Lines and Colors

Lines and Colors is a blog about painting, drawing, sketching, illustration, comics, cartoons, webcomics, art history, concept art, gallery art, digital art, artist tools and techniques, motion graphics, animation, sci-fi and fantasy illustration, paleo art, storyboards, matte painting, 3d graphics and anything else I find visually interesting. If it has lines and/or colors, it’s fair game.

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War of the Worlds webcomic

September 16, 2005

Dark Horse Comics is publishing this webcomic adaptation of the H.G. Wells’ novel (not the recent movie), by Ian Edginton and an artist who goes by the name of D’Israeli. The art (particuarly the color) is wonderful. Dark horse publishes a new page on Fridays.

Edginton and D’Isreali also created Kingdom of the Wicked and Scarlet Traces, which is sort of a follow-up to War of the Worlds. Both of which are published in hardback editions by Dark Horse. Ths company wisely provides an 8-page online preview of each book. Click on the cover image of the books for the preview. Check out this page and this page (a double page spread) from Scarlet Traces.

http://www.darkhorse.com/zones/wotw/

Categories:
Comics, Webcomics
Dylan Cole

September 15, 2005

Dylan Cole has done matte paintings for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Lord of the Rings – Return of the King, Riddick, Daredevil and others. He is also a conceptual artist. He does some traditional painting but works mostly digitally. The “Matte Painting” section of his galleries contains some of his professional work (arranged by project), but the stuff I found most appealing was in the “Sketches” section.

The galleries, thankfully, have an intelligent click-through navigation that makes them easy to browse.

http://www.dylancolestudio.com/

Categories:
Concept & Visual Dev., Digital Painting
Steven Wiltshire

September 14, 2005

Steven Wiltshire was diagnosed as autistic at age 3, and at age 8 started to display an unusual talent for drawing. At 13 he was featured on a BBC program about autistic savants. In the years since then his work has been displayed in galleries and reproduced in several best-selling collections.

The galleries here consist mainly of architectural and landscape drawings. Images are a bit small but large enough to get a feeling for the work.

http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/

Categories:
Drawing, Gallery and Museum Art, Sketching
Color Scheme Generator

September 13, 2005

Part of the WellStyled.com web design workshop, the functionality of this color scheme generator is primarily aimed at web designers, but this is fascinating and fun for anyone who likes to immerse themselves in color and color relationships.

Click on the color wheel to choose a hue, choose a scheme (Contrast, Triad, Tetrad, etc) below that, and then click on the small rectangles in the color spaces to bring up a value/saturation picker. There are some other variations at the bottom of the main panel.

Any time you arrive at a scheme you like, click on “URL of this scheme” to bookmark the settings. There is even a dropdown menu for previewing how your scheme would look to people with varying types of colorblindness. For more info and instructions, see the Help page.

http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

Categories:
Color, Tools and Techniques
Adam Hughes

September 12, 2005

Comics artist Adam Hughes is justly noted for his ability to draw beautiful women, among other things. He has an ability to draw strong women characters with real faces, avoiding many of the common cliches of comic art portrayals of women. The galleries here consist largely of his cover art for Wonder Woman, Tomb Raider and Cat Woman. They are beautifully done and the gallery images often include the black and white ink drawings next to the finished color cover.

Don’t miss the “Sketches” section, tucked away behind the “Info” Link.

http://justsayah.com/

Categories:
Comics
Tim Warnock

September 9, 2005

Tim Warnock does matte painting and concept art for movies and games. His gallery includes samples of both. Warnock has set aside his traditional materials and now works digitally.

http://www.thenextside.com/

Categories:
Concept & Visual Dev., Digital Painting