Bryan Schulte 2/27/20
Todd Lockwood
Todd Lockwood is an American artist who is well known for science fiction and high fantasy art. Most famous for Magic the Gathering and for the Forgotten Realms source material books. Along with many of the cover art for the Legend of Drizzt series.
Todd Lockwood was born in Boulder, Colorado on July 9th, 1957. Not much is known about his early life, but Lockwood went to The Art Institute of Colorado in Denver. Soon after he began his career in the design and advertising world. Though within a year and a half he had won numerous awards to the point where he got so bored of continuous work of satellite dishes (Satellite Orbit magazine) and beer cans (Coors).
However, one thing that was a huge part of Lockwood’s life was the great immersive story of Dungeons and Dragons. Being inspired by the art coming out of TSR, he decided to dip his toes into the world of science fiction and high fantasy. After many months and many conventions later. He got work for TSR, within a year it was absorb into Wizards of the Coast. From 1997 to 2002, Lockwood worked for Wizards. When it was purchased by Hasbro, Lockwood has returned back to freelancing for commissioned works along with running online art classes on the side.
This scene is one of Lockwood cover art pieces for the Legend of Drizzt. I have grown up with playing Dungeons and Dragons. My dad played it when he was young and into college, my older Peter played when he was in high school. I still love and play it whenever I get the chance. Ever since Critical Role became popular, my love of DnD has grown. I have also begun to read the Legend of Drizzt series. Whenever I get to the scenes depicted on the cover. I just imagine the art coming to life and playing out the scene as I read. I especially love the dark undertones and cool colors and realistic proportions of the characters. If I ever get to the film/tv industry, it would be my dream to bring this series to Television. There is so much lore and history and characters behind it that movies are not going to cut it. Lockwood was definitely the man to bring these amazing characters to life.
