DAN DOS SANTOS:

My two favorite artists right now are Dan Dos Santos, who works mostly in oil paint, and Dan Luvisi, who works in photoshop mostly. The artwork above is all Dan Dos Santos's work, which consists primarily of fantasy novel covers, and is very much the kind of art I want to do. A website that has other artist of a similar style involving figures is http://muddycolors.blogspot.com/