Adrian Smith

It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that this image got people into Warhammer.

Adrian Smith is an artist who created art for GW from the beginning of the 2000's to the early 2010's. He also created the Horus vs the Emperor art. Yes that one! In more recent years he was worked on the art for Blood Rage, Hate, Gwent and multiple other board and table-top games by CMON. Adrian is very well liked by fa/tg/uys for his work on 3rd and 4th editions 40k which he illustarted the Grim Dark 41st millenium brilliantlly, and his work on Warhammer Fantasy pretty much established the Warriors of Chaos as twisted, heavy metal vikings with his work for their books.

Adrian seems very comfortable creating Norse-themed art as this is what he primarily works one for projects, and is also very adept at body horror and people being mutated and corrupted (hence why he made such good art for Chaos), but he works outside of this niche a fair bit as well.

Gallery

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  Arguably his best known work.

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  A Chaos Gribbly. In all its horror.

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  His work for the cover of the Warriors of Chaos army book.

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  A Chaos Sorcerer he made for the 3.5 CSM codex.

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  He also makes fantastic big battle scenes.

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  A Space Wolf Rune Priest

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  And a Wolf Lord.

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  An Inquisitorial retinue. Notice the massive Pauldrons.

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  Some Very nice Dark Eldar art.

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  The same Chaos Lord from the 8th edition army book, now on his own Juggernaut.

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  An Empire light wizard.

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  Valten in his younger years.

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  An Orc standard bearer.

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  Forest goblins

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  Hellpit unleashed.

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  Art for the board game Blood Rage. Between this and Hate he's still making some great murder viking art.

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  Adrian proving he's not above drawing Promotions

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  A piece of concept art for the game Hate.

See Also

His Artstation portfolio, where you can find most of the work above, as well as work he did for other projects: https://www.artstation.com/adrian-smith