RIP Quinton Hoover

[mini1337s]

One of Magic's great artists has passed away. Quinton Hoover died on 04/20/13 at the age of 49.
He was known for his art on cards like Wrath of God, Vesuvan Doppelganger, Ball Lightning, and Hymn to Tourach. A complete list of his cards can be found here http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Se...n+Hoover%22%5d

[ESG]

Bummer. Vesuvan Doppelganger was one of the coolest things back in the day. RIP, Quinton.

[walker]

:( He was one of the best. No other art describes how I feel when I play magic like his wizards in his hymn; I've rocked 4 Hoover from the start. His memory will live on for a long time to come.

[bruizar]

This sucks. Terribly young :/

[jam3sbob]

rip. was a big fan of his art.

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

Shit. That's way too young. This sucks, anyone know what happened?

[Sloshthedark]

one of my favourites... =(

[DrJones]

He left us, but his art remains. Too bad we won't see any more art pieces from him, I really liked his style.

[jamesh]

son's facebook message
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater
sounds like a long illness
very American that he would mention his father teaching him to shoot a gun

[nedleeds]

Pretty low of you to crap on a son fondly remembering about how he and his dead father bonded. You sound like a real piece of shit.

[the Thin White Duke]

son's facebook message
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater
sounds like a long illness
very American that he would mention his father teaching him to shoot a gun

Way to go, stay classy.

[wcm8]

Sad. I would have wished that he could have been around for another Time Spiral-esque nostalgia set that brought back all of the old great iconic artists (the Foglios, Rebecca Guay, Christopher Rush, Mark Tedin, Dan Frazier, Melissa Benson, etc.)

I liked that old style of art. Sure, some of it was campy and looked like it was taken from some crappy 80's Fantasy paperback cover, but a lot of it was vibrant, colorful, and *unique*. Now with the "style guide" firmly entrenched, so much of MtG art is all cookie-cutter photoshop boring. A lot of the modern artists are technically good, but a lot of it is so... samey.

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

Pretty low of you to crap on a son fondly remembering about how he and his dead father bonded. You sound like a real piece of shit.

Why do you assume "very American" is meant as an insult?

[TheInfamousBearAssassin]

Sad. I would have wished that he could have been around for another Time Spiral-esque nostalgia set that brought back all of the old great iconic artists (the Foglios, Rebecca Guay, Christopher Rush, Mark Tedin, Dan Frazier, Melissa Benson, etc.)

I liked that old style of art. Sure, some of it was campy and looked like it was taken from some crappy 80's Fantasy paperback cover, but a lot of it was vibrant, colorful, and *unique*. Now with the "style guide" firmly entrenched, so much of MtG art is all cookie-cutter photoshop boring. A lot of the modern artists are technically good, but a lot of it is so... samey.

Yeah, it's very difficult to tell individual artists apart anymore.

[Loxmatii]

my favourite forest. thanks for my great childhood

[Lt. Quattro]

RIP, you will always be remembered as one of the great magic artists.

[Polish Tamales]

Quinton Hoover helped encouraged me to do what I enjoyed, despite legal threats from Hasbro. I'm dedicating a comic to his memory. Please remember him as kind man, a father and one of the most fantastic fantasy artists of his generation.

[Pastorofmuppets]

Yeah, it's very difficult to tell individual artists apart anymore.

Halfhearted art made on a tablet by design students from McColleges will do that to you.
Welcome to America, the land of the matriculated cardboard cutout.

[Aggro_zombies]

Guy had some pretty iconic art that really got me into the game. A lot of early art was terrible, but he stood out as having some great pieces - Regeneration, Vesuvan Doppelganger, the Portal Archangel, Krovikan Vampire. Alas, much of his later work subsumed his unique style to the Iron Fist of the Style Guide, but man was his early stuff good.

@IBA, Pastor: There are a few artists that are recognizable - Nils Hamm, Steve Argyle (very plastic-y), Kev Walker, that one guy who likes orange and spikes and fire in all his pieces (did Nyxathid), and Terese Nielson are the first that come to mind. But yeah, card art is way too homogenous these days.

[Polish Tamales]

card art is way too homogenous these days.

You can thank tablets and easy access to digital art programs. Children as young as 10 are using Photoshop to basically do everything now and with tutorials made readily available. It's a very competitive world we live in as commercial artists and new generation of artists are emerging almost immediately during high school. The only thing that sets apart traditional media artists and new digital artists are assigning value to their works, either through partnering up with writers or just be damn good.