Ooh monsters!  Ahh myths and legends!  Have always been a huge fan of fantasy art and artists and the work is great fun to produce.  An added bonus is that as a lot of the work in this field tends to be book illustration  you get to read a load of cool stories.
 
The first illustration here (Gawain) is for the 2005 British Fantasy Society calender (go to the links page for their web address and be sure to visit for all things fantasy and  British).