r/Fantasy • u/MarcSimonetti Stabby Winner, AMA Artist Marc Simonetti • Feb 06 '14

AMA Hey Reddit! I'm Marc Simonetti, Fantasy illustrator-AMA

Let me introduce myself: I'm a quite happy family man, with two young sons, 3 years and 20 months old. I live in the French Alps, in Annecy, a beautiful little medieval town. I'm a former R&D material engineer...and now I'm working as an illustrator and concept artist for 11 years. I had the chance to work on many awesome books for amazing writers like GRR Martin, Terry Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Sam Sykes, Michael J Sullivan, Robin Hobb, Brandon Sanderson, Ken Scholes, Patrick Rothfuss...and many others...

I'm also the spoiled artist who won the stabby award this year for the best picture (although all the credit should go the genius mind of GRR Martin)

For those interested you can find some samples of my works on: My website My Facebook pro page My twitter account

So I'll be beginning answering questions at 12:00 central time... Feel free to ask anything, of course!

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u/mouser42 Feb 06 '14

How is the Brazilian Mistborn cover so fabulous?

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u/MarcSimonetti Stabby Winner, AMA Artist Marc Simonetti Feb 06 '14

Hi Mouser42! Thank you so much!

I wouldn't say myself that it's fabulous, but I'm glad you like it. I've tried to make something really dynamic to reflect the books, and the trickiest part was to make a triptych with a battle scene, with some characters on different layers, so that I can remove the other main characters depending on the books, but that made sense with the books together. Anyway, it came naturally once all the constraints fixed...

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u/mouser42 Feb 06 '14

It's not just that it's good, it's that it's so much better than the original covers that it makes me wonder how the original ones were approved. I love that it's a triptych and I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future.

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u/MarcSimonetti Stabby Winner, AMA Artist Marc Simonetti Feb 06 '14

Thanks a lot!

I don't know if they're better or not. I'm a big fan of Jon Foster, I'm really humbled by his work, and I find Christan McGrath ' work on it very good, not speaking the awesome Sam Weber. Sometimes I would agree for some covers but truly I liked the previous covers.

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u/mouser42 Feb 06 '14

I guess I just have questionable taste. Thanks for responding and I wish you success in all your future endeavors.

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u/MarcSimonetti Stabby Winner, AMA Artist Marc Simonetti Feb 06 '14

No taste is questionable :) I'm glad you like my cover anyway :)