Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Isaac Orloff

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    Isaac Orloff is a visual development artist and illustrator based in the San Francisco area, and currently working with Storm 8. Orloff has range of stye that nicely mixes painterly effects with more graphic rendering, color with monochrome and cartoony with more fully realized. His website galleries (accessed from a pop-out under “Work”) include Color…

  • Nico Marlet

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    Nicolas “Nico” Marlet is a character designer, visual development and animation artist best known for his work on animated features like How to Train Your Dragon, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters, Inc., Bee Movie, The Road to El Dorado and others. Marlet’s character design drawings just about jump off the…

  • Chris J. Anderson (update)

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    Chris J. Anderson is a concept artist and illustrator who I first profiled back in 2009. Since I last wrote about his work, Anderson has a new website and blog, but you can also find additional work on the archive of his old blog. Anderson works in many phases of concept design, including character design,…

  • Dana Guerrieri

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    Dana Guerrieri is a visual development artist and illustrator, whose work can simultaneously have a light touch and a dark edge. Her online portfolio is not extensive, but there are more images on her prints page, and a there is a gallery on Concept Art World. She also has a YouTube sample reel.

  • Xiaochen Fu

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    Xiaochen Fu is a concept artist and illustrator based in Shanghai. He works in a variety of media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor and digital. He has an interesting approach in which many of his figures and creatures blend into — or are drawn out of — an array of semi-abstract freeform shapes. His website galleries…

  • H. R. Giger, 1940-2014

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    H.R. Giger was an influential Swiss painter, sculptor, set designer and concept designer. Giger is most known for his designs for the film Aliens, and its successors, as well as working on a number of less well known film projects. He also did work used on numerous album covers and has left his mark on…