My Favorite Fallout Fan Artist Paints New Vegas How You Imagine It,
Artist Deimos' Fallout: New Vegas-inspired work is so good, it's been highlighted by the game's director, Josh Sawyer, as well as actor Danny Trejo, who voiced ghoul vaquero Raul Alfonso Tejada and seems to have taken a special shine to how Deimos portrayed the gunslinger's early exploits in Mexico.
I'm not a huge fan art guy, but Deimos' work speaks to me—it reimagines this classic game through the lens of fine art, a style that emulates romantic painting, but applied to the side stories and characters of a 2010 RPG. 2281 Overture feels like a particularly illustrative example, showing an NCR-aligned version of the game's final battle with every companion ringed around the Courier (something you can't pull off in an unmodded game). I always think of Liberty Leading the People when I see it.
2281 Overture#fallout pic.twitter.com/2ZHlUlK5hCOctober 30, 2025
You Feel a Little Woozy and Quarry Junction are great too: The first shows a weary courier leaning on the stock of the Dinner Bell unique shotgun, surrounded by dead Cazadores and with the Nightkin companion Lily proudly waving a poison antidote in the background. Quarry Junction shows a panicked Courier clutching Deathclaw eggs and hiding behind a car, hastily fumbling with an explosive's trigger while the endgame monsters search for them.
Deimos took the experience of being brutalized by New Vegas' memetically terrifying nightmare wasps and a moment from an arduous fetch quest, respectively, then dramatized them well beyond anything the game's now 15 year-old iteration of Bethesda Game Studios' frankenengine could render, no matter how many mods you pump it full of.
Deimos' pieces are like little snapshots of an impossibly perfect New Vegas remaster, or the daydreams you had about the game when you first played it. I had to get in touch with the artist to find out what the game means to him, how it informs his art, and, most importantly, what it felt like to get shouted out by Machete himself—twice.
"It felt amazing," was the unsurprising answer Deimos provided over email. "A big star such as him being very supportive of my work is such a surprise, it feels like he’s a very proud, caring grandpa sharing my works on social media."
While Deimos is "pretty sure there are a lot of people out there or any long video essays that can articulate the wonder of that game way better than I do," he had a well thought-out response for what draws him to New Vegas. "People don’t lie when they say that they sti
Source: PC Gamer
