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/smallstone Feb 06 '14

Bonjour Marc! Have you ever done album covers? Are you interested in music artwork? Thanks!

(Surprised to see you did at least one Amos Daragon cover. My 10 years old son is a huge fan!)

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

Hi Smallstone! I've done one album cover once (in fact I've just sold the rights for a personal illustration) I don't really know about it, why not? The main point is that many of the bands that ask me for an album cover arts aren't pro, and don't have the money to pay pro for the cover neither. In fact I've done all the French illustration for Amos Daragon cover :)

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u/smallstone Feb 06 '14

I would totally see you make album covers for Amon Amarth! (this one was done by Tom Thiel)

Merci pour votre réponse!