Category: Concept & Visual Dev.
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Ibuki Satsuki
Ibuki Satsuki (handle: Moyu Zhai) is a Chinese digital artist whose works are often wistful, whimsical and evocative. Though the characters are manga/anime influenced, they’re not overly stylized. Of most interest to me, though, are the backgrounds and environments. These range from fantastical to more identifiable real world scenes., often with dramatic lighting and Art…
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Xu Yao
Xu Yao is a Chinese illustrator, comics artist and game designer about whom I can find little biographical information. I don’t know what kind of projects the artwork I’ve encountered is associated with, but it is delightfully playful and beautifully conceived. There is a recurring theme of characters interacting with exaggeratedly large objects like teapots…
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Jourdan Truffan
Jourdan Truffan is a concept artist snd illustrator based in Sydney, Australia who works digially in Photoshop and Blender. His fresh, nicely styleized designs for both characters and environments have an appealing clarity and precision. He applies to that solid foundation a playful sense of light and shadow, giving his scenes a sense of atmosphere.…
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Alar Iko
Alar Iko (AKA Alariko) is an illustrator and background artist from Spain. He works with digital painting and drawing tools, primarily in Procreate, in a style that has the character of traditional ink and watercolor. His approach is at once loose and solidly grounded in good draftsmanship. In many of his architectural subjects, he will…
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Ryan Church (update 2024)
Ryan Church is a concept artist, illustrator and art director whose film credits have to be among the most impressive in the industry. I first wrote about him in the rearly months of Lines and Colors, back in 2005, and again in 2006. Since then, he has continued ot add to his long list of…