Art Friday : Favourite Illustrators of Warhammer 40,000 (VII) – Nacho Fernandez (nachomon)
At first thought, toon style illustrations might seem totally unsuitable for depicting the grim and gory Warhammer 40,000 universe but Nacho Fernandez’s illustrations just manage to fuse the lighthearted playfulness of toons with Warhammer 40,000 without losing the enticingly dark flavour of Games Workshop’s sci-fi meta-universe.
© Nacho Fernandez
I first encountered his work in the form of the Imperial Fists Commander in the Firebase Wallpaper pack (which I won’t feature here again because yellow isn’t my favourite colour 
). Personal prejudices aside, I just feel that that his Imperial Fists Commander isn’t representative of the far cooler works in his deviantART gallery where he’s known as nachomon. Above are two of my favourites – I just had to pick the Eversor Assassin and Chaplain Savaal because skull-faced characters are cool!
© Nacho Fernandez
Some more cool Warhammer 40,000 stuff above – Techmarine Dreadnought Tjorvi and an assortment of other characters from a murderous Khorne Berzerker, a heavily-armed Tau Commander to a rampaging Tyrant Guard of Hive Fleet Leviathan.
© Nacho Fernandez
And for the more artistically inclined visitors, his tutorial on drawing a Space Marine should prove quite useful for learning to draw like his Iron Dragons Space Marine.
© Nacho Fernandez
All is not lost if you’re not a Warhammer 40,000 fan of course since there’re equally fabulous non Games Workshop related works in his gallery, like this piece featuring a faceoff between Space Marines of two different universes, Dreamcast Transformer and a vicious Alien Xenomorph.
© Nacho Fernandez
© Nacho Fernandez
The cover for his Midnight Rockers #1 is pretty impressive too.
Check out Nacho Fernandez’s gallery @ deviantART.
MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:
Firebase Wallpaper Pack
Games Workshop 2009 Collector’s Guides
Favourite Illustrators of Warhammer 40,000 (VI) – Kevin Chin (King Mong)
Favourite Illustrators of Warhammer 40,000 (V) – John Gravato
Favourite Illustrators of Warhammer 40,000 (I) – Adrian Smith
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haha.. I like the Dreamcast one- pretty cool…
I’ve been meaning to ask:
A while back you posted a place where you can download digital magizines. All kinds and I think the post was of an art related one.. Anyway, what was that sight…? Or which post was that? I was really wanting to read some of those and can’t find the link I saved…
-Thanks man!!
Nice, I enjoyed browsing his deviantART gallery. Kind of sad I was to dum to go there my self after your previous post. Thanks for the reminder.
Actually, there’s a foul up somewhere that I’m investigating at the moment.
There is a piece of art that shows up in Nachoman’s gallery and in another dA’s gallery. I saw it on the other’s dA before I saw it on Nachoman’s.
Thing is, both styles are very similar (so I’m wondering if they are in fact the same person.)
Another bit is, I (supposedly) got a lot of the original sketches in a e-mail from a friend of the artist (the other dA, not Nachoman.)
With that said, I very much so enjoy the art style and I wonder if he does commission work.
If you’ll excuse me, I’ll just sit here and stare while drooling. Brilliant stuff.
Magnifique!
Never mind Roy!
I went back thru the archives and found the magazine…
Hi all, sorry for the late reply, just finished sorting some stuff after returning back after the Chinese New Year holidays over here
@Deitrix, there’s Vektorika, Artzmania, 2DArtist and Art Lebedev.
@Onno, Gnome & qwraith: Glad you guys liked it
@Anon: You mean nachomon or nachoman? They’re two different persons, you know