The work are grouped into chapters under comics, gaming, illustration, Aliens/Predator, Lucasfilm, Wasted Lands and personal works.

The paintings are all wonderfully detailed and printed large. Almost every piece of art is accompanied by commentary, giving us interesting background stories and sometimes insight into how he paints. The book is packed with hundreds of beautiful paintings spanning his entire career, some dating back to 1978 when he's just starting out. It's a pretty thick hardcover at 328 pages, not the 256 pages listed by Amazon. This one for Dave Dorman is another quality book. Dorman held a license with Lucasfilm for many years to do limited edition prints.IDW and Desperado publishing have been putting up some really great art books lately. Star Wars creator George Lucas is a fan of Dorman's work and has purchased more than 80 of Dorman's original oil paintings, many of which are displayed at Skywalker Ranch. Dorman has been known for more than 20 years because of his photo-realistic style of oil painting. Joe, Micronauts and the action figures for Alien. Dorman also produced all the art for some of WEG's Star Wars roleplaying game supplements in the 1990s.ĭorman is also renowned for his toy design work for G.I. Dorman also did artwork for the games Shadowrun (FASA), Torg (West End Games, or WEG), Champions (Hero Games), Mayfair Games' «Role Aids», Rifts (Palladium Books), and Blood of Heroes. During that show, he also launched his new career retrospective book, ROLLING THUNDER: The Art of Dave Dorman, which is published by IDW Publishing and Desperado Publishing.ĭorman began his roleplaying game (RPG) work beginning with Pacesetter Ltd in 1985, and began freelancing for TSR in 1987, producing cover art for Dungeons & Dragons books as Gargoyle and the original Draconomicon, among others. In 2010 he won the prestigious Inkpot Award at San Diego Comic-Con, where he was a featured guest that year.

Dorman won a poll of the readers of The Official Best of Star Wars magazine in 1998, as «Best Star Wars Artist».ĭorman won an Eisner Award in 1993 for his paintings in the book Aliens: Tribes. The Star Wars Art of Dave Dorman was published in 1996 by Random House/FPG.

Although he has produced art based on such characters as Indiana Jones, Batman, and Superman, he became most well-known for his Star Wars artwork.

Rolling Thunder by Dave Dorman