New Artist – Johnny Shumate

August 6, 2010 12:00 AM

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As some of you will have noticed, we have a new artist in the Osprey fold – Johnny Shumate.

Johnny is a freelance illustrator from Nashville, Tennessee, and has been working in this field since 1987. He renders the majority of his work digitally, and has featured prominently and often in Ancient Warfare magazine.

Recently, however, Johnny has been pulled from his ancient history, and has been completing a variety of fantastic pieces for RAID and WEAPON. Here are a few sneak peeks of his art...

First up, is a piece from our upcoming Raid 14: The Los Banos Prison Camp Raid - The Philippines 1945. This is actually the third Raid that Johnny has illustrated (he also did the art for Raid 11: Pegasus Bridge and Raid 12: Roughshod through Dixie).

The second piece of art we are going to reveal today is from one of our upcoming Weapon titles - Weapon 4: Browning .50 caliber Machine Guns. Johnny has also done the art for Weapon 5: Katana - The Sword of the Samurai.

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GI Gene

06-Aug-2010 19:33

Most impressive!
I really like how well he illustrated all the empty shell cassings and links in the B-17.
Welcome aboard Johnny Shumate!

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CMB

07-Aug-2010 02:18

I love the lighting in the Los Banos illustration. And the pile of empties is indeed impressive. Good stuff!

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Johnny Shumate

07-Aug-2010 14:32

Thanks for the nice comments!
It's a pleasure and honour working for Osprey. I hope to do my best and supply Osprey with top quality illustrations. Here is a link to view the Los Banos illustration somewhat larger (and I think the color is more accurate to the original illustration)....
http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/johnny_shumates_portfolio/images/273779/original.aspx
Thanks again!!
Johnny

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Mark Lardas

08-Aug-2010 21:42

Johnny:

You can play on my team any time.

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MarkL

08-Aug-2010 23:31

Great work! Looking forward to Los Banos and the 50 cal book.
And to Mark as well as Johnny, really enjoyed the Roughshod Through Dixie title. Now we need a Confederate Raid title to balance it out! Being a Canadian, I'm partial to the St Alban's Raid.

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Johnny Shumate

09-Aug-2010 14:22

Mark,
Great work you did on Grierson's Raid! Years ago, I reenacted the 5th Ky Cav (US) and was able to use much of my equipment for reference. We used the Army Colt revolver and Smith carbine..... Hope to work with you again!!!
Keep producing good work!
Johnny

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kuvaszsleepybear

10-Aug-2010 22:33

Los Banos pic will look good as one of the monthly pics for the Osprey Wall Calendar

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