Colin Dixon & Karl Kopinski sketch book art on eBay

I'd been eyeing some of those for a while, but far too expensive for my tastes (well too expensive for my wallet, not my tastes I guess), besides I've run out of walls for pictures - although I'm sure I could find room for the Mark Gibbons zombie one somewhere if anyone wants to send it my way! :) FWIW pretty sure they did make me offers on those I had idly watched, so evidently they might be open to some offers.
 
Either they're trying their luck after the Harry "sale" or original artwork prices have gone through the roof.

Although they're nice pieces, I can't see a Colin WIP sketch being worth what they're asking. I've got several finished pieces of original artwork from the era and only paid in the low-mid hundreds for them, and that was on eBay, not even private sale.
 
It seemed to become very expensive (alas for us latecomers) after lots was sold ~2020 (I assume because a reasonable number of people were a touch more idle at home whilst still being paid and discovered it was available). Now it seems anything that has been published in GW books/boxes/whatever seems to be silly money. Normally unpublished stuff, or things published elsewhere are a little more reasonable when they come up. They are certainly trying more than just their luck a bit with the concept sketches I think.

We keep suggesting doing an art thread, I'm curious (an probably insanely jealous) who has what...
 
Well I did just get some Chris Baker (Fangorn) bits back from his college days (which are interesting if only to see the evolution of talent) so I dare say I'll kick something off when I get the scanner out or find enough table space to take some photos without reflections (my curse for framing things)
 
of course, with an art thread, depending on the res (though it kinda doesn't matter) the line between 'fair use' and 'technically bootlegging the images' gets tricky..

without going into names, I have had an artist (some time ago) not being too happy with high res scans of posters (A4 sized) being on a site of mine which was his work so I had to either use lower quality versions or not have them. Bit of a shame as they aren't stuff that is really getting used alot and it's scans from cheap-ish printing, but that's still stuff under 2 copyrights (the work of art and the subject matter of the art). so.. the within reason stuff has to be thought about of course. But I'm sure Eric knows a bit more on the tightrope walking ^_^
 
I think good enough to view comfortably is fine (I guess as ever "fair use" and put yourself in the shoes of the copyright/artist holder), so I'm probably not thinking anything more than 1000-ish px wide at 72dpi. Not enough to reproduce anything reasonable from and not enough to be opening up a "wallpaper" site from. I think if there is some lovely detail then do some separate closeups of just that. To be fair for published stuff most of us probably have a copy in the appropriate book anyway if we wanted to reproduce, but there is something nice about seeing the originals even if you're not seeing them any "better" so to speak. I think it's important to have a bit of substance around the art however - so I'd hope for some discussion on each piece to further justify the posting rather than large image dumps in one post. I think the key is to generate some additional value. So much the same approach I hope we take when someone posts a catalogue page, or advert or something else from an old publication.
 
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