Need help sourcing an artwork

[Extra Anchovies]

https://40.media.tumblr.com/25a27eefe8ee93f85c7da740d44ffde7/tumblr_n41mtaJulv1rdx7deo1_400.jpg

I love this piece (the Fire and Earth Elemental Weirds, Monster Manual II p. 93). It's quite possibly my favorite artwork that I've encountered in an RPG book. I'd love to find more stuff by the same artist, but I can't - MM2 was printed without any page-by-page art credits, and I cannot for the life of me decipher the signature. Reverse image search also isn't helping, which kinda makes sense given how infrequently the Elemental Weird seems to come up. Is anyone willing/able to help ID the artist? The full list of MM2 contributing artists is here (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ag/20020816a).

I also have a higher-res image (http://i.imgur.com/jHNAV03.jpg) of the signature taken from my physical copy of MM2, so you can get a better look at its details.

[Gallowglass]

Quinton Hoover

http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=45249

(if you figure out how that signature is supposed to be anything about "Quinton Hoover" you have my respect.)

[Canine]

The last two characters look like "02", which makes sense given that MM2 came out in 2002; the rest of the signature looks to me like "Quint", which would make it Quinton Hoover (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinton_Hoover). I do see a resemblance to some of the pieces he did for MTG and L5R. Please share if you dig up anything that looks as good as the image you posted, it is nice and I hadn't seen it before.

Edit: Swordsaged

[nyjastul69]

I think that is Quinton Hoover (https://www.google.com/search?q=quinton+hoover+monster+manual+2&prmd=sinv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUt5vpp9rOAhVJWx4KHfMEDMoQ_AUICCgC&biw=640&bih=279#imgrc=_wkai0F6NH-RhM%3A)

Edit:Ninja'd! I should have refreshed. Lol

[Gallowglass]

The last two characters look like "02", which makes sense given that MM2 came out in 2002; the rest of the signature looks to me like "Quint", which would make it Quinton Hoover (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinton_Hoover). I do see a resemblance to some of the pieces he did for MTG and L5R. Please share if you dig up anything that looks as good as the image you posted, it is nice and I hadn't seen it before.

Edit: Swordsaged

excellent signature analysis. *gives you my respect*

Sadly, IMO, I feel the elemental weird piece is a high point of his artwork. But that's just MO.

[Canine]

excellent signature analysis. *gives you my respect*

Sadly, IMO, I feel the elemental weird piece is a high point of his artwork. But that's just MO.

Thank you kindly.

Yeah, the pieces he has done for MTG and L5R bring up fond memories, but their general style isn't otherwise my favorite.

[Eldan]

Quinton Hoover

http://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?artid=45249

(if you figure out how that signature is supposed to be anything about "Quinton Hoover" you have my respect.)

Huh. I started Googling for Spanish speaking artists, figuring that it meant Juintoz.

[Extra Anchovies]

Thank you, everyone! I had been reading the "02" as either an "OR" or "OZ", which had been throwing me completely off track.


Sadly, IMO, I feel the elemental weird piece is a high point of his artwork. But that's just MO.

It's definitely my favorite of Hoover's that some quick searching turns up. A lot of his older MTG work is quite nice, though - some of them, such as Regeneration (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/fc/48/a4/fc48a478a947e5be33ac6b1df162368d.jpg), wouldn't look out of place next to the comic art of Jack Kirby (like this one), and others (like Archangel (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/ea/08/6c/ea086c3d47033789ac97c940edc8b6ac.jpg)) look like what would result if a Renaissance stained-glass artist had been commissioned for the covers of early TTRPG products (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DdJ2Qse388A/THQ36S4wUPI/AAAAAAAAACc/_Up4IiJ2MMg/s1600/100_6613.JPG), which is a neat style that I don't think I've seen before. Incoming (http://magic.wizards.com/sites/mtg/files/image_legacy_migration/mtg/images/daily/mm/mm48_incoming.jpg) is another pretty cool one, especially considering the card it was created for (http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=9788).

[nyjastul69]

The last two characters look like "02", which makes sense given that MM2 came out in 2002; the rest of the signature looks to me like "Quint", which would make it Quinton Hoover (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinton_Hoover). I do see a resemblance to some of the pieces he did for MTG and L5R. Please share if you dig up anything that looks as good as the image you posted, it is nice and I hadn't seen it before.

Edit: Swordsaged

I thought he just flipped the last N on it's side. Nice recognition on your part.

[DarkSoul]

Comparing to Regeneration and Archangel, you can see that those are signed Quint 03 and Quint 06, respectively.