's awesome barbarians get tiresome after a while. But I find the visual creativity very lacking compared to the works of illustrators from 30-60 years ago. N. C. Wyeth, John Berkey, Ivan Bilibin, Harold Gaze, Bruce Pennington, Wayne Barlowe, just to name a few. Their styles are instantly recognizable no matter the subjects. Even a super cheesy artists like Rojo is more striking than 99.9% of the fantasy and concept art I see around. I find it very sad that marketing is allowed to crush fantasy into a samey blob where you can't tell any artist from the other just because that's a guaranteed sale to people who don't actually care about the art in the first place.

That's only part of the problem though - the other big turnoff for me is the lack of interest for nature and the material world. Have a look at the works of Alan Lee and Arthur Rackham, or contemporary Petar Meseldzija to see what I mean. But even run-of-the-mill fantasy illustrators like the aforementioned Parkinson or Larry Elmore. They actually knew how to paint a forest - the logic behind it, not just the look of real trees. The geometries which make or don't make sense in a forest, a tree, a rock, and other elements of nature in general. That's what I miss the most and it is so hard to find contemporary fantasy art focused on it.

sorry for the late reply :X

I see your point. You say that most artists nowadays try to achieve the same level in detail and style so there is no real exceptionalism to them and they loose their authenticity.
Although I have to admitt that I enjoy realism you are right that most just try to achieve a certain style instead of dsaying true their own resp. creating their own ^^

but luckily there are also some artist that stay true to themsefs and where can easy say who have drawn the resprespective artworks
by the way, what do you think about streetart, graffiti to be precise, Banksy a british artist did there some great arts =3
(of course in your exemple you truely have picked the jewels )

Oh I like Bansky's work and I also admire his integrity, he's much a more interesting artist than you'll find hosted in most contemporary art galleries. Other than him I don't know much about street art actually, but it's ok I guess, I'll take inspired graffiti over uninspired illustrations any time.
Recently there was a thead about funny street art of a pink anthro dog with multiple breasts popping up in several places in a US city, I think it was on lulz.net but I can't find it any more at the moment.

so pretty!