Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Concept & Visual Dev.

  • Pascal Campion

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    Pascal Campion’s illustrations are, quite simply, a treat. Campion rarely uses line, working directly in areas of color, sometimes augmented with textures, but his images are so fundamentally graphic that his springy, energetic compositions carry much of the visual charm of drawings. At the same time they have the atmospheric qualities of painting. Like Tadahiro…

  • Shelly Wan

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    Shelly Wan is an illustrator, concept artist and gallery artist who works both in digital and traditional media. She is currently an artist for Pixar and also does work for Magic: The Gathering as well as comic covers and book covers. Originally from Guang Zhou, China, where she studied at the Guang Zhou Academy of…

  • Daniel Xiao

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    Daniel Xiao is a concept and matte painting artist who has worked for Pixar Animation Studios, Dreamworks Universal and Fantasy Flight Games, among others. Xiao paints digitally in Photoshop, as well as working with 3-D applications like Maya and Sketchup Pro. His fantastical landscapes have a wonderful sense of scale and atmospheric perspective, the qualities…

  • Eyvind Earle website

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    Since I last wrote about remarkable artwork of ex illustrator and former Disney background artist turned gallery artist Eyvind Earle back in 2009, the long promised EvyindEarle.com website has been published. Though navigation is somewhat clunky, this is now a good resource on Earle, with a large selection of his work. Many of the serigraphs…

  • Kieran Yanner

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    Kieran Yanner is a concept artist and illustrator working for a variety of clients in publishing and the gaming industry. Originally from Darwin, Australia, Yanner now lives and works in Seattle, Washington in the U.S. His clients include Hasbro, NCSoft, THQ, DC Comics, Marvel, Upperdeck Entertainment, Decipher, Wizards of the Coast, Wizkids, White Wolf, Vivendi…

  • Jose Emroca Flores (update)

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    Jose Emroca Flores is an illustrator and a senior concept designer at Activision/Blizzard Highmoon Studios in California who has done work for companies like EA, Vivendi Universal and Nike and whose work has been featured by Spectrum, Computer Arts and the Society of Illustrators, among others. Since I last wrote about him back in 2007,…