Lines and Colors art blog

Month: April 2006

  • Flight 3 preview

    I have a rant and then a rave. First, let me go on record as saying that I like superhero comics. I really do. I’ve been reading them for years and I’ll continue to read them. There is some great stuff being done in the genre. It’s just that there are… so many of them.…

  • Hans Holbein The Younger

    Some artists can be an integral part of, and simultaneously transcend, their times. Hans Holbein The Younger, a Bavarian artist who made his career as a court painter for Henry VIII of England, was one of the foremost portrait painters of the Northern Renaissance and was very much a part of, and in some ways…

  • Gamma Ray Studios

    One of the fascinating things about concept art is the tension between restraint and imagination. On one hand, concept art is restrained by the set demands of the project, usually a movie or high end game for which specific scenes, settings, costumes, props and other elements must be designed. Within those restrictions, however, the goal…

  • Campaigntoons

    By now we’re all acculturated to being sold things by way of animated cartoons. They start us early, dazzling our just-out-of-babyhood eyes with bouncing, sparkling bowls of chocolate-frosted, sugar-coated imitation food-like substances that are “part of this nutritious breakfast”, and move on to toys and games and even later to cars, insurance and everything else.…

  • Karen Hollingsworth

    Academic art students have a long tradition of starting their training drawing simple-but complex subjects like drapery (often a bed sheet arranged over an object like a chair) or paper bags that have been folded or crumpled and then unfolded. These are easy to come by subjects that both sit still and have lots of…

  • tokyoplastic

    I wanted to recommend this site to you because of its terrible navigation system (he said, grinning). If you actually want to find something, like a simple “About Us” or “Press” page, the navigation on tokyoplastic is abysmal. If, on the other hand, you want to be amused and delighted by series of clever and…