Month: October 2007
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Raymond Swanland
Raymond Swanland has spent much of his career as a concept artist wih the gaming company Oddworld Inhabitants, working in various capacities from conceptual design to art direction and even marketing. Now that Oddworld is transitioning into film development, Swanland is following suit. Outside of his Oddworld work, Swanland has created illustrations for fantasy and…
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The Pre-Raphaelites
Perhaps, like me, you grew up frequenting an art museum in your area and have come to think of some of the works there as familiar “friends”, that you visit periodically; and, just like actual friends, you would miss them if they go away away, on loan to other museums. I had the good fortune…
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Claire Wendling
Claire Wendling is a French comics artist, illustrator and cover artist who made a quick impact when she arrived on the scene. She won the “Alph’Art Avenir” prize while still her third year at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angouleme, and the next year began the comics series Les Lumiéres de l’Amelou with writer Christophe…
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Bill Perkins
Bill Perkins has worked as a concept artist, production designer, layout artist, art director and storyboard artist for companies like Walt Disney Feature Animation, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, ILM, and 9th Ray Studios. His film credits include The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Fantasia 2000, Space Jam, Shrek, and the upcoming John Carter and…
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Emily Allchurch
British artist Emily Allchurch uses digital collage, compositing hundreds of her own photographs, usually taken around London, into recreations of old master landscapes. These are then mounted as transparencies in large scale on backlit lightboxes. Her results are dramatic and striking, but the real interest goes beyond that to the “twists”, in which she juxtaposes…
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William Low
The barrier between illustration and gallery art is perhaps more permeable than ever. Artists whose primary focus is on either side are moving between the two worlds with increasing frequency. William Low is primarily an illustrator, though his illustrations look more like gallery pieces than most illustrations, and his gallery work is in pretty much…