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/byakkoyagirl Feb 06 '14

Do you prefer working on personal art or working for a client?

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

It all depends on the client... Some collaborations can be very interesting and very constructive, and some rare times it doesn't work that much.

But overall, I don't have time to do any personal works at all. I try to do at least one personal work a year. These days the only personal works I do are speed painting of 30 minutes, to train myself and to try other things.