Larry Elmore
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Larry Elmore at Lucca Comics and Games 2016
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August 5, 1948 Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Fantasy art |
| Spouse(s) | Betty |
Larry Elmore (born August 5, 1948) is an American fantasy artist whose work includes creating illustrations for video games, comics, magazines, and fantasy books. His list of work includes illustrations for Dungeons & Dragons, Dragonlance, and his own comic strip series SnarfQuest. He is author of the book Reflections of Myth.
Elmore was born August 5, 1948, in Louisville, Kentucky, and grew up in Grayson County in midwestern Kentucky. Elmore described his school days by saying, "The rural school I attended didn't have any art program, so I spent my time drawing - and daydreaming. I was a pretty bad student ... I was always getting into trouble for drawing in class. I wish I had a quarter for every drawing of mine a teacher destroyed." He majored in art at Western Kentucky University.
A month after graduating from college, Elmore was drafted into the U.S. Army and stationed in Germany. After leaving the service, Elmore worked as an illustrator for the United States government in the Fort Knox Training Aids Department. Three years later, Elmore turned to freelance work, his art being published in National Lampoon and Heavy Metal magazines.
One of Elmore's friends, a fellow government illustrator, introduced him to the Dungeons & Dragons game while Elmore was freelancing. Elmore joined the staff of TSR, Inc., the producers of Dungeons & Dragons, as its first professional illustrator, in November 1981, and created art work for adventure modules, game books, and novels, as well as paintings for posters and calendars. Elmore created the SnarfQuest comic which appeared in Dragon. During the "Project Overlord" development phase of the Dragonlance setting, Elmore provided the concept artwork which was used to promote Dragonlance to the upper levels of management at TSR. Elmore was in charge of creating a look for the Dragonlance saga, and did many of the early sketches for the series, his first cover appearing on Dragons of Autumn Twilight. British game designer Graeme Davis commented that Elmore "... should get some kind of award for drawing so many dragons and making them all different".
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