Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Kirsten Zirngibl

    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,

  • Patrick O’Keefe

    Patrick O’Keefe is an illustrator, visual development and concept artist working in games, tv and print. He is also a muralist for community projects. O’Keefe has a nicely crisp, fresh style of digital painting, with lots of texture and atmosphere. I like in particular his space themed concepts, in which he carries forward mid-20th century…

  • Titus Lunter

    Titus Lunter is a concept artist for the gaming industry. His credits include Tom Clancy’s The Division, Forza Horizon 2, Killzone: Mercenary, Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, Fifth Edition. Lunter appears to focus on environments, and is particularly adept at casting them in dark, moody tones, while still retaining their character as stone,…

  • Ross Tran

    Ross Tran is a concept artist and illustrator based in Southern California. He studied at the Art Center College of Design, and his credits include work for Walt Disney Studios, Psyop and Tyler West Studio. Tran’s lively, energetic digital painting technique combines areas of detail with passages that are gesturally suggested. In addition to the…

  • Nate Wragg (update)

    Nate Wragg is an concept artist, character designer and illustrator for the film industry and childrens’ books, who I first wrote about in 2009. Wragg noted for his lively, whimsical style that embidies some of the spirit of mid-20th century book illustration and TV animation as well as a modern sensibility. Wragg’s film credits include…

  • Mark A. Nelson

    Mark A. Nelson is an illustrator, comics artist, concept artist and art director. He has worked for Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Kitchen Sink Press, Wizards of the Coast, TSR and many other publishers, as well as gaming and visual development companies like Raven Software, Sega Games and Pure Imagination Studios. Nelson has…