Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Jaemin Kim

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    Jaemin Kim is a concept artist working in the video game industry and specializing in creature concept design. His wonderful digital rendering of detailed skin texture, leathery wings and rough scales make his dragons and dragon-like creatures particularly well-realized. His website leads to a gallery on CGHub, and his blog features lots of sketches. Kim…

  • Alex Ruiz

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    Alex Ruiz is a concept artist and illustrator working in the film television and video game industries. Much of his character work is intentionally dark, but the pieces I find of most interest are his environments and imaginative experiments. In these, his digital paintings often have a fascinating character combining biomorphic, architectonic and mechanical forms,…

  • Emmanuel Malin (update)

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    Emmanuel Malin is an illustrator, art director and concept artist for the gaming industry based in Paris. I initially profiled Malin here on Lines and Colors back in 2010. Malin creates fascinatingly textural images with layers of shapes within larger shapes defining his compositions. He works with both bright and muted color palettes, often contrasting…

  • Eytan Zana

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    Eytan Zana is an illustrator and concept artist working in both the gaming and film industries. He has worked on titles like The Last Of Us and Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception. Beyond that, I know little, as his blog doesn’t give a great deal of background information. It does, however, have examples of his wonderfully…

  • Klaus Pillon

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    Klaus Pillon is a French illustrator and concept artist. His atmospheric landscapes and environments are often cast in limited color ranges, with an emphasis on tone and accents of color to provide focus and drama. His command of atmospheric perspective and soft edges allows him to project a feeling of large scale in many of…

  • Matt Rockefeller

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    Given the conceptual sophistication and confident execution of Matt Rockefeller’s illustration and visual development work, you may be surprised, as I was, to discover that he is still in his final year at Maryland Institute College of Art. His website has examples of his work in both illustration and concept art, as well as a…