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Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Karla Ortiz

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    Karla Ortiz is a concept artist, illustrator and gallery artist who has worked with film and gaming companies Paragon Studios/NcSoft, Ubisoft, Kabam, Industrial Light & Magic and Marvel Film Studios, as well as publishers Wizards of the Coast, Ace Books, Tor Books. Her illustrations have a refined, classical approach, with much attention paid to to…

  • James Gurney’s Fantasy in the Wild

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    In his “In the Wild” series of instructional painting videos, painter, illustrator, writer and instructor James Gurney has previously given us Watercolor in the Wild and Gouache in the Wild (links to my reviews), delving into the use of those mediums on location. He has followed up with an interesting variation, Fantasy in the Wild:…

  • Wilbert Sweet

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    Wilbert Sweet is a concept artist and matte painter based in Montreal, where he is currently working with Behaviour Interactive. Sweet is at an early point in his career, and most of the work in his online portfolio appears to be from personal projects. I often find personal projects from concept artists are more interesting…

  • Artur Sadlos

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    Artur Sadlos is a concept artist, illustrator and art director based in Poland and working in the gaming industry. His projects include For Honor, Total War: Warhammer, Halo 5, Batman Dark Flight and Dead Island. Though his ability to display work from some of his professional projects is apparently limited by rights agreements, the work…

  • Thomas Brissot

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    Thomas Brissot is a French concept artist and illustrator based in Paris. His website, blog, Tumblr and ArtStation portfolio feature a variety of work both professional and personal projects, as well as some digital painting from life. I particularly enjoy the theatrical way he uses spotlighting effects within in his compositions, as well as his…

  • Kirsten Zirngibl

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    Kirsten Zirngibl is a concept artist and illustrator based in San Diego. Zirngibl’s subjects can involve both technological and biological forms, in either case often intricately rendered. She often makes interesting use of light sources, contrasting bright sources with darkly portrayed environments that allow the viewer to project their imagination into them. Her website,