Todd Lockwood is a concept artist, book-cover designer, and illustrator. After attending the Colorado Institute of Art, he landed a job designing book covers for sci-fi novels. Eventually, he got a job with Wizards of the Coast and currently designs characters and monsters for the Dungeons and Dragons franchise. His artwork is characteristic of serious, semi-realistic figural compositions--mostly of typical D&D subject matter. Unsurprisingly, Lockwood cites mythology to be a great inspiration for his work.
Personally, the most interesting quality I find in his artwork is his sense of epic scale present in his compositions. Most fantasy artwork teeters between displaying a vast and fantastical scenery or illustrating characters in battle. Interestingly, Lockwood's work seems to strike a perfect balance between the two. Both scenery and characters are main draws of his work. His compositions are unified excellently.
More of his work may be found at his website here.
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