With my son's imminent arrival (each day I get nervous few times during the day when my wife calls me at work) I have less time to lurk around on Fantasy Fan, however I want you to know that I'm still here! :-)

In the meantime take a look at the following fantasy iPhone wallpapers I found surfing the net. First one is made from the Eragon movie poster, second and third wallpaper is from Battle Realms and Empire Earth real time strategy games. The last wallpaper doesn't need introduction. ;-) So, if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, take a look below, see if you like any of them!

It's been a while since I posted anything new in the downloads section. And since I spent a better part of the day looking for a new wallpaper (it's Friday! how long can a man stay focused? ;-) ) I decided to share two of the pieces I found, which are closely relating to a fantasy fan in me. The first one is a simple, yet very nice Lord of the Rings wallpaper, a green background with elven letters forming a ring, very stylish! The second one reminds me of Lorien as it was portrayed in LOTR movies, but I don't think the two are related. It contains houses on tall trees. Very peaceful.

I hope you like them! For more fantasy wallpapers visit our downloads section.

Some time ago Suvudu posted a video interview with Todd Lockwood, the artist responsible for many of the amazing fantasy book and magazine covers as well as Magic: The Gathering cards. In this Comic Con interview Todd talks about Dragon anatomy, covers he made for various Robert Salvatore's books, his World of Warcraft art and cover for WOW magazine Blizzard is planning to start.

You can watch the interview on Suvudu website. If you want to see a sample of Todd's work visit his website at www.ToddLockwood.com.

I've been looking over various covers for fantasy books I have gathered over the years and have come up with an idea to share my favorite picks with Fantasy Fan readers. The book cover is a tricky thing - it's not supposed to really matter because what's really important is inside, the actual book, yet often it's the book cover is the thing catches attention of a new reader browsing the new releases in the bookstore.

My first choice of a book cover to list here is an art for book not released yet: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (book 1 of The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin). The cover was created by Lauren Panepinto and I find it absolutely gorgeous. Read more about the cover in Lauren's blog entry on the Orbit Books website.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is going to be released on February 25, 2010 . You can pre-order it today, on Amazon.

The Wertzore reports that on June 16th the British Post Office is issuing a series of stamps based on creatures from mythology. The images were created by Dave McKean, artist best know from his collaboration with Neil Gaiman. If you're a fantasy fan and you collect stamps - those are must-have!

I like to browse DeviantArt website sometimes. There are many talented artists displaying their work out there. The one that caught my eye recently was KXMode and his Diablo 3 wide screen wallpaper created based on the one cinematic Blizzard released for the game.

The wallpaper is dedicated for dual monitor setups and is simply amazing!

In our downloads section you will find another gallery of avatars. This time you can enjoy the pictures from the Sacred 2 game. To get the new avatar gallery visit our downloads section.

To view other avatar galleries go to the Fantasy Avatar downloads section.

Dabel Brothers are working closely with George R. Martin on graphical interpretations of SoIaF . Dabel Brothers have just released another of the new exclusive prints based on George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series.



This print covers Jon Snow and his direwolf Ghost. Take a look at the print below, or go to the publishers website at: www.DabelBrothers.com .

As some of you know Dell has been working with Blizzard on the line of gaming computers (XPS desktops and laptops). One of the features emerging from this cooperation was a number of special wallpapers based on the World of Warcraft artwork. We have gathered those wallpapers for you to download in our fantasy wallpapers download section. Enjoy!

George R.R. Martin announced on his website the brand new Song of Ice and Fire calendar with the graphics created by Michael Komarck for Dabel Brothers. The calendar features two already released arts of Ned Stark and Sansa Stark as well as many new images including: Jon Snow, Lord Berric Dondarrion fighting Sandor Clegane and more!

The calendar will be available in December 2008. Read more about it on Martin's official website: www.GeorgeRRMartin.com .

We have added another gallery of World of Warcraft Avatars to the downloads section. This gallery contains avatars based on the World of Warcraft fan-art. If you like artwork with Anime influence you might really like them!

To download the WOW avatar gallery go to the Fantasy Avatar downloads section.

If you're looking for a perfect avatar to attach to your forum profile Fantasy Fan has a wide selection for you to enjoy! Wether you want a proud warrior, a dragon, a character from Baldur's Gate or Warcraft, or someone from images of famous fantasy artists like Luis Royo, Boris Valeyo or Larry Elmore - we have a gallery of avatars for you to chose from.

To see the selection of fantasy avatars go to our downloads section.

Today we're presenting a new avatar gallery based on the computer game The Witcher . Avatars include pictures of Geralt, Jaskier, Zoltan, Triss Merigold, witchers Vesemir, Lambert, Eskel and many other Witcher game characters.



To download entire gallery in one zip file go to our fantasy downloads section.

Today we're presenting you a great collection of fantasy avatars with images created by Luis Royo. You can download entire gallery here: Luis Royo Avatar Gallery .

Today we're presenting you a great collection of fantasy avatars with images of dragons. You can download entire gallery here: Fantasy Dragons .

After a long break we're coming back with a new gallery of avatars for our Fantasy fans! :-) This time we're presenting you a great collection of fantasy avatars with images of dragons. You can download the gallery here: Fantasy Dragons .

Fantasy Fan invites you to visit our Forum section, where you can discuss with other fans your favorite series, books, movies, games and anything you feel like talking to.



You will find our forum here: Fantasy Forum .

Song of Ice and Fire again floated discretely into the popular gamers comic: CtrlAltDel . This time if you look closely in the background you'll see the limited edition poster of Ned Stark. We have mentioned the posters here .

With New Year we are coming back to more traditional topics. Today we're presenting the incredible works of the Fantasy Artist Larry Elmore. Larry is the author of the images some of you might have seen on the Dragonlance book covers.



Take a look at Larrys website at: www.LarryElmore.com

Dabel Brothers are working closely with George R. Martin on graphical interpretations of SoIaF . Dabel Brothers have just released first two prints in the new exclusive line of prints based on George R. R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series.



The first prints cover Ned Stark in godswood and Sansa Stark building a snowy version of her home, Winterfell. Take a look at the prints below, or go to the publishers website at: www.DabelBrothers.com .

Paul Kidby presents his website: www.PaulKidby.net . In March the special feature section of the site will show the processes that went into producing the cover illustration for Making Money - Terry's next novel.

Todd Lockwood's official site now features the cover illustrations of the new editions of Starless Night, Siege of Darkness, Passage to Dawn and Road of the Patriarch, as well as an illustration of Drizzt and Guenhwyvar from an omnibus edition of the Legend of Drizzt graphic novel series.

A good number of amazing paintings of warriors, mages, elves, dwarves and other fantasy characters can be found on the forum of European World of Warcraft Guild: Forte . If you're a fan of black-and-white artwork, you have to see this!

Developers of "Lord Of The Rings Online" created set of wallpapers featuring some of the shots from the game. To see and download them visit this website:

http://lotro.turbine.com/index.php?page_id=67

Todd Lockwood has updated his official site, adding full-colour illustrations of the covers of Streams of Silver, The Halfling’s gem, Servant of the Shard and Promise of the Witch-King.