Lines and Colors art blog

Month: December 2005

  • Josh Viers

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    Josh Viers is a concept artist who has worked for ILM and is currently working with Doug Chiang at Ice Blink Studios. He studied industrial design and has done design work for a number of toy lines, which explains the wonderful toy-like sensibility that enlivens many of his designs. The site contains finished paintings as…

  • Christopher Moeller

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    Christopher Moeller is an illustrator and comics artist who is one of the foremost proponents of fully-painted comics art. Rather than the traditional um… lines and colors format, each panel is a painted image. Many painted-comics artists use watercolor (see my post about Alex Ross), but Moeller uses an opaque medium (it looks like acrylic…

  • Jacob Collins

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    The difficult thing about painting a still life is the “life” part. Many still life paintings have a lot more “still” than “life”. Jacob Collins has a touch that keeps his still life subjects vibrant and fresh. When I first encountered his work, I was impressed with his range of subject matter. He is remarkably…

  • Sam & Max (Steve Purcell)

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    They’re back! If you’re familiar with Sam & Max, Steve Purcell’s delightfully demented pair of vaguely animal-like things, you’ll be thrilled to your cynical little toes that there is a new Sam & Max interactive webcomic on the Telltale Games site. There’s only one page up at the moment, but get in on the ground…

  • Wild Brain

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    If you ever wanted to know who to blame for those well-animated but skin-crawling Lamasil commercials about the dermatophytes who lift up a toenail and crawl in, here they are. Wild Brain is a San Francicso company that creates animations for commercial and entertainment clients using multiple styles of animation: 2D and 3D digital, Flash,…

  • David Mattingly

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    Ten years ago, after years of success as one of the foremost science fiction and fantasy illustrators in the field, David Mattingly switched from traditional media to digital, and has rarely looked back. His striking images of other worlds and other times are masterfully drawn, beautifully rendered and intricately detailed. He works in a combination…