Had these saved... Archive.org links now since those forums are apparently gone.

This would be the source, the first post there: [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130623051801/http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75894/19967998/Artist_And_Gallery_Links_Lists:_Feedback_and_suggested_galleries_(including_YOURS!)]here[/url]
Then the last crawls of those first two links would be [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20130729024742/http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19573158/The_ULTIMATE_D38;D_Gallery_Links_List_~_Updated_January_10th]here[/url] and [url=http://web.archive.org/web/20110810152043/http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19572190/The_ULTIMATE_FantasySciFi_Portrait_Gallery_links_list_~_Updated_January_10th]here[/url]. For the 3rd one, it doesn't seem to work.

Hm, I read here many very unknown names of artist, but no one did mention the one and only Johnny Bruck!
Captain Future, you forgot Captain Future, with the famous german soundtrack!

- Art of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons book
- Art of Dragonlance book

I own both those two books and one for the original Dungeons and Dragons. That was back before PhotoShop was used for everything and artists had to be able to actually, you know, make art with messy things like paint and correct mistakes without an eraser tool. IE - The good stuff.

A few other worthwhile artists to mention :
- Of course, the great Frank Frazetta
- Boris Valejo
- Don Maitz

Some of my own art may be the style you like.

This guy has not given up on the lifestyle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaoLU6zKaws

Wow, that brings back some memories. I, too, like a lot of that old style art although some of the works in your second link look a lot like Darrel K Sweet's stuff, which I was usually 'meh' toward. I do like Vallejo and Frazetta (mentioned above) and one of my favorites (a little more recent than some of the older stuff) was Michael Whelan.

It is pretty sad actually. In the late 80s lots of young hopefuls started learning saxophone, thinking they'd become famous and have lots of job opportunities in the music industry. Now they are all on the streets playing saxophone for coins or a meal, wishing they would have picked up a clarinet instead when they were young.

It is like all those programmers who used lots of time learning Pascal or Fortran. Where are they now? On the streets, asking coins for programming something with those forgotten programming languages. But nooo, everyone just wants C# or python or even java these days.

Man those guys have it though, scribbling code lines that improve a programs performance by 2% or add a function on a piece of paper just isn't as impactful as hitting the right notes at the right time. I try to always throw a bit of change into their retro reference coffee mugs anyways.

*derails thread*

Actually, there's still a very big market for the classic C and C++, a lot bigger than what you see for C#.

And the word you're looking for is "javascript", not "java" - Node.js is what all the cool kids are into these days. I should know, I'm mostly a J2EE dinosaur.

Python? Sure. Is there a reason not to want it when performance is not critical? It's one of my favorite scripting/coding languages.

*shoves thread back on track and runs away*

I was actually going to mention also javascript (and mention something like ruby as something less needed as a talent; well at least that is what one web front-end developepment guru/teacher told me some time ago on a course (he was teaching also javascript there)).

I also thought that java (not javascript) is not that much used or needed anymore.... but for some reason at least here I see job advertisements quite a lot for java coders. Maybe java has just shifted focus somehow, even if many people don't install java runtime on their PCs anymore.

There is AWESOME digital art. No doubt about that. You can do incredible things with Painter, Photoshop and a fucking 2000$ wacom display. But I personally prefer the traditional.

So, you search for the artists that are alive, practicing and work traditionally, mostly or exclusively. Not impossible to find.

Among my favorites:

James Gurney
http://jamesgurney.com/site/images
(His Dinotopia books, in particular the latest [Chandara] should be right up your alley)

Jesper Ejsing
(he's still in the D&D business)
http://www.jesperejsing.dk/

Paul Bonner
http://muddycolors.blogspot.de/2011/09/guest-blogger-paul-bonner.html

John Jude Palencar
http://www.johnjudepalencar.com/

Omar Rayyan
http://studiorayyan.com/index.php

And of course the incredible Wylie Beckert
http://www.wyliebeckert.com/

Hope there's something in there just for you. :)

Thanks for sharing Paul Bonner's link, by far my favorite artist since i discovered him with Mutant Chronicles.

Well Android is Java... so that's probably what most of the advertisements are for.
I use Java quite a bit (when I do any coding) as some of the game engines / libraries that I like use it, and it's probably the (non scripting) language I'm most familiar with now since I haven't touched anything C++ in years...

*looks around to ensure the coast is clear, then derails thread again*

I've also given up on installing a JRE for some time now, but java has many other uses beside the now archaic Java applets or old school local Java applications which require the presence of a JRE.

Besides what adaliabooks already mentioned (that most Android apps are written in Java), there's also a constant demand for Java EE - I mean java enterprise web applications running on application servers (for ex: Apache Tomcat, GlassFish, JBoss, etc) for which no runtime environment is required on the client side (they generate, in essence, HTML content like any web server would, but it's all written/managed in Java). It's still quite popular in corporate circles.

There are also a lot of frameworks and RAD tools built on top of Java which are hard to nudge from the market, though I guess they will eventually be dethroned by more scalable and pluggable stuff like Node.js (Ruby on Rails has had its time, but did not conquer the market as everyone was expecting when it first came out).

*runs away quickly without putting the thread back on track this time*

In fact it gets a lot better.... in the same movie! Captain Stern! And the nyborg... Ahh poor John Candy.