Kit Rae
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Kit Rae is a fantasy collectibles designer who specializes in knife design, fantasy and sci-fi art. His first job as a designer was for Smoky Mountain Knife Works in the mid-1980s. Kit’s background in art started when he was a child with charcoal drawing, acrylic and oil painting. He was influenced by such varied artists as Frank Frazetta
, Michael Whelan
, Boris Vallejo
, Jim Burns
, Moebius
, and H.R. Giger. Writers such as Frank Herbert
and J.R.R. Tolkien were also big influences. These days Kit uses a mixed media approach to his art, utilizing drawing, painting, photography, and the computer.
Kit's chronicle Swords of the Ancients is an extensive Tolkien-like story spanning several centuries and the legends for the basis for many of his fantasy weapon designs. The entire story is featured on his web site.
Kit is also an accomplished musician. His guitar and gear collection is extensive and he has posted several guitar lesson sessions on YouTube. His style is heavily influenced by David Gilmour (ex Pink Floyd).
Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media...
, Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan
Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years he worked as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art...
, Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo
Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian-born American painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model....
, Jim Burns
Jim Burns
Jim Burns is a Welsh artist born in Cardiff, Wales.In 1966 he joined the Royal Air Force, but soon thereafter he left and signed up at the Newport School of Art for a year's foundation course....
, Moebius
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud is a French comics artist. Giraud has earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Moebius, and to a lesser extent Gir, the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed signature at the bottom of the artist's paintings, for instance the...
, and H.R. Giger. Writers such as Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its five sequels...
and J.R.R. Tolkien were also big influences. These days Kit uses a mixed media approach to his art, utilizing drawing, painting, photography, and the computer.
Kit's chronicle Swords of the Ancients is an extensive Tolkien-like story spanning several centuries and the legends for the basis for many of his fantasy weapon designs. The entire story is featured on his web site.
Kit is also an accomplished musician. His guitar and gear collection is extensive and he has posted several guitar lesson sessions on YouTube. His style is heavily influenced by David Gilmour (ex Pink Floyd).