Beauty and the Beast

A Collection of Heroic Fantasy Illustrations. Chris Achilleos brings a meticulous technical skill to the illustration of tales of bloody heroism. 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, which ornate swords are strapped and buckled onto body-molded carapaces. He draws from photographic and other visual source material, working the pictures up from pencil roughs and developing them in inks, watercolors, and fabric dyes.