Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Chase Stone (update)

    Since I last wrote about illustrator and concept artist Chase Stone back in 2014, he has created a new website, and has posted new work there as well as on the site of his artist’s representative, Richard Solomon. Stone works primarily in the areas of fantasy and science fiction, his dramatic highly realized approach bringing…

  • Brian Ajhar

    Brian Ajhar is a well known illustrator and character designer whose wonderfully loopy people and animals, both real and imagined, have enlivened the pages of countless periodicals, children books and animations over the past forty years. His style can look so loose and gestural as to appear casually done, but if you stop an look,…

  • Yoshitaka Amano

    Yoshitaka Amano is a Japanese illustrator, concept artist, and designer of scenes, characters and costumes for film and gaming. In addition, Amano is known for his work for both Japanese and American comics, as well as his gallery art. His style blends influences from Japanese woodblock prints, American and European comics and pop culture as…

  • Syd Mead, 1933-2019

    Syd Mead designed the future. Though it’s sad news I write about — that designer, concept artist and visionary futurist Syd Mead died on December 30, 2019 at the age of 86 — it’s somehow fitting that a post about him is my first for the start of a new decade. He is best known…

  • Ariduka55

    Ariduka55 is the handle of an unnamed Japanese artist who, among other subjects, has a series of images in which humans are juxtaposed against unnaturally large animals, both real and imaginary. These are presented in a style that is influenced by concept art, anime, and in particular, the anime designs of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio…

  • Avant Choi

    Avant Choi is a concept artist and illustrator based in South Korea and working in the gaming industry. Beyond that, there is little background information on the artist’s ArtStation or Instagram presence. Choi’s environments, particularly those labeled as personal projects, are often whimsical, imaginative and brightly colored, in contrast to the often dark and dour…